After graduation from high school, I attended the University
of Houston and graduated with a teaching degree in English and speech. From time to time I went back for post
graduate courses at the University of Houston and Texas Southern University.
I wanted to travel
after college so I flew to Guadalajara with my brother in the late 60's. I
spent several summers and one Christmas vacation in Guadalajara with friends
who were from Guadalajara whom I had met in Houston. I stayed in their homes.
While there we traveled to Mexico City, Acapulco, and Puerto Vallarta.
I missed the ten
year reunion because I got married. We
were married only five years because he died with cancer. I have one daughter whom I reared as a
single parent. Things didn't work out
for me to visit my husband's country, Bolivia, before he died, but I took my daughter
to Bolivia when she was six years old.
We met his family and saw where he grew up and went to school. I am very proud of my daughter. She graduated in the top ten per cent of her
high school class, graduated from TAMU with a degree in psychology, married an
Aggie, got her masters at Kansas State University and is the mother of a three
month old son.
I retired from
teaching after 30 years. The summer
after I retired, I enjoyed doing interviews for the Cleveland Advocate. My
first interview was with a lady who turned l00 years old at her birthday party
and later that summer I interviewed two exchange students from France. I now spend my time substitute
teaching. I belong to an active singles
church group.
I look back on my life and realize that God was always on time meeting my needs.