Alumni: Angelina Rey

Interviewers: Amber Chuop and Shannon Castaneda
Interviewee: Angelina Rey
AR: Hi! My name is Angelina Rey and I graduated 2010.
Interviewer: What was your best experience in high school?
AR: The best experience I had was cheer leading for El Camino.

Interviewer: How do you think high school has changed since you were here?
AR: I think it's... A lot of it's the same, but it's still really diverse which I think is great. And I know a lot of the teachers and staff have changed, but yeah!

Interviewer: How would you characterize the South City community growing up?
AR: ...
Interviewer: You can be honest
AR: Ghetto? No. *laughs* Don't quote me!

Interviewer: Are there any specific struggles that you had while growing up and how did you overcome them?
AR: Yeah I think I had a lot of drama with other girl friends to be honest, and relationships. But then honestly as soon as I cheered for El Camino that's all I cared about, and so my grades went up, and I was more involved in school, and that's really all that mattered.

Interviewer: Do you have any advice for students today?
AR: Yeah. It would be really to focus on yourself, not focus on a significant other or not focus on what your friends are doing. You know, join all the clubs and do everything you enjoy doing and not worry about what other people think.

Interviewer: What kind of career field are you in now and how'd you get into it?
AR: So I'm a behavior therapist and I'm in grad school for clinical psych and marriage family therapy. I got into it because in high school I made some poor decisions and I got in trouble with the law. And I just kinda realized that I wanted to be an adult figure for teenagers, cause I didn't have that and so that's kind of how I came across my career.

Interviewer: This is kinda an add on to what you responded about, but are you willing to be a mentor for current students?
AR: Yes!
Interviewer: How did your experience in high school impact your life?
AR: Well after I graduated, I continued to cheer and that was a huge impact on my life. And I cheered for about 6 or 7 years after graduating. So that, i mean it was like a huge part of my life.

Interviewer: Did high school prepare you for your future?
AR: Yes. Again, I think cheer helped me prepare for the future more than like school did. I had a lot of good teachers that I still talk to today, though. But pretty much all of my friends are different, or they graduated a different year than I did which was interesting. But the people I was friends with in high school I'm not friends with anymore.

Interviewer: If you could describe your high school experience in one word, what would it be?
AR: It was really fun!

Interviewer: What is the one thing you believed entering high school that you found out not to be true?
AR: I thought I would... I was scared of getting bullied I guess, or getting lost. But that didn't happen!

Interviewer: Thank you so much for your time!

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