1998 – 2016


Growing up in Bakersfield

← The long way to residency
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1998

I was born in Bakersfield in 1998 and grew up in my grandmother’s house, where I lived until 2009. I’ve lived in Bakersfield my whole life.

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2001 – 2003

St. Philip’s Preschool. The first of twenty-six years of school without a break.

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2003 – 2009

Donald E. Suburu School.

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2009

My mom, my dad, my sister and I rented a house together. My grandmother, aunt and uncle stayed on at my grandmother’s house. Old River Elementary, then Earl Warren Junior High from 2010 to 2012.

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2012

The four of us bought and moved into the house we still live in.

Stockdale High School, Bakersfield
Stockdale High School, Bakersfield · Monito09, CC BY-SA 3.0 · adapted to black and white

2012 – 2016

Stockdale High School, where I was in the Medical Academy of Stockdale High.