With it being a school thing, I don't mind too much. Part of it is supposed to be more personal but with this I'm still a little nervous but because it's through school, I don't mind.

The best part of being an R-journalist is hands down we get a digital camera that we get to keep at the end of the semester.

This is the first place I wanted to go. I was originally drafted by the Cardinals out of high school in 1995. I'm from Oklahoma and I grew up a Cardinals fan.

Little did I know I would become the first native-born Mexican-American to become an elementary school principal in Minnesota.

Now after everything is said and done, I miss the high school that was supposed to be my alma mater. I'm afraid to get my class ring, because we might just move back again and I'd be stuck.

As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.