About Me

My History

upbringing, obstacles, triumphs and passion

My name is Angelica Gonzalez, as for my upbringing I was raised in a very americanized mexican household. I was born and raised in California. I recognize that my upbringing was very complex and confusing but i believe there is beauty in it all.
You see my father left when i was a baby, he had up and moved to Boston with his family. My mother remarried when i was around 2-3 yrs old. The man she had remarried to played a large fatherly role for me. In my eyes he was my dad, he took me to my soccer games would coddle me when i was sick and ultimately was there for me whenever i needed him. However, at the age of 8 things started to really change for my family. My mom and dad would always fight, there was a lot of alcohol and drugs involved. Things that i really shouldn’t have been exposed to as a young child i had witnessed. I remember cops and ambulances always coming to my house. My dad started to participate in drugs as well as steroids. Which ultimately influenced and changed his temperament. So before my eyes the man that i had loved and cared for so much started to change into someone i no longer recognized. My mom finally decided to walk away from the marriage and we moved. We moved a lot, so i throughout my elementary and middle school years we had moved three times. That made it difficult to maintain friendships so i tended to always keep to myself. I had the mentality to not get to comfortable because we could just move again. I did participate and involve myself in sports so i guess in a way that was my outlet for everything.
One of my past and somewhat current obstacles in life was the feeling of being stuck and not really going anywhere. Within the last three years i have struggled with college. I left my previous 4yr college due to sexual assault. Which then lead me to end up suing the school. While dealing with that my grandmother had also passed away. So asyou can imagine things became very hard and dark for me. Which made it extremely difficult to focus on school. I was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder and although it has been very hard to accomplish my long term goals i find victory when i complete my short term goals. One of which was last semester, i hadn’t dropped out of classes or failed any classes. I passed with all B’s and i feel so proud of myself because i did that while maintaining two jobs. I find passion on helping others. My mom is a diabetic and as i mentioned the local fire departments were always at my house due to her low blood sugars. My grandmother had passed away from Breast Cancer. While going with her to treatment i remember how excited she was to see the nurses.
So thats what i am to be someone who brings light to others, advocate for them and help those in need of aid.
That’s a little about me.