Fast Food

            Growing up I didn’t really eat a lot of fast food. The main reason for that is because my parents couldn’t afford for us to go out to eat, and when we did go out, I would share a meal with my mom. So up until Jr. High I was pretty good at not eating fast food. Then once I entered Jr. High, for some reason I started eating fast food more often. It was a mixture of McDonalds, Jack in the Box, Burger King, and a bunch of Mexican restaurants. Then all of a sudden I started gaining a little weight. I didn’t think much of it, and neither did my parents. So we kept out bad eating routine going, and as the months went by, I gained more and more weight. Pretty soon I was a five-foot tall seventh grader weighing 125 lbs. I can honestly say that for a while there I had no neck. I started eating not just a lot of fast food, but a lot of junk food at home as well. I didn’t think it was a bad thing but looking back now, it most certainly was. Then when I entered high school, I started getting a little healthier with my eating habits. I never completely took fast food out of my diet, I just tried eating it less often and throwing some healthier foods in my diet.

             Now that I am older, I try even harder not to eat a lot of fast food, but sometimes it’s hard. Being a college student and having a job doesn’t really give me a lot of time to whip up a meal at home. So I do rely on fast food a little more then I would like to. The fact that I am earning my own money now doesn’t help either. Sometimes I wish I had bills to pay so that I wouldn’t be able to afford going out to eat so often. But despite eating out every now and then, my eating habits are much better than they were when I was a child. I ate a lot more fruits and vegetables and drink a lot of water. If I could just get fast food out of my life, I think I would be a much healthier person.

My Life

           Hello classmates, my name is Irvin Robles. I was born on November 7,1994 inside St. Johns hospital here in Oxnard.  I am 18 years young and my life is full of 18 years worth of wonderful memories. Throughout my education career I have attended Mar Vista Elementary School, Ocean View Jr. High School, and just this past June I graduated from Channel Islands High School. Elementary school was the best time of my life. Not having to worry about anything other than not getting grass stains on my pants from playing soccer. Everything changed in Jr. High. All of my old friend found new friends, so I had to do the same. Then in High School, all my Jr. High friends found new friends, and again I did the same. Its sad how now when I see those old friends its like we never met, but its no problem. My life has been nothing less than perfect to this point.

            I am currently in my second semester here at Oxnard College. My major is Business Management but I am first trying to get my general education out of the way so I can better focus on just my major classes later. I work at Subway and I have been working there for a little over two months now. My girlfriends name is Melissa and we have been together for almost a year and two months. She is an amazing person and I don’t know what I would do with out her.I still live at home with my parents and don’t plan on moving out any time soon. Luckily, I have the luxury of my parents letting my live at home for free, some people my age may not have that. I can proudly say my parents are what motivate me to be the best person I can be. They support me on everything that I want to do. They even bought me a car to help me with my transportation. Every day, I make sure to tell my parents how much I love and appreciate everything that they do for me.

            In the near future, about five years from now, I will be 23 years old and I plan on being on the verge of graduating if from CSUCI with a Bachelors Degree in Business Management. I plan on still living with my parents, owning a new car, having a job at a bank, and being close to marrying Melissa so that we can start a family. Further down the road, about 10 years from now, my hopes are that I will be living in my own house, own two or three nice cars, and having worked my way up in the banking industry and closer to reaching my employment goal, being a private banker. Being a private banker means that I will have a small number of clients, mostly small business owners, so that I can help them with their finances. Hopefully I can achieve all of my goals, and maybe even exceed them.