I Honestly Miss My Year Up Family

Dear My Fellow Colleagues & Staff,

     Hello there everyone this is Curtis Brandon and I am weitting this blog post to let you guys know how I am doing,

1. I am working at Kaiser as an Assisstant Manager in Richmond.
2. I am volunteering at the Senior Health Program in El Sobrante helping/ monitoring Seniors to the restrooms, feeding them, and most importantly keeping them content by playing games and having fun.
3. I am working on my Contra Costa College studying Basketball, Football, Dancing, Technology (More), and most important Life Learning Skills.
4. I am applying for Treasure Island Job Core and they said that I am accepted and they usually let me stay there to complete there training program then go on and live my life, but they have agreed to allow me to stay there to complete Year Ups next class and they know and undertsand how long the process takes and they are will ing to let me stay there throughout that time.

I am really succeeding in life and i am loving everything that I am doing and I am being considered for the basketball team and CCC and I am really succeeding in my dance and I am the lead dancer of my group and before I got their they had competed in A dance competition and they won and now I have the opertunity to lead them to another championship and I will not fail. I am also very excited to be able to complete Year Up this time with no complaints and hard times.


P.S. I am still coming back to Year Up because there is no place like Year Up and definitely no place funner that lets you have as much fun as you guys have there and work very hard at the same time. Alright, I have gotta go to run my employeement group and I dont want to be late its our last group. If anyof you guys wanna reach me you can either call me at 510 243 1400 after 4pm or you can reach me on facebook at Curtis Brandon as a matter of fact here is the URL to my facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/#!/C.Brnadon ALRIGHT LOVE YOU GUYS AND AGAIN I AM HAPPY FOR ALL OF YOU GUYS BECAUSE YOU GUYS HAVE DONE IT!!!!!

What I am currently up to today!

     I Curtis Brandon and doing great working two jobs and having fun and loving the work that I do, but life is not the same without my Year Up friends and family I miss Year Up so much that i can't wait to get into class 10 and complete the program and have all of the necessary requirements to successfully to succeed in the work place and in the general environment as well. I am currently working at B.Y.A. (Berkeley Youth Alternatives) doing volunteering and getting to open up a business with  a partner that is willing and able to help me help young teenage youth with anger and family drama. My other I am back at the Oakland Coliseum and I got my position back as a staff and they have told me that really miss me because nobody does the job and takes it serious like I do and also having fun at the same time. I know you guys remember that motto Work Hard and Have Fun at the same time.


                                                                                                     -Curtis Brandon

The Best Volunteer Job I have ever had?

Curtis Brandon

06-18-2012

BC Class

Mike Harris

The best job (paid or volunteer) that I have ever had?

                The best volunteer job that I have ever had was that I mentored and helped young teenage youth to help them find their inner potential. My responsibilities were to help the young teenage youth become knowledgeable young people that have bright futures ahead of them and I was to teach them the right and wrongs of life. Another responsibility that I had and still do have is to reach out to those individuals and make sure that they take life by the horns and no matter what anyone tells you, you can do whatever you want to do. I loved working with those young teenage youth because they teach me new things every day and I loved it. The thing that exhilarated me was that I got to give back to my community and still do give back to my community every day with no regrets about anything that I do. Also, I enjoyed being around the young teenage youth and teaching them as well as learning new things and mainly getting the chance to see myself in a bright and young man or woman. One teenage youth that I remember who was a great person for me to teach and to learn other things from was a girl named Thalia, and a boy named Mario. These 2 young teenage youth are the epitome of what it means to be a true leader in the community and they both understand that risks that need to be taken in order to be what you want to be and not to let anyone tell you otherwise and they knew how to do these things so well that they ended up teaching me new things it applies to internship because I have developed Leadership, Motivation, Honor, Respect, and Loyalty.

My progress with reading Freakonomics!!!!!

Curtis Brandon

05-05-2012

BC Class

Mike Harris

How the reading process has been for me?

          The reading has not exhilarate me at all honestly because I despise this book because this book in my opinion makes no since what so ever. I don’t understand the book even though I read it because it is a homework assignment and honestly if I had a choice I wouldn’t read this book anymore because this book totally doesn’t catch my attention.

          The advice that I would give to someone else honestly is that they should read this book at their own risk of either liking the book and or not liking the book. Then I would tell them why I don’t like the book period and then after that it is initially up to them whether they want to read the book or not.

          I would always read the assigned pages and do the work on the day that it is assigned and then wait until it is time to revisit the work again, but honestly I would never pick the assignment up again until we are all in class and discussing the assignment as a group.

          I read the book on bart and at home until I am done with the assigned chapters and then I do the assigned work and then i put the assignment away and never touch it again until the day we brng them out in class.

My Current Event

Curtis Brandon

05-19-2012

BC Class

Mike Harris

By adamg - 2/10/12 - 3:17 pm

Police turn tables on Brighton DJ - they arrest him for refusing to lower the volume

There was a report that the Boston Police had arrested a BU student they said responded to their request either turn his music down or roll up his window and instead he turned his music up. The Police officers stated that the noise complaint at 109 Brainerd Rd. shortly after 5 p.m. yesterday was met by a wall of sound emanating from a third-floor apartment - and by a resident who asked them to do something about it.

The officers came and knocked on the apartment door for a while before the suspect opened the door. The officers advised the person playing the music was told to turn down the music due to the multiple 911 calls. The person stated, "I'm not turning anything down!" Officers advised the man to turn the music down and he clearly replied, "I'm not turning it down."

            Police say as the officers tried to reason with Jurgen Lippert, more neighbors came out of their apartments and pleaded with them to do something about the loud and obnoxious noise, but they said that it was a daily occurrence. The police said that the apartment DJ apologized for the disturbance to his neighbors but that he needed to "practice mixing music." The police have clearly stated that the man (Lippert) clearly turned his music up. Then officers had arrested him for disturbing the peace.

My Pledge

My Pledge to myself and the class

     I Curtis Brandon pledge to learn more as a student at Year Up and become a well known and educated student with the skills to become successful.

     I pledge to use my resources for help when I don’t understand something and become a resource so everyone can come to me and ask me questions and I can provide them with the help they are seeking.

     Also, to become a better person overall in this programs to the point to where I can do anything I want with no regrets and successfully through Year Up and live a happy life with Year Up under my belt, and by watching my Verbal Vices.

     Finally, to pass all of my classes in the 2^nd and 3^rd module of Year Up and become someone who can teach people about anything with the knowledge to speak based on what I know and not relying on my peers for everything. I plan to do this by studying hard and not letting anyone and anything distract me from my goals. I am also going to understand the work a bit more.

Sincerely,

Curtis Brandon

04-30-2012

Stigma

     

Ghetto people

     According to the article, stigmas are a way of speaking to a person without using words, but only using gestures. In our society today we have people who want to be ghetto in order to either fit in or be hip/hood. Like this:

This is an image that was found over the internet under ghetto white boys and they are called the “ICY HOT STUNTAZ” and from what I have researched about them according to what they call themselves is that they were the coolest group of dudes to ever be around. Honestly this is how I feel about the situation being that they claim to be cool rappers that everyone should be around because they can rap (they got flow), so this is how I feel: “for the love of god you’re a 15 year old suburban white-boy, not some ghetto gangbanger. I hope this website is a joke because if it isn’t than you need to 1) look in the mirror and realize you’re not black 2) stop with the lame “gang signs” 3) pawn some of that jewelry and buy yourself a bike because that’s all your 15 year old ass can drive 4) realize that you’re not hardcore or intimidating in the slightest bit 5) learn how to spell 6) stop with the stupid nick names. For the record I think that you’re in the middle of some terrible identity crisis, and you should go to the ghetto and try “Pimpin” with some real gangsters and see how long you live. Sometimes the truth hurts to some people to have to see people try to be something that they are not.

Another picture of some want to be ghetto people from the movie Malibu’s Most Wanted and this is the scene in the movie where Malibu Also Known As B-Rad in the gray and yellow went to a shampoo and conditioner store and they tried to demand some free Shampoo and Conditioner products.

    

In the movie B-Rad had said: “This is our mall. always has been, always will be! There's about to be some hard core drama about to go down right neow! (Hodges: that's right. (Lady at desk: ohhh Mr. O’merclanni, our clerk gave you the wrong aroma therapy candles. here you go. (B-Rad looks at Hodges funny)(B-Rad: that's what i'm talkin about! we get ours! (Moe barks)(B-Rad: you validat perkin? (Lady: of coures sir. Then, there was another line that I thought was hilarious and that line is: “Man why do you keep callin me that? That’s you name isn't it? B-Rad:  That’s my slave name I told you like 50 times! S~ ok B-Rad! B~ wassup? S~ what are your goals in life B-Rad: To be the biggest rapper there ever was! Let me kick a freestyle for you right now SHRINK SHRINK BLINKTEY BLINK TRY TO MAKE ME THINK MAKE ME WANA GO TO MY SINK AND VOMIT THEN CLEAN IT UP WITH COMET EARTH IS MY PLONET that’s a million dollar song right there! S~ so how long have you been this shizznitt (stutters) B~ Ah every since i was a little shawty! I had these beats in my head that Icouldn’t forget! My parents were always on different channels M~ Were not leaving till your eat those vegatables D~Mmmm those look good YB~ forget ya'll S~ so what your saying is that your parents were never there for you? B~ no! M~ now that is not true! D~ what about your barmistfa? R~ whats the theme of your barmitstfa? starwars? superheros?