Return to Monterey

Post-Cuba, I returned to Monterey and finished up my credits in order to graduate. I had not pursued a career with the Alphabet Agencies, so my focus was on a career. I searched and found two separate two agencies, ACCION in Albuquerque and Women’s World Banking in New York City. I phone interviewed with both agencies. The opportunity with ACCION was through the Americops Vista Program, a year long opportunity on basically poverty wages with the opportunity to gain a stipend towards student loans. Having attended both DePaul and MIIS, my student loan debt was extraordinary as was my credit card debt. My parents had moved to Reno, Nevada as my dad was now working in the private sector focused on diesel fuel that did decreased harm on the environment. I was no longer communicating with Kico as he had come to visit me in Monterey, met all of my friends during a communal Thanksgiving, and he waited until after he returned to the Dominican to call me and say “what would you do if I told you I had a kid ?” I said, “Is that true?’ He said yes, and I said “I guess that means that you and I are through’, and I hung up. He attempted to contact me via Messenger on the computer stating that he loved me and we needed to talk. I did not feel that I could continue with him, and was hurt that he could have spent so much time with me and blurt out that he had a child with another woman but stated that he loved ME. When it was time to graduate, students from foreign countries came in their traditional clothing and when we walked across the stage, I mouthed thank you to my all-time favorite teacher, Dr. Garrett. It was now time to start my new life