Anggie Hernandez
Professor: Brianna Castagnozzi
Writing and Rhetoric: ENG 170-25
February 4th, 2021

A Day In My Life and Reflection Of My Heritage

It’s february 1st eight am in the morning, a very snowy day. I woke up to my first alarm which I ended up snoozing. I tell myself I really wish I could sleep more because I am tired. I give myself ten more minutes to “rest my eyes” but truthfully I end up falling asleep. My alarm clock sounds again and I am upset. I feel so tired I stop and tell myself I need to be up because I have class at nine am. I get up and the first thing I do is immediately go to instagram to scroll through new feeds I spend about ten mins there. I then go to the bathroom and brush my teeth and shower. I take my phone to the bathroom and I play music to keep me up. I notice I even text in the shower. I got a message from my friend and I responded. My phone is with me literally all day. I spend about thirty minutes in the bathroom. I get out and it’s 8:47 am. I lay back in bed and waited on my phone on tik tok till it hit 9:27 am. I went on my computer and started my first class which was intro to theatre. I sit at my desk. I put my phone away to see if I didn’t look when I received messages. Thirty minutes in I am very focused and just watching the lecture. My phone buzzes a lot. I am tempted to check and I tell myself checking it for two mins won’t hurt. I ended up replying to people and going on social media during class. This was for about ten minutes. After that I told myself I can’t do this. I have to pay attention to my professor. Then, I turned it off to see if I was able to really stay away. I ended up finishing class at 10:45 am. After that I went straight to my phone and watched my favorite show “All American” till it hit my next class which was at 11:00 am. At that time I was taking my english class. I put my phone down now but I was on it a few times and I will tell myself I need to stop. The temptation was real. I then ended up turning it off and paid attention. I finish this class at 12:13 pm. Once that class was done I went back straight to my phone to finish the show that I was watching. I waited till 12:30 and I began my next class which was Latin America through the arts. For this class I turned my phone off and for class I turned on my camera and was fully engaged in it. It felt great because I felt like I did a big accomplishment staying away from my phone. As you can see I love being on my phone and it is the technology I use most. Once my class is done I get up and go to eat. I am starving. I ended up making scrambled eggs with bacon on a bagel. As I ate I turned on my TV and watched a Christmas movie. I was in a mood to watch something of the holiday since it was snowing. After I eat and finish the movie I feel exhausted since I had three classes back to back and I went to sleep kinda late. It is already 2:45 pm. I go talk to my mother who comes home and tell her what I have been doing all day. I go take a nap. I woke up at 5pm and checked my phone. I was on tik tok for thirty minutes. Then, I go up and eat some rice and grilled chicken. Once I am done I tell myself I need to do some homework. I spend two hours getting some homework as I do homework in between I am on my phone texting back and listening to music. I feel good because I am getting the work done but I am also upset that I am so addicted to my phone. By that time it was almost 8 pm. I lay in bed and I put on another show called Lucifer. I spent a good four hours straight watching the show. Until it was 12 pm my friend’s face timed me and I stayed up till 2 am talking. As I am on face time I am also using my phone. I’m on instagram, snap chat, and tik tok. I then end up falling asleep. I spent the whole day in my room on this snowy day.
As for my heritage, I’ll be honest I never really thought really deep on how it was being from the Dominican Republic until doing this reflection. I was born in the Dominican Republic but I came here when I was only three months old. I have only been there four times to visit. My mom taught me Spanish since I was little. I was exposed to the culture a lot. The music, the food and also the way people from over think. Since my mother was raised there. It does mean a lot to my heritage because it makes me who I am. The type of music most heard over there is “bachata” which I love and know how to dance it. The types of food we eat are pork, plantains, Yucca, rice with beans and fried ham. But everyday my mom makes the same food which is rice, beans and chicken with salad on the side. We usually celebrate most holidays in the United States such as thanksgiving and Christmas. In those gatherings there is always a lot of food and alcoholic beverages. We stay up all night with our family to spend the holiday. I love being able to share with family and being united to them. I find that I fit into the culture and it is a big part of me although I don’t know a lot of background history on the country. A memory in which I felt so close to my heritage was this Christmas actually I was with my family. We were listening to old music from the Dominican republic. I am an old soul and I enjoyed it so much. It took me back to my heritage because this is what they do over there. I ate all the food from over there and I danced a lot that night. I felt the happiest and felt as I was truly from there I had a great Christmas. I still need to be more knowledgeable about my culture but I still feel as if I am part of it!