My name is Leonardo Robles, I am 18 years old, and I was born in the city of Reynosa in Mexico. I moved to the United States around the age of 13.
Most of my childhood stayed in Mexico, but I am glad to say that I got to make new friends and new experiences in Oklahoma. moving to a different country has been a fantastic experience.
I graduated from Woodward high school and throughout those years I took AP classes like spanish and government and did some sports like football, soccer, cross country and tennis.
Tennis turned out to be my favorite sport to play and I try to keep practicing when I can. When I found out that the Northwestern Alva campus had tennis courts, I knew I would enjoy spending time being here.
I have worked in Ramiro’s mexican restaurant as a waiter, I worked there throughout my entire high school until my freshman year of college and then became a manager at Sunrise café.
I developed good skills in the customer service area thanks to my experience working in restaurants, but now I want to push myself into higher achievements and learn more skills.
In my junior year of high school, I decided I wanted to go to college after my English teacher said I create good writings about the research topics that I have worked on before and ever since, I have been thinking of what achievements and goals I want to focus on to be where I want to.
My family is one of my greatest supporters since every day they remind me to work hard and follow my dreams with passion. They are my main motivation of why education is important, and ever since I moved to Alva, they still try to call me or text me every day to keep in contact since we were used to seeing each other almost every day.
I did my freshman year of college in the northwestern Woodward campus, and I decided to move to Alva to continue my education in my mass communications major and be an employee at ranger news to get better experience in the future.
The reason why I want to major in mass communication is to become a journalist and discover stories and work on research.
I look forward on working in the newspaper because I always liked being part of a team and work in an environment where I see myself in the future.
In any case, I hope that college brings out the best of me, and that my new experiences in life teach me lessons to provide a better version of me for the good of my career and myself.
I can’t wait to see what this new semester has for me and hopefully everyone else has a productive semester as well.
