My High School

The high school I attended was "International Studies Academy" located in the Potrero Hill District of San Francisco. My high school didn't reside in my neighborhood and it produced a well diverse group of students. My high school use to be a Charter school, basically that means that we use to have our own rules and schedules and most of our profits were from the parents of the students. The first year I attended I.S.A it was the last year that it continued to be a Charter school before becoming part of the Unified School District. Originally my high school was a middle school so the structure of my school was smaller than most high schools in order to fit those standards. The downfall on that was when in need of using the restroom you didn't have to duck your head to see if any stall was in use due to the fact that the stalls only got up to your chest therefore you were able to see people heads. The high point on having such a small school was that everybody knew each other so we had a more family orientated and close rounded school. Overall my experience there was great!

The way we speak

I strongly believe that our peers have a great influence in the way we conduct our speech because we first interact more with our peers as part of our social life. Secondly, we feel to have more in common with our peers when it comes to similar topics in which to discuss and thirdly because we feel more comfortable interacting with individuals that are within our age. Teachers, parents and counselors are there to guide us and correct us from our mistakes, but our peers seem to speak more our language and we feel more comfortable speaking to somebody that speaks our language and it’s all due to the age gap. Peers understand the terminology used within each other’s era such as today's word usage like "You feel me?", which is used mostly after explaining a situation and asking the other person in which you are having a conversation with  if they understood what he or she was saying. Or for another instance "Your slipping" not necessarily meaning that somebody is falling, but instead meaning you don't have your head on right and you need to get yourself together.
Yes, parents are our first teachers and they do teach us everything we learn and they even introduce us to our first language but to have more than an hour conversation between a parent and a child or even a teacher can be difficult due to the age gap that exist between both. There is not much in common and it can be sometimes really uncomfortable telling an adult a story and they not understanding what you have to say. Even telling them a personal problem and later saying to them "You feel me?" because they would look at you and ask you to repeat yourself.
The people that influence me a lot is my family, I have to code switch a lot from English to Spanish and I have noticed that I began to adapt a new sort of language which is known as "Spanglish", which is a mixture of English and Spanish mixed together. It is difficult for me to sometimes speak Spanish constantly with my family when I don't speak it in my everyday basis. It's difficult because you get so accustomed to a language but you always have your roots and the language and accent that makes you who you are.