Alexis Carranza Sanches and Leslie Hernandez-Gomez

00:02 My name is Leslie Hernandez. I am 17 years old today's date is Friday, January 17th 2020 location. We are in Chicago, Illinois name of the interview partner. Alexis is my partner and he's my boyfriend. My name is Alexis Carranza today Friday, January 17th, 2020. We're in Chicago and my partner's name is Leslie and she's my girlfriend.

00:34 One of the questions that I would like to ask you it's what's one of your biggest goals in life in the house and have a lot of cars. But also I just want to go to college. I have a degree but something that you would like to do after college or high-school graduate as a certified nurse.

01:02 Probably like have a house and unstable job a good place to live probably move out of my parents.

01:11 Is there anything that you started to do now that would help you in the future as a nurse my labs in my Chronicles. Do you like or since you started? Do you like what you're doing there now?

01:32 I mean, I do like it since I like helping people. I feel like this just like gets me ready for like what's actually in the real world and you know all the problems that I'm going to face as a nurse and in the hospital.

01:46 What are your plans after you graduate Pauline go to college and try to get a degree and then move on to a trade school and try to get a degree as an architect.

01:58 What college are you planning on going through will probably more than college right now and then move on to the UTI or something like that.

02:09 What is one of your greatest achievements as of right now?

02:13 My grade is a Cheez-It.

02:14 As of right now will be that I'm graduating with extra credits and that end of summer. I will be working in a hospital.

02:25 What's one of your biggest achievements?

02:30 I'm not actually sure. I don't think I have any bringing a cheese Mets right now.

02:43 Oh my back.

02:46 Who is your biggest supporter of probably my mom cuz she's always been there for me since I was little and now she tries to push me even more to try to finish school and do something else and be a better person who is your biggest supporter supporter is my mom and my second mom. I feel like they have always helped me ever since I started struggling like school and stuff. So they've always like really pushed me and gave me advice to become a better person and just like have a better education.

03:24 One of my favorite memories when I go over to your house to her house and then you know, we just watch movies and stuff since we really don't get to spend as much time together. Other than when we see each other at church and it's like well one of my biggest memories is when it was her birthday party and I'm having really much like a lot of fun. I met her at church. It was when I was doing my first communion. It's been like almost 7 years that I met her she is just great. I love her.

04:06 Where do you see yourself in 10 years? I have my own company by that time and have a house and probably your family violin. What do you think you'll be doing on next 5 years?

04:23 Probably graduate college start working as an actual nurse instead of a certified nurse have my own place. Maybe have a family.

04:34 If I'm stable.

04:38 Oh, we're what do you think about where would you like to work as a nurse hospital to work as a nurse or McNeil?

04:50 Problem probably McNeil, but like what I'm really like going for is actually working at Loyola. I feel like I know their system better than like any other hospital and yeah, have you been there often that you know, like how it works there? Yeah, almost there every month for check-ups and stuff.

05:13 Are you happy where you are right now? I think I'm happy with who I'm with and my family and everything how everything is playing all the time doing the school. It's better than I used to be. How do you think you are right now? I'm pretty happy with where I am and all my family and school and just like me achieving so many great things that an early age. Just like makes me really happy.

05:45 What challenges you what something that challenges you?

05:50 Like a big challenges probably.

05:53 My the way, I live in How I

05:57 How I carry myself as a person that's probably one of my biggest challenges. What do you think is one of the biggest challenges you have as a person that nursing school because just because I'm like really young and it's new to me and I get so many requirements and just like a lot of time and effort and a dentist like at times. So that's like one of the biggest challenges for me to stay on track and actually do what I'm supposed to and attend what I'm supposed to is like something that's challenging me.

06:34 Do you like going to school right now for everything that you're doing?

06:39 If you like the semesters pretty easy know last year of high-school graduate in four months and William graduating twice from high school. And then from the nursing program and I like going to like my new school.

07:02 Kind of a I used to not like going but now I kind of like it cuz I know that's going to affect my future and I need to go have a degree cuz just to become to be someone in this world. Now you need to have degrees and diplomas for everything. So going to school with something you need to do and I don't like it that much but I'm going to go either way cuz I have to

07:28 Do you think you have grown as a person this past year?

07:32 Yeah, I think I've grown different from how I began will 2019 cuz we really started 20 24 2019 was there's a lot of things happening that everything that happened made me change other person how I used to be. I don't think I'm the same person as I used to be back in January of last year. Do you think you changed over the course of this year just because like I've liked become more mature and I know how to handle things well and like just like overall how like this year was like it was pretty pretty rough and I feel like outer like everything actually did it become a good person and we're just trying to do better and become a better person.

08:28 What's something that makes you happy makes me happy is probably being with my mom cuz I don't see her as often now and anytime that I'm with her, it's some I feel better cuz I kind of miss her but something that makes you happy.

08:47 Something that makes me happy. I like dancing. I'm really good at dancing something that makes me happy is just being able to like perform and then I'm practice Noel went to church. No.

09:05 That's something I like. How often do you go to church?

09:09 I used to go almost every Sunday, but since I work I go here and there when I have time, but I do teach every Friday and I don't work for what do you teach catechism confirmation second-year like going to church. Are you still going to church but I don't go to church anymore. I used to also go almost every Sunday, but since I started working out, how is I'm not able to do that anymore. It's been a couple months as I've gotten actually not going to lie.

09:44 Oh, but your parents are your parents.

09:48 My parents

09:51 Fortive my step-dad is too but he really doesn't like getting to the whole thing of school and stuff. My mom's definitely super strict.

10:05 Have restrictions my dad. He really doesn't care and lets me go out anywhere, but I do have such supportive parents and they've always helped me and they do what they can for me to like, you know, have a good education and not just a push me to do better and they advised me to do better on their first child on the old days. I'm supposed to put the example for my siblings. So they obviously want me to do good and I'll be a role model for them under pressure and buy everything to feel like I'm under pressure just because

10:44 I am going to be the first one graduating from college out of like my whole family and you know, what just the first one to graduate high school as well. Make sure it's scary like you not being the

10:58 Role model that they want you to be. So yeah, it does it does pressure you a lot to become like all that do get affected by that or like affect the way I think just because I'm like under so much pressure. That's when I get like start stressing myself like that have to be better and like I have to do this I have to do that. So therefore I care like really anxious and stuff. It actually does like affect me going now or like doing things might like doing just because I'm supposed to look good.

11:38 What's your biggest fear would probably be.

11:45 Losing one of my parents.

11:48 Especially my mom cuz I'm

11:52 I was always closer to my mom and my dad and

11:57 Or losing my mom might not know what I probably do cuz she's always been there for me.

12:06 I know it was one of your biggest fears is falling into a place where I used to be like I'm doing great right now. But like one of my biggest fears will be like going back to like experiencing everything that I experienced as a child and I like if I do start a family like

12:31 Pictures that with my kids that's something that I fear. Also, I feel like to see my grandma or one of my parents want something or someone that motivates you

12:46 Well, pretty much my whole family because they always push me to do the best or try to be the best that I like that I can be into everything.

12:58 But what what's like, what's who do you think is like the biggest impact from your family?

13:06 Is it a felony my mom because she's always been a single mother. She has gone through so much and I just feel like her being there for me and I pushing me like that has just like made me a bigger person and like thanks to her. I am who I am today. She's like tomorrow model.

13:28 You should probably tell a

13:35 Is there anything you've never told me what you want to tell me now?

13:40 No, I don't think there is anything.

13:46 Is there something that you would want to tell me that you've been scared her everything? I don't think I've been scared to tell you anything. But I feel like you like coming into my life like has made me a better person as well that you have helped me in so many things and I feel like thanks to you. I've grown.

14:04 Casperson

14:06 If if you were able to talk to someone that you that you cared for and died, who do you think it would be and what would you want to talk about? It will definitely be my grandma. I didn't really like get to know my grandma.

14:23 I met her like when I was eight. She passed away when I was 10 and I moved so I really like didn't get to see her as much and stuff. But if there was a chance for me to go back and tell her something I'll be that it wasn't her fault that like, you know, my whole life changed.

14:44 Because of what happened and I will definitely love to spend more time with her wishing you a big impact on your life has such a shortage.

14:54 I really didn't like get to spend time with her just because I had them early like barely met her but like she did like impact my life in a way like she was feeling really strong woman.

15:09 What does your future hold?

15:11 Oh, well, just I hope it's a better life than what I was given cuz I wasn't given the best and I just don't want if I have any sort of like the kid or something, but he lives like what I went through.

15:38 Is there anything negative that happened in your life that you would think that changed how you looked at the world through her just shaped you into a better person. And so I think ever since my parents divorced. I like that have definitely changed the way I thought of like loving someone or just

16:00 Having a family like I feel like if my dad would have been with me still like I would have been able to like do so much stuff. But ever since he left like I felt like I did grow as a person and like my family and I have just been so much better.

16:20 If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?

16:27 Probably

16:31 Hollywood working at such a young age cuz I started working when I was really young and most of my childhood was pretty much work work work and I don't really have that many memories with my friends going now going to places cuz I really didn't have time to for any of that.

16:54 Can you tell me about one of your most difficult memories difficult memories was probably when my when my mom left the house because she is always there and for her just from one day to another from being there. It's not being there was really hard and I really didn't know what to do at that point. I was pretty lost that's one of a difficult memories but it also changed the way I saw everything and it'll make me into a different person.

17:30 If you were told that you were going to die.

17:34 In a week, is there anything that you would want to change in your life?

17:43 My face now you don't feel as connected. I feel like that's something that's missing.

18:03 Do you have a love of your life? Yeah, I do. Yeah, and her name is Leslie Hernandez.

18:14 If you if you could give advice to a younger version of yourself, what would it be?

18:22 Dumb is in what way like if she like waiting until the right things like right moment to do things like starting to like fall in love at an early age was just not a good thing or like you like or like what me, you know being a rebel and not doing what I'm supposed to be doing and I actually like following rules. I feel like that and actually paid attention in school. And at what age do you think at what age are you talking about right now?

18:56 13 years old so you were doing all of that when you were 13, I don't think your parents like that.

19:11 If you can hold onto a memory from your life forever, which one would it be?

19:17 Psycho alarm memory for my life

19:21 I'm not actually sure cuz there's a lot but it was probably me one before my parents like broke up because after that every memory isn't going to be the same so I talked to be something when I was younger when I was maybe 1413 something that we did, but I'm not sure right now.

19:45 Is there like a memory that you would want to hold on to?

19:51 Indefinitely

19:55 Play 10 years of not seeing her like just seeing her all happy to see me and being able to spend time with her and my family in Mexico was definitely one of the greatest memories.

20:08 Oh, thank you for being here and for giving me the chance to interview you it was great interview. Maybe you knew it was a fun time talking to you.