FORCING A SMILE

It's 7:59 a.m. I had to stay late night to finish an assignment and was woken up by my mother who insisted that 6:00 a.m. was already late for me to get out of bed, which it was. It took me a while to stop yawning but I trudge through all my morning duties with the voice in my head planning the next move and organizing a schedule to follow. Today's mission is to smile the whole time. 

GREEN GARDEN, GREEN WORLD, BEST HEALTH - @ODALYSGREENCENTER

 @ODALYSGREENCENTER IS INSPIRED BY MY RESEARCH PAPER ON VERTICAL FARMING. 

 Odalys Green Center - Host Drive Thrus, FFA SAE Project (In the process of obtaining American Degree) 




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THE CREATION OF @SANTAMARIAINSIGHTS ...

 Inspired by the wide range of local businesses in my community, in June of 2020 I created an Instagram page named @SantaMariaInsights, capturing every unique small business and featuring them to be supported. In the rise of @SantaMariaInsights, I created digital flyers using my prior knowledge on google slides and learning how to use photoshopping websites. I spent around 10 hours a week watching tutorials, publishing new posts, and interacting. Using iMovie I started to create videos using my prior experience as an FFA Chapter Report using iMovie. With an enthusiastic perspective, I continue to engage with my community digitally on my simple yet marvelous shattered iPhone 6. In addition, my work started to be acknowledged and I began to receive requests for promotional videos with a drone, it became more than a hobby. I realized that local businesses would benefit from digital affordable video commercials to promote themselves and that video reviews were very significant. I intend to grow as a Social Media Marketer and in order to do that, I need appropriate tools. I plan to invest on a computer or camera by doing any odd jobs that I can get. @SantaMariaInsights is not only for small businesses to become more known but also for various organizations and resources from the community. Information can be reshared to a bigger audience and translated to various languages and dialects. I am bilingual and proficient in both Spanish and English and I am currently learning the Mixteco dialect, specifically alto to reach a wider audience. By using my editing and digital art skills I create posts that are understandable for a wide range. I have faith in our generation to be the connection between the modern changes we are going through and their families. Today, I am one step closer to being the person I want to be by giving back to my community and breaking the lack of communication about resources with the uninformed minority communities that stand as barriers for families to grow.



FORCING A SMILE

It's 7:59 a.m. I had to stay late night to finish an assignment and was woken up by my mother who insisted that 6:00 a.m. was already la...