31 for 21 Day 28 Rude customers scare me

            The biggest fear I have at work is that  a customer will call  me the r word.  You may be wondering why  I have that fear since I do not have an intellectual  disability.

      I work  in the college  bookstore.  I  work the cash  register, see  below for money handling tips, and sometimes it gets busy.   I  do have  unclear speech and  problems   using my hands at times, so  uneducated people  could  assume  that I have an intellectual disability.  Being in fear of  a word being used  towards me should show  how  bad  the word is.  The word stings   and  should not be used.


 The closest thing that I have come to the r word was a customer  trying to grab his  merchandise.  from me.  It really  rattled me up.   My boss is  really great  and has told me that he would defend me.  My boss is the best boss ever.




 Here  is  a related story about  having others back  at work.

31 for 21 Day 27 : Money handleing tips

 

   So today I am  going to be  talking about two  strategies that help me   work the cash  register at the   bookstore.  When  someone asked me what is something you did not think that you would be doing  I  said working  the cash  register.   I was able to surprise myself and work the  register. 

 Here are  two   tricks   I  use.



 One      I  picture an  100  chart in my head.  This helps me a lot.  Also   skip counting  helps a ton as well. I am  glad  I was exposed to this  in my gen ed math class.




 Trick  two


 I have a  hard time telling the difference  between a quarter and a nickel, but  I can  read those words.   On  the  quarter  it says   Quarter  dollar so  I  find that and then  I know its 25 cents.


  I will say that working the cash register has  been THE BEST  way for me to  handle money. 

  Do you guys have any  tips  let me know  in the comments  below

31 for 21 Day 26 : Ten things you should know about my grandfather

     Today is a really  hard day for me to blog about.   For those  long time readers you guys know that two  years ago  I lost my grandfather.   Here are a few things you should know about my  grandfather.

1  My grandfather loved old cars.  He kept an assortment of old cars. To this day  there are still  old cars   at my  grandparents home.  He loved to fix them up.  He gave my brother one of his cars  for his 16th  birthday.


2  My  grandfather loved  my  grandmother.    They were together for a long time,   The  rasied  six  kids  together. They  may have gotten  in  fights but they always made up

3 My  grandfather  was an extremly hard  worker.   He  had to quit school to help his family when his father died  when he was a young boy.

4  My  grandfather  valued education.   Four out of his six kids  went to college.  One of my anunts   owned her own buiness.  My other anut  works  for state farm,  My mother became the first   Black  vice chancellor  at UCSF.  

5  My grandfather  was in the Army  when it became integrated .  It  was a hard  time but he  had an excelent work ethic,

  My  grandpa,  My father, Princess, my grandmother  and me in the overalls

6  The day after my  Grandfather pased a peacock  came  to visit my grandparents house.   Ever since  Peacocks have been very important to my  family.

7  I wish   he would have been here to watch me graduate college, move out and  have kids.

8  I wish I could be able to have my mom  talk to him  in heaven.

9  I  wish he could have been here to   hear about  my Princess  trip to Italy when she gets back  in December.

10   I  miss hearing his voice.


 Love you grandpa  

31 for 21: Day 25 Hate Crimes

  This is a great documentary on an  is an important  topic. I have  been bullied but   not like this .    

31 for 21 Day 24 : One more week to enter the drawing

   Hay  guys October  is  nearly over which means that it is almost  the end of  the giveaway for  Who's the slow  learner.  Sandra  also made a video.  It is really good. I love the song she used.
  It is  31 for 21 day six.

31 for 21 Day 23 : Memories from Seconed Grade

In Second grade  I  remember..



  Starting a new school.  I moved to public school it was harder to fit in. I had a hard time making  friends and was bullied.

Aide :  I had a one on one aide.

 
  Writers  Workshop :  I  remember  coming up with  great stories about different things.

 Spelling  words and  homework packets:  These came home every  week.


  Arthur and  Toy Story  Two:  These  were my favorite things to watch on  tv.  Toy story  two  came out   the Thanksgiving  of  my  second  grade year.   I had an  Arthur  Backpack.

 Field Trips: To the park, to see Elephant seals,  and we rode the train to   the downtown.

  Singing   in the classroom   and   after school in the school singing class .  I still remember those  tunes.



  This  teacher was a great teacher for me. She actually  taught all of my siblings.  She is  now my Facebook  friend.

31 for 21 Day 22 : "The first of many graduations"

      My  mom is a wonderful women.  She is strong   smart and  by far my best advocate.    I love her so much.  She  also  believes in me.


 We have an old  video  of my  preschool graduation.  In the video  my mom is saying that this  is the first of many graduations and she included medical school .    I should  mention that  this was  a graduation from a  special needs preschool.    My mom is amazing.  The belief and hope that her child  with  disabilities could achieve  greatness  is  ineradicable.   That is one of the reasons  that I have  come so far.   It is  because  she believed  in me. 

  Leave a comment  if you would like to hear from  my  mom in a future  blog post.

 The  first of many  Oh how  right my mother  was