Sitting at her post in the counseling office, Mrs. Jewel has seen it all.
While her job can be challenging, she is a pretty content person.“Some days it’s stressful, most days are good,” she said. “We get a good steady flow in here and my job here in the office is to prepare people for life outside of high school. Sometimes that gets stressful because I often have to be the bad guy.”
To unwind after a long day, Mrs. Jewel likes to stay active.“I like to read, I like to cook, and I play volleyball once a week with my oldest daughter in a like a pick up league,” she said, “so I just keep busy.”
And while she loves her job, Mrs. Jewel initially thought she might take a different career path. ”Actually when I first graduated high school, I went to college to be an accountant and started taking those classes,” she said. “But I knew that was not what I wanted to do. I switched to education and have been in the education field ever since. I love it, I love what I do.”
She also loves living in the West Michigan area. “I like Michigan,” she said. “I like the seasons here.”
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Mally Pichardo is a Wyoming high school student who is in the 12th grade. She was born in New York but recently moved to Michigan. I asked her if she was excited to graduate and she said “I am excited to graduate because I am very ready to start my new life and adulthood, and yeah it’s just fun to not be in school ”.
I asked her how she likes it so far and she said, “ I like school a lot because I have electives which makes the school day much easier. I’ve chosen the electives so their electives that I personally enjoy. So I like it a lot so far”. We can see that she enjoys the classes she chooses, making her day better.
What do you do out of school? Some people do sports and other people have jobs. So I decided to ask her what she did. She said, “Out of school usually I go home but I recently got a new job so that's what I'm going to do out of school, it’s at Crumbl Cookie”.
Some people like to do certain things so I decided to ask her what are your hobbies? She said, “I am a very boring person but I usually just like to watch movies and listen to music and so far I have been getting
back to art because when I was a child I used to sketch a lot so I'm getting back to it”.
People have dreams to accomplish while being in high school. I asked her what she wanted to do while in high school. She said, “During high school, I just want to graduate, to be honest, I just want to have good grades, just set a foundation for me so that when I graduate I know where to go from there, like the job I would like to save money from that. Clubs, I am in Key Club. I don't know yet if I'm going to fully commit to it, but that is so far that is going so far in high school”.
Mally wants to pursue a medical career in the future. She said, “I know that I want to get into a medical career. So either a forensic scientist or a nurse, I'm thinking more like a military nurse so far, at the moment a medical career”.
I asked her if she had any pets. She said, “I have a pet dog but she’s not with me at the moment, she’s with my mother, it's like a shih tzu mixed with something”.
Seeing that she was born and raised in New York, I decided to ask her what is your favorite season. She said, “Fall, I like fall because, well I don’t know, I just like October because of like the movies. I like fall movies, I like the trees and the color changes, I don't know fall has always been my favorite season because it feels like fall in a way”.