Pamela

Pamela is currently a freshman at Queens College with an undecided major. For her second semester here she is taking anthropology 102, English 110, Spanish 250, and economics 101, which are all basic requirements. So far, she is enjoying the courses that she is taking. Pamela really enjoys math classes so perhaps that will steer her to choose a major in that field.
On the second day of class, it was brought to my attention that Pamela had recently moved to New York from Colombia. This sparked immediate conversation because I am also Colombia. She told me that she had been in New York for a little over nine months and that she moved here with her mother. Pamela lives in Astoria and has to take two trains to get to school everyday even though she doesn’t like to take the train.
When she is not in school, Pamela works at Queens Center mall so it is easy to imagine that her schedule is always very busy. For example, since she only has English class on Mondays, she goes straight from class to the mall to make it in time for her shift at 2pm and that ends at 9:30pm. She is obviously a very disciplined and motivated young woman.