My Personal HistoryBy Emily Ortega

Dr. Arguello’s Fall 2011 History of Chicanas/os

San Juan Capistrano

Home of the Swallows Swallows Day March 19 Founded by Spanish

missionaries (twice founded, 1775 and 1776)

Home of Mission San Juan Capistrano “Jewel of the Missions”

Historic Los Rios District

My Travels

United States: Arizona, New Mexico, Florida, Michigan, New York, Maine, Virginia, Washington DC, Hawaii

Mexico: Mexico City Canada: Toronto Europe: England, Spain,

Portugal, Denmark

My Education

Kindergarten- 8th grade Mission School (San Juan Capistrano)

Freshman year Santa Margarita Sophomore Year Capo High (San Juan

Capistrano) Junior Year Gallup High (Gallup, New

Mexico) Senior Year Home Schooled GED in 2007 2011 First year at Saddleback

A Few of My Favorite Things…

My Family (of course) Places: Table Rock, Laguna Beach, and Red Rock,

Gallup, NM Food: Aldo’s Café Spaghetti, Los Golondrina’s

breakfast burrito TV Shows: United States of Tara, Criminal Minds,

Boardwalk Empire Artist: Mac Dre (R.I.P.) Pastimes: Playing with my son, music, photography,

painting, cooking, reading Books: The Outsiders, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

Maintenance, The Iliad and The Odyssey