Jaylin Candelaria

Christine

Christine my advisor or as some people in my school may know her as “the candy lady”
was one of the first people I met at Animas High School. She was the one who made me feel like
I belonged and had a place at this school. Anytime I needed someone to talk to I knew I could
count on her. All I needed to do was look for the long locks of curly blonde hair. Christine
showed me that adolescence is the process of making mistakes, and negotiating relationships,
with the ultimate goal of learning lessons to help you in adulthood. Adolescents need to take
risks and learn from them in order to succeed in adulthood. If you don't try and fail or succeed in
your adolescent years you won't be able to develop properly in adulthood. (Surviving the
Teenage Brain Documentary).
Christine’s adolescent years were more on the adventurous and risk taking side of the
spectrum. She always tried new things in order to feel like she had belonging, and place with the
popular kids. They could’ve been the littlest things like doing her hair a certain way, wearing
certain clothes, or acting differently. The bigger things she would do is go ditch school to drink
and smoke in the forest, sneak out, and go to parties.
Christine kept circling back during the interview about this one mistake she had made
during her adolescent years that had taken a huge toll and impact in her life. She was only 15
when she decided it was a good idea to take her friend's car to go see this one guy she had liked.
When driving to his house she managed to make it most of the way. When she was about there
she happened to crash the car into his brick wall outside of his house. The police and ambulance
had showed up at the scene of the incident, and that’s when it really hit. She was in for it.
Christine had lost all trust in everyone closest to her after this incident. The family of her
friend didn’t trust her to be around their child anymore, so they couldn’t hang. The family even
lost trust in their own child, which made her friend not want to associate with Christine anymore.
The police and her friends family thought she was driving under the influence, so she had to go
to court. Her mother had to fight and fight for her knowing her daughter would never do that.
Her mother had lost all trust in Christine and was disappointed because she knows she didn’t
raise her like this. Christine had the hardest time trying to earn her mom's trust back. Her mom
was her only family member and was basically her best friend, so losing her could’ve been the
downfall of her adolescent years.
Christine had a lot of takeaways from this experience, but she was able to learn from it.
She learned lessons during her adolescent years in order to
succeed in adulthood. She focused on rekindling her relationship with her mom and doing
things to prove that she could be trusted. They ended up growing closer than ever after proving
to her mom that the old Christine is not who she was raised her to be. She worked hard to get all
her grades up, and her confidence up. When she did get her life back on track, she was able to
succeed in her future. After years and years she finally talked to her ex best friend and actually
was able to work things out. Now till this day they still keep in contact. Sometimes actions make
consequences to learn a valuable lesson. Adolescents need to make these mistakes, and negotiate
relationships like christine had done, in order to learn lessons from them to help in adulthood.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
When in your adolescent years you tend to try new things whether you 
choose them or get pressured. These new things can be good or bad. 
Christine was one to choose what she wanted to do and try.