Juan Cruz

Oral History of Rosa Rodriguez

ROSA RODRIGUEZ is a strong woman that since she was little girl she was able to stand on her two feet. ROSA RODRIGUEZ was born in Puerto Rico. She is now living in the Bronx. ROSA RODRIUEZ is a mother of 3 kids. ROSA is a great mother. She is a sight manager and she manages in all five boroughs.

It was a hot and musty Sunday night. I just finish waken up and brushing my mouth. My house was quiet and I found that kind of strange. My mom is in bed reading her book. So as I get ready to ask my mom the question my cousin comes out of the closet and scares me. I jumped and I take a swing at him and his nose starts gushing blood so I had to do and get a towel for him because he was getting blood all over the floor.

responsibility means to me is that if I have a job I am responsible to get up in the morning and show up to work early and do my job and complete everything that I have to. Another thing is if you give birth to a child you are responsible to nurture it in every way. You make sure that the baby has everything it needs to be healthy and you watch it grow up. I like to drink when I go out. As a responsible adult I bring another driver along because I know that I am going to get drunk and I have other people in the car with me and I don’t want to put their life at risk because I am drunk an I can crash an cause me being drunk I could kill everyone that’s with me in the car.

So you think that responsibility is important?

I know responsibility is important because if you didn’t have responsibility in life people would be different. Like if the president wasn’t responsible for the country people would attempt to take over and he wouldn’t take care of the economic crisis. Also he would let anything happen and he would only watch out for him self. Cops they are responsible to try to keep the drugs of the street and try their best to protect the innocent. Us the people are responsible to take care of the earth and help each other out.

How is responsibility important for you?

It's important for me because I have a family of three kinds and I have to support them as a mother. I also have a job as I sight manager so I have to get up early. I do love what I do for a living because it gives me a sense of fulfillment at the end of the day. So for me responsibility is a priority in my life because with out responsibility I feel that my life will be lost. All my life I was taken on responsibility I guess that though me more how to be more responsible woman in my life.