Oscar

Well lets see I was born in Los Angeles, Ca. I lived there till I was 5 or 6 can't remember that well. Anyways our family moved to Riverside which is were I lived most of my life. My parents got divorced when I was young, so my siblings and I would spend our summer vacations with our father. Fast forward a few years and I was in high school in a different city, the city of Moreno Valley. I graduated from high school in 2002 and I enlisted into the Marine Corps; of which I choose to be a grunt since the Marines are known for there grunts. On March of 2003 I was in Kuwait waiting for the invasion to start. When it did we were on our way to overthrow a dictator. Once “all major combat operation are over” G.W.Bush. We were happy, we though that we were going home; but didn't go home we had to stay longer. While in Iraq I witness all sort of things, one of which was living in one of Saddam's palaces and even going to the ancient city of Babylon. Once home wee thought that we will never return; but we were wrong we were back 8 months later all because the Spanish military pulled out of Iraq and had left a small group of Salvadorians army to defend there self's against a larger insurgent group. Once their Iraq had changed for the good but had changed in a bad way too. Not only the whole insurgent uprising the bad part but also the price of cigarettes had gone up from 2 cartons of cigarettes for 5 dollars, to 1 for 5 now. I saw extensive combat on my second tour of Iraq. Had to spend my 21st birthday which was a bummer. On August 25 I got out of the Marine Corps with a honorable discharge. By now my mother had moved to Oxnard because we have family here which was the reason for me on settling here. I managed to travel a lot after I got out of the military. I traveled through Europe and Asia. I even did a cross country trip with my best friend. My last major travel destination was when I took a extended year and a half vacation to the Island of Guam, USA of which is another long and very interesting story.

At this present moment beside all I am doing is going to school full time and getting paid for it too. I am studying to be a cultural anthropologist/ chef. Don't do much beside going shooting with my friends, camping, drinking, I love almost anything that involves the outdoors,and I also do some light travailing.

In the future I will be doing lots of travailing and in each destination I will learn how to cook their local dishes while learning about their culture as we share a meal. I will also be teaching along the way because I will need that money to pay for my research. I believe that I would have written a few books on how food and culture are one and the same since people are what they eat. It tells a lot about a person. But of course I would have written a cook book.