About+Me

=My Life=

My name is Maria (Jessica) Gonzalez and I graduated from Chico State (www.csuchico.edu) in 2005. I received my BA in Liberal Studies and Spanish. I lived in Granada, Spain for a year where I attended La Universidad de Granada ([|Granada]) and I also taught English to elementary school children.

After taking some time off, I decided to go back to school and get a degree in Special Education; my baby sister was my inspiration to enter this field, her name is Julia and she has Down syndrome; she is my precious little angel.

I work for Parker Hannifin Corporation - Medical Division as a Label Specialist. I design labels for different customers and print them out when needed. It is a very interesting and fun job (especially when I have to print out over 10,000 labels). Anyway, I like my job and I also like children, that is why I decided to go back to school to work with them. Because in my opinion, seeing how a child's mind is developing, seeing how they are anxious and eager to learn many things, is priceless.

media type="youtube" key="37_ncv79fLA" height="345" width="420" This is what we are dealing with nowadays. It breaks my heart watching this video. We have to do something about this. We have to stop it.