About Cuervo

Jose Sosa is a 50 year old, “going on 25”, male attending college. Instead of using his real name, Jose prefers to be called Cuervo. His current schedule is pretty chill but at the same time full. While going to school full time, he carefully balances his part time job so that he doesn’t get overwhelmed by both. On Fridays and Saturdays he says he plans to do “nothing” because these are the only days he has off from both school and work. On Sundays, and sometimes during the week, he does community service for church by ushering and helping the band. At the church, he likes seeing friends because it strengthens him.  Since he is working as a drug and alcohol counselor, Cuervo believes he is a role model to his clients. The three words that Cuervo used to describe himself were life, laugh and love because each word has a meaning to him. Life stands for living and enjoying it the best way he can. Laugh stands for enjoying the gift of laughter and making others laugh. Love makes everything worthwhile. In his spare time, when he’s alone, he enjoys kicking back, watching TV (mostly educational channels), and biking. When he’s with friends, he likes to go bowling or to festivals. He enjoys pretty much every type of food, but the one thing he does not like is Brussels sprouts.

One of the things he likes about college is meeting interesting, new people. He enjoys getting a challenge out of the work from school. Cuervo believes cost in college should be improved. The books and cost of classes are too expensive so he suggested that the school should lower the prices. Also he believes that classes are ridiculous for the reason that they could be organized better. He says that some classes are big in size but little people, and some are small in size but contain greater amounts of people, making it more crowded and in a way they are unbalanced.

Since his parents live in San Diego, he only gets to visit them about three times a year. He gets along more with his siblings from his dad’s side of the family. From his dad’s side of the family, Cuervo has three brothers and two sisters. When he visits his family, they usually like to have barbeques and kicking back. In the past five years he’s been having good communication with his dad since they hadn’t gotten along as much before because of personal reasons. Both Cuervo and his dad enjoy collecting coins and stamps, but he didn’t know this about his dad since they didn’t have good communication for a great amount of years. 

When I asked him about what he thinks he will be doing in five years, he answered by saying that he would like to have a recovery ranch for at risk youth.  Cuervo would also like to take them out of the city environment. He also wants to teach them a different, better, way of life.