Gisselle/Gisela

milestones in latino history

thu 8/30/2007

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Monday, September 9, 1996. First period: study hall. Gisselle Polchek, formerly of Montclair, New Jersey, is looking out the window, bored, counting palm trees, when Ms. David begins to call attendance. "Beatriz Camacho, Jimena Garcia, Ana Gloria Lopez, Gisselle Polchek." Feeling the fire of 48 eyes burning through her like lasers, Gisselle blurts out "It's Gisela," quickly adding "my mother's Colombian." Though unable to prevent the laughter that follows, she succeeds in becoming the first Gisselle-to-Gisela in over a century.

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19 responses to “Milestones in Latino History: Gisselle/Gisela”

aaa i hate my school its white n a few black ppl which is ok but there too many weird fools there. and maybe 30 mexican n some dominican n pr ppl. i don really care or nothin its just all them weird ppl who all into drama or band or some gay stuff there are too many!!

(cincinnati,oh)

9/1/2007

Dat's Wats Up! Well i use to go to a gringo school. Pero cmbie de escuela y voy a una de latinos y morenos. I ahi anide le cambian su nombre. Esta escuela esta dominada por latinos. Tambien hay muchos morenos [no offense]. Pero en esta escuela hay costa ricans, puerto ricans, clombians, ecuadorians, venezuelans, n mexicans. We took ova da skool. !!!LATINOS STAND UP!!!

king

(Trenton, NJ)

9/2/2007

Well i understand..teachers at my school always pronounce my name wrong and i always correct them...though we have quite a few hispanic teachers...im glad she stood up and corrected the teacher n not caring what ppl were gonna say..

LiKe It MaTtErS

12/4/2007

MAN AT MY SKOOL THERES MOSTLY BLACK AND HISPANICS AND ITS RARE WHEN U SEE WHITE PPL...ALL THE TEACHERS R BLACK SO THEY KOOL "SOMETIMES".N E WHERE U GO U HEAR CURSE WORDS AND ALL OF DAT SO MO CITY MIDDLE SKOOL IS LIKE REALLY GHETTO.

JESSICA

(H-TOWN)

8/31/2007

Mi escuela esta bien pendeja!! No manches ahi puro GRINGO!! Tbm ahi mexicanos y negros, pero la neta los maestros se pasan son bien racistas!!!! Pero ni modo ya q... pero ami me vale madre la balazera!! Van a ver q luego Nosotros los hispanos vamos a ser q los gringos se traguen sus palabras!!!! Y ARRIBA MEXICO!!! Y TODA LA GENTE DE GUADALAJARA!!!

KARINA

(salt lake UT)

8/31/2007

yea i know where this gurl's coming from .... i hated it when teachers called roll and pronounced my name "Letisha" instead of LETICIA. i always corrected them too... my school is mostly whites and but it has 15 percent latinos. i just think its good to teach the teachers how to pronouce names correctly, that way if they happen to have future latino students with the same name they know how to say it.. GOOD FOR HER...! : )

Lety

(Lafayette, INdiana)

8/31/2007

but her real name isn't gisela.. she's chcanging it.

gabi

(tucson)

8/31/2007

My school is f***ing stupid too! Son como 300 gringos y nadamas tres mexicanas it sucks!! and they always say my last name wrong enves de decir Rangel dicen wrangel o algo asi

Karen

(Lexington)

8/31/2007

neta k i feel u raza. n mi eschool tambien ahi puro gringos y todos son d mucho dinero y fresas (pero usan el dinero pa tapar sus adicciones) we una eschool chica pero do 1300 estudiantes somos ni 20 mexicanos y 10 negros. y como todo no teacher sabe pronounce el name ryt, not even los maestros de 'espanol' pero un dia estos gringos gonna c how we gonna take ova! ja

Sandra

(middlebury (a.ka. amishville) Indiana)

8/31/2007

that is so cool... bet she felt really out fo place....@ ma skoo its different..our sko is kno 4 mainly bein white but now da latinos n da black ppl r takin ova....

marina

(SA Town, TX)

8/30/2007