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Interview With Alba Iris Rhoads(mom)

by Iris Wilson

Iris: What’s your earliest childhood memory?

Alba: My mom, Delia was cooking and I asked if I could outside and play. She said yes and took us (me, Tita, and Mama) out on to the porch. The fire hydrant was on and some boy were playing in it. They were about 12 years old maybe. I wanted to play too. My mom said okay, but be careful. I ran right up to the front and tried to hang onto it, but the pressure was so high that it knocked me down and split my chin on the ground. My mom was already on her way to me. As soon as I turned around, she was there picking me up. She put me in her little yellow car and my sisters followed. I got three stitches, but I got to eat ice cream at bedtime for two weeks, and stay up watching Alice In Wonderland, Bambi and Pinocchio while my sisters were sleeping.

Iris: How would you define happiness?

Alba: For my kids to get along and always want to help each other out with a lot of things. Doing chores, picking out outfits when one has a date or job interview, building a lego house, looking for a song one of them heard in a movie. Eating a nice affordable dinner as a family once a week, everyone cleaning up afterward. To live somewhere quiet in a more natural environment, and every time we separate, even if one of us is just going to the store….say I love you because god can take up at any moment.

Iris: What’s a story you always remembered and why?

Alba: One time (at Grandma Alba’s house) someone broke in and we (me, Tammy and Sandra) were home alone. I was just a baby so they wrapped me in a blanket, gave me a bottle and shoved me under the bed to hide me. Tammy said I fell asleep in a few minutes. I remember now because I’m a mom and I can only wonder how kids so small, make such a decision under those circumstances and remain so quiet that they didn’t even know we were in the house the whole time.

Iris: Describe your favorite memory.

Alba: My mom, Delia, let us watch Samson and then Delilah put us to bed. She dressed me in my strawberry shortcake pajamas and helped me brush my teeth with my smurfs toothbrush. We went to our room and mommy put on the night light for us. I grabbed Raggedy Anne and she covered me with my strawberry shortcake sheet, then kissed my cheek and said she loves me.

Interview with Domenick

Question #1: How do you describe yourself?

Answer: "I think of myself as a funny and relatable guy who can make friends with anyone."

Question #2: What's the best thing about being a teenager?

Answer: "Uh, I think the best thing about being a teenager is that you can make mistakes. I mean I am not saying you won't get in trouble for them, but you can learn from them in the future."

“What’s the most important thing in your life?”
“Girlfriend. She’s really my main support right now--- my lifeline.”

“Tell me a story about your name.”
“got my name from my second uncle. My parents didn’t know what to name me and he came up with the name. My last name is from my dad’s family.”

“Something you’d like to improve in the world?”
“People. Get rid of hate and judgement. Because it relates to me and all of the things I’ve been through.”

Interview With Iris Wilson

K: what are the most important lessons you learned in life?

Iris: umm be careful what you say and do.. especially around my parents. they’re just..like if i say the wrong thing i like to start world war 3 between them. i feel bad cause sometimes i have to lie to them but that’s the only way they get along.

K: if you could snap your fingers and make one thing better in the world what would it be? and why?

Iris: equality. too many people are sexist and biased and racist. everyone could just like let everyone live on with their life and i think the world would be much nicer.

K: tell me a story about your name?

Iris: “oh class is over.”

K: tell me a story about your name iris.

Iris: okay well when my mom had me i was like her 7th child, i’m not sure actually. but um so basically my mom named me after her cause her name is also iris. but she named after her cause she thought i was gonna be her last kid. but then you know she had like three more kids so my name was kinda pointless, because technically speaking my sister should have been named iris but that didn't work out.

Question 1: Tell me a story about your name.

Answer 1: “My name is revolves around African cults, I also learned that my name is usually a males name. The meaning of my name is “ morning sun is sweet but becomes bitter in the afternoon”. My name's origin is from Uganda.”

1. What is your earliest childhood memory?

“I think it is riding in the car with you and Papa when we were in a hail storm and I was crying.”

    2.    What scared you the most as a little kid?

“Falling down the stairs”

1. What is the best thing about being a teenager?

Wendi: I think the best thing about being a teenager is the amount of freedom that comes with this title and the amount of responsibility.

Interview with Obasi Adams

K: What are you proudest of in your life?

O: I’m proud of the fact that like after all I been through like I’ve survived, I haven’t done anything stupid yet. That i’ve been able to compose myself and continue to live on.

K: Okay. what does your future hold?

O: I’m not really sure about what my future holds. All I can do is pretty much live in the present and hope for the best for myself.

K: umm how would you like to be remembered?

O: I just wanna be remember as a person who was.. just like present was always just like available. and a person who always had somehow an impact on somebody else’s live.. somehow changed something in this world that i felt needed to be changed.