Ramirez and Music

by Claudia Campos
311heatlhbeat.blogspot.com

LONG BEACH, Calif.-- As a child she was into sports, played softball in High School, and has experience with guns but student Nicole Ramirez is searching for music, the kind that wakes the mind and mends the soul.

Searching, 27-year-old Ramirez has traveled to England, Turkey, Ireland, Mexico and Canada.

Her paths lead her into the Air Force when she was 18.

Ramirez wanted to be an FBI agent but became a military officer and served five years.

The male dominated environment and lack of respect and opportunity for women in the military was something Ramirez experience first hand.

“I learned a lot form the military but it has changed me in a negative way. It took my spirit away. I ‘m not the same person I use to be and I don’t know why but I can’t get it back,” she said, sitting on the cold floor in the hallway.

“They recycle people. They call cops pigs and women are sluts or bitches and they don’t respect or promote women,” she said.

Ramirez has an associate degree and now she is going for her bachelor’s degree in journalism at Long Beach State.

“I’m going to be a music writer. That’s what I really want to do,” she said and then smiles.

Ramirez plans to write for the “Rolling Stones” or “Spin” magazine.

Family, friends and God are important to Ramirez who has two brothers and one sister.

“Yes, yes, yes, I want to get married and have children,” she said.

Friends call her “timeline” because she is an “expert on useless knowledge.”

Exercising and shopping release the stress in her life.

“I feel like I live a normal life. If I were stripped from everything I would get it back. It’s about having faith. Faith in God, that’s my big thing, it is what gets me through,” she pauses and in a low voice said, “I know I will get it back.”

For additional comments and questions Nicole Ramirez can be reached through her blog.
ReligionRamirez.blogspot.com

Writer Claudia Campos can be reached through her blog. 311heatlhbeat.blogspot.com