I'm Ebony Tucker, Ebony Laticia Tucker.
I'm eighteen years old.
I'm a Scorpio.
I was born November nineteenth, nineteen seventy-nine.
And I think I should've been born earlier.
I was_ I came out of my mother's womb and, she told me I was green.
And... Um... She said, uh, because I was green, that she thought I would be like an old, old girl like a- old lady.
That's what she called me an old lady.
So, um, I was, I was quite old.
I was beyond my years.
And when my younger, my younger sister was born, I sort of took over the mommy like role, with her.
And I took care of her for a while.
Um, I have like two sisters, and two brothers.
One's deceased, my oldest_ my older brother.
My oldest brother is twenty-five, my oldest sister is twenty-one, and my younger sister is fifteen.
The girls are three years apart.
Um... I get along with my younger sister great.
I love her to death.
My oldest sister, unfortunately, does not like me.
And I don't know why.
My mom is, wonderful.
She is crazy just like I am.
And I love it.
But, um, she was crazy in bad way too.
So we had some hard times when I was growing up.
Um.
I lo- I go to school.
I go to College of New Jersey.
And I'm majoring in elementary education, and psychology.
It's wonderful.
I love it so far.
I love being in school.
I love being on my own.
I love, working and being busy.
Um, I have plenty of goals that I want to accomplish.
And I have a plan that, you know, I could follow, but might not go the right way, yaknow.
Um, I'm in love haha.
But we won't talk about that now.
Um, in school, I'm also in the army reserves,
I'm in R-O-T-C which is reserved officer training corps.
And, I use them for money, basically.
Um, I mean, the discipline also and to get my body in shape.
Um.
I like fitness and, I want to be in shape and, um, that is definitely helpful hah.
Um, I also_ I am, I'm also in a group called leadership development program.
And I'm a facilitator.
And we give workshops about, how to run meetings, and how to deal with stress in school.
And, um how to... run like your staff meeting and how to have something go well for you.
How to, um, just plan things and be organized.
It's a wonderful group and... and I'm glad I'm in it huhu.
I'm also in the black students union, which is pretty good.
Um yeah, we build parties, we have leadership conferences.
We, just have fun, I guess, and we do a lot for, um, the minority on campus.
Um, right now, I live in a new residence hall on campus.
And I'm happy because it has air conditioning.
And I'm not dying of heat exhaustion like I did over the summer.
Because my house unfortunately was really really hot.
And my mum's fan broke and then my mum stole my fan.
And my sister had my fan from school.
So I had no fan.
And it was rough, it was very rough.
Over the summer, this past summer, I, um_ my best friend, or my really good friend from Ireland came to visit me.
And,it was great like, um, I found out that he was really in love with me.
And, I mean I loved him before.
But... But, you know, I didn't know how much I did.
But, but the time he came, I was seeing someone across the street from me.
And he was staying in my room, like, he slept in the bed that was next to mine.
Well, you know, on the other side of the room.
And, it wasn't like a big deal or anything.
But the guy I was seeing was very jealous.
And he wasn't even really my boyfriend.
But I was just seeing him like, a little bit seriously, I guess.
And, um, I ended up just losing or wasting three weeks of my, time with a terrible jerk guy who was across the street.
And I had a wonderful, wonderful guy who loved me truly, in my home.
And_ but it worked out for the best anyway, cuz, I dumped the guy across the street.
And... Um, Paul, the guy from Ireland, came back for a, a day, before he, uh, flew to Kentucky to see his brother.
Um, well... That was about the end of that summer.
And I got my first car.
Yes, I got my first car.
That was a highlight of the summer.
And I had a wonderful, wonderful baby-sitting job that I had two lovely kids um the Kraals, Sally and Duncan.
And, it was just wonderful.
It_ the kids were just funny and fun, and... Um, they paid me very well .
Two hundred and fifty dollars a week.
And my_ before I had my car, they gave_ they lent me their car, their old car.
Uh, left me money for the kids.
And it was wonderful.
And I went to go buy my car, and I found the perfect car.
My favorite color's blue, and I got a blue car.
It 's four doors.
It's not too small, it's not too big.
And it runs pretty well.
And I only paid... One thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars for it.
And... It had eighty-five thousand miles.
So_