And one day, Jaime broke her son

§ February 26th, 2010 § Filed under Biculturalism, Meet Jaime § Tagged , , § No Comments

Welcome to a special two part Meet Jaime.  In this month’s story, we first follow the life and experience of Jaime, a single mother.  Then in the second part, we follow the life of her son, Jim and discover his perspective on the situation at hand.

Meet Jaime.  She’s a 45-year old, single mother of two.  Jaime emigrated, pregnant, 15 years ago from a southeastern Asian country to make a better life for herself, along with her husband and her 6-year old daughter, Jenny.  A few months after arriving in the United States, she gave birth to her son, Jim.  While life was initially difficult for Jaime and her family, she eventually managed to both hold a janitorial job and go to school to earn a degree in Information Technology.  Her efforts were hampered by her poor grasp of English and her heavy accent.  The work was difficult and stressful, the pay was horrible, and she never seemed to have time to rest or enjoy life with her family.  To top it all off, she had no one whom she could confide in; not even her husband. § Read the rest of this entry…

Jaime and the war at home

§ February 2nd, 2010 § Filed under Meet Jaime § Tagged , , , § No Comments

Meet Jaime.  Jaime is a 25-year old Asian-American woman from the South-East Pacific.  She immigrated at an early age.  Because of this, she did not carry the accent from her native land with her.   Her stature is short and she leans toward the thin side.  Currently, she is not married.  Jaime’s job has her working at a computer for most of the day.  She is very intelligent and has had no significant behavioral or physical problems.

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More site updates

§ January 30th, 2010 § Filed under Site update § Tagged § No Comments

Finally found a fix for those registration errors, so you should be able to register now.  If you find any other oddities or hiccups, please contact me at:

john (at) capitolhillcounseling (dot) com

Sorry about the copy and paste unfriendly format.  It’s pretty much the only way to somewhat fool the spambots.

Enjoy the blog!

A Jaime at the lunch table

§ January 28th, 2010 § Filed under Biculturalism, Meet Jaime § Tagged , , , § No Comments

Meet Jaime.  Jaime is a male, 15-year old Chinese-American high school student.  He attends a high school whose population comes primarily from low to middle income families.  Jaime was born and raised in America.  Both of his parents were immigrants; coming over to the States roughly 20 years ago.  They are very traditional.  At home, Jaime’s parents speak Chinese to him, and he generally responds in English as he is not quite fluent in his heritage language yet.  This arrangement works quite well for this family since Jaime’s Chinese vocabulary increases with every conversation he has with his parents, and his parents’ English vocabulary increases in the same vein.   Needless to say, Jaime and his parents maintain a close and healthy relationship with each other.

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Meet Jaime

§ January 28th, 2010 § Filed under Biculturalism, Meet Jaime § Tagged , , § No Comments

Meet Jaime.  You’re going to get to know Jaime fairly well over the course of these articles.  Now, you must understand that Jaime is an interesting individual.  From time to time Jaime will be male.  At other times, Jaime will be female.  Jaime’s gender isn’t going to be the only thing that will change from article to article, story to story.  Everything about Jaime will change.   This is because Jaime is the name I’ll be using for my main protagonist.  But, in each story, the things that happen to Jaime are very real.  These events happened to real people and continue to happen to people all over the world.  Some of the information may have been shuffled around to protect the identity of the storytellers, but they’re still great.  The stories of Jaime are told for many purposes, but the primary reason is to educate.

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Site update

§ January 27th, 2010 § Filed under Uncategorized § Tagged § No Comments

Registration is still broken. If you want an account, please email me at john (at) capitolhillcounseling (dot) com

And…we’re back!

§ January 26th, 2010 § Filed under Uncategorized § No Comments

Finally got everything running again. Meet Jaime should be back to full capacity soon.