Ashley

For my sound walk, I chose to listen to the noises and observe the area around me at Grand Central Terminal. I commute on the Metronorth train every day, and thus always walk through this location - except, I always have earbuds on and am always listening to music. I generally don’t pay much attention to people (unless they have a dog) and stay focused on getting to my destination while enjoying my music. Before starting this assignment, I tried to imagine what I hear when I’m in Grand Central and I couldn’t think of what exactly the space sounds like, besides some sort of jumble of noises. It is now 7PM at Grand Central. It’s fairly crowded and I see someone rushing to get somewhere almost everywhere I turn. While the majority of people are running to their track to catch their train, I wonder if some people have somewhere drastic to be. I hear a group of tourists’ dialogues and they seem to be speaking Korean. They’re trying to figure out where or how to go somewhere. It makes me ...

 My name is Ashley and I’m a 20 year-old Filipina/Romanian girl living in Yonkers. My father immigrated to the U.S. from Romania and my mother   immigrated here from the Philippines. Since I was young, I’ve always loved creating: writing, sketching, doing makeup. I went to a strict Catholic elementary school, and always got in trouble for wearing makeup, and in high school, I always got in trouble for drawing in class. My family continually persuades me to be a lawyer, or work in news, or within a magazine company, but those ideas only made me realize that's exactly what I don't wish to do. The one thing that’s never changed about what I want to do in life is; I want to live a life where I am constantly creating in the way I want. No restrictions. I want to directly inspire people, and move people the way people I adore move me. Amongst the many other things that I’d like to do in life, I want to be a YouTuber.  YouTube is a platform that allows you to reach out to the w...