Kassandra Pallamps

Oral History of

Marianela Pallamps

Marianela Pallamps born and raised in Dominican Republic . She is a mother of five kids. she is 35 years old and works making jewelry. she lives with her mother and her husband named alex. so we sat on a windy afternoon wednesday interviewing her about Peer Pressure and Friendship.

When I was a little girl I used to be probably the smartest girl in school, I loved school. After school me and my friends always used to hang out. and sometimes we did very bad things. I remember a time when my friends and I decided to brake (starts laughing) in a women's house to steal some fruits. Eventually we got caught. I used to have a very clothes friend who i used to call my best friend named Jessica she was very nice and cool but she was very bad influence. I felt very uncomfortable hanging out with her because after school all she did was smoke but I trusted her and i knew she would not let anything happen to me. Until one day i notice the truth about her she told me '' hey you want to go to a kids party tonight ?" I said " kids party?" she said " yes" .so i actually went we was walking and as i was walking i notice the neighborhood is very lonely and dark . so jessica knocks the door a girl opens . as i went in the apartment i see a bunch of adults smoking weed and drinking and i told jessica " hello i thought u said this was a kids party ?" she said " grow up mariah and have some fun" so i said in my mind alriight everything is going to be alright . so there was this guy trying to hit on me but i ignored him . i never forgot that nite because one of my friends name anthony got shot right after the party cause he was in a gang.


Peer pressure is a very big topic now and days cause you see it everywhere. peer pressure will have to be ( scratch her head and starts looks up the cealing) when your friends force you to do something wrong or influence you to do something good. I always wanted to be a actress but i couldn't because i had a baby at the age of 18 getting ready to go to college so i couldn't finish my carrer. My aunt used to make jewelry I thought it was very interesting so she show me how all the machine works and how to actually make jewelry so i started working in the place that my aunt made jewelry at so thats my job now.

I remember a time i felt betrayed and it was when i have told my friends to come my house and I waited for hours and hours . Then the next they in school she didn't even speak to me she was with the most popular girls in school and i thought to myself what is she doing ?. so i went up to her and i ask her hello what's wrong with you and she said in front of the girls "well for your own information i join the cheerleading team and now i wanna hang out with peoples who are someone and not with peoples who are nobody. I roll my eyes and left i felt very betrayed because she was my best friends and she betrayed me for some girls who probally don't even care about her.

Sometimes friends could Peer pressure you to do very bad things like you could have been a very straight A person but since you have bad influence now your grades went down so that could be an example and also your mother gives you curfew of 6 o'clock and right after school you used to come straight home but now that you have bad influence now you come home like at 8 o'clock . But sometimes your friends could peer pressure you to do good things like do your work all the time ,go straight home after school , wouldn't let you use alcohol or do drugs.