{"id":321,"date":"2020-10-21T12:38:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/aliciaperdomo\/?p=321"},"modified":"2020-10-21T12:38:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:38:49","slug":"selfless-generous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/aliciaperdomo\/2020\/10\/21\/selfless-generous\/","title":{"rendered":"Selfless &amp; Generous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Xiomara Abud<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is what I will always remember about Alicia:<\/p>\n<p>Her selfless generosity; never expecting anything in return. Her face, always portraying a beautiful smile. I loved teasing her whenever I wore pink, her favorite color. We also had discussions about the president of her country, Venezuela, and she\u2019d always very expressively respond, &#8221; don\u2019t ruin my day!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even from far away, I could tell when Alicia was in the office. The sound of her joyous hellos as she greeted everyone and her jokes made us all feel relaxed and at ease. I also loved seeing her outside of work, since she lived in my area. I will always remember the many times we met and exchanged a few words and had a good laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Her support for the adjuncts, of helping us selflessly in the online work process truly touched my heart. On one occasion, a group of us met with her online and she was explaining details to us. I asked her to show me again, I needed a simple way of integrating the videos on Blackboard and at that moment my computer battery died and I was unable to see the explanation. I wrote to her explaining what had happened and she immediately sent me the time and day to show it to me again. Unfortunately, I had issues with the internet that day and was unable to meet her. I sent her a message apologizing and explaining what had happened, never expecting her to reschedule. She wrote back sending me a Zoom invitation for a Sunday at 10:00 a.m.! The \u201cshort\u201d meeting went on for over an hour, she made me practice countless times in front of her until I learned the task and then she went as far as to share her own page with me. She was quite the teacher role model we should all aim at becoming!<\/p>\n<p>All of this happened a week before her departure to the arms of God Our Father. I am confident she is now in His loving arms.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Xiomara Abud<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Xiomara Abud This is what I will always remember about Alicia: Her selfless generosity; never expecting anything in return. Her face, always portraying a beautiful smile. I loved teasing her whenever I wore pink, her favorite color. We also had discussions about the president of her country, Venezuela, and she\u2019d always very expressively respond, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/aliciaperdomo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/aliciaperdomo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/aliciaperdomo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/aliciaperdomo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/aliciaperdomo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/aliciaperdomo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/aliciaperdomo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/aliciaperdomo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/aliciaperdomo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/aliciaperdomo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}