User:Doublearr

Doublearr is my a self-identifying and differentiating nickname for the purpose of creating a brand and the distribution of such brand through the digital universe. Doublearr belongs to me, Raul Rodriguez, or as my mother's family knows me, Raul Rodriguez Espinosa.

I was born in Havana, Cuba on November 27th, 1970. My parents, Julieta Maria Espinosa, and Raul Rodriguez Lopez are still married (45 years as of this account). Due to my father's insistance, we migrated from Cuba during the Mariel Boat Lift of 1980. After brief stays in Wisconsin and Newark, we settled in a small suburb of Boston called Jamaica Plain. It was at 94 Day Street that I would solidify my fondest memories of my childhood.

Culture shock was not typical. There was no time for shocking. This new country had around the clock electricity, heated water, a school named Winship, friends of different countries and customs, snow and Christmas. Shock is for the inflexible and unrealized.

I now live in Miami, Florida, and have been a resident of the State of Florida since 1985 after moving from Boston, Massachusetts with my mother, father, brother and grandmother. In such time I have been to various schools and worked in many jobs. Beginning with WR Thomas, then Miami Coral Park Senior High, to finally Florida International University where I received my teaching degree.