'Life is an adventure' for Watsonville High grad Rebecca Alcantar

This is a nice success story about this woman who has speaks 3 languages, taught English in China, worked for a political figure and is now enrolling at Columbia University. She is the daughter of Mexican immigrant farm workers and fit all this into only 25 years. - - Donna Poisl

By DONNA JONES

Rebecca Alcantar believes she inherited her adventurous spirt from her parents, immigrants from Guanajuato, Mexico who settled in the United States as a young married couple.

Next week, Alcantar, a 2002 Watsonville High School graduate, will leave for New York City to enroll at Columbia University with the goal of earning a master's degree in public administration. It's another step in a journey that has taken her to China to teach English and to a job as field representative for Assemblywoman Anna Caballero, D-Salinas.

"Both of my parents were farmworkers, migrants who moved around a lot," Alcantar said. "That experience of adventure, always going to a new place and adapting to new people ... made me curious about what is out there."
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