Hello, allow me to introduce myself my name is Daniel Christopher Quay.   I was born in San Pedro Sula Honduras November 3^rd, 1982 at aproximently 5:50 a.m.  Under the name Daniel Christopher Aguilera.  My birth mother was Norma Ondina Aguilera Polanco.  She was all of 22 years of age, and was a single mother, and a home worker.   At the request of my mother I was given up for adoption due to the extremely poor and underprivileged conditions that surrounded her.

I was put into the care of who are now my parents Ronald Chester Quay, and Martha Jane Doyle who were both of legal age, and who were married to each other and both U.S. citizens.   Since being in the U.S.A I have moved a few times and have been privileged to do so.  I know that my life is far greater, and the opportunities that I have received, and yet to still receive are far more then I could have imagined then had I been raised in San Pedro Sula.  I won’t go into my life story but here is a brief description of the places I have experienced in my journey.

Ø 82’ - 84’  Brooklyn , New York

Ø 84’ – 88’ Midland Park, New Jersey

Ø 88’ – 93’ Newtown, Connecticut

Ø 93’ – 03’ Morristown, New Jersey

Ø 03’- 03’ Dover, New Jersey

Ø 04’ – 06’ Moline, Illinois

Ø 06’ – 06’ Easton, Pennsylvania

Ø 06’ – Present’ Moline, Illinois

Morristown, NJ is where I attended High School and went through a lot of downs and a lot of ups in my adolescent years.  I was a typical teenager who had an act to rebel against authority (But who didn’t at that age).  I wasn’t very good at school and eventually dropped out in my senior year due to some incidents that I fell into. I didn’t drop out to sit on my ass though; I earned me State Diploma before I would have graduated anyway.  I still wanted to go to college, I still had dreams.

Oh yeah and Morristown wouldn’t have been Morristown without my future baby mother Shakyra Marie Matos.  We had experienced a lot together and she was there when I needed her. Those were definitely some of the best years of my life.  I am grateful to have crossed paths with such a beautiful person.  She became the mother of my son November 8^th 2002(That’s another story).  She can be hard at times to deal with but I wouldn’t change it for anything.  She is a good mother and that is that. Like all good things come they eventually go as well, life is crazy like that.  I still talk to her and I believe that we are still great friends.  My son and her currently reside in New Jersey and I visit when time allows me to.

I am currently attending Black Hawk College. I am working towards my associate’s degree in Web Programming.  It is a lot harder then I thought it would be.  I know I will make it, and I know I will succeed one day.  To go from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and to have been where I have, and the things I have seen.  WOW!!!  I couldn’t have asked for anything more.  I have a lot of years ahead of me and I am looking forward to every moment of it.  The Road is just starting to be paved and my tank is on full.