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I kind of went through kind of a tough
life with abuse and that kind of thing and
always told I can't do this, I'm not big
enough, I'm not fast enough to do this
and this, and that motivated me to do the
best I can be prove everybody wrong.
In 2010 I was 11 years old so it was sixth grade, and it was my first time coming to the public school.
My mom's coming from
Mexico, I was born there. And when I moved
here I did not know how to speak English.
I had this really bold accent, but I had
the ELD teach me after school. And I just
started reading books every single day
and I started improving my English
skills and instead of being three years
behind my English level now I take honors.
I'm going to be going down to Montana and studying physical education. Play football and do track.
I am going to Gonzaga as an exit scholar.
And so that's something I really take
pride on and coming to Spokane Public
Schools who pushed me and I had great
teachers who told me you know "oh I'll
help you after school" and now I can
do that for the other community where
they're learning English.
That's where that's why I started volunteering for
Diversity Advisory Council, why I want
to study business and policy so I can
work with the community.
Because I've experienced the community helping me.
The teachers here they've helped me a lot.
The gear up program, and they help me a lot through, and coaches too. And you know, I just work
hard and you're gonna have obstacles you'll have to overcome and schools can be tough and
keep working at it and you'll get to your dream
When you do stuff with passion, you do great things, and I really hope I never lose my passion in the future and
just keep going and focus on helping
your community and changing the world, I guess.
That's a really big goal but just
one person at a time, I think that's the
best thing and I really hope in the
future I can really change people's
lives. That's my goal in the future
