I was waiting on death. To see where I'm
at now. It's a blessing. I was a proud
of my environment, gang background, drug dealing, not everyone comes from a
perfect home. For anyone coming from that type of stereotypical background that
you're either going to be a dropout, either usually going to be in prison or you going to
be dead. I lived a double life work,
streets. I was arrested at 18 my charge
carried five to 99. I took it to trial and
received 25 years and I
remember it got real when the officers
got him lieutenant pulled out the bus
and say welcome to my unit you now
belong to the state of Texas. I initially
started becoming a man that because I
had to learn me. For those 15 years I
stayed at man, I started troubleshooting
myself if you want to say and it's a
whole you get a whole lot better walking
the straight and narrow. Off the back
I've like I got mines good if I'm i
wanna get into college. I said man I want
to go in culinary arts. I want to pursue
something that I know that was in my
life growing up. That was the most peaceful time of my incarceration. That was the most
that was the time I can go back and feel
that time that while I was incarcerated
I felt like somebody. That was the first
thing that got me the classroom, the
kitchen. Lee colleges culinary arts
program taught me more or less how to be
a team,
a team player. What I do with myself now
let God leaving lead me like I've been doing. I work at Oak Hill Tavern in partnership
with Emily catering for Mr. Reuben Luna
and David Gates. I've always loved the
food industry. Putting the dish together
is like putting a creating a dish and
making it excellent to taste can be
reflected to one at once person. I
haven't took my second chance for
granted. I'm very humbled. I'm still
living in it because I understand that
change had to come' but I don't even look at
it as change. I look at it as a
metamorphosis I evolved to my
potential and I'm just doing what God
leading me to do.
