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So I would spend a lot of my
summers checking out books.

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And the best part about that is
just having access to reading.

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I grew up loving to read, but
also it was just something that

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my mom was able to use as a way
to learn English and to keep us

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entertained.

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And we didn't have like
streaming services and stuff,

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you know?

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So books were the way that she
kind of kept us entertained,

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taught us to read and write, but
also helped herself read and

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write in English.

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I'd always wanted to spend all
my time at a library or like at

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a bookstore.

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But growing up, I didn't like,
somehow I never felt like, oh,

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you can work at a library.

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And then I happened to find a
job at the branch that I grew up

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attending.

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During my time at the Jacinto
City Branch library, I was

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mostly doing circulation.

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And it was a different thing
like, oh, this is how you check

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out books.

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I want to do more.

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And so that's when I started
doing like ESL and I wanted to

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teach literature and I wanted to
teach language.

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And so I got to teach a lot of
adults conversation classes

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there.

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But then I was promoted and then
I came back to the Galena Park

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Ranch library and here I started
taking citizen teaching

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citizenship classes.

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And the, the best part about
that was my first student was my

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mom.

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She was like the first person
that signed up for my class.

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And it was.

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There's a lot of fun.