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Good about yourself, your family life in which you are doing at the present time. Pay out. My name is Christian understanding.

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We were there so I'm a senior at the University of Delaware. I'm majoring in international relations with a concentration in

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the pharmacy world order, a specialization in Latin American Studies, and double majoring in Spanish. I'm the oldest daughter

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of one of them and this is the crystal uncles, the nurse in town. And my parents are Nelson and most of

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our siano from public. And I live here and work that way. What was it like growing up in the Dominican Republic?

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Well, I was born and my father hadn't immigrated to this country. Get so with that, I was born in December.

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My mom this back those American republics of Ethernet when my father wasn't until I was 2.5 years old. And from what I can remember

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was beautiful that in a little house in VMA got, which is this section of the capitals are below me.

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And I loved it. They said, like from the sides of my family tells me, hello, friends, I'm talkative and light.

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From the beginning, I already spoke both languages, Spanish. And I want that an early age. I taught at an early age.

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My grandfather used to call me less MPP got, which mean the sciences. Because I was so smart and I use against so much trouble with and I loved it.

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I wish I could go back. And how long did you live there? Two years. My first talk about

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your family lived in the Dominican Republic. Have a lot of feminism. I got my mother's want to 14 and my father's one of ten.

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I think my mom was like nine positions. I and my father is the oldest out of the six because six from mom and dad

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and for other from this file. And I have a lot of cousins and my mom have like over 71st cousin and

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a whole bunch second cousins. And I just had on the third cousin who was born in August. And from my dad's side of the family.

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I'm the oldest. I'm a second. All this just by like two weeks, however, hasn't moved. And altogether were like 10 grandchildren.

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So my dad's family is a little bit smaller in comparison. So my mom's family and my dad is from subtle omega,

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which is the capital mothers, for example, say that US month, that month I've been out there, which is a province of Santiago.

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Just like another area that's open. And it's beautiful. My parents are doctors. They're both obstetricians.

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The Dominican Republic, they The University, their undergrad years and then they graduated together as doctors.

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Woman. So I don't have very much recollection of my life. It was omega Republic.

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Everything that I know is from like pictures, like I think I remember things but it's really because I have a lot of four levels and

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my family will somehow stories. The things I used to do was that they said that leads to go. But when I go back, I don't know.

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I feel like I'm transported back to when I was little and I sort of have a good connection. The places that we'll go

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even before someone want to say something heavy, like, have I been here before? I feel like you got visited displaced.

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They're like, Oh yeah. You were little. We used to go to the spark of u-sub along. So like the social travel,

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things like that, my life in the Dominican Republic for one. So now what I realize now that I'm older and I'm able to talk to

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my parents about Luca transition, United States is that we live very, very differently to the way that we live here now.

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I access my parents were doctors, you know, being a doctor in any country you have like a different blocks, like a different social stratus and

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like the way you engage with other people and 70s, they belong to the same. That would give the United States just

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working at a non-profit organization. We had like a very comfortable life and that's public, which unfortunately, my parents had to give

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a raise me my system, United States. What was your childhood like growing up? Oh, and New York. It was the main thing at first it was really

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hard because I only go a little bit of English. And when we first moved to New York, my father,

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he wasn't sure whether he wanted to be that the United States because he had to take like cats and all these other things.

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So prove that has the green was valid because at their Magazine 65 of Bayesian methods from public by the US.

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They no longer valid Dominican deployments because there were like, there was like this counterfeit.

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They are in the black market that was going on. So my dad and my mom never prove themselves again the United States.

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So my dad worked, I was working my mom's mom. And when we first moved, we actually lived at my cousin's house and my friend.

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And he has very mild cerebral palsy and he has had over a 100 operations on his legs. So when I was little, I

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I didn't understand why he was walking, but he was like ten years old. You select smoother, slither around on the floor like a snake.

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Is the column snaking. He's mad. Since I didn't know English, you would say, you know what,

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I'm not going to talk to you would say you learn English. You don't have no say in this house. You can't watch TV, can't play.

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Power Ranger gave to the Netherlands. So what did I do? I learn all the bad words in English that I could and that just gets hacked them with it.

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And then like massive, massive me. So I was always like a precocious child. Like if you told me I couldn't do something, I will do it anyway.

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So not only do they have like that one because then all my other classes, like my sixth because of that I my mom side of

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the family where their New York, so my mom was one of the last slides like emigrate, like purple families emigrate to me.

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Like my mom had been traveling since the early 16 sixties. After she had me and my sister was going, she said it's actually moved to New York.

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So I had a lot of February. It was about there was always thought was so look out for me whenever I do something wrong,

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I always got what immediately because either one of the six because his claw me or one of my uncles was around two thalami

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plus like their spouses and so accumulate anything. And it was really hard for me and my sister. And because my sister was

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like one years old when we moved. And then later on we ended up getting our own apartment. That was the older system.

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And we can like our own spot. So public little dictator or what to do, what to do. She looked at me so much from SAP a walk

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like a 20 minute walk from my apartment. So like our school and I lived in Long Island emulsion side. And on my block,

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everyone was like a relative. Plant. Right next door to me was my mom's immediate younger brother, like she was one of the newest one.

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And he has two daughters and a son. His son, LEO, the old cousin that I have in my age. So we grew up

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together and playing Transformers in life. Welcome to or from school and said other. So it was difficult. And we had some who believe that environment

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and go to Delaware where we didn't have any family members. All we had was like my dad's childhood friend who

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was the one who convinced them to Delaware. So York, that was always like a big to do having those things because of that

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Thursday nights and uncles, there was always birthday parties, baptisms, comfortable, very strong Catholic family,

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communions, weddings, Kingstown, yeah, it as 36 teeth and just regular font for the July parties we celebrate.

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Here's my favorite holiday because since I was little, that was like one of the major additions we would all

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get together at an uncle's house. So big, we ended up having to like granite, like a hall and like to celebrate Christmas, Thanksgiving, and

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all the general American holidays that we wouldn't normally celebrate. And then somebody got public and leaving Matt atmosphere coming to Delaware

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was very, very difficult. That the age of eight, my role in the school is spherical. We live in an apartment

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and the apartment was nice. It was bigger than the one that we had him on island. And we had like a playground

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if our immediate backyard, but it wasn't the same way. How to rely on myself. I couldn't rely on my cousins anymore,

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but I had a problem with school. I had to stop it by myself. I couldn't go to one or neighbors or friends from the black around the weights?

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Yeah. It was all me sorry for him because he hands all the way. I'd take a school bus to school when New York I used to walk

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and I was taken from New York and to the City of Wilmington, which is like 30 minutes away now. So weird for me. Not having

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everything make rather went right around me not being able to Watson and making these are locked to the power four.

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So the pool or have my cousins right next door. Everything was likely that 30 minutes away pedagogue car and back then,

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that makes you may be six and I was eight years old. There was nothing into our Alibaba 40 and I will like we

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live in as development and that was another thing in New York. I didn't live in a development. I don't know what it was like.

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You go in through like this one actually weighing. There was no way out except the way that you came in and everything was like,

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what do you call this back in New York? I had a lot because various blocks like well, also cited like a little village. Everything was like right there.

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Little villages were because they like the microsensor and infrequent. And hence that year was that no black bear. New Castle won't install far away

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where all the Latinos where and why I wanted to school that. But at that time, Wilmington was only populated

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by their blacks. Puerto Rican. I was the mitigate that important because the more Dominican's

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were Hawaiian Islands are like sister because an atlas right next to each other. So it was difficult. I have sort of like an identity problem

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because if I say I was Dominican, they're like, Oh, was that is that another kind of Mexican or what kind of

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manage these become like? What do you mean as the Spanish just speak English. Like so.

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And then people were like, Oh, I'm Native American because they have really, really long Canada could sit on them amongst the braiding.

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And they're like, Oh, I like Pocahontas Native American, unlike know, Dominican, No one understands me.

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So that was something that was difficult by the transition and also like there was always so you select the administration.

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Educators to having leg when I came to school, putting them at CES allograft, perfect English.

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I was like in the fourth grade, but the way they did things back then, they select split the classes. And I was really in fourth grade when I was

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taking my fifth grade math, science and like vocabulary. But they wanted to Prometheus, which I was not okay with.

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So that was like the main difference about moving from New York to Darwin. Darwin was so unknown, it was so sad.

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I remember like me, my mother, my sister, my dad go to work talking about this event that was going on in New York or someone's party or

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someone's wedding that we can have intensive because of the first year. To be very adamant about were not want maximum your maximum New York.

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So he thought that if we spent mister and a minor assignments are live without one mass knew that we wouldn't miss it, but that wasn't true.

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I snuck what's your greatest lot more in there for our family. So it was hard being in though. Do you think your family life changed?

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It changed drastically because before, like, you know how they say it takes a village to raise a child. Well, my family having 13 aunts and uncles,

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plus my mom, my dad, my grandparents, my maternal grandparents who at the time were alive. And all those cousins.

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Everyone raised me. It wasn't like just my mom and my dad. Like, I never knew what a nuclear family

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was like, you know how they say it, the prototype with your families like a mountain dad, brothers or sisters like a dog?

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No. My family was me, my mom, my dad, my sister, all my crazy aunts and uncles, all my cousins, and then my my cousins,

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boyfriends and girlfriends and then like my mom's cousins. And I understood that my my family was my mom and my dad and

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my sister with Abby was everybody around me. So when I came to Delaware and I didn't have that my family life change drastically because Mao was

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the only my mom and my dad telling me how to do things like where to go, when and where we can go.

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And it was just sad. Like, I knew that my mom and my dad wanted to be recommended. But some words that

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afford us a lot of great things. Like in New York, the cost of living was wasteful high, was only my father working adult where

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my mother learned how to drive and I got her driver's license. We bought a call without a house. Like everything was so great,

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like an economic standpoint, but unfortunately was difficult because I guess that my formative years I spent without my cousins and like

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me and my mom started my teenage years. We were close but not that close. Had I had my older cousins there to guide me. Like, How did, you know, lists,

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silly little things I know how to flirt with guys are way or this way or makeup. I don't have anyone.

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I was like I was like my own versus resorts like internet or magazines. And yeah, when I went back to New York,

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my family was still there. But it was difficult because when I left them with a child, came back and I really started

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interacting with my family members. I was a teenager, so it was difficult. They weren't there to see like we progress into a childhood.

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So a young woman, so it'll sometimes, for my family members were a little bit socially awkward like with any teenager.

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Like there's like so many generations within my family because my oldest cousin is 45 years old and the youngest cousin,

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I believe now is six. So that's very different. You got I'm saying. So out of my little Generation group,

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it's just me and my sister and my second cousin Calvin, who's the same age but that's different. This is my second cousin,

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so I don't have like an older cousin who was near my age range. The closest once a MI she's 25 and 21, which now is a great difference.

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But when I was 15 and she was getting ready to like in her middle years of college, That's a big difference.

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So like MRSA, It's dependent on a lot. I decided to take on a lot of roles at my house, but my parents went away at work.

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I was the mom, the dad, the base that are like the nanny, the cleaner. Like I was also like the tutor.

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I had helped my sister like everything that I went through and I will do it not just from me, but had its own for my sister as well.

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Because obviously since I'm the oldest one, she had them allow me so everything perfectly. And I think the best example,

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which in New York I still would have done what I would have, what guidance? Lag, especially when applying to colleges ahead.

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It's almost everything on my own. I had a seat, got my open sewers mentors. My parents were there. Same size since they didn't

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go to college in the United States. They don't really know about fast, but they didn't know about getting fee waivers

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for project location fees or the SATs. They sort of knew their way. Basically, they were there to support me, but I added so

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everything will stay on my own. If I came to them with a question about like, OK, we'll try to help you. I go here to support you, but

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it's like your goals to do that. Had I been in New York during this during this time like I had almost

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all of my cousins once a college, almost all of them, you know, graduated from college. So the older ones would

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have been That's Academy and it wouldn't have been me just doing it would've been like a simpler, know like transition process.

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But at the same time, I'm grateful because. Soft like I'm very independent in my hammock and standards and helped me the most often we let

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boy added to it all from you, my system. So Delaware, I'm not going to lie though. Pretty much thought I didn't start select the other way.

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And so that was in high school because coming from a very traditional Latino family wasn't allowed to vote,

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to sleepovers unless, you know, it was one of my cousins, but I didn't have any cousins and though at the time or they had to be let go,

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very, very close family, friend, someone that my mom at that trusted and they had to know the mom, the dad, if there were brothers there,

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they had animals like they had to know everything, blood types, social security number, a way to track them down.

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So like my junior year or senior year in high school that my parents were like, Okay, you could go out, get into

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things like homecoming of brown, but it wasn't like a typical American. They're still very much restrictions. A curfew.

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Why did your family choose Dover anywhere? Okay. My bachelor's, Delaware. Sorry, hate him for his decision. Well, because one of

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his childhood friends moved here in my main thing that you need. So first they had lived in like me, who are like us,

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like most Americans, like when you compose, I'm going to probably go directly into New York. That's like, Oh, It's like home,

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away from home and then go to other places along the East Coast, which is where the majority the DSM and it gives a concentrated

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so my dad's best friend and child families that you'll come check out. Nasa cost of living is so cheap because it really is.

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It still is knock that back then in 1996, it was really, really cheap, I think like rabbits, I pointed it out of the month or something.

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I think that's like that's extremely well. Somebody that came in by then. He was a registered nurse. He had gone to school and all that.

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She was I thinking about becoming got the VUS but he's like Let me take things slow. So he was a registered nurse

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and you can apply to various places. Getting a job. Can't remember where he got a job somewhere here like a nursing home or whatever.

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So I don't know that we made like five or six shifts to Delaware and stuff that was like

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the first one I was eight when we started making holes when I was like six or seven. So when we came, I thought that we were just

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visiting my that's my, that's why it has a daughter to Yosemite. So she's my sister's age. So I thought that we were

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just visiting a friend. And, you know, it was a fun trip that weighs almost three hours away from the Latin, like 2.5 hours.

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So it was great to leave Long Island to like leave New York and go explore the basis of a glass. I might stop in

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Atlantic City, it's a flatbed. I was just like a mini vacation. So we will convert my spring break. We were sign I had no idea we were moving.

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It's like two days before my mom was packing things here and there. I'm like, Oh my God, are you doing? She's like, Oh, we're moving and I'm like,

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where she's like, Oh, the way it's a surprise. It's my parents loved as the passive. Oh my god, little did I know

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that the surprise was one of the smallest dog and it was terrible y prime and moving and like the whole neighborhood,

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everyone who went blocking one of my cousins came out and they have this I have already haul truck.

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And we will because my dad got a job because his best friend told him that it was a better opportunity to raise your child. And then the toy,

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which in hindsight, ESI was a lot better. But at the same time, my cousins were raised in New York and none of

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them had any major problem than other more involved and make the gains of the drugs or like teenage pregnancy. So I thought now I

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think we would have been fine because I live in them, but I don't think arches side. So predominantly black Jewish community,

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either Jewish or you mitigate. There weren't any black kids at my school on my Blackberry anywhere near me. And length or whether I'm assuming, you know,

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there was, you know, that things in the area, but as the ocean side where I live, just as good as a place to live as new. I said, You know what?

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I read, more family members or more things to do. I see the benefits of us Wilmington, Delaware.

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I know that I think that for everything that has afforded us for us being here, but at the same time, I don't really think that the major

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catastrophic could have like almost every employer than New York was. You know, I don't spoil my fan or something. Why did you to

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University of Delaware and your major? Okay. I appliance and temples and I got into nine, but I cried when I got my package from you.

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They had been waiting weeks and weeks. Our cognitions eye on what are they going on there like bathymetric or

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not my my last name for the gene. Hi my application because one of my friends, her last name was but she got her application before acceptance letter before

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me and I'm like, okay, that doesn't make any sense. G comes before P in the alphabet. So where's mine?

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I got my one day it was like middle of May and it was a huge packet. You don't like them if you think that a big packet,

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now small envelope, you get rutting. I got it and I started to cry immediately. I just started crying and then I believe what I saw

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my little sister, Crystal, to overlay. If you owe money that money dummies, that system. So that would mean that you didn't get in

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my life was an outcry words we'd like. Thank you. You got it. I started crying. My mom

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grabbed my grandma was there. She cry. My mom, my dad. My dad. That's a big deal when they're gone,

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so proud and other except that I don't know why I cried when I got my easy one because the MCV was my safety school.

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I was like, I'm going to get back to New York. I can't deal with them. Well, I've been here for so long. It sounds like an outlet towards

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you because I cried. I guess this is fine. I believe in science. So I grabbed when I got my letters slide, is that in a public safety?

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And I've chosen my major, my major international relations when I got here, it was political science. But they're very close together.

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Because since I was little, I always said that I wanted to be the first lumping. I'm President of the United States, the lab.

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I'll tell you what, the Hispanic, Latino Channel and New York and like all over the US Navy seal. And it only they still may have

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like this anti-drug campaign. And one of them was showcasing other Latino children saying what they want to be when they grow up.

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And then they can only be that if they were drug-free. And I was like This girl a little bit older than me.

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And she said, I want to be the first Latino president of the United States. And I find I'm like,

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No, I'm going to do that. Why does she going to do that? Just because she's on TV. So I had that like said, my mind.

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And I even wrote a book, letters while he was in office. He replied back and I used to argue a lot and the bait and I used to try to do

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everything I could do a little bit, manipulates situations, I can get my weight. So my mom and dad, and we'll just say, Oh, she's going to be a great lawyer.

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So I got that. Mind-set me that, you know, first I will go to college and become this wonderful lawyer and

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then that would become the first female president of the United States. Well, I don't believe that anymore, but that does go along

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with my major international relations. And especially here at the university, I've been able to see how Latin America can benefit

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from American Latinos giving back to our home country. So involved in my community, I used the mentor of

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the Latin community center with my parents used to work there. I know the child should relations that that the ego's

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go through like everything by leaving it firsthand and also going through what my parents have told me, what I see in the media and visiting Mexico,

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I studied abroad in Mexico for, for a month. I visited somebody for public. I've been to Costa Rica. And like it's just the reality

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that the third world isn't there. It's in the realm of our world, we just help them out. So that's why I chose

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international relations and Spanish because I speak Spanish, but every other student, you have to take English classes.

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So people always say, oh, six manuscripts, one of these yet, no, it's the same thing I'd say grab rights, a composition, literature.

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So just because I feel as though a degree in Spanish will validate that I truly am bilingual. Not just one of those people, like, oh,

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maybe speakers on bilingual I speak like this. Must stop Spanish. That can help anyone

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or how does it mean to influence your life? My major impacts my life like on a daily basis because I have

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a 10-year plan and outlets day. And every day I think about what am I going to do when I leave the university, especially now with the challenges

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that we're having in our economy. I want to work for the government, but the government puts a freeze on hiring. But am I going to do NGOs

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and other non-profit organizations? Darker paints well, but I'm adding it for the money. I know that I'm not going to

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make money in the beginning. Maybe the law might not make money, but my whole purpose is to help out other people at how about, you know,

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the mother may be barefoot and pregnant in Colombia because of the network graphical and my organization, whoever I work with all my witness,

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the oil with the US government that I'm able to be employed by. Abby goes on for that person, a better life, a life that I was given

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in all the American dream. Everyone wants the American dream, but you don't have that in America together. Why can't Columbia have

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its own Columbia June? And I hope I'm sure I'm saying like 100% sure that everyone in Latin America wants their own tree.

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We use America as the prototype because they've got this country has been able to afford all of us with a better life,

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or at least the opportunity to pursue a better life. So every day I think about like, oh my god, what grad school am I going to

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apply to or is everybody going to want to hire me? Is anybody going to take me seriously because I'm a woman lawyer?

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Being happiness not going to hinder me from getting positions or our other lapping or when I go to the clutch,

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you're going to say seriously because there might not be enough, because I was one of the US. So what are some

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of the most significant experiences that you've had as a student? I don't know, other than so many part of campus life the law has,

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which is the lucky Muslim Union, University of Delaware. And I've certainly worked for three years, undergraduate advisor.

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And my freshman year when I first got involved with law, has. We went to the American democratic institute conference in Philly.

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Actually got to meet Senator Hillary won. And it was really funny cause I was on wisdom. Stalker will be provided us with the lunch,

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but I didn't want to eat the lunch. I will say this is the only exit that she can get out of. I'm going to Finder and I'm going to say,

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so I waited and waited and waited and everyone was like missing a coulomb's come eat. A way to feel like doing

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this, not only dosha, so I see walk by like her barge or like or Secret Service. I don't know who they are.

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And I follow them and the guy was like You all stay in bed. And I was like, Listen, I want a picture as Kevin,

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I have a second, plenty of pictures. That was my best friend's camera. Little did I know that I had most battery. So finally she saved me and it's

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starting it's like starting to drizzle and she's like getting it. So like her black SUV or SUVs. She was like in the middle, just like

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protect their she was like it's raining Honey. Why don't you come inside? I'm like What?

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So to see that removes versus them over and I'm like him as a main thing. I think we've thing makes a

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cleanse and so that's all what's your name? That's all I know about. And I was like, I love going to go to your husband when he visited the White House.

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A way that is amazing and I get some teaching. She was like, Okay, what can I do feel like? I want to picture Secret Service guy

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being really takes the camera and starts it takes a picture. And he's like all that and then you will get a better

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picture sitting next to her. No one can say no was there? No one was there. But I know that it really happen.

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I know that that, you know, that really impacted me because here we see like our senators, like our President and

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everyone in politics from a position of power, we have such high regard for them. We only get to see them

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like on TV. What's a C? A former first lady as senator of New York and someone that I admire like that necessarily

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see that she's like a living, breathing person, just like me with amazing. I was a little freshman. I didn't think that, you know,

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me being a part of that ASA angle, I select this one conference could altered YM, which 85 percent things

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because now as they are politicians, as people before is to see them as like jamovi superior beings like help run the country.

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Yeah, do they isolate cellular constituents, but they're like so smart and so on intellectual and like, this is me and this is them.

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But now I know that. Okay, got you. But I do have more expansive than me to have more education. They have a high position,

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but there are still people. So in the end, I can still identify with them. Now is the major one was again with the half,

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and that has afforded me so many opportunities. In July 2017, the National Conference of

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law have thought it might be they have their annual conference and centered was there, but also center arrival there.

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And I got to shake his hand. It was amazing this and before he had announced that he was going to be working for President next

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look like I'm really into one picture. And it was just so cool because like we hope that everyone looks at politicians like rockstars.

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But if you follow politics and if you're involved in your community, like locally, like federally, you like you want to create change

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and foster change and like your country, you do hold your politician. So a high regard. So for me to see Senator that's in Iraq,

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Obama is now our president and shake his hand. Talk about everything that you wanted to as far as

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immigration reform in health care and education. Right before he announced that he was going to be running

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for president is pretty cool and that everyone can say they saw President Barack Obama before it spreads. What are their organizations

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are involved in Ypsilanti law class. I'm also an RA. My residence by a minority of Christianity was tower 16th and 17th.

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And I just remembered. And I'm just, you know, things I got involved in everything. Like hold up position on everyone's board,

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but I support everyone. I hope everything, maybe the things that the Greek community goals or Haven has or the BSE,

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who was the path or CPAP. I like to be involved on campus bottom lines, experiments to them. So as far as membership camps last,

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hostile and residence life. But I said whatever what I'm doing after graduation. After graduation, I want

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to go to grad school and law school. I'm, I'm looking at the same height University. They have this amazing tool

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to reprogram in diplomacy. I made the policy and my JD interventions that for B and they hook you up with

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an internship wherever you want. But overall, I want to be a Foreign Service Officer for the Department of State.

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And I wanted to be based in Latin American countries, and that is my specialization. And actually I want to

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say is that guy and I speak, but I believe there's variables. And in the long run, I want to be that's a bitmap or

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an ambassador to a Latin American country. Hopefully, it's going to be those Monica Republic, but that is pretty milestones.

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I have them in the chat Dominican parents. But anyway, I think when we Latin America, I'll accept. Could you discuss your involvement and

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morale for that purpose? Short Canvas and I feel like that is the Latino student union at the University of Delaware.

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And what we're here for is to advance their agenda and represent all under-represented communities at the University of Delaware,

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but specifically Latinos. What Lisa was all about, leadership, empowerment, giving a voice to those who

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have always been marginalized or silenced. And what we do is it's almost like a US law blue flash, a group at the University of Delaware.

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And our purposes, the community here, the University of Delaware. And also locally we have variable size with the Governor's Advisory Council

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on Hispanic Affairs, which it's gotcha. Also with nice bit outside of the line break and community center and voices without borders.

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Those are many of our allies and also the National Council of ASA in DC. And what we do is we empower the university and also the

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students who have membership with that asset by going through lots of conferences. We went to the millions more

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March 2005 with lot outside the BSE, you sponsor Bible for those organizations here at the university. But saying that an immigrant,

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what movements are barriers, marches on the mall, MVC. Every year we go to law passes annual conference.

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I went to one of my AMP, which was where Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton attended this year. It's in Chicago.

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And lots of community surveys. We have an annual book Drive where we send books, ai, ladder, a community center,

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and also it's worthwhile in Panama for small children and teenagers. Because without literature, if you don't have anything with literature,

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you can transport yourself. You can create new ideas, learn new things. And we believe that with literature, we can empower children to

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continue their education. Because if you can't read, what do you want to spoon, come very shy. You don't want to become involved.

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And we're all about continuing education. My father's Craig, they might be another man. He's now at Emory law school in Atlanta. He graduated from here.

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And, um, they're scholar lapse of our members are McNair Scholars. So it's all about continuing your education, but also remembering to

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get back to the community. Because the community foster growth was there to assist you when you have your trials and tribulations.

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And if you don't reach back and get back to those who need it, what, sir? What purpose do you, sir? We need to get back to the community,

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so that's all the possible about what we've learned fine. How has moving in three different areas, your experiences and involvement of

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the universe shaped or wishing to do, and what you plan on doing in the future. Lived and DR. And then New York and then Delaware.

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I knew I wouldn't be the person. Why I'm saying because I don't know how to state in VR. Who knows where I would have been.

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Had a state of New York, I think that I would have been well off, but I don't know my print them think so. So coming to Delaware really shaped who I am.

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I see that being an advocate, I became the right for the woman than I am because I didn't have those family members and

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close cousins to help me out. Subtle. And also being at the University of Delaware away from home,

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but also close the old net. If I needed anything, I can just color them then I take me off or I can take the diapers.

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But I think my environment has affected who I am, but also my family. Because my family is like the backbone of who I am.

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Like. There's me. But then there's like my family. And my family which also be very

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selfless like everything is for the fan. And yes, there are times when your needs, do you all think like, of course, boycotts. One off, topology will continue education.

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But what the purpose of mind going back and help for the betterment of FM. So my family and my environments have shaped entirely why am I don't know who I would

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be aware would be if it wasn't for my parents. It was crazy aunts and uncles, cousins. And you know, that lovely state of

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doubling my high school. Well, there's so many things I might, because it's in the work that we were not valid busy professionals of America.

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I was president of my Spanish club at the University of Delaware is the only campus that has a canvas and I say La Raza,

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other schools have their equivalents, Ola, which may be glass or soul or styles. Or they're not evil student unions bullet, no one.

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You can't really understand the impact that campus when I said that nasa has had. And only the University of our foreheads.

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And I'm an RA resident site has really shaped way up and has helped me because I had learned how to be

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more tolerant of others who are different than me. So except the opposing views. And sub-e let more

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nurturing because up a little bit so I'm kind of policy. But you the DR. New York, Delaware, they're all part of way.