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1. Huntington Library and Gardens (in Pasadena, CA)
2. Archdiocese of Los Angeles (the Catholic Church of Los Angeles)
3. Girl's State
4. Homeboy Industries (Boyle Heights, CA)
5. The 1984 Olympics (held in Los Angeles)
6. My mother (with me at the Huntington Library below!)
7. My older sister (we played school)
8. Learning video games at my public library you got to play for FREE on the brand new Apple 2E computers donated by a new little-known company called Apple Computers (Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? & Oregon Trail)
10. Public library (summer reading program where reading got you free pizza points!)
11. S.E. Hinton
12. Weekly piano lessons with Mrs. Crider
13. Dr. Williams (favorite undergraduate professor)

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1. My brother's Godfather, Lambros (told us stories & sang traditional Greek songs)

2. Playing Scrabble as a kid

3. Being translator for my immigrant parents, brother (before he learned English), and grandmother

4. basketball (coach gave us notebooks to learn plays)

5. Practicing my French when we would visit family in Montreal

6. Greek School (church)

7. Greek Mythology (giant book I read over and over)

8. Dr. Paul Goldstene (college)

9. Human Services 45 (an elective course where we tutored lementary school kids in reading)

10. Used to play 'school' with my neighbor, who was 1 year older than me. I was the student and she was the teacher (learned years later I was doing her homework)

11. Sesame Street & The Electric Company on Saturday mornings

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My grandfather's almanac

Full House (Thing before Fuller House)

Hollywood movie series on Friday nights (in Japan)

Essay writing contests (many Japanese school children participated in these as part of school curricula)

Friends from home

UCSB

My child's Spanish-English bilingual school

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-2 Grandmothers (pictured below at my college graduation) and their full journals and bookshelves
-being the only child meant being included in conversations as a peer, not a child
-community conversations
-Judy Blume
-Dr. Betsy Watson
-Jody Woodbury (HS English teacher) and Carl Woodbury (HS Gov't teacher)
-Thomas, my grandmother's Siamese cat (aka my best student)
-Reading Rainbow
-Sweet Valley High

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1. Eye exams and getting glasses in the 10th grade
2. Watching older sister record herself reading books
3. First grade reading circles
4. Moving to Australia in 6th grade and mispronouncing words when reading aloud in class
5. Teaching my daughter to read
6. My uncle Bob's home library
7. My cousin's Dr. Seuss books

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- educational children's tv shows(like Dora the Explorer, Barney,etc.)
-Cerritos Library
-friends from home
-mom (bought me books, workbooks)
-Barnes & Noble
-online educational websites like freerice.com
-grandma and grandpa
-playing school with my brother and also with neighborhood friends
-piano lessons

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1. Public library for having reading challenges

2. Playing word games with my dad when I was younger

3. Pbs kids with their educational shows

4. The librarian reading different books aloud to my class

5. Music lessons

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Public libraries every weekend

Reading comic and picture books(Dr. Suess, Elephant & Piggie)

Those “Goddess Girls” books in middle school

reading my sister’s books that she has in a tiny closet

Trying to play the game scrabble when I was younger

Reading books about planets and looking at pictures of them because they were pretty

My mom’s many books of short stories romance related

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1. My grandma and grandpa

2. My Dad(having a lesson about time management and self-development)

3. My Mom(buy me books)

4. My fairy tale books from childhood

5. Children's Songs DVD

6. Watching Teletubbies

7. My friends

8. Youth Group in Church

9. WYMA (peer guide)

10. Bilibili (study with me channel)

11. My highschool

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-Parents
-Public libraries
-Grandparents
-Music teacher
-PBS Kids
-Series of Unfortunate Events
-My friends
-English teachers
-Cousins
-Elementary School
-Middle School
-High School
-UC Davis
-Church School
-Book Donors
-Video Games
-StarFall
-Community Service
-Clubs

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- My 5th grade friends who encouraged me to read more.
- Elementary school A.R tests
- Elementary school and middle school book fairs
- Games like scrabble, word search, and crossword puzzles
- Public library book clubs and reading challenges when I was younger

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1. Martin Luther King Jr. Library (they had activities for young people)
2. my tutors
3. volunteering at science camps
4. translating for my parents growing up
5. high school teachers
6. Edward's family, mom's boss' who motivated me to take the college route
7. various helpless therapists
8.  my younger sister
9. translating in school
10. volunteering at my elementary school

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- My parents who encourage me to do my best.
- Watching television shows with my friends when I was young.
- Guitar videos on YouTube
- School
- Sunday school (Church)
- Pastor that prayed for my success.
- Mom and Dad
- Friends that liked me for who I am.
- Volunteer to help special Eds and get to know them better.
- My best friend who listens when I felt down.
- Commercial music class in high school
- Netflix shows
- Taekwondo (World level coach taught me what he knows)
- Pi (3.14) day (where we all ate pie)

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1. Going to a tutor from first to seventh grade
2. young adult novels
3. PBS channel
4. purchasing books from Barnes and Noble/Costco
5. my best friend (I would edit her papers)
6. my language class in high school
7. going to the library each week to pick out new books
8. silent reading hour during elementary, middle, and high school
9. volunteering at a local elementary school to help them with math and reading
10. science fairs
11. weekly piano lessons during elementary school

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1. My best friend who got me into reading again
2. Volunteering at the hospital and getting to interact with patients
3. Disney Princesses were an inspiration to me growing up.
4. Being able to lead worship at my youth service taught me how to become a better leader (church leadership)
5. My grandma is constantly teaching me more about my Korean culture
6. My pastor who shows me endless support
7. My second-grade teacher would always listen to my rants about the drama in my friend group when I was in elementary school
8. Piano and violin lessons opened a door for my love of music
9. After school program I used to go to until middle school has given me the opportunity to interact with students in different grades

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Mom and Dad

Grandparents

COTS

Tutors

Family friends

Spongebob

My friends

Coaches

Cousins

Elementary School

Middle School

High School

UC Davis

Video Games

Baseball

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1. My Parents
2. My Grandparents
3. My host parents
4. Middle school(NFLS)
5. Mandarin Church
6. My friends
7. Drama club in middle and high school
8. My high school History teacher
9. Romantic novels my friend and I read secretly in our free time
10.Funny conversations between my desk-mate and me as we talk about a lot of interesting things from news to gossips in our class

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1. My parents
2. My grandparents
3. My friends
4. All my schools (elementary, middle, high, university)
5. All books I read
6. All film I watched
7. Jay Chou’s music
8. My teachers

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1. seventh grade English teacher
2. watching the news and reading news articles
3. 'thinking games' like scrabble and bananagrams
4. the library
5. my internship supervisors (at the California Coastal Commission)
6. a different nonprofit I interned at for several years (Enterprise for Youth)
7. journaling
8. school in general
9. my mom who always pushed me to read more as a kid

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-My mother (reading spanish and english)
- High School
-Middle School
-Clubs
-English Teachers
-Rick Riordan
-Harry Potter series
-Mythology
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1. My parents
2. My brother
3. My friends
4. Middle school math teacher
5. (video and book) Detective Conan and Arsène Lupin
6. Public Library
7. School Clubs

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1. my parents(would read to me  every night)
2. coach (would provide emotional support at games)
3. Teachers from k-12
3. grandmother (would tell me  stories from her childhood)
4. friends (would play video games with me and would often lend a helping hand)
5. my church community (provided a safe space for me)
6.clubs (found people who would support by interests)

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1. My second grade teacher
2. My mom
3. My best friends who recommended me books to read
4. The Harry Potter series
5. The elementary book fairs
6. Disney channel
7. The dork diaries series
8. Science books (the pictures intrigued me)
9. Fostering and volunteering at the foster agency
10. Reading the cartoons on the newspaper

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-My elementary school language teacher (guided me to love reading)
-My grandmother (a university professor who lived through the war and various social changes in modern China, gave me a perspective that many people would have difficulty appreciating)
-Disco Elysium (Help me to ensure 3-5 hours of English reading and listening per week when the Chinese version is not yet released)
-Bookstore near home

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1. My parents
2. My older sisters
3. Word World
4. Between the Lions
5. Online PBS games
6. Attending library programs
7. Selling Girl Scout cookies
8. Being a teacher's assistant

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1. My fifth grade teacher
2. My mom
3. My best friends who recommended me books to read
4. The Harry Potter series
5. The elementary book fairs
6. Disney channel
7. The dork diaries series
8. Science books (the pictures intrigued me)
9. Fostering and volunteering at the foster agency
10. Reading the cartoons on the newspaper