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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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Eye exams
Watching older sister record herself reading books
First grade reading circles
Moving to Australia in 6th grade and mispronouncing words when reading aloud in class
Teaching my daughter to read
Friends
My uncle Bob's home library

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My mom and grandma

My 7th grade English and Social Studies teacher

My sisters and older brother

My managers and coworkers

My coach

Barney and The Magic School Bus

Social Media

The Magic Tree House book series

The authors Suzanne Collins and J.K. Rowling

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1. My 6th grade teacher (Taught me to love writing)
2. My grandma (told stories of her life)
3. Video games
4. My cheer and gymnastic coaches
5. Geronimo Stilton series
6. Author Angie Sage
7. My dad
8. Disney Movies
9. Social Media
10. School

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- The Percy Jackson series
- My 5th grade homeroom teacher
- Social media (internet)
- Local library (+ it's weekly events)
- My parents
- My local church
- Middle school book club
- Conversations with Spanish speaking family members
- Translating documents / conversations for my parents
- PBS shows (such as Word World)

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- my mom
-my dad
- the treehouse books
- Junie b. jones books
- the dragon tales
- goosebumps
- Sesame Street
- word girl
- my third grade teacher
- my music program

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1. My dad
2. Birchwood Lake(ML, New Jersey)
3. my's mom journal documenting the first few years of my life
4. Hebrew School
5. My older sister
6. Studio Ghibli movies
7. Monday night piano lessons with Valerie
8. Learning sign language with Cassie
9. Mr. Wallace's chem class
10. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
11. junior year APUSH
12. friends from my hometown
13. my brother

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Andrew Clements

Kazushige Nojima (Writer of Final Fantasy VII and other games)

Rick Riordan (Author of the Percy Jackson series)

Language classes

Friends/Social media

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1) Capitola Public Library (In Capitola, CA)
2) My godmother who gave me her old journals which had mini stories that she had written throughout the years
3) From a young age being a translator for my parents and for my family friends who didn't know English
4) Taking Spanish lessons from my my dad who spoke it fluently
5) Specifically the books: Maze runner & The Hunger Games
6) The Buddha temple I visit every month in San Francisco
7) You tube/ Social Media
8) My elementary music teacher Mrs. Bock

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1. Movie and TV shows
2. My English tutor (taught me English in elementary school after moving to the U.S)
3. Parents
4. Encyclopedia given to me by cousins.
5. Chinese school
6. 7th grade social studies teacher
7. Local library events
8. Japanese teacher
9. John Flanagan

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My grandparents who only spoke Vietnamese

Translating for my immigrant family

My friends back at home

My Ap Literature Teacher

Social Media

My older cousins

Spanish teacher

Movies, TV shows, and dramas

My trip to Asia

Family friend

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1. My parents
2. The Magic Treehouse Series
3. The Rainbow Magic Series
4. My brother
5. My local library that had a summer reading program
6. My Kindergarten teacher
7. Goodreads (for motivating me to read)
8. My friend who got me back into reading
9. My trip to Europe
10. Scooby Doo

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1. San Francisco Public Library
2. My parents - speak to me in English and Cantonese and grandparents - speak to me in Cantonese only
4. My elementary and middles school where I was part of the Chinese Immersion Program with about half my day learning in Chinese
5. Ms. Olona's 5th grade English class
6. Annual Spring Musical in elementary school
7. Childhood TV shows like Sesame Street, dora, Jessie
8. Friends (the sitcom)
9. Grandma - texts me on Chinese messaging app WeChat

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1. San Francisco Public Library
2. Archdiocese of San Francisco
3. my cousins - we played school
4. piano lessons
5. practicing Spanish when we visited family in Mexico or in classes in high school
6. Aim High (I tutored middle school students in reading)
7. educational kids shows like Sesame Street, Dora, Super Why
8. my parents
9. the show Switched at Birth (learned some ASL)
10. friends and social media
11. trips to Europe and Asia
12. shows in other languages like kdramas and telenovelas

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- Mrs. Alison, my third grade teacher
-My best friend Shae
-Social Media
-The Rainbow Magic Fairy Books
-My sister
-The Diary I had when I was little
-Museums
-The Hunger Games Series
-My parents

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1.) My mother

2.) My father

3.) Fantasy novels from elementary schools.

4.) Graphic novel authors like Jeff Smith and Takeo Inoue

5.) My friends

6.) Translating for my mother

7.) Playing Pictionary

8.) Spelling Bee/ Tests.

9.) Local Library

10.) School Librarian

11.) Electric Company TV Show

12.) Sesame Street

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1. Phelan Public Memorial Library
2. My Mom
3. Girl Scouts
4. Brandon Sanderson/Naomi Novik
5. Girl Scouts - Specifically Girl Scout Leader
6. My Aunt
7. Summer Reading Programs
8. My Friends
9. Learning ASL
10. Many Of My Teachers
11. RPGs

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1) My local library
2) My parents
3) My grandmothers
4) Afterschool Vietnamese Catholic school
5) Youtube
6) Our Lady of Peace (Catholic church)
7) My friends
8) Social media

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1. my friends
2. journaling
3. book club
4. summer internship
5. documentaries
6. the Percy Jackson series
7. my mom
8. bananagrams and scrabble

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1.) Pororo( the Korean cartoon)
2.) Huntington Library and Gardens (located in San Marino, California)
3.) My tutors over the past years
4.) My family
5.) Church
6.) Disney movies
7.) Instrument teachers
8.) My favorite books
9.) The Hacienda public library
10.) Anime