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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

2. Watching older sister record herself reading books

3. Moving to Australia in 6th grade and mispronouncing words when reading aloud in class

4. Teaching my daughter to read

5. Well-read friends

6. Two month recovery from surgery

7. My uncle Bob's weird home library

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my mom for being a librarian
the school book fair
all of my high school English teachers
having nowhere to go waiting for the bus but the library
my roommate
the Harry Potter books, Roald Daul books, Percy Jackson
Matilda
childhood TV shows like Martha speaks and Sesame Street

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1.  Being a translator for my non-English speaking parents
3.  My IB English teacher
4.  My friends back home
5.  Playing school with my neighbors
6.  Google
7.  Spanish Novelas
8.  John Green
9.  Spongebob
10. My neighbor who I tutored a lot during the summer

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1. Practice the violin with my violin teacher for ten years, and my high school orchestra director.
2. The admission officer accepted me to Iolani school in Honolulu Hawaii, where I had close contact with people from difference cultures and backgrounds.
3. My Spanish teacher profe Barnard, who really shared a lot about the cultures in the Spanish-speaking countries.
4. My parents: when I was little, we often have a family reading events, and we share our thoughts after reading different books.
5. cartoons: "stitch"and "sponge bob" are two my favorite cartoons.
6. My brother, who introduced me to the world of economics.
7. Yinxin: we are having some great time together, and she allows me to really know who I am.
8. Shanglearning&Nancy friends: My English enlightener.

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My parents
Translating for my family
Video games
TV shows
Library
Friends
Board games
Boys and Girls Club
Constantly moving when I was younger

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- The art I consume: manga, games (especially those that encouraged me to learn to read as a child)
- Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
- My parents, teachers
- Barnes and Nobles
- Frog and Toad
- Those cute, girly journals with useless locks
- Nice stationary
- Friends I have written to

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-computer game
-Comics and Novels
-Short videos
-TV series
-some volunteer activities( which need me to write some activity reports or observation reports)
-my friends and pen pal
-High school orchestra
-parents

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1. grandpa (tell some funny stories)
2. some tapes
3.TV series
4.computer games
5.My TOEFL teacher
6.my friend who is a sphomore
7. some English song
8. books(like Harry Potter)
9. my art teacher

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1. My FFA Chapter, my second family
2. My Childhood Bookshelf (according to my mom I picked a book off the shelf and wouldn't let it go)
3. My Sister Jamaica, who is my biggest supporter
4. Kathleen Glasgow, my favorite author
5. John Green, the author that made me fall back in love with reading
6. Cookie, my dog, who is my favorite student
7. My second grade student, nick, who I tutored in the 4th grade that made me want to teach

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1. Novels
2. TV series
3. My cousin
4. Friends
5. My parents
6. Videos
7. Chatting with people online
8. Online posts

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1) Comic Books (Marvel, Bones, DC)
2) Maze Runner Series
3) Goosebumps
4) My Sister
5)TV Series (Word Girl, Martha Speaks, Sesame Street)
5) Mythology, Folklore
6) Boys and Girls Club (Summer)
7) Library summer reading contests
8) Story Line video Games (Lost Ark, Batman Arkham, Pokemon Dungeon, Halo)

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1) Anime
2) Movie
3) Novels
4) Eco readings
5) TV series
6) Videos
7) ielts courses I learned in China
8) quora
9) games
10) TEDs
11) Debate

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1. Poetry and fiction writing/books
2. My High School science research teacher
3. My family (parents, brother, cousins etc.)
4. My best friends and I talking about personal and world issues
5. TV news and broadcasts
6. Songs and movies
7. Tutoring and helping other students
8. My independent research study on negative self-talk and cognitive distortions
9. TV Series and Movies
10. Altruism and SHARED (both are non-profit organizations)

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1.  Moving to U.S. in 7th grade
2. Being translator for my Korean parents and Cannadian cousins
3. New York Times
4. England Premier League
5. Sherlock Holmes
6. SAT Prep teachers
7. YouTube
8. Dr. Stephen Hawking (Scientist)

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1. My aunt
2. My sisters
3. My freshmen English teacher
4. Tv shows
5. google
6. My friends
7. Girl Scouts
8. Perks of being a wallflower
9. TED talks

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1. My grandparents
2. My parents
3. Library
4. Movies
5. Novels
6. My childhood book collection
7. Ted Talks
8. Recipes
9. New apps

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1) Crime novels
2) Psychological thrillers
3) Christopher Nolan movies
4)forensics
5) chemistry
6)My high school chemistry teacher#breakingbad
7)Dan Brown-crime novelist
8) My grandmom's horror stories
9)Anime

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1. My friend ( Talk in person or online with me.)
2. My family ( Talk in person or online with me, and my mom also taught me the literacy at home when I was in grade 1.)
3. Comics ( They help me to know more about the structures of sentences.)
4. Textbooks ( They teach me a lot beside the teachers.)
5. Author Nguyen Nhat Anh ( He is a Vietnamese author that I really love. He is the person that encourages me to read a lot cause I like his books so much.)
6. Science books ( They help me to obtain diverse information related to science, astronomy, and biology, etc.)
7. Love books ( I really into reading love books from Chinese authors because the ways that they write about stories are so amazing.)