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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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1. Charlie and Lola the children cartoon

2. going on trips to other countries and try to communicate in their native language

3. cooking classes my mum and I take

4. ordering food at a restaurant

5. my high school

6. cheerleading, tennis, track and softball

7. the magic faraway tree book

8. just my family in general

9. the NYC public library I used to go to every day after school

10. my computer where I wrote creative stories and tv shows

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1. Elmo the TV show.

2. My sister books

3. Harry Potter

4. sports

5. my 6th grade English teacher

6. friends growing up

7. parents

8. social media

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1. My family.(They love both reading and writing,and taught me a lot about how to writing well)

2.<Love In A Fallen City> (from a writer during the Republic of China.She writes sensitively )

3.<The longest night ever> (From a mystery novelist Cai Jun.I fell in love with mystery and detective novels because of him)

4.Han Han (a writer and a influencer who dares to speak out.The writing is brutally tough and savagely humorous)

5.Some bloggers (I can’t tell all their names,but I was deeply influenced by their writing styles)

6.My Chinese teacher in junior school.(He is so brilliant and has a generous heart.All I can express is great  thanks )

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1. Dora the Explorer (tv show I grew up watching; this helped me improved my Spanish)
2. Go, Diego, Go!  ( same as one)
3. YouTube taught me important thing for school and outside of school related
4. Translating for my parents and others around me
5. The Magic Tree House by Mary Pope
6. Attending Catholic Church for my first communion and learning about the Bible
7. Video Games
8. Watch Asians shows
9.  Music because of the message, lyrics and new words I never heard of
10. Migrant

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1. my mom who has been a teacher for 25+ years

2. video games

3. sports

4. tv shows/cartoons I watched as a kid (spongebob, adventure time, dora)

5. my older sisters

6.  getting to travel so much when I was younger (mexico, europe, asia)

7. endlessly watching youtube when I was a little kid... so many different topics I took in

8. online computer games and interacting with users on there

9. my middle school saxophone tutor

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1.) Friends from home
2.) My family
3.) San Diego
4.) Water polo
5.) Movies
6.) The ocean

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1. My twin sister  (family in general but specifically her)
2. social media
3. my aunt (shes a publisher)
4. my close family friend (teacher at a middle school)
5. playing telephone when i was younger
6. trying to learn two languages
7. playing water polo for 10 years
8. my high school friend group
9. traveling

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1. The courses I take at UCD.
2. My high school and elementary school teachers.
3. The books and movies recommended by my teachers and classmates.
4. My parents.
5. The library of my high school.
6. The bookshelf in my room.

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1. My grandparents showing me notes that they made back then like journal entries.
2. My best friend, she loves to read poetry and romance books.
3. Poetry contest that I had entered when I was little.
3. Dork diaries.
4. Dora the Explore.
5. yo gabba gabba.
6. Soical Media.
7. Watching movies in a different language and reading the captions.
8. Lyrics for a song.

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1. My mom

2. Rick Riordan (wrote Percy Jackson series)

3. Ripley's believe it or not

4. My 6th grade teacher

5. UCD Bohart

6. Traveling

7. Video games

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-Word girl
-Video games
-Word world
-Library
- Taking classes to become a catholic communion
- Learning English to be able to translate for my family
- My sister

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1. Cartoons and T.V. Shows

2. My Older Siblings

3. My Parents

4. My High school AVID Teacher

5. My High school Counselor

6. Novels

7. Libraries

8. Movies

9. Games

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1. My parents
2. My elder cousin
3.  My elementary school Teacher
4. Video Games
5. Kid's Encyclopedia
6. Middle school History Teacher
7. My childhood friend
8. Social Media

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- my mom
- my 1st grade teacher
- my aunt
- trying to learn a second and third language
- the Relay for Life
- playing bored games
-travel
-friends
-children cartoons

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1. My parents (bought a lot of books for me)

2. Chinese traditional culture and Chinese history study tours are held by my father's friend's company.

3. Online novels

4. Games

5. Former co-worker of my board game store internship

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1. The Office (tv show)
2.Grandpa (told me stories about his travels and work)
3.Reading the Harry Potter series
4.Times Magazine
5.Online newspaper
6.Video games
7.Watching YouTube