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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

Foot surgery

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- Even days of the week Taekwondo lessons
- Reading a book before each English class in high school
- Teaching my niece and nephew to recognize, write, and use the alphabet and numbers.
- Watching the anime series Yu-Gi-Oh and learned about ancient Egypt gods and myths.
- Watching Marvel's Thor movies and learn about Norse and Greek mythology.
- Following my dad's way of journaling of jogging down important things that happened in the day.
- Being an interpreter for my parents with whatever they see in English that they don't understand or confused.

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Dora

Sesame street and elmo

Mom reading books to me as a child

After school program at my elementary school: make me read books and write a summary that was half a page

Reading legal documents for my parents as a child when they don't understand it

The magic school bus books and show or movies (i forgot what it was)

Super Why

Little Einsteins

Wild Kratts

Playing loteria and talking with my family about adult stuff as a kid

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- Cartoons and movies I would watch as a little girl.
- Attending church and going to the children's group.
- Attending Elementary School (where I learned to read and write)
- In 3rd grade, I tutored a 5th grader with reading and writing quite often because she had just moved to the U.S.
- Translating legal documents
- Spending a lot of my childhood in libraries
- Battle of the books!! The librarian, Ms. Crow, helped me understand a lot of words.
- My all time favorite English teacher, Mr. Muskrath. (HS)

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1. Wild Kratts (learned about animals, had games online that we can play too)
2. Electric Company (Learned to read and write words)
3. Word Girl (it was another reading and writing carton, but animated and kept kids more engaged)
4. Used to play school and work with my older sisters.
5. HYPU Hmong literacy program (where I learned how to write in my native language)
6. Translating for my parents during appointments or school meetings
7. Dork Diaries
8. Upward Bound (a UCD program that aided me though the college path)
9. Being a tutor for my niece when I was in middle school
10. AP program at my high school, specifically Ms. Ho my econ teacher

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- dora
- watching my older sister work
- barney
- being a translator to my parents
- working at age 15
- going to my mothers job everyday after school
- Learning to be independent because parents would always work late
- my best friend who got me into reading

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1. My parents ( I want to make them proud by since they didn't have the opportunity to go to college)
2. Animals- ( growing up, I have always been  super shy and I felt free to be myself around animals because a conversation wasn't always needed)
3. Watching telenovelas with my abuelita on univision
4. My quinceañera
5. My Club soccer coach, Coach Frankie ( We won 1st place in State Cup this year)
6. Playing Varisty Soccer all my 4yrs in High School
7. Bad Bunny Concert- El Ultimo Tour del Mundo (My first ever concert)
8. My sister (she's like my 2nd mom/ bestfriend)
9. Soccer Camps (it always pushed me to breakout of my shell)
10. Playing vet with my dogs and my toy doc mcstuffins veterinarian doctor bag

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-Mesa club in high school (Mathematic Engineer Science Club)
-my brother achievement record
-parent personal translator
-my parent
-my toxic old friends
- sports
-anime and or TV shows
-badminton JV's coach
-private tutors

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1. Spongebob Squarepants
2. Sister putting in soccer at 8 years old.
3. Brother taking me to run.
4. Speaking English for my Spanish-speaking parents.
6. Elementary school book fair.
7. Brother giving me my first videogame.
8. Sunday soccer games
9. Friends knocking at my door to go play.

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- church
- book fair
- English classes
- subtitles
- dora
- my mom and dad
- Dual Immersion (a spanish program I was in from K-8)
- my old friends in elementary (we would play  family)
- my tennis coach
- my older brother while he was in college

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- books, novels, comics(these are the things I love reading)
- older brother directly influenced my curiosity for reading
- local libraries were exciting for me because I loved books and got to get out of the house
- my parents always encouraged reading and would compliment me whenever they saw me reading
- my friends and I would often review each others papers so I was exposed to their work a lot
- my mom reads Vietnamese news a lot so I've always been curious and want to learn how to read in Viet.
- Very few people in my family understand English so my brother and I would often translate, read, write, or fill out form that were in English
- children's tv shows like Barney, My Little Pony, Pokemon, Ben Ten, and Teen Titans

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- My friends from my hometown
- Ballmer Scholars Program
- College Advisor (Ms. Jimenez)
- My parents
- My sister and brother who have always supported me
-  High school counselor
-My high school soccer coach/ teacher
- PBS kids
- Local library (Vernon branch library)

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1. HEAL (Health and Environmental Academy of Learning)
2. Translating for my parents
3. Playing video games
4. Book Club in middle school (We read books and came together to talk about them)
5. My older sister recommending me books
6. My brothers recommending me manga
7. Martha Speaks
8. Wild Krats
9. Anime
10.  Minecraft Youtubers
11. My mom

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1. My waterpolo coach (motivated me to improve myself and shoot for the stars)
2. My swimming lessons at my high school
3. watching my first ever Dogers game (in person)
4.Taking wrestling classes (Highscool and middle school)
5. Building my first pond in my backyard
6. My pet turtles
7. Having a tradition of eating bread on JAN. 6 with family
8. Going to the San Fran zoo with my family as a kid
9. Playing video games with my Aunt back in 2010
10. UCD

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- Helping my family with translations
- Having support from friends back home
- Going to Coachella Fest
- High school tennis coaches who helped me succeed in the sport
- Older brothers
- English teacher from middle school
- Helping my teammates learn tennis
- Going to church with my family
- Meeting the current best tennis player in the world

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1. Reading a lot of fiction books during elementary school
2. Watching Fairy Tail (an anime)
3. My sister writing her own non published book
4. Creative narrative writing essays during middle school and elementary school
5. Wanting to see how my emotions change day to day by documenting them in a online diary
6. Being in Gate English classes
7. My sister introducing me to my first "big" book by reading Percy Jackson to me
8. Having access to a library and being in the Library club allowing me to read more