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I always kinda lived my life by the policy as a young and old person
that you take whatever life is going to give you and make the best of it
and that life doesn't always give you everything you want
everything you need. Eventually I got to a point understanding when
I realized I don't have to accept what life brings me and I can
make my own future and do what needs to be done
to reach my goal
during the year 2011 I was
manage a restaurant in Sacramento I and then though the business and everything
within that
environment kinda chrome alarming and all the stress and all the
all the hardships from work eventually came home
and dawned on me that need to finish school
I found an article about a student would come the columns
to work part time at a hotel got her degree and she's now the general manager
at this company really admired so
I thought okay well the torch for hers you know that's an avenue I guess that's
I pathway I did apply and me we left alone for a few months cuz other things
coming up
there was more pressing I was born with a genetic disorder it's called Marfan
syndrome is something that my father had
and my father passed away when he was there until you note the time other
sticking running all the time
wanted missile warning this scattered himself went in for open-heart surgery
I was in the hospital for five days still able to come home to cover their
the day after his heart surgery was the day he got accepted but
this was during that period time appears ago we're getting the cause was
nearly impossible colleges word no one was accepted
and so to get that letter to say you're accepted
it was huge for me
having that open window above the acceptance into
Cal Poly Pomona that's right there you're accepted UN
here hey how bad do you want it
the little about that we have saved the west side I can get a job in
carry things on didn't work out so you know
going through that it was kinda for a spider in where we just have enough to
stay afloat I got solo
pardo the hope for the school was a scholarship possibilities
and searched for the first orientation I i went to they had the forms to fill out
for scholarships to balance its course
soon as I could to fill that out protesters are you need to know
South application and so fortunately that was something that came through
there really helped mister
keep us going during that time you know we got down
hemingway twenty dollars in your account ended he got a call me
and said the Atlanta scholarships massaging
and it was for thousand dollars and that was it could have been a million dollars
the weather like it was yeah it was what we needed
when he needed to help pain for just surviving
at that point was a great shot in the arm just to help revive us incur
Palace catch our breath within the quarter I did find a job right
word doing that help bring back some money
I actually found a place thing in December
but if it wasn't for the financial aid and scholarships do it
yeah there's there was no way to make it happen
even though it's hard right now in the yard living
time by time do it's so
worth I can see the future I know what I'm capable
I know the capacity that I can poll as a leader
as the following and so
the hope that a a college degree brings to me is the fact that it
it allows me to connect the two understanding that I wanted to come here
I'm able to be here inside I'm smart dumbstruck
the amazing thing is I see now that as I missed him here
I was so of that the possibilities are even higher
her so much more than I did was even disappearing
because I only have this narrow view of what
the hospitality industry was or where my role was with the hospitality industry
this future that is confronting us know
far better than any future that we have
that's took it from there