So I would spend a lot of my summers checking out books.
And the best part about that is just having access to reading.
I grew up loving to read, but also it was just something that
my mom was able to use as a way to learn English and to keep us
entertained.
And we didn't have like streaming services and stuff,
you know?
So books were the way that she kind of kept us entertained,
taught us to read and write, but also helped herself read and
write in English.
I'd always wanted to spend all my time at a library or like at
a bookstore.
But growing up, I didn't like, somehow I never felt like, oh,
you can work at a library.
And then I happened to find a job at the branch that I grew up
attending.
During my time at the Jacinto City Branch library, I was
mostly doing circulation.
And it was a different thing like, oh, this is how you check
out books.
I want to do more.
And so that's when I started doing like ESL and I wanted to
teach literature and I wanted to teach language.
And so I got to teach a lot of adults conversation classes
there.
But then I was promoted and then I came back to the Galena Park
Ranch library and here I started taking citizen teaching
citizenship classes.
And the, the best part about that was my first student was my
mom.
She was like the first person that signed up for my class.
And it was.
There's a lot of fun.