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Berlin your gamut again from the South Bay Adult School just one I'm sure that many of you star and credible graduation I need a Saturday and we got a lot of things to come. We're so proud of but here for you today we have three Jacks and thank you so much for joining us and if you saw that video you know he was our kitchen speaker it was incredible speech and thank you for come with me today thank you for you know you know I just need to do this with you guys while it's our pleasure it's the great having you here I want to talk to a little bit more some of the things that you delved into in your speech what was really seems like your motivations for coming to school evolved over time can you talk a little bit about really what was driving you and and what really drives you to bring the whole process home okay well first you started off where I left school high school early because of Mike The Situation and environment and so I went to work and I started working and I thought that you know money was the the big to fix the big picture for me to do in my life for that moment and so I started working for years and years and I started to you know I guess feel less happy where I'm at in my life so I started to say why I need to go back to school so I started to go to different adult schools and stuff like that and then you know I never really worked out and so when happens you know I guess I gave up again you can say and I just went back working again and one day I moved back to LA and I have two jobs and someone told me that like I had an accident with a family member basically ended sadly and it motivated me because life is short and I want to achieve my goals and make sure I don't have any regrets in my life so that's when I found you guys at school and I came here the first time and I was still working and so what happened was, was not used to the way you guys work with the program and everything like that and I guess I was falling short on you know completing my assignments on time and stuff like that so then so I had to go through all this stuff you know so now I'm back to work only again and doing the same situation you know it's not happy with my life or whatever and so then I called meic sign up again with you guys Brett called me and was like what we can get you a name do you know but she has to be serious you have to let you know you got to pull through cuz you have a lot of work to do and your reps luminar are counselor text Lisa Coleman he actually pushed me to continue and saying like you know this is something that could be big you know in your life taken to achieve your goal call I when I he said I can come back basic I was in a situation where I didn't have a secure place to live and my mother you know my biggest supporter she was like you know I'm going to help you and she was like you can stop working till I don't worry about it I'll take care of you and so some therefore I mean but you don't answer that she would I drop me off at school I'll be literally a school from Day 2 closing and I used to do that every single day I never seen today I always worked on one with the teacher if I need to help so basically for it was from this appointment and Miss Bossman to English teacher or teacher I probably would have gave up the game because the fact that I have so much work to do I never thought it was possible but for them to actually work with me and you know just give me a schedule and stuff like that too basically help me achieve that goal which I did under set a mount of time with is amazing because I didn't think that it was possible for me to do that so now in the song we done black SOS feels like a weight you know not everything but just wait pulled off my shoulders now I feel more relaxed because I can continue to go on in my future and do whatever I feel like I need to do work what are you thinking for that it what it what do you think's next both like academically professionally where where's your mindset around that right now is I am going to go you know Community College I want to study cinematography also I wanted to do business as well but mostly I think it's going to be like in the entertainment business and maybe like the junior producer or something like that so as of right now what's going on you know it's on hold but as soon as everything comes back together here that's the goal that I want to do for my next step let's let's say you were talking to someone who was kind of in that same space it sounds like we're where were you where there were a few things that you just needed you know to you he had to make some changes in your life really heal after this is a goal what do you say to people who might be out there and you know who are sitting on the fence or not sure how do you talk to them when you when you run into them okay so this is the one thing someone told me this it always stick with me because it's so true living in this world they told me they said that the scariest thing is the scariest thing possibly fear is failure and they said that failure is a part of life you know and that we are going to fail doesn't mean that you should give up so they told me that if you want something do it and it's a cell play something else you know is it's never too late to pursue your dreams and your goals and that spelling isn't a part of life that you should never give up because anything happen to your life the only thing that stopping you is from not doing you know this to do it doing it is what makes it possible you know don't worry about everything else that's just your conscious in your mind psyching you out for doing something that you can actually achieve so I just want to tell people that if you feel like if it's not possible for you to do it that's not true anything is really possible if you just do yeah I would totally agree I believe I think was Jordan who made the who had the quote like I I never made a hundred percent of the shots that I never took well thank you so much I appreciate you giving us your time today and and just forever what is out there it's still going on we're going to we're going to have more high school diploma hopefully we're going to open up having some GED testing as well a lot of opportunities here so treat thank you so much for your time we will We wish you as all the best of luck and in everything that you're doing in the future and I have no doubt no doubt that there's nothing but success that lies in front of you so thank you so much we appreciate it thank you guys to for this program as well thank you and tell if you out there thank you so much we'll be talking to you again soon bye-bye

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