well my grandparents, my grandmother had
in eighth grade education and left
school and my grandfather although he
completed high school and started
college ended up having to leave to
start a family and to enter work and
support his parents so education always
been a value that my family's held
but it's not been something that folks have been
able to achieve I feel proud because
being the first of series of 10 cousins
I was the first one to get into college
and graduate and then a lot of other
folks followed not necessarily in my
footsteps but but I think that made our
grandparents and our parents really
proud and it kind of paved the way for
the next generation of nieces and
nephews
and kids to see how much higher
education could add to their lives and to really value all
that and it it's hard to you know so
many years ago I also I'm proud of the
fact that it was really scary
and because there's so many unknowns
about that and then to know wake up each
day and go to class to fight not always
in like you put in or not always feel
like make it or not sure how things are
at home and its a lot on your shoulders and it's just nice to know
that when one first generation makes it that
they're paving the way for others to
know that they can do it too.
