never giving up. having great teachers. by that i mean, you know, my parents were great teachers. right? i always say parents are the most important teachers. and i really mean that. i had in my life as a 4-year-old i was afraid of, you know, going back and they told me i was going to be okay and i trusted them and they were right. i continued. i went back and then i fell in love with education. i fell in love with serving others. i imagine over the course of that life and that career you have learned how to do a lot of code switching. what has that looked like for you? it s interesting. not only code switching with language and code switching is a term i think anna salas coined that. code switching. where you go from one language to another but i always say i m the same person from the barrio to the briefing room.