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<v ->Without Internet Essentials</v>

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I probably wouldn't be where I am now.

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Along with reading,

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I found something I'm really passionate about, architecture.

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Internet Essentials just really helped me like,

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research the different kinds of houses.

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It's really what I wanna study in college.

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<v ->The amount of work that we get done on a day like today,</v>

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with 300 volunteers, could take us weeks to do.

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So it really kick starts the work that we're doing.

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<v ->We were down in Miami with Hurricane Irma,</v>

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and the efforts that they were putting on

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for the people down there, it was unbelievable.

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And yet you just never know

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if it's gonna be your own community,

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your own family members or one of us that you work for.

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<v ->City Year showed me that if something doesn't exist,</v>

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you can go out there and build that other way.

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I was very empowered.

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<v ->I don't think that either one us</v>

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would be the same as we are today without each other.

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So when I speak to people about Big Brothers and Sisters,

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I say they invest the time to get to know you,

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they invest the time to get to know the match.

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They really do spend time

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figuring out how to properly get people together.

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<v ->But I had my fingers crossed and I heard my name,</v>

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and at first I didn't believe it,

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and I just, I was really stoked.

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It showed me that like I can become something great

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if I put my effort into it.

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<v ->All of us working together</v>

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to create a better tomorrow.

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