WEBVTT 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:07.146 Okay, Okay. Okay. Yeah. Use your car. At that time I get my car and it 00:00:07.179 --> 00:00:14.097 was four crown victoria. Yeah. I was excited to hear with my uh my friends 00:00:14.130 --> 00:00:18.857 and my cousins, they live in Sioux Falls South Dakota, you know? And I 00:00:18.890 --> 00:00:24.087 live in the small town of Washington Minnesota as close to it's like an 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:30.127 hour and 15 minutes hour and 50 minutes, something like that. Then I don't 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:35.207 know from there. It was the first time in november when there's no camp, 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:38.116 that was just know at that time and the first time you had a drive in the 00:00:38.149 --> 00:00:43.626 first time I had to drive on the freeway, you know? So when I, when I was 00:00:43.659 --> 00:00:48.707 on the road, I had a cousin of mine, he's driving his own car, he was in 00:00:48.740 --> 00:00:52.737 front of me. So he knew what you've been there for like a year or 00:00:52.770 --> 00:00:57.976 something. He came in 1994. So he had a car. He grew up in this. No, he 00:00:58.009 --> 00:01:04.477 knew exactly what he was doing. So I didn't know. So from the, from the 00:01:04.510 --> 00:01:09.637 town of Washington, there were news now at that time it was raining and 00:01:09.670 --> 00:01:17.227 then when we get to myself, time now the rain start getting into snow area 00:01:17.260 --> 00:01:22.956 , you know, that was a truck, you know, like a moment truck, we're taking 00:01:22.989 --> 00:01:30.989 this No away from the road, you know, um my, my cousin, you know, yes, 00:01:32.409 --> 00:01:36.837 pattern that, that, that's what already happened. And then I was trying to 00:01:36.870 --> 00:01:42.296 pass the truck the same way with the speech. Yeah, but that was speeding 00:01:42.329 --> 00:01:50.329 up and then now I lost control. Mhm. So I spin around and then I came to 00:01:50.950 --> 00:01:58.357 sign, you know by the side of the road I had to sign with my with my car. 00:01:58.390 --> 00:02:03.936 You were okay? I was okay then my car now was total. You know, I just 00:02:03.969 --> 00:02:08.506 heard it. I bought it like two days ago 00:02:08.539 --> 00:02:15.126 and then now I start getting a problem, you know? So this is when when I 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:21.006 first drove and this is when I first get into trouble. And then uh I went 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:26.987 because I was working with the meat factory in uh in Washington, right? It 00:02:27.020 --> 00:02:32.906 was they call their man for at that time three, but they send it to be a 00:02:32.939 --> 00:02:39.057 sweeping company. Okay? Like the L. B. P. Yeah, so I went to I went there 00:02:39.090 --> 00:02:43.256 , I went I went to super bowls because my cousin turned around and came 00:02:43.289 --> 00:02:48.577 and he took me with him. You know because my car was too, you know. So the 00:02:48.610 --> 00:02:52.957 funny thing was while I worked in Washington Minister. I didn't know when 00:02:52.990 --> 00:02:58.867 you when you miss what? You had a car call in sick calling to let the 00:02:58.900 --> 00:03:05.636 people know that you're not going to show up for the work. Okay, 00:03:05.669 --> 00:03:12.247 sit down. Things are getting complicated. It was really complicated. So 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:19.707 whatever it was, I'm staying super focused, you know for the weekend and 00:03:19.740 --> 00:03:25.047 then monday nobody took me back to work. Then I didn't call, no call, no 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:30.596 show and the Tuesday nobody, nobody took me there. No call, no show. And 00:03:30.629 --> 00:03:35.737 then Wednesday nobody. And then thursday I get somebody, then somebody 00:03:35.770 --> 00:03:43.707 took me on thursday and then friday morning I went to work, I didn't 00:03:43.740 --> 00:03:50.196 affect him. You know that I did not call for three or four days and I was 00:03:50.229 --> 00:03:58.229 expecting to still having my job. So what I did was I went in there and I 00:03:59.259 --> 00:04:05.636 went to the locker area so I send myself I put my gear trying to get in 00:04:05.669 --> 00:04:12.186 there and when I get to the line, you know the supervisor called me and 00:04:12.219 --> 00:04:20.219 say with you, come here say okay, I want you to know office say okay, I 00:04:20.850 --> 00:04:25.416 didn't even know anything. So he took me to the office. You know, he had 00:04:25.449 --> 00:04:31.777 me a check. That was my last year. You say you were fired? Why? What did I 00:04:31.810 --> 00:04:39.486 do say? Uhh You did not call for three or 4 days. And the rule is if you 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:46.476 didn't call no call, no show. So you voluntarily quit your job. So you 00:04:46.509 --> 00:04:51.507 don't have to be here. So now you can go back to the locker room and turn 00:04:51.540 --> 00:04:57.277 yourself to your regular clothes and go home. This is your last year. Say 00:04:57.310 --> 00:05:02.587 man, look I just came back just came from africa, you know I didn't even 00:05:02.620 --> 00:05:07.746 know about anything. This is my front job. I didn't know that I had a call. 00:05:07.779 --> 00:05:13.306 So how can I call? You know what number do I have to call? I don't even 00:05:13.339 --> 00:05:19.517 know the number of human this number. He said okay when you were hired you 00:05:19.550 --> 00:05:23.176 have all the paperwork. Do you have it? I say yeah I have it in the house. 00:05:23.209 --> 00:05:27.986 Do you look at it? There's a number there to call. You know if you miss 00:05:28.019 --> 00:05:32.096 you with your you call and say okay this is all I can tell you. This is my 00:05:32.129 --> 00:05:37.116 first job. I don't even know it. I don't know anything about calling the 00:05:37.149 --> 00:05:40.606 job or doing anything. Did he give you a chance? So either not give me a 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:45.327 chance to give you a chance. You never gave me a chance. Then I left. I 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:51.246 took my last year and then I went back home and I thought about what to do. 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:55.356 And then I went back I find somebody to tell me back to some parts of the 00:05:55.389 --> 00:06:00.707 code. And then I went and stay in the support of the quota for like uh two 00:06:00.740 --> 00:06:06.556 months, no job to three months, no job because trying to find a job trying 00:06:06.589 --> 00:06:11.077 to find a job. So I tried to go to another meat factory that I are in a 00:06:11.110 --> 00:06:15.846 lot of social media people. So they didn't want me because of my last job. 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:20.147 The way I left my last job they now keeping me like oh we will call you 00:06:20.180 --> 00:06:26.147 back. So another lady who worked with her every day camp from Salt Lake 00:06:26.180 --> 00:06:33.416 City. She went there. Uh huh. Her name is john park. She worked with the 00:06:33.449 --> 00:06:38.767 refugee. He said now you cannot find it then I can take you to school. We 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:44.577 need to go to school. Yeah, I need to go to school. But and I don't want 00:06:44.610 --> 00:06:48.906 to go to school right now because I need to support my family. You know 00:06:48.939 --> 00:06:53.416 the county's you keep telling me, you know, I can give you a ticket so I 00:06:53.449 --> 00:06:58.286 will take you to school. So let's see and then you can go and get your 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:01.306 high school diploma. 00:07:01.339 --> 00:07:06.536 Uh huh. Think for yourself. Okay. And then it seemed like a good idea. But 00:07:06.569 --> 00:07:11.356 I was thinking another way like if I go to school now who's going to take 00:07:11.389 --> 00:07:16.697 care of my family? I'm like okay. I would I would think about it. So I 00:07:16.730 --> 00:07:23.197 didn't take that chance. So what I did was I looked for a job I worked 00:07:23.230 --> 00:07:31.230 with with the milk, milk, milk milk company land only 00:07:32.029 --> 00:07:37.527 landing legs. So I worked for them. A temporary agency will be there. So I 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:43.087 worked with them for like 3, 5 months. And then later I get another time 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:51.120 get alone by what was your second car. Okay, 00:07:53.040 --> 00:08:01.040 now I move from Super bowl to haul monographs. Omaha Nebraska. Okay. And 00:08:01.500 --> 00:08:09.156 then I was the first person who comes to meet at get there call it. It's a 00:08:09.189 --> 00:08:16.656 sweep and company. I think it's a mhm I think they have a name now, you 00:08:16.689 --> 00:08:19.976 know at that time they have a different name. Okay. You know in the meat 00:08:20.009 --> 00:08:26.106 factory, it's set in the concept of love. I o okay. But it's close to uh 00:08:26.139 --> 00:08:29.937 close to uh or monographs. Why did you, how did you know to move to Omaha 00:08:29.970 --> 00:08:34.177 ? Did you have people you knew there? There was a guy there that came from 00:08:34.210 --> 00:08:41.726 Ethiopia to Omaha Nebraska. He was the only guy that lived in Nebraska. He 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:46.557 came he drove from Omaha Nebraska, Sioux falls South Dakota. And then now 00:08:46.590 --> 00:08:51.087 you want me to help him drive them back home then I drove him home there 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:55.106 and he advised me if you come here you can work at the meat factory right 00:08:55.139 --> 00:09:00.006 here. So the meat factory at that time were the only factory that you can 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:04.417 work and make good money you know, compared to the all the jobs that you 00:09:04.450 --> 00:09:10.407 do. You know? Because uh The minimum pay at that time was like $7.06 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:17.807 Mm You know by the media hurricane start you at eight at 8 25 08 25 was 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:23.626 really good money at that time. You know. So he let me move to his house. 00:09:23.659 --> 00:09:27.967 So I moved to his house and then you know he took me to the meat factory. 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:35.276 Uh never asked a deep uh then I worked there for yeah for a third time and 00:09:35.309 --> 00:09:39.567 then I moved back to super. So they could uh john morrow and company with 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:44.927 a huge meat factor, you know. So I went back there and then they hire me 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:50.447 now. Okay, now I have the experience from Nebraska. So they hired me that 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:58.480 I worked there and then uh It was until 1999. So in 1999 and now I got 00:09:59.649 --> 00:10:04.587 while I worked with the meat factory when I started going to college. Okay. 00:10:04.620 --> 00:10:11.006 Yeah, so I started going to college there at Kelly in Community College 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:17.157 because I do not have my high school diploma with me. Um What I did was I 00:10:17.190 --> 00:10:22.697 took the test, I took the test and I get a buddhist called and then now 00:10:22.730 --> 00:10:28.606 they rolled into the regular classes. So I started taking regular glasses. 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:35.657 Well that's great. There was in 1999. So it was 2000 and 2001. I engaged 00:10:35.690 --> 00:10:42.996 one of my my wife now she's my wife now. So I engaged her back home. Oh 00:10:43.029 --> 00:10:49.427 back home, back home in Africa and then in 2001 she came okay, so when you 00:10:49.460 --> 00:10:56.307 left, you had her there. Yeah, she was actually a sister or my best friend 00:10:56.340 --> 00:11:02.657 , best friend that went a long way with me with all the things that got 00:11:02.690 --> 00:11:08.427 the taxi and took her. Yes, her sister. Yeah, that is his sister because 00:11:08.460 --> 00:11:14.947 we're not blood related, you know we are closely related friend. So after 00:11:14.980 --> 00:11:21.596 I came here ah I thought about having a family now it's starting town and 00:11:21.629 --> 00:11:25.276 then we'll talk about it and then you know I told him because he's a 00:11:25.309 --> 00:11:30.087 wounded person that I tell my secret. I 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:34.687 like your sister. Yeah so she's like my sister you know I don't look at 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:42.720 her like she's gonna be my wife or something. But when we talk you know we 00:11:42.899 --> 00:11:48.307 come to convince ourselves that you know look we are we are best friends. 00:11:48.340 --> 00:11:55.067 And if you marry you marry one of our sister you don't look at her sister. 00:11:55.100 --> 00:12:01.236 She's actually your sister. But you're not blood related. So you can you 00:12:01.269 --> 00:12:05.787 can legally marriage you know. So I thought about it then you know I 00:12:05.820 --> 00:12:09.917 decided to America you know I engage her and then she came and when she 00:12:09.950 --> 00:12:16.516 came to came to Dallas uh Mhm. Dollars taxes. And then you were you were 00:12:16.549 --> 00:12:22.807 and I went in super close. So her brother was in san Diego California. 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:29.717 Okay so the brother went now to get to get together a sister. Huh? And 00:12:29.750 --> 00:12:36.646 then and then to California. Okay so 2001. I moved from so far to san 00:12:36.679 --> 00:12:43.327 Diego to meet her to join with her. And then now our celebration was made 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:47.407 in july in june 2001. 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:52.136 Yeah so now we were joined together and then we become husband and wife. 00:12:52.169 --> 00:13:00.169 Okay and then we've been married 16 years. Yeah he looks too young. Too 00:13:00.210 --> 00:13:02.396 young. 00:13:02.429 --> 00:13:10.429 How many Children we have for our Children? We have our older one is 1414 00:13:12.059 --> 00:13:17.006 and eight year old. And then I have five years old boy And then I have 00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:23.807 four and four years old girl. Okay. three girls. One boy. Okay. So do they 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:27.407 ever tell you I don't want to go to school And do you have to remind them 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:32.626 I had to remind them to school and I remind them about my story you know 00:13:32.659 --> 00:13:40.659 so let me finish a little bit so that uh in 2001 when I moved to uh 00:13:40.740 --> 00:13:47.496 san Diego California. So I didn't go to school and to 2003. Okay 2003 00:13:47.529 --> 00:13:52.177 because I was settling you know I was just recently married so I wanted to 00:13:52.210 --> 00:13:57.207 settle my home and You know I worked I worked really I work full time and 00:13:57.240 --> 00:14:02.547 I work really long hours sometimes I work 16 hours yes for making sure you 00:14:02.580 --> 00:14:08.266 know I have enough for it for the family For my new watch. Yeah. And then 00:14:08.299 --> 00:14:13.736 in 2003 I started going to community college again. So I presume it. So I 00:14:13.769 --> 00:14:17.896 went back to community college 2005 I grew up here with us and she did 00:14:17.929 --> 00:14:25.146 That's winter in statistics in a criminal justice justice. Yes and then in 00:14:25.179 --> 00:14:32.827 2006 I roll again National University in San Diego And then I graduated in 00:14:32.860 --> 00:14:38.297 2008. Wonderful. Where the vegetable degree in criminal justice too and 00:14:38.330 --> 00:14:46.330 then I do it again there. So 2010 I had my five months degree in a in a 00:14:46.419 --> 00:14:51.606 criminal justice university of phoenix. I'm wonderful, wonderful. And then 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:59.116 uhh In 2010 I got a job you know I got a job offer with the state of 00:14:59.149 --> 00:15:04.937 Arizona you know the child protective services express of us. So I moved 00:15:04.970 --> 00:15:12.067 from san Diego with my family here with my my two Children at that time 00:15:12.100 --> 00:15:17.417 and then my two youngest Children with my wife we move over here and we 00:15:17.450 --> 00:15:24.476 settled down and out again is on and then I worked with Cps cps. Yes so I 00:15:24.509 --> 00:15:31.616 started working with CBS and In in a February Development 10. Wonderful. I 00:15:31.649 --> 00:15:38.876 worked there with CPS until 2015. Yes. Uh so now I have two more Children 00:15:38.909 --> 00:15:45.856 that I have. Yes. Yeah and where do you work now? So now I work with that 00:15:45.889 --> 00:15:52.297 in therapy. I am says you're working Wonderful what a rewarding. So you've 00:15:52.330 --> 00:15:58.417 been helping people since. Yeah. So not only not only that the degree that 00:15:58.450 --> 00:16:05.907 I got in 2000 and 15 I roll again with 00:16:05.940 --> 00:16:10.707 with the law school. So I went back for a second master's 00:16:10.740 --> 00:16:17.457 degree. Get a lot of, I went to Loyola university in Chicago. Uh I was 00:16:17.490 --> 00:16:22.526 enrolled there and I get a second master degree in jurisprudence. So now I 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:30.559 have to muscle disease. Wonderful. Wonderful. Yeah. Uh What a story. Huh. 00:16:31.250 --> 00:16:36.447 Did you ever think that would happen? You know sometimes when I look back 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:41.366 to my story you know I knew this is a great chance and a great life 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:46.886 because I wasn't affecting to be to come that far. We're educational you 00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:51.667 know. Um Too hard to master degree. It's not that easy You know with 00:16:51.700 --> 00:16:58.850 somebody that started a. b. c. d. when when he's only 15 you know. Yeah. 00:16:59.230 --> 00:17:01.230 Compared to the Children that that is time the education and their younger 00:17:04.500 --> 00:17:08.256 is and then now they don't want to go to school and don't want to hunt to 00:17:08.289 --> 00:17:14.306 be that they preserved her you know I think this is a great chance and I'm 00:17:14.339 --> 00:17:19.177 really afraid to myself and my family to my father, he's really proud of 00:17:19.210 --> 00:17:26.167 me all the time. Still there, it's still too old. But now he knew that you 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:31.976 know my coming here with not with not just a miracle to him you know it 00:17:32.009 --> 00:17:36.467 was it was something really really good and he gave his cows to education. 00:17:36.500 --> 00:17:40.607 That's right. So I just would feel his dream because he gave me the cow. 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:46.167 Two cows That itself for me for my education. Yes. Have you gone back to 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:52.556 Africa? I went back in 2005. Uh huh. And how was that? I didn't make it to 00:17:52.589 --> 00:17:58.556 the village? I was trying to make it really hard to go back to a cover but 00:17:58.589 --> 00:18:05.467 it was too hard. But at that time there was no air strip to go to go to my 00:18:05.500 --> 00:18:11.650 village because I went at the christmas time during all the DC.