information and h first came here because i was sponsored with the catholic church i was more closely tied to that church which is and i you know and there were other programs at school that like after school tutoring program or the recent sixty programs and stuff like that that are like oh i don't why won't know that it is or you know i'm not quite sure what it is and it was nothing that you would find like i would see back home or anything but i allowed myself to explore that curiosity you know usually when we see things that were unfamiliar with we stay away from them  oh i don't know what that is you know it's it's easier to do the things that we know it's easier to stick with the people that are like us because we're afraid of of those that may be different we're afraid of being a new environment it can be scary but i've learned very early on that exposing yourself to new things like you know try and some that you've never had before or you know going to a place or doing something that you've never done before those new experiences will make you a better person because you'll be able to get along with people outside of your immediate environment like you'll always be able to relate ethiopians because you're ethiopian but there are other people in this world who are not ethiopian but you're going to have to work with that you're going to go to school with that you're going to work on projects with and in order to learn how to get along with everyone and even the people who don't have the same background as you you have to expose yourself to new things so that's why i think that new experiences and diversity is important because it will make you a better person you know so when i first came here i didn't speak very much english so if people were treating me differently or i you know i really couldn't tell and i remember in middle school i went to a public school and i thought i had the sink i wear the same clothes every day because i thought every school had a uniform but other kids would make fun of me for wearing the same clothes every day but i didn't i didn't let that they didn't think it bothered me very much you know it's normal when you're in school for people to make fun of you know to make fun of you for certain things or maybe the way you look or or the way you dress but all of it is is very short lived you know and in a couple years you forget all about that and you never remember you know those feelings or anything but i i was more i was more engaged in like those new experiences that i talked about like going to places i've never been or eating things that i never been and i i focus all of my time child i am because i came here very young age it was easy for me to learn how to you know to to get away from having the next and to be able to practice writing and learn  think that i speak on behalf of everyone they say it's a wonderful place to be and it's wonderful to have a community center that works and it cares about you because that makes all the difference in your life you know in pursuing your education and pursuing your dream you'll find out how certain skills like having a support system having time management skills being able to like study and dividing your time with with studying and with volunteering and how all of those will play such a huge difference into the type of educational experience you have so i said the computer science engineering a lot of my you know the time that i spend college was spent studying i didn't really have a lot of leisure time or free time to do anything other than that but it was the best choice for me to invest two years studying because now you know years after that i am in a place where i have the training i have the knowledge and i and i 'm a lot more competitive candidate for other jobs or or for other opportunities you know so invest the time in education now and it will pay off i know that can be hard because you want to hang out with friends or are studying can be hard but nothing that is worth having will come easy so it's about investing the time and energy and effort and allowing it to to pay off later on in your life where you can appreciate it and you can enjoy it so time management studying and taking advantage of like a community center a lot of other kids don't have this you know there are there are other kids that are you the your age who were born the same day that you were but are in very different places they don't have a family that loves them or they don't have you know the shelter or the support that you do so appreciate that and take advantage of it use it to enable you to succeed use it to enable you to compost all the things that you want in life because they're great resources like you said like being able to speak to people is the most important to be able to lead them you know if you if you if people can receive your message if they understand what you're saying then you'll be able to inspire them and you know like you said encourage them to do great things and that's one of the traits of a great leader is to be able to speak with poise to speak clearly speak with confidence and that's also should be reflected in your writing and reading skills  take and i'm here to help translate and help get more people tested for hepatitis b we were here today at eleven and we got multiple people tested for hepatitis b and they throw pinkney is not aware of th imp health implications appetite is b can have so it's very important to make our me more aware by getting them tested i'm a program assistant with the hepatitis b coalition of washington state and i'm here today helping out with the community screening and this is the first one i've been in and i think that is really great that we got members of the ethiopian community to come out and get tested and then from there we hope that people that need vaccination will get it and we're able to get them that free of charge too so we really appreciate our volunteers that it works so hard to help us translate and also do outreach on this event as well so we hope to have more in the future so the next steps will be reporting back to people on their hepatitis b status and then after that connecting them to vaccination for hepatitis b or treatment depending on their status is known as a silent killer because you can not be aware that you're carrying disease because the symptoms don't show up for years and years and years and often by the time you are actually diagnosed with hepatitis c it's too late and if you were diagnosed earlier you could have maybe taken time to get treatment and save yourself the implication that can come forth if you have any other questions or want to know more resources about hepatitis b you can go to the hepatitis b coalition in washington state more on the web as well so we can help connect you and also the education project as well as another great place for resources and we also have information brochures education materials available in many languages including on harvick as well if you guys go to  available and so there's lots of great information in them so please contact us if you'd like some of them we do send them out for free and i say lin hello my name is michael and i'm of the right tech program and over here we are to memoir t i building learning how to use cameras set them up and how to develop our skills and making skywriters s and with these skills we've attained berkin to try to document the history of yes we've interviewed a couple of people and for some dating back into the nineteen set them up we've made sure how to use the audio how what was the best conditions into taking the video clip and there's about in this in this building we have around ten people close to ten people and some more experienced and this program lasts about six weeks and it's a paid it's a paid for graham and for the people watching if you have any idea or want to be interviewed and want to share what you have to say you can come up to us sometime tacked us and we will give out your in a better relationship le