 Good evening everybody. I hope everyone is enjoying their night Excellent. Okay. My name is Osman Cabre and I'm from Madison College so tonight I'm here on behalf of over 40,000 students at Madison College and Madison College really Wasn't really my first choice when I came to the United States Because two years ago I graduated from high school and I really wanted to study in the United States But my desire to study in the United States did not really start it two years ago Since I was back in high school. I really wanted to study in the United States Not only because of the great education people really talk about but also those great connections I would really make in the United States. So back in high school I started my own business and started saving money to come to the United States And my business was waking up in the morning in on 4 a.m biking to the bakery ordering bread and delivering from house to house and On my delivery route I met wonderful people and those people really helped me create my start my own restaurant my small restaurant in my country and I was still saving money to come to the United States because that was my main goal studying in the United States or not And even though I was still making my saving money by running my small business So I couldn't really afford to study in the United States because West Africa man You're gonna be having a lot of money And all my friends were saying okay, man, you are from a low-income family Why would you really think great about studying in the United States? And I say okay This is my determination to study in the United States and I will make it happen and since I have my small business I Met a wonderful woman. I was really delivering bread from house to house to her place for five years and I tell her my story and she Saw my determination my motivation my follow through to achieve my goals in the United States so she decided to invest in my education and She's not here tonight, but I'm really grateful to her. I always think This is her name and anywhere I go I really tell her that I'm really happy that she invested in my education, but anyway, I came here last year. I Spend four months studying English because I'm from West Africa and we only speak French as the first language I I spent four months studying English and then I transferred to Madison College Why Madison College because prior to that since I'm from a low-income family I did some research and I know that I can go to a technical college Get my two-year transfer program my general education done and then transfer to for your college where I can get my accounting and finance degree and after that get my CPA and Sometimes people ask me hey, Usman, when you get your CPA, what you what will you do? Will you stay in here is it as many people do I said no cause if I come to the United States Someone helped me and I would love to go back in my country and help my community really improve and help people in my country and When I graduated here from UW Whitewater, this is what I'm going to transfer to UW Whitewater And I will get my accounting degree I will stay in the United States for two years or three to get some experience about my field and Then go back to my country to help to help those people down there who are waiting for me because I always remember that a wonderful phrase of Albert Einstein who was the Nobel Prize in physics in 1921 who says that Only a life Live in the service of others is worth living Thank you everyone for coming here tonight and thank you Robert W Better for sponsoring this event. Thank you