 My name is Aurelio Rosas. I was born in Eagle Pass, Texas, then moved to Crystal City, Texas where I eventually graduated from high school. I'm the second youngest from my family. There are no graduates in my family. I'm the only one that graduated from high school and from college. So I worked as a CNA for about three years in Texas and then I was going through life. I was going through divorce. I just wanted a different change in life. So I moved up here shortly after my kids moved up here too and ex-wife came up here also. So she had family here so we went 50-50 custody. Then I wanted to just further my education. I wanted to get a degree, get something and even if it meant a certificate. So I looked into Moraine Park and they had a lot of options. The first thing I just popped into mine was the medical assistant program. So I won't lie. At first it was kind of a, I don't know, I was scared because it's a non-traditional field and I was the only male in that class when I first started. So I didn't know if I had it in me since it had been almost 13 years since I graduated high school. But it came to find out that I still had it in me and Moraine Park brought the best out of me. Like halfway through my, actually it was only one more semester that I needed to graduate for my medical assistant. My brother passed away. He passed away, you know, drugs and I wanted to quit everything. I didn't want to do anything anymore. You know we had a place together. We had lost a place. I was homeless for a while. I lived in my car for a while. I then had to travel from Milwaukee to Beaver Dam every day that I had a class and if it wasn't for Moraine Park that the counselor Carla, she, you know, set me up with some sources that will pay for my gas mileage reimbursement. So that really helped me a lot. Got me through that semester. Juggle work, school, kids, homework, and then life. It was kind of a struggle. All I had to do was just utilize the sources that I had here because there's people that help you out. You just got to reach out. Some people are scared of saying, you know, asking for help or not taking that first step to ask for help. But once I did that, you know, things were a little bit easier and also like, you know, filling out financial aid and stuff like that. My advisor was real helpful to me. So I did that. The library was also real helpful. Well, the impact, I've already seen it a little bit. You know, like since I've been through all that homeless and all that, I have my own place now. I have a bigger place than I ever had before. I'm never in a million years that I imagine myself. I'll be here never, never. I never thought that I was going to get this far. Moraine Park has brought me this far. So right now I work at a community pediatrics. It's here in Beaver Dam. I work with kids. All the skills that I've learned here, I use them there, especially my God-given skills that I can speak Spanish. So I can translate a lot for a lot of patients. We do have a lot of Hispanic patients in our community. My goal is to be an RN. That's what I'm striving for. Eventually I hope I'll get there and be in Mel. I can, I hope other Mel guys see, you know what, we can be there. We can be there. So even, I've been through all this in life, you can still do it. I mean, it doesn't, don't let one little set back, you know, set you back for the rest of your life. If you don't go forward and try to strive for what you really want in life, then you will regret it for the rest of your life. You know, what can I say? Moraine Park was my saving grace. I honestly, that's what I can say. Without it, I don't know where I would be here. I, you know, I, I don't know where I would be. I mean, I would probably be still in Texas working in a pecan orchard where I was working once and, you know, or something else. I mean, but here I, you know, I feel like I'm giving back to the community, working for the community and staying in the community. So