Dulce Sloan
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And so I started taking Spanish every day in school from fourth grade to about like fourth, half of fourth grade to half of sixth grade.
And I picked it up super quickly.
And then so by the time we moved back to Atlanta for like the second semester of sixth grade, I'd already had like a working understanding of it.
And then I didn't take another Spanish class until 10th grade.
But I was already kind of fluent, I guess.
And then I took it through high school and then I took it in college.
By the time I got to college, I tested out of like Spanish 101.
And then I think I missed testing out of Spanish 102 by like three questions.
And then all our neighbors in Norcross, it was three questions.
I was like, you didn't have to tell me that.
That was annoyed, too.
I was like, wait a minute.
But like growing up in Norcross, yeah.
Cause we were on like the singles and roadside of Norcross.
So I used to help my, and then we lived in a predominantly like first generation Mexican neighborhood, Mexican El Salvadorian.
And so I would like help my neighbors register their kids for school.
One of them, I helped her get her health insurance from her job.
Her husband had a DUI and explained that.
So this was like, and she was like, and I had my Spanish like dictionary and she was like,