Evaristo Salas Jr.
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Then you realize they're all bad.
So, but yeah, it's been, the college life has been, I like it.
Today, I actually went to their library for the first time, which was amazingly big library.
Had my little school ID card, pulled it out, checked out a book.
It's strange because I'm so used to, this is one of the strange things that I'm getting used to out here, being out in the free world is,
In those places like the college, everybody's so nice, so willing to help you.
In prison, you ask anything to an officer and they have an attitude, what do you want this?
It's always this kind of, you know, like there's this pushback.
And here, everybody's just so willing to, oh yeah, no problem, got you, what do you need?
And, but they're there for that.
But at the same time, it's a strange, you know, kind of a strange thing.
And then also the second thing I think for me, going back to Sunnyside, the place I grew up, is that everybody pretty much heard about it.
So people are stopping me constantly.
But even just getting used to being able, just being looked at in a certain way different than what it was there.
And there, there was always kind of a, like a barrier that they seen before they seen you or a mask that would kind of, you would feel it and you couldn't have a conversation.
It was always, you know, you're there, you're here.