Evaristo Salas Jr.

I didn't know what to expect.

I kind of felt... Because you play up, you know...

what it's going to be like when you get out.

Sometimes, you know, you get a little too, where it's, oh, it's going to be glorious.

Another time you get like, oh, it's going to be too hard.

You kind of go back and forth, but then when you get out there and you start to, you know, in these kind of, like this job setting when you go out there, the shock of it, you know, you feel that first day, you know, or week or two weeks, and then you remember, your mind remembers what it felt like to be kind of in a community or to be in a neighborhood, to see cars, you know, to be, you know, kind of the fast pace.

I mean, there's,

There's a lot of things that are different, but they're small differences.

You know, the cars look different.

Electric vehicles that are really strange to me.

They got electric power stations, which I've never seen before.

People on their phones, that kind of stuff.

No pay phones anywhere, because that's what they used to be everywhere.

The store names are different besides the large brand ones.

But other than that, I mean, it was... You know, I thought I was going to have a lot more anxiety when I went out the first couple of times.

And it was going to be more of a shock.

But after I went out those few times...

I got comfortable really fast with it.

And the anxiety that I was feeling about going, you know, getting out and going to places or getting, you know, seeing the world, you know, behind or outside of these fences kind of went away.

And so, like, today when we were actually downtown driving through there, it was amazing to see all that stuff, you know.