Evaristo Salas Jr.

The sad part is I seen a lot of homeless people, which I didn't really expect.

Yeah.

But there was massive amount of homeless people, you know.

And there was people, I think,

And the drug use was just using it out on the streets, which was strange to me because, you know, in a small community I came from, you don't really see that.

And I never really been to any big cities by Seattle when I was really young, and I don't really remember them.

So that kind of stuff was really shocking to me.

But other than that, I was all eyes, you know.

And so it kind of alleviates that kind of anxiety that I was feeling prior to be given the opportunity to go out there.

So like I said, if I was just to be released straight from like a medium custody where I was at for about seven years before I came out here,

It would have been a shock to the system.

The opportunities that I'm getting now to be out there in the community, to work out there, and to see it, I think it's alleviating that anxiety.

I don't feel it as much anymore.

I've got to learn how to drive.

I've never driven a car besides up and down.

I drove it one time when my mom was too drunk to drive, and I had to drive her to her house, which was a town next to Sunnyside.

That's my level of experience when it comes to driving, is I have to learn how to drive.

I have to get my identification, my driver's license, all those kind of things.

That, I think, is going to be a little, it's going to test my, you know, my feelings just kind of integrating back into society.

But I get a little nervous about that, but I have confidence, you know, because like I said, I've been studying all these books.