Speaker: Elijah Castillo
Elijah Castillo: I just want to say that I'm thankful for this opportunity and grateful, you know, this scholarship would really help me with my future in the electrician field and help raise more money for my mom. So I didn't have the best home life, but I'm still blessed to be alive. So, what I wanna do is, you know, use that money for my books and the clothes I need for the trade school because it's a two in one, it's a trade school and a degree plan. So I just wanna be able to do that and, you know, be able to afford stuff like a, car, a reliable car and transportation to work, gas, food. So I can, so I can, you know, get these two years with and get what I want to be. What I wanna be. I heard the field that I'm in pays pretty good and it's a fun, it's kind of fun field like you have to work hours. But yes, a social field because you have to be connected with people in your city, you know, stuff you have to fix and do houses and around, especially around East Texas because there's a lot of, old towns and things you gotta do. So this opportunity would be amazing for me. And I thank you for the opportunity. Actually, I wanna thank first my Heavenly Father, God, and I want to thank the people over the program and my mother, brother and my grandmother and my late grandpa. I wanted to thank, I want to thank all of them because if it wasn't for them, I probably wouldn't have been motivated enough to do anything in life, but it's really a blessing to be able to be here. And hopefully I become more of a man during all this. I'm not saying I'm not a man now, but it's a growing process to become a man. You know, you gotta be a man of the Lord and all that. So thank you all for this opportunity and hopefully we get back in touch after this recording. Bye bye.
