Rishi Lal Introduction

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  1. Hello. Um My name is Rishi L
  2. and um here's a little picture of me when I was a little guy. I,
  3. I was born in Sacramento, California to a Punjabi family.
  4. Um
  5. This picture right here is of us visiting
  6. the Great America Amusement Park in San Jose back then.
  7. I think it was in the eighties. I, I forget what it's called now.
  8. Um My family loved to travel and so we were always
  9. going different places within driving distance at least once a month.
  10. Um which in instilled a, an individual passion for myself to travel and
  11. throughout my
  12. existence, I've been to six of the seven continents. I plan on visiting Antarctica
  13. sometime in the future.
  14. I'm probably a little bit more comfortable than
  15. I probably would have done in my twenties.
  16. Um
  17. I've also been practicing yoga for the past 15 years.
  18. I would still say that I'm a novice.
  19. Um There's so much more room for improvement in my own individual practice.
  20. Um I think it's intertwined with my own existence
  21. and I have this interesting relationship with yoga.
  22. And so I think even
  23. in, in myself, when I am a learner,
  24. I do regress in what I can do because I kind of have to take a step back and just
  25. absorb and retain the information
  26. and then really understand it. And I think that's what I'm doing even just in my
  27. existence of being a student at law school,
  28. um just being a student at this stage in my,
  29. in my life and having to balance all of the
  30. things that I have going on is really interesting.
  31. And,
  32. and so yoga helps me remember
  33. how to, to get back to where I used to be in what I can and can accomplish.
  34. And um
  35. and so, yeah, and then in 2013, I, I met this guy,
  36. you may recognize him from our roster because it is Dante.
  37. We decided to venture in this law school journey together and it's been amazing.
  38. Um
  39. we met um
  40. and
  41. on Saint Patrick's Day actually. And then
  42. um here's another picture of us, I think we, we also like to see Beyonce concerts.
  43. But the whole other thing,
  44. um we moved to Santa Cruz in 2014
  45. where I became an assistant principal
  46. um at Santa Cruz High School.
  47. Um I've been in education, I've been a special education teacher.
  48. Um
  49. I now am the safety and wellness coordinator and I'm moving to
  50. a new position with the county office of Ed as the safety
  51. um the school safety and risk prevention director.
  52. And so, uh yeah,
  53. education has been a big part of my existence here in
  54. Santa Cruz and pretty widely known by a lot of the,
  55. you know, the graduating seniors in the Santa Cruz high school area.
  56. Um
  57. Like I said, uh I
  58. don't know if I did say that, but yeah, Dante and I got married in 2016,
  59. we jumped the room.
  60. Um and
  61. basically, we had some struggles with our families,
  62. but we're all together now and it's wonderful.
  63. Um Dante's family was always been amazing and they've always been wonderful.
  64. And so here's a picture of us and,
  65. and, you know,
  66. today we're doing all the stuff we can because we have
  67. these wonderful nieces and nephews that we love and adore.
  68. And so these kids are just the highlights of our lives and we do
  69. all of this work for them basically. And so
  70. it's really nice to get to see them on a yearly
  71. basis because they live in the opposite side of the country.
  72. And so um here's a picture of us just coming back from Miami. We love to eat
  73. good food and hang out in nice environments.
  74. And so it was, it's just part of the things that we like to do and to, to, to recharge.
  75. And so uh
  76. the last question was,
  77. what do I find um my, as my favorite superhero and it's super, it's Superman.
  78. And so I think he's the first person that I saw
  79. in my time.
  80. Um That really, I really connected with.
  81. Um I think I was fascinated that he was extraterrestrial but he looked human.
  82. Um
  83. He, you know, his alter ego when he, you know, took off his glasses.
  84. I thought that was really interesting how someone can change, you know,
  85. just by putting on a pair of glasses.
  86. Um
  87. And, you know, his incredible feats of strength and his desire to help and heal.
  88. And I think it's wonderful. And so
  89. that is who I love as a superhero and that is me in a nutshell. RCI
  90. Long.
  91. Nice to meet you and look forward to being in this class. Thank you.