Jocelyn Leal Quezada is a third year CMC Teacher Education Program student. She's lived in the valley for 16 years and wants to keep teaching here when she graduates. I wrote this column to share my story through my cultural assets: Aspirational, linguistic, familial, navigational, social, and resistant. I know we all have an open wound in our lives and I want to share mine in order to heal. It is in both of my idiomas (languages) because this is the way I think and how I express myself, sometimes in English sometimes in Spanish but always from the heart. Maintaining and nurturing aspirations