PREPARE to address the following scenario:
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Like Shawna, Miguel participated in OCSS City Repair's youth programs--the Day of the Dead ceremonies and working on the city’s Urban Design Guidelines--but his insights from these were related to choosing a career path. He enjoyed the ceremonies and getting to know the features of the city, but now he wants to work towards a specific career. He wants to a find work that meaningfully connects him to a community of thoughtful people—a social web that reinforces meaningful reflection.

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A. In reading about the history of the city, Miguel found out about the Wakamatsu Tea & Silk Colony, a historical site near Coloma that is being restored by the American River Conservancy.  Being a tea lover himself, having worked at Arden Mall’s Teavana store, and also attended a tea ceremony at Sacramento State, Miguel is very excited to have found this site so close by.  Miguel is interested in applying to the American River Conservancy to help interpret the cultural history of the farm, including submitting a proposal to bring tea traditions and demonstrations back to the farm.

B. Miguel’s experience of doing Day of the Dead ceremonies with his family has given him a new sense of connection with his Catholic upbringing.  Although in the past he always thought priests were older white guys, seeing the young Hispanic priest at his church has inspired him to consider becoming a priest himself.  In the past he always wondered why priests couldn’t get married, but reading about the reasons for this has given him a deeper understanding of why celibacy if one of the requirements of priesthood, and further deepened his interest.

C. Miguel, whose mother says his grandfather’s mother was a Native American medicine woman, heard Native American fiction writer Greg Sarris talk at Sacramento City college event, and then read his book Mabel McKay, which tells the story of a Maidu medicine woman with whom Sarris grew up.  Miguel is considering studying with Sarris at Sonoma State; he thinks he may want to write about survivals of Native American tradition in the twenty first century.