i may live in post-ada america, but i can appreciate what people like ed roberts and judy have done to get these things. i just wish that the ada was more aware in the school curriculum, so that other students could learn more about it. i just feel fortunate i could learn more about it when i did. thank you. >> thank you, joanna. now joanna. >> all of you have been a really tough act to follow and i brought this upon myself. while all of my co-workers have been preparing for, this i will just speak off the top of my head. i'm going to start by saying as we initiate this new segment of mdc's "my ada story." i'm going start by saying that i am as old or i feel as old as the ada has been passed, which is exactly 25 years. wouldn't you all like to be 25-years-old right now? especially in the 40s body. so the reason i'm saying that is because i moved to the united states exactly a month after the ada was signed into law. actually august 25th, 1990 to be exact what was my first ins, immigration document was stamped for entering the united states. who entered that country at that date was an