Hey there, welcome to CNN Five Good Things. I'm Krista Bo Polanco, and let's get the good vibes rolling.

You were all so confused because you're like, no way, this is real. Like, this can't be real.

This graduating class got a very generous gift. Plus, hear about a major conservation success story decades in the making for our closest relatives.

Later on, just 12% of children's books feature Asian characters.

Meet an author and an illustrator working to tell more of these stories.

Then, meet a traveler who quit his finance job to see the world in a very unique way.

There's a lot more good in the world than one would think.

We gotta take a quick break, but when we come back, a TV star is lacing up his boots in real life.

If you're a fan of the Apple TV show Ted Lassow, you know that that was the motto of Mexican soccer star Danny Rojas from the show.

And it seems that life has indeed imitated art for the actor who plays Danny, Christo Fernandez.

The 35-year-old from Guadalajara Mexico is officially a pro soccer player

after he signed a deal this week with U.S. Club El Paso Locomotive in the U.S.L Championship.

The move comes after he completed a two-month trial with the team.

Since I was a kid, football was my life.

It's part of my culture.

I started playing professionally when I was 15 years old.

And I was this close to my debut, but a couple of injuries cut my cream.

That was a video he posted on his Instagram back in March,

when rumors were swirling that he was trying to go pro again.

This week, Fernandez wrote about the career switch,

saying, as my amico Ted Lassau once said,

when you believe, life finds a way.

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