WEBVTT - Mid-Week Kid Chat: Genevieve Powers (my 9 yr old niece). 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:05.280 So I'm really excited about this podcast because I have 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:13.600 my amazing, beautiful, super talented, special, fun sweetest niece, Genevieve 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:20.320 Grace Powers joining me. She's nine. How's it going, Gigi? Good? So, Gee, 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.800 is this your first podcast? Now? I've been interviewed a 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:30.560 thousand times. Geez, so funny um for everyone listening, ge, 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.840 we call our g g g Genevieve, I mean any 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:38.320 other names we call you. My dad calls me Jenny Pop. 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:43.360 He does call you Jenny Pop. Um. Genevieve is quite 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:47.520 the actress and singer. She was the star of her play. 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:52.280 She was Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka. Was that exhilarating? 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.040 It was so fun. The only problem is we only 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.279 got to do one show, But next time we get 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.640 to do three shows. So that's a lot of memorizing 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:05.479 and work for only one show. Are you nervous when 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:10.520 you're up there? Like the first when you're backstage and 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.399 about to go on stage, Like the first few seconds, 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.080 you're just like, am I in the right scene or 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.800 I in the right costume? What am I supposed to do? 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:20.440 But then once you get on and I was like, oh, 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.399 this is easy. We practiced this a hundred times. So 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.760 you love performing. I love the everyone what goes on 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.600 inside of you when you're about to perform. Um, At first, 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:34.600 I'm very nervous, and when once I get on stage 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:38.319 is just like easy and fun. And then I and 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.360 then once it's over, I'm so sad that it's over 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:45.120 because it was so fun. Do you like the costumes 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.920 in the makeup? Yeah, we've been doing some makeup here 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.680 in quarantine. Oh, everyone listening, we've been quarantine being together? Yes? 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:55.240 What has quarantine life been like? Here at the farm 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:59.960 in Texas with your favorite Anti and uncle? See seeing Mike. 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.360 I'm just kidding. She has tons of amazing aunts and uncles. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:03.920 I'm just saying I'm the favorite because I'm right here 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:07.360 in front of you. Whichever one I'm closest to is 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:11.760 my favorite. I love that philosophy. Um, what has quarantine 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.840 life been like? Has this been scary for you? How 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:18.160 have you What are your thoughts on the coronavirus? Well? 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:22.119 I like to be home, Like all the time. Whenever 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:23.960 my parents asked me if I want to go out 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:25.880 to eat, I'm just like, can we eat at home? 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.520 I love to be home. And so basically this is 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:33.480 just like my dream because we're all home together. It's 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:37.680 really fun. What do you like about being home? Um, 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.200 it's just like all my stuff and I get to 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:44.000 like take what I want to do. So like if 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.160 instead of like going to a restaurant and eating dinner, 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:50.360 I can like stay home then eat dinner and I 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:54.320 don't have to like get dressed or whatever. I can 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.480 just like eat in my pajamas. If I want to 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.960 pja life all day every day, Yes, you actually want to? 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:01.920 You do alpha today? Where do you think you're going? 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:08.320 I have my pajamason under it. Okay, just checking because 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.440 I have only worn sweatpants and stretch pants since we've 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:15.440 been here, saying, so, talk to me about what you 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.200 like to do at the farm, because you are you 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.240 are a city girl and a farm girl. I feel like, 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:27.280 um at the farm. I don't know. I really like 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.840 to cook. I like that we get to cook at 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.000 home a lot, because I don't normally get to cook 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.160 at home either. You do cook a lot, do cook 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:40.400 a lot. I bake. I make brownies and cookies and breakfast. 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:46.000 But here so Mike and I made mikey geez, it's 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:50.200 like McDonald's, like Mickey D's, but it's Mikey cheese. So 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:55.240 we make breakfast for everybody, and I'm the beneficiary of that. 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.880 It is a wonderful breakfast sandwich with egg cheese, baker 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.800 and I mean with some ketchup. Yeah, we made breakfast 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.760 soonderjuice this morning. Well, Mike, you made those so our 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.960 motto as we even feed the babies because we feed 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.760 Sunny in the morning, So I mean it's a pretty 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.039 great little thing. Have you loved being a little mama 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:20.080 to Sunny? Yes, she's my favorite. She's so cute. I 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:23.480 mean you literally just do everything for her. You hold her, 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.360 you change your diaper, you feed her, you tote her 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:31.159 around on you and that little carrier. What um, what 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.800 goes through your brain with a baby? Because not all 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.240 kids love babies, but you just love babies and you 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.000 love being with Sunny. Like what are you thinking? Well, 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:43.320 I think they're cute. And what's fun is like I'm 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.520 in the charge of them kind of, but not in 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:52.839 a like you are my servants, like a fun way, 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.360 so like I can let her crawl on the ground 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.360 and watch her if I want to, or I can 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.760 hold her and carry around, or I can feed her 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.960 she's really cute. Is it fun to be in charge? 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.159 I like to be in charge. What are some things 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.120 that you like to be in charge of? Um? I 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:16.240 like to be in charge of my eating because I 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.040 am a very very picky eater. I wonder where you 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:23.760 got that from your mother? So you're a very picky eater. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:28.159 So you don't want what do you not like to eat? Um? Well, 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:29.800 most of the things I don't like to eat. I 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.400 haven't tried yet, but so you know what you do like. 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:38.880 I'm pretty brave, but not a drinking This will be 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.880 probably surprising to most people, but I don't like cheese. 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:47.080 Actually very surprising everyone eats. Oh. I also don't like milkshakes. 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:49.640 That's also very even a kid, if you don't like 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:55.239 milkha I am the type of person that likes uh. 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:59.440 I A scupa vanilla I screwed, a cookie, a hot brownie, 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.279 a cheer it on top, and hot chocolate sauce. That's 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:07.520 that's that's my perfect dessert. I'm into that. Okay, So 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.919 you were talking about being brave. What does being brave 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:11.680 mean to you? And why do you like to be brave? 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.000 I like to be raved because if you're not braved. 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.159 You can't find out cool stuff. That's a good way 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:18.800 of looking at it. So what do you mean by that? 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:23.120 Like you wanna like if I see So we have 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:27.479 this little river, and so there's like a crack in 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.920 the side of it where there are all these rattle 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:37.480 snakes that lived there, and where is this terrifying? So 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:42.120 there were normally about three snakes in there, like mostly 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:46.159 rattle snakes. We've only seen like three rattle snakes the 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:53.440 whole time we've been here, So so I like to 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:55.560 look in there and like see if I can see 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.239 cool stuff, because like you could see if a snake's 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:03.000 eating a spider or like doing funny stuff. And then 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.880 also I was about to jump into a pond and 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:09.360 I saw a water moccasin slither into the pond and 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.800 I was so freaked out. And I haven't gotten in since. 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:17.880 And normally I'm in there like seven but I haven't 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:21.400 gotten in once. The strip. I mean, I'm definitely afraid 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:25.920 of watermarks. I am They're deadly. Actually, so they are deadly. 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:30.280 I was like three ft away from him. We were 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:36.440 definitely not social. Distancing from the water has so obviously 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:40.280 when you're being brave you're also being safe. Yes, obviously, 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:44.600 I do not like to do stuff that I'm okay 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.280 if I could get If the worst thing that take 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.680 it happened to me is get a few cuts or 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:54.080 bumps and bridges. I've gotten a bunch of stinging nettle. Thankfully, 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.960 I have one poison ivy yet. But poison ivy doesn't 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.320 really think me that bad there. I'm not allergic to 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:05.040 it or I just haven't gotten in it that much. 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.920 But if it's life threatening, like a water moccasin, I 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:14.560 am out like I would have jumped in there. If 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.520 it was like I would have jumped in the pond 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:21.680 if it was just like, I don't know, Actually most 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:25.360 things that are in water are pretty dangerous. Because it 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.640 was like I was about to say, a piranha, but 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.559 piranhas are very dangerous, and I would not have jumped 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.720 in if there was a pha. So you're a water baby. 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.160 You love the water. You know. The first day that 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.080 you came up from the hospital, my dad dunked me 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.680 in the bathtub and your mom was like, what are 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.480 you doing. I mean, he said when you were born, 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:45.400 he said, all I want is a water baby. Because 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:50.640 he loves the ocean, and swimming. Do you just love 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.920 the water? I love the What do you love so 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.199 much about the water? So the funny thing is I 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:59.480 love the ocean, but I'm a pool girl and like 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.480 pool a lot better than the ocean for some reason. 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:06.880 What do you like about a pool? Um? Probably just 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.480 like you don't normally get to sunburn, Like on the beach, 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.760 it's like hot, and if you try to lie down, 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.160 all the stands sixtyear back, and then when you get 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:20.120 in the water it's like sounds so weird, but like 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:24.040 it's like salty. I know that this ocean has salt, 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.720 but I'm just more of a pool person. Okay, I 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:30.520 get that. I get that. So one fun thing that 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.040 we've been doing that you and your dad and your 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.800 mom invented was tubing down the river and the rapids 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:40.839 so fun. So you're hopping at this damn and then 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:42.800 you go down there's another damn, but you don't want 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.240 to go over the damn because if you go over, 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.439 like you too could flip over and then you get 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.280 stuck in the rotation of the damn. So you go 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.000 to the side and it's like down this big waterfall 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.880 and it's really fun. It's actually kind of intense. It's 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:01.200 pretty intense, Jenny, even before guy, She's like, Okay, now 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.080 you lift up on your tube. Here, keep your feet 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.719 in here. Here come the rapids. Hang on. Mikey and 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.319 I are like, but then there's this one spot where 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.880 it's like, it's not exactly it looks like rappids from 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.760 a distance, but it's not exactly rapids because it's just 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.480 like waves. And so it's like this, it's kind of 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.360 a wall of waves. It's like one ft high normally, 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:24.720 and you just like you can't go into it, so 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.959 you go like up and then you get bounce stuff 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:29.679 into the air and then go down, and then bounce 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.880 stuff into the air and go down. That's just a 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:38.840 lot less exhilarating than it looks like, or it sounds like. 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.079 It's probably scarier than it looks scarier than it is. Yeah, 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:46.040 And that's kind of a disappointment to me, because you 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:51.679 love I love adrenaline, Russia, adrenaline rushes, and water, so 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:58.559 I like normally, uh, fresh water, then salt water first 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:06.000 of all, because most dangerous animals like sharks and other stuff, 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.160 like your grandfather was attacked by a shark in the 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:12.200 Mamas oh, yes, he was. Yeah, so he got bitten 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.120 by a shark or in the face and then the knee. 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:19.959 And so I never take naps, like I'm not really 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:23.960 in that person, but for some reason, I happened to 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.080 be taking a nap that day while he got bitten 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.520 by the shark. And when I woke up, everyone was 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.080 just like okay, So they don't know what happened. But 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.560 Lucky got a little scrape from coral. And then I 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.760 went upstairs and I was like, that's not coral, Like, 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:42.480 that's a big scrape is knee? Like a chunk of 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:47.000 his knee was out. I was like, wow, that must 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:51.400 be some big coral. So you like freshwater first? Then yes? 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:57.680 Then because water first, and then fresh water and then saltwater. Okay, 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.720 So talk to me about family because you love your family. 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.080 What does family mean to you and why is family 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:08.480 so important to you? Um? Well, families very important to 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:12.800 me because um, I don't know, I just love my 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:16.600 family because like everyone's so fun and it's always fun 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:20.120 when we're around family, and so I like to view 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:24.880 a family because I don't know, I just feel like 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.880 it's good to view with family. Do they make you 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.640 feel safe? Do they make you feel loved? What does 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:38.000 family make you feel either loved or excited or happy? 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:42.400 That's awesome? We have great family. We do have a 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:46.360 great family, and you have great grandparents on both sides too. 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.000 You have a lot of people that love you. What 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.000 does that make you feel as a nine year old 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.160 knowing that you are surrounded by love? How does that 0:12:54.240 --> 0:13:03.560 make you feel? Um? Happy and rateful? And I don't know. 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:08.720 I just love being with family, like I would rather 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:14.400 be quarantine with family than quarantine by myself. Oh my gosh, 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:19.000 me too. Same. So tell me about your mom and dad, 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.640 because you have to of the coolest parents ever. I 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:28.240 must say they are probably um what makes them good parents? 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:33.760 They're great parents because they're always nice. If I have 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:38.000 like any questions, they'll always have an answer, unless it's 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:44.440 like a crazy question like do trees grow legs or 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:50.560 something like that, but uh, yeah, they always have answers 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:54.239 to my questions and they always tell me the true 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.720 and they're just really good. What is that? Why is 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.120 that important to you that they tell you the truth? 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.600 What does that make you feel like that you can 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:05.240 trust them or what does that make you feel? It 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.440 makes you feel like I can trust them, and it 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:12.360 makes me feel like they know that I won't like 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:16.560 do anything bad with what they tell me or something 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:20.040 like that because I won't, and I like that. I'm 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.280 glad that they trust me because I wouldn't do anything bad. 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.680 So you'll both sort of trust each other. You can 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.080 ask them any question you have. They'll tell you the 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.320 truth and they trust you with information. So that makes 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:36.040 you probably feel empowered. Huh, yeah, that makes you feel good. 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.120 So what are what are what are school like? As 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.040 a nine year old? Like? What are kids like these days? 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:48.720 So I feel like whenever? Like So at my school, 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.840 they break it up into the they we have to well, 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.720 we recently moved campuses, so we have a lower village 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:03.360 where it's like pre K three to um pre grade 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:08.680 to kindergarten, which is actually only two grades now that 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:14.480 I realize it, but we have like a bunch of teachers, 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.560 so it's like like for you guys, Oh, they actually 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:22.400 recently added preschool, so it's like preschool to kindergarten, and 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:26.600 then in the upper village it's the first grade to 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.920 fourth grade, and then you get into the big building 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:33.720 where it's fifth grade through high school, so you are 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:38.400 in third grade, So what would you say are the 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:41.000 best parts about third grade? Third grade and the hardest 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.280 parts about third grade? So the best part about third 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.800 grade is when you get to third grade, it's like 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:52.160 either you make better relationship with people or you make 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.960 worse relationships with people. Break that down a little bit. 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.640 I feel like most of my relationships with people have 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:02.760 gotten better because, like I like when new kids come 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.840 to school because I like to change up my friend 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.920 group a little bit. But then I always add like 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.960 some of my other friends in two that's great. So 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.800 you love keeping your solid friends that you've always had 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:18.480 and you love meeting new people. Are kids nice for 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.560 the most part? Or kids pick on each other? I 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.320 feel like, so there's like two groups of people. They 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.480 are like like there are a bunch of different groups. 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:31.560 They're like a group of people who like play games 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.800 in one section of recess. There's like a group of 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.960 boys who play games. In one section there's a group 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.560 of girls who There's like three things. There's girls and 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:45.280 boys that play games. There's like boys and then there's girls. 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.880 Where do you like to hang out the girls? Normally 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:52.880 I hang out with Like I have three good friends 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.640 that I normally hang out with. But like I am 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.000 friends with everybody. There are people pretty nice to each other, 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:07.080 uh normally, Like, well, um, if you go kind of 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.879 into someone else's group, it's kind of like really awkward 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:15.679 because like there are people who are we basically have 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:18.280 our normal groups, and so it's kind of awkward if 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.680 you go into someone else's group because it's just like 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.520 aren't you supposed to be in your group? It's just 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.320 kind of awkward and that trim things kind of get 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:31.280 a little weird. But for the most part, everyone's really nice. 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.960 So what is it? How do you deal with feelings 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.080 that feel awkward? Because I know, even as an adult, 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:40.359 when I feel awkward, it makes me feel oh, I 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.480 don't know, like as a nine year old, and these 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:44.240 are probably the first time you're feeling those feelings. What 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:50.520 do you do when you feel awkward? Um? I first things, first, 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:52.960 I do I try to see if there's a way 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.159 to make things not awkward but to still achieve what 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:59.360 I'm trying to do. And then if that doesn't work out, 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:04.000 which in normally doesn't but sometimes it does. Um. I 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:08.920 just normally, so they're like a bunch of groups or 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.439 friends that I just like go back to because I 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:15.160 know that we're just like all great friends and it's 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:19.679 not it never gets awkward really, So then I just 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.159 go back and do stuff with my friends. So you 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.320 don't take it too personal. Not really, that's nice. So, 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.600 but you like to make everyone feel good about themselves. You, 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.240 I feel like you're you always want everyone to feel 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.080 like they're wanted and accepted. Yeah, why is that important 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:37.879 to you? So me and another friend some normally three friends, 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:43.159 but we walk around recess and we like see people 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:45.680 if any of our friends are like playing by themselves, 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:48.479 really just like come hang with us. Like we just 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:53.959 basically walk around recess talking about stuff and then just 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:56.560 like see if people want to join us and stuff 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:58.560 like that. Now, why do you want to do that? 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:00.680 That's so sweet? What goes on your brain that says, 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:02.320 let me go look for kids who don't have a 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:05.760 friend to play with? Well, most everyone has a friend 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:10.240 to play with at school. But the most everyone that 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.000 doesn't have a friend to play with at school, um 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:16.640 is actually wanting to be in souls. Like some days 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:20.440 I'm just like, um, I'm going to go do this 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:26.160 by myself. And so I'm not sad. I'm not ashamed. 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:28.680 I'm just gonna go play by myself because I want 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:32.480 to a long time because like most people, I'm pretty 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:36.399 sure nobody ever plays by themselves. But we're basically walking 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.960 around the groups to see if any of our friends 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.639 that go into different groups want to come back in 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.879 our group and play with us. So why do you 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:50.439 need alone time? Um, I I'm not one of the 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:55.160 people who need, like like I don't have I don't 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:59.360 have to have like all these friends. Like if one 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:01.920 of my friends just doing something that I don't want 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:05.439 to do, I'm just like I don't try to like 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:08.720 change myself to do what they want to do. I 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.800 just want to do what I want to do. So 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:16.280 how do you not feel that pure pressure? I guess, well, 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:19.240 I mean I don't really. Sometimes I might, but I 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:24.240 try not to. I just like I kind of ignore 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:28.560 it and then most of it, so most of the time, 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.520 I realized that there's like so much of their stuff 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:34.280 to do at recess because we have like a slack 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:38.159 line and a goggle bal pit. I don't know if 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:41.439 you don't gogglebalpit, google ball is, but it's kind of 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:43.960 like I don't know what this is, but my mom says, 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:47.600 it's kind of like prison ball. It's basically you're in 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:51.640 a pit and you uh, you can't use your knees 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:54.680 and under you you hit the ball around and if 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:57.879 the ball touches your knee under then you're out. And 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:01.560 then we also play free stag the goga ballpit, which 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:05.160 is really fun, so you're always aware that there's other 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:06.960 things to do and you don't have to do what 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:10.240 one person wants to do. Yeah, because our reciss thing 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:12.520 is great because we have like a lot of things 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:15.000 to do, and then there's also this little spot so 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:21.240 it's outside and we we moved in first. All we 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:27.639 really had was one gogo bullpit and well actually we 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:31.159 started off with just a box of jump ropes and 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:36.439 balls and footballs and like cones and who whoops, and 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:39.280 they're just like, grab what you want. This is all 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:42.720 we have. And so my friends and I would get 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:45.240 the hula hoops, like a bunch of a group of 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:47.320 girls would get the hula hoops. And we make these 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:50.879 things sold who huts, which is where it's like five 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:53.240 who loops and you put one hula hoop on the 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:56.879 ground and then you put three inside the who hoop 0:21:56.960 --> 0:21:59.400 like a triangle kind of, and then you put one 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:01.920 on the top so it holds it together. And then 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:05.359 we have like the queen of the hulas, which is 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:07.760 the girl who sits inside the hula hut because the 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:11.199 hula huts pretty small. And then like the rest of 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:13.920 the people are guards because all the boys try to 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:16.480 knock down the girls who huts. That was a big 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:19.840 thing last year. We had all these different hula huts 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:21.800 and like all the boys are trying to knock them down. 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:23.879 Boys are always trying to knock things down. How do 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:25.680 you deal with smelly boys? What do you do when 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:27.640 you have a stinky boy that's trying to be rude? 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:30.080 How do you tell him to be nice? So first 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:36.280 thing I do is so you can't really change boys, 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:40.080 Like you can't say hey, let's be best friends and 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:43.760 try to be nice because that doesn't really work normally, 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:48.359 And so normally I just try to ignore them, or 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:53.880 I um when we do the hula huts, so like 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:57.439 a bunch of people are guards. They're like two people 0:22:58.200 --> 0:23:03.679 that I like fanning the queen and like beyond the hulah, 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:05.800 just in life, how do you deal with boys who 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:08.880 are trying to be yea so like hula. It's kind 0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:11.440 of the way to describe it because like the boys 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:14.439 were trying to come knock it over about so the 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:18.480 boys don't know how strong the girls are. And so okay, 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:22.680 we were. We recently ended our nutrition unit in science, 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:25.760 so we did a kinstry unit and then a nutrition unit, 0:23:25.880 --> 0:23:30.480 and so I love nutrition. And so we were doing 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:34.880 exercise and we were doing planks and all the like, 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:38.480 all the ballerinas and gymnasts were just like, oh, this 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:41.600 is easy. But than the boys are just like all 0:23:41.640 --> 0:23:45.240 on the floor like pancakes and they're like, how are 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:51.600 you doing this? Girl power? Yeah? So tell me what 0:23:52.000 --> 0:23:55.000 when you think of the word love, what do you 0:23:55.040 --> 0:23:59.680 think of? What does it mean to you? Uh? I 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:04.960 think goth family and close friends. When you think of 0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:08.920 the word fun, what do you think of? I think 0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:16.000 of like playing with family and just like doing fun stuff. 0:24:16.520 --> 0:24:21.720 So what's fun is my mom and I do fun 0:24:21.840 --> 0:24:26.480 stuff like petticures and makeup. We have spaw days, like 0:24:26.600 --> 0:24:29.399 on our birthdays. We give each other's spaw days, and 0:24:29.480 --> 0:24:33.160