1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:00,800 Speaker 1: Good morning. 2 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 2: It's Friday, and there's six more days of school. I'm up. 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 2: It's about five forty five, and I really don't want 4 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 2: to wake up because I didn't really sleep. 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 1: Really great last night and probably didn't. 6 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 3: Go to bed until one. 7 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 2: I was in bed by like ten, but just couldn't sleep. 8 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 2: And if I don't work out before work, it's just 9 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 2: probably not going to happen. Yeah. If I don't do 10 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 2: it now, I won't do it. 11 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 4: This is finally a show about a former missionary who 12 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 4: became a special type of middle school English teacher. 13 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 5: My name is Stephanie Anderson, and I currently live in Indianapolis, 14 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 5: So I'm an E and L teacher, which is English 15 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 5: as a New Language. The school that I work at 16 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 5: is about twelve hundred kids. The majority of students are 17 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 5: African American. Most of my students are Hispanic, but then 18 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 5: I also have a growing population of students coming from Haiti. 19 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 4: I'll right a couple of announcements this morning. First, this 20 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 4: is we are May eighteenth, or we are celebrating Haitian 21 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 4: Flag Day today even though it falls on tomorrow. So 22 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:38,680 Speaker 4: at this time, all our Haitian Creole students are welcome 23 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 4: to come down to the Commons to get a picture 24 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 4: this morning and celebration of Haitian Flag Day tomorrow, So 25 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 4: teachers you may release are Haitian creole students to the 26 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 4: Commons at this time. 27 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 5: ASL is kind of an outdated term. It's not something 28 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 5: that's not used anymore, but it's something that is really 29 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 5: kind of pigeonholes because it's English as a second language 30 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 5: when it's ESL, and a lot of our students that 31 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 5: are coming English is not their second language. For some 32 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 5: of them, it is their second language. But for some 33 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 5: of them, even if they're Hispanic, some of them are 34 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 5: coming from places in Guatemala or Nicaragua or Honduras, and 35 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 5: they have different languages, like more native languages, and for 36 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 5: Haitian kids, English sometimes is their fifth language. So that's 37 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 5: why the term has changed from ESL to English as 38 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,920 Speaker 5: a new Language. There's a lot of acronyms that do 39 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 5: very similar things but have different purposes. Essentially, let's go, ladies, 40 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 5: let's go, let's go, let's go. 41 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 3: If you want a flag, I have some extra flags here. 42 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 5: I was born in Indianapolis, and I was actually born 43 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 5: during a tornado. I just had my birthday, not too 44 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 5: long ago, and my mom reminded me that I was 45 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 5: born during a tornado, and I haven't stopped since. 46 00:02:58,760 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 3: I've never known a strange. 47 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 5: When I was a child, my mom said that I 48 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 5: would just talk to anybody and everyone, and I also 49 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 5: got lost a lot. As a child, we went to 50 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 5: Disney World. I don't know how old I was, maybe seven, 51 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,399 Speaker 5: and I remember looking down and they have all these 52 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,959 Speaker 5: bricks of people who who have donated money, and I'm 53 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,639 Speaker 5: looking and reading these names, and then all of a sudden, 54 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 5: like at the entrance, and then I look up and 55 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 5: no one around me is someone I know. And then 56 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 5: I think I just cried and found some kind of 57 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 5: an adult, and then I found my parents. When we 58 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 5: went to King's Island and in Ohio, I got lost 59 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 5: there with my cousins. I got lost out a seers once, 60 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 5: and my family members all had to block off the 61 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 5: seers because they thought maybe I'd gotten kidnapped. But I 62 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 5: was just hiding in a rack of clothes. 63 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 3: I wander off. 64 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 5: And I look at something, and then all of a sudden, 65 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 5: I look around and I'm not with my people. 66 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 3: So I'm not. 67 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 5: Always very observant of staying with the people I'm supposed 68 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 5: to stay with. I stayed in Indianapolis for my whole 69 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 5: childhood and high school career. Moved to Munts, Indiana to 70 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 5: winter Baal State did not do education. I actually did 71 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 5: religious studies, and that was more of a I procrastinated 72 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 5: picking a major for so long that once I got 73 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 5: finished and I looked, you know, I was getting closer 74 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 5: to graduating, I had to look back and be like, well, 75 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:33,279 Speaker 5: what have I taken a lot of courses in? 76 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 3: And I had taken a lot of history, a lot 77 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 3: of geography. 78 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 5: And then a lot of religion classes, and because it 79 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 5: was interesting to me, well, religion in general. Like at 80 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 5: that time, at late high school early college, was just 81 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 5: trying to figure out who I was as a person 82 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 5: and trying to figure out, like how do I fit 83 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 5: in this whole world. I wasn't a Christian. We didn't 84 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 5: go to church. That was something that I did on 85 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 5: my own. And I had a cousin that an older 86 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 5: cousin that asked me to go to church, and I was. 87 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:07,919 Speaker 3: Like, yeah, yeah, I'll go. You're cool. 88 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 5: I was a freshman in high school when nine to 89 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 5: eleven happened, and I remember just being baffled by, you know, 90 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 5: that happening, not knowing anything about Islam, not knowing anything 91 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 5: about that part of the world, but being very intrigued 92 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:33,479 Speaker 5: by what had happened, and thinking, I think I'm also 93 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 5: very an optimistic person, and thinking, there's no way that 94 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:38,839 Speaker 5: there's a group of people like that, there's a giant 95 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 5: group of people in the world to just like hate 96 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 5: Americans so much that they would do something like this. 97 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 5: And at the time, I was a very strong Christian 98 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 5: and so I was just trying to think, how, like, 99 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 5: what did they believe? Well, how is it so different 100 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 5: than the way that I believe? And so I think 101 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 5: that's what kind of drew me to religion to begin with. 102 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 5: And Islam always was a focal point when I was studying. 103 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 5: I always was intrigued by Islam over everything else. When 104 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 5: I had to do I took a religious studies clash 105 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 5: that studied it was like an anthropological study of a 106 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 5: group in Muncie, and you've got to choose any religious 107 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 5: group you wanted, and I chose our local mosque and 108 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:24,840 Speaker 5: I loved going. I went every Friday. I met these 109 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 5: amazing women. Because I stayed on the women's side, I 110 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 5: met these amazing women from Itran in Afghanistan and got 111 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,920 Speaker 5: to know them. They invited me over to their house. 112 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 5: I never felt like they were pushing me to try 113 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:43,280 Speaker 5: to believe in Hamm it is their profit. Like they 114 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 5: never tried to convert me, and they made me feel 115 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,719 Speaker 5: I mean, they knew that I was doing this for school. 116 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 5: They knew that it wasn't now I think would they 117 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 5: have been happy to share with me if I would 118 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 5: have asked in an interest that I wanted to become Muslim, Yeah, 119 00:06:58,279 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 5: of course. 120 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:00,840 Speaker 3: But they were really respect that. 121 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:03,840 Speaker 5: Boundary, which I appreciated as if do you want to 122 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 5: read it with me? 123 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:05,479 Speaker 3: That's okay. 124 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 5: So this blue box at sixty two, Okay, more good 125 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 5: news was brought. More good news news was brought by 126 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 5: young Jock. By Young j There was a time in 127 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 5: my life that I wanted to be a missionary, and 128 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 5: I think that was the other interest that came into 129 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 5: trying to understand about other people. I wanted to see 130 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 5: what do other people do and how do they live? 131 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 5: And I fully and wholeheartedly believed that it was my 132 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 5: job as a Christian at that time to proselytize and 133 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 5: to convert people to Christianity, because I felt it was 134 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 5: partly my duty because it was asked of me of 135 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 5: the Bible, and I believed at that point that the 136 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 5: Bible was the true and accurate word. I think that 137 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 5: was kind of the like there was little sparks here 138 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 5: and there of just peaking interest of just something different, 139 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 5: something new than what I had known in Indiana. I 140 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 5: never thought that. 141 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 3: I would stay in Indiana forever. 142 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 5: I guess I never really saw that as a long 143 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 5: term plan. I always saw that there was other places 144 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 5: out in the world and thought, man, it would be 145 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 5: really cool to see what it's like to be there. 146 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 5: My mom had a friend that she hooked me up 147 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,680 Speaker 5: with their church was going to Honduras for a week, 148 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 5: and so I went with them. I didn't know anybody 149 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 5: really in this group. I mean, they were really friendly, 150 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 5: and we went to compound that had a school, and 151 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 5: they had like a communal area for all the families 152 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,959 Speaker 5: to cook, and then all of the families had individual houses, 153 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:55,840 Speaker 5: but all of the parents were like foster parents or 154 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:59,840 Speaker 5: like adoptive parents, they were not the parents of the children, 155 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 5: and so they all lived there and then they went 156 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:06,559 Speaker 5: to school there, and then while we were there, they 157 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 5: were also working on a college, like a small university 158 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 5: up on the mountain. I ended up helping this guy 159 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 5: do pipework every day. I didn't know what I was doing, 160 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 5: but I hung out with the kids and kept them 161 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 5: occupied while other people were doing real work. So that 162 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 5: was my first time leaving the country really feeling like 163 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 5: I was leaving the country by myself. And then when 164 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 5: I was in college, I got connected with a Christian 165 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 5: organization and I did mission work in the summers. I 166 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:40,079 Speaker 5: went to India first summer and that was my first 167 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 5: like really really big trip. The next summer I went 168 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 5: to Thailand. And then I graduated college and somehow got 169 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 5: connected with a friend of a friend who ran a 170 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 5: Christian school in Nigeria and they said, hey, we have 171 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 5: this library that the school that needs someone to run 172 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 5: it for three months. Would you be interested? I said, yeah, 173 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 5: I could go. I'll go to Nigeria for three months. 174 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 5: I don't have anything to do. And so I talked 175 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 5: to the principal and she's like, actually, we would want 176 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 5: you for a year, a whole school year. 177 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 3: And that was a huge culture shock. 178 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:21,079 Speaker 5: That was that was probably the best thing to do first, 179 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 5: like a first big experience living abroad because it just 180 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 5: taught me so much. It taught me how to live 181 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 5: on less than I've ever been used to. I don't 182 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 5: want to say a little, because we were very blessed 183 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:39,839 Speaker 5: compared to a lot of people that lived there. I mean, 184 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 5: we had a generator in our property so at night, 185 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:44,439 Speaker 5: like we would have a generator for our air conditioning. 186 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 3: But the electricity was very unstable. 187 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 5: It was never you know, it was always on and off, 188 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,839 Speaker 5: and you just got used to it. Our water would 189 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:55,440 Speaker 5: be the well liked would run dry and we just 190 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 5: wouldn't have water to wash dishes and things. Yeah, when 191 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 5: you don't have water, you don't electricity, You've got to 192 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 5: figure out how to make all of your food. There's 193 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 5: definitely perspective in that. When I was working with people 194 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 5: and trying to proselytize them and get to them to to, 195 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 5: you know, believe in Jesus and become saved. I think 196 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 5: at that time I really felt like I was doing 197 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 5: something that was going to make a. 198 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 3: Forever impact on their life. 199 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 5: And I was sad for people, I think, thinking that 200 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 5: they didn't they didn't have Jesus the same way that 201 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 5: I had them, and they didn't have that same security, 202 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 5: because that's what you're taught, and that's what you know, 203 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:43,680 Speaker 5: preachers say every Sunday, and that's what you read about 204 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 5: in the Bible, is that you don't have that they 205 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:50,560 Speaker 5: don't have that security, and that they are going to 206 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 5: live forever in you know, in hell or just in 207 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 5: you know, in this discomfort, and you don't want that 208 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 5: for anybody. And so I think I felt secure for 209 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 5: a while, but I think still deep down I had 210 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:08,439 Speaker 5: this feeling of do I actually believe enough? 211 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 3: Am I doing this right? Is it enough? 212 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 5: And I think that in Christianity, I think everyone, I 213 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:19,080 Speaker 5: think in any faith, people are going to doubt their faith, 214 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 5: and everyone's going to. 215 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:22,720 Speaker 3: Go back and forth. 216 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 5: And I doubt there's anybody in their life that's ever said, oh, 217 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 5: I believed in this once and I believed it forever 218 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:31,959 Speaker 5: and I never doubted. But I think traveling and seeing 219 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 5: more people and different people and meeting again people that 220 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 5: were some of the nicest people, like, the longer that 221 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 5: I saw this, the more that I saw this, the 222 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:44,679 Speaker 5: more that I lived, I just thought, I just can't 223 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 5: imagine that they are living their life and they just 224 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 5: happened to be born somewhere that Christianity is not prevalent, 225 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 5: and I just can't imagine that that's going to be 226 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 5: the end of them because they don't believe because of this, 227 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 5: because they're just not born in the right place. And 228 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:05,319 Speaker 5: so you know, quickly when you start to meet more 229 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:09,079 Speaker 5: people of different religions and different faiths and see how 230 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:15,680 Speaker 5: they express their faiths, and you just it becomes harder 231 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 5: to believe that there's only one way. It's harder to 232 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 5: believe that there's only one route. I don't know, even 233 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 5: after all of this, after studying many religions and seeing 234 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 5: many religions in practice, I don't really know if I 235 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 5: believe really anything anymore. After I'd worked in Nigeria and 236 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:42,439 Speaker 5: worked at a school, I realized, Okay, if I'm going 237 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:47,200 Speaker 5: to go back overseas and work overseas again, teaching English 238 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 5: is probably my best bet. 239 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 3: Like I'm not. 240 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 5: Nobody needs a religious studies major there in their workforce. 241 00:13:58,120 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 5: I could have went anywhere, but I was very drawn 242 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 5: to going back to Africa and to an Arab you know, 243 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 5: an Arab country there where. 244 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 3: They spoke Arabic. 245 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 5: I decided Egypt because one I found a job and 246 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 5: two I was like, well, this fits both criterias. It's 247 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:16,679 Speaker 5: in Africa and it's an Arabic speaking country and their 248 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 5: Muslim like let's go. Because I had read stories about 249 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 5: women being in Saudi Arabia and I had, you know, 250 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 5: heard all of these things, and I'm thinking it, can't 251 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 5: you hear about these stereotypes about women being oppressed And 252 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 5: I'm like, it can't be as bad as you're hearing, 253 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 5: And so I wanted to see for myself and it 254 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 5: wasn't what you know, we and the West had kind 255 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 5: of exacerbated. So then I found I found a job 256 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 5: online for a school in Egypt. I didn't know much 257 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 5: about Egypt, I'll be really honest, and the website, like 258 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 5: even every part of it seemed a little sketchy. My 259 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 5: mom doesn't know a lot of this that it was 260 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 5: the sketchy. I did communicate with people that had worked 261 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 5: at the school, other English teachers, but I still was 262 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 5: like there was just weird things where they were like 263 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 5: telling me about like how you should get your alcohol 264 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 5: from duty free because it's way more expensive, you know, 265 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 5: when you buy it outside of duty free. And I 266 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 5: start like thinking and I'm like, am I getting kidnapped, 267 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 5: but then I'm also bringing the alcohol for everyone, like, 268 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 5: what's what's happening? So it ended up being fine, and 269 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 5: I ended up, you know, meeting and working with people 270 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 5: that I from all over the United States, Canada, Australia, 271 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 5: New Zealand and the UK, and people that I would 272 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 5: have never met or you know, probably been friends with 273 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 5: it and became really good friends with them. 274 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 3: So and then I got in a. 275 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 5: Relationship with a guy and we had talked about getting married, 276 00:15:56,040 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 5: but he was Muslim, and I think it was I 277 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 5: think I knew deep down it was never really going 278 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 5: to happen because his family was never going to agree. 279 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 5: They never were going to be okay with it was 280 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 5: too different than what they had ever experienced. That I 281 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 5: was one American that I was. I too didn't speak 282 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 5: Arabic and you know, I was working on it, but 283 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 5: I wasn't anywhere close to fluent and I wasn't Muslim. 284 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 3: But I think we both hoped. 285 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 5: So that was that was at That was a hard 286 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 5: blow when that ended, when he and I broke up. 287 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 3: We ended in twenty seventeen. 288 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 5: It feels it feels really close sometimes, but then it 289 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 5: feels really far when I when I say the date 290 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 5: out loud and I think about the time that has passed, 291 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 5: and I think about the things I've done since, then 292 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 5: I think, oh, no, that's that's actually kind of not 293 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 5: that close, but it still feels fresh sometimes. Yeah, I 294 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 5: my mental health went downhill, well partially because of that. 295 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 5: Partially I rushed into another relationship with someone who was 296 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 5: wrong for me. But you know, you tried to fill 297 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 5: I tried to fill avoid quickly and that was wrong 298 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 5: for me. And then when that didn't pan out, I 299 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:25,360 Speaker 5: just was crushed. I came back to the United States 300 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 5: essentially because my mental health was trash and needed to 301 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 5: be around my family. 302 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 3: And then when I. 303 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 5: Was looking for a job, I had found this job 304 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:37,679 Speaker 5: for E and L, but I didn't really know what 305 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:40,879 Speaker 5: EnL was and didn't even realize that I had to 306 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 5: do a whole nother certification for it, so I kind 307 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 5: of fell into the job. But when I looked at 308 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 5: the description and you're teaching students English, and I'm like, well, 309 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 5: I've been teaching kids English forever, like for seven years, 310 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:56,399 Speaker 5: and all my kids that I taught abroad didn't know 311 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 5: English as their first language. 312 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 3: I was like, I can do that, and when I. 313 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 5: Got interviewed here in Indiana, I think my principal had reservations, 314 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 5: but I told them, and this was kind of my 315 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 5: motto through and through is that like kids are kids 316 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 5: are kids. At the end of the day, I don't 317 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 5: care what kid in the world you're talking to, Like 318 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 5: they like candy. Any kid in the world likes candy. 319 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 5: Any kid in the world wants to play and do 320 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,399 Speaker 5: silly things and have fun. Like at the end of 321 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:32,400 Speaker 5: the day, kids are kids are kids, and they have 322 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 5: basic needs, which are they want to have fun, they 323 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 5: want to feel safe, they want candy, and they grow fast. 324 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:43,720 Speaker 5: I mean, those are those are kind of the universal 325 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 5: truths for children. So during my day, I have a 326 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 5: little period in the beginning of the class, like at 327 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 5: the beginning of the day that I don't have students, 328 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 5: So that's the first period, and then I have the 329 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 5: second period. I have my Reading Intervention class, which is 330 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:01,119 Speaker 5: seven to eighth graders that are proficient in English but 331 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:05,199 Speaker 5: just need some help with some reading. And then I 332 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:08,959 Speaker 5: have my eighth grade New Learner class, and then I 333 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 5: have a seventh grade new learner class. Then I have lunch, 334 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:15,600 Speaker 5: and then after that I work with a student that 335 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 5: is new to the United States who is not literate 336 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 5: at all, and she's a fifth grader. So we work 337 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 5: on a lot of basic skills, and then I work 338 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:28,480 Speaker 5: with my sixth grade new learners then and they've all 339 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:31,160 Speaker 5: just gotten here this year. Those students that I work 340 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 5: with from Haiti that I support in that class Wahn. 341 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 5: I use Google Translate a lot, especially with my Haitian students. 342 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 5: Spanish I can kind of fumble through here and there, 343 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 5: but with my Haitian students, I'm also trying to learn 344 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 5: Haitian creole on Duelingo and it's not I started French 345 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 5: and then I started Haitian Creole, and there was weird 346 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:00,679 Speaker 5: overlaps that didn't make sense because like God song was 347 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 5: like boy in French, but then it was Man and 348 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,199 Speaker 5: Haitian creole on due Lingo at least, and so then 349 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 5: I was like, I don't know which is which. Now 350 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 5: you have to understand the crossover. I think that's the 351 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 5: biggest thing in linguistics and in the job that I have, 352 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 5: the crossover meaning one language to another. So how does 353 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 5: English compare to this other language? So like Hungarian, for example, 354 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 5: is very different than English, and a lot of other 355 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 5: languages because the structure is not a subject verb pattern, 356 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 5: it's actually a verb subject. So like Yoda actually speaks 357 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 5: more like he's Hungarian. They actually copied the Hungarian structure, 358 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:45,159 Speaker 5: like sentence structure, and so that's why he talks the 359 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 5: way he does. Talented him I And so you have 360 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 5: to understand that crossover so that you can understand what 361 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 5: are they going to make mistakes in Spanish and englisher 362 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 5: are nice? Are nice like accompaniment because we have so 363 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:02,439 Speaker 5: many similarities. But like they have to understand, phonics is different, 364 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 5: so like the J is going to be different. Arabic 365 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,120 Speaker 5: is like that Arabic there's no P sound, so pepsi 366 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 5: is bibsi. They don't have a V sound, so everything 367 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 5: goes to like a puugh. They have the i'm sound 368 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,640 Speaker 5: that we don't have. They have the so like uh 369 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:21,120 Speaker 5: like DJ Colled like DJ Colled. I don't know why 370 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 5: this drives me crazy, Maybe just because you get used 371 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 5: to it after a while. Like I had a friend, 372 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 5: I have a friend named Khalid in Quit and then 373 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 5: I asked him one day, I said, why does DJ 374 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 5: Colled go by DJ Collid and not DJ Khalid? 375 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 3: Because it should be like A like. 376 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 5: A and and and I think realistically it's just because 377 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:42,919 Speaker 5: English speakers are never going to say it correctly, so 378 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:44,720 Speaker 5: I think at some point he's just like, forget it. 379 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 5: I'm DJ Colled, DJ Chali. So the highs of being 380 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 5: an an L teacher is just watching them develop and 381 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,399 Speaker 5: you see them and this was the same even when 382 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 5: I taught abroad and watching them just grow. And the 383 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 5: funniest thing is you start to realize that you've really 384 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,040 Speaker 5: taught them and that they're really paying attention and they're 385 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:06,639 Speaker 5: learning something when they start picking up your mannerisms and 386 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:08,879 Speaker 5: the way that you talk or the things that you say, 387 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,879 Speaker 5: and then you go, oh, you have been listening to me. 388 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 5: This is from me, Like I call them honey a lot, 389 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 5: and then I have to quickly tell them once like 390 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,399 Speaker 5: what this means, and they just look at me funny, 391 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 5: and then I have to be like, yeah, it's just 392 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 5: like a like it's like a more, it's like a 393 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 5: sweet thing. It's endearment. But then they'll start saying it 394 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 5: back to me sometimes and sometimes it's sarcastic. It's like okay, honey, 395 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 5: and then you're like, oh, okay, yeah, you guys are 396 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:44,159 Speaker 5: are actually learning things. The lows are the stories. I 397 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 5: don't hear a ton of them one because of a 398 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:47,880 Speaker 5: language barrier too. 399 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:48,880 Speaker 3: I try not to. 400 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,880 Speaker 5: Put my kids in positions where they talk about things 401 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 5: they don't want to talk about. 402 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,400 Speaker 3: Or also a lot of our kids that. 403 00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:00,440 Speaker 5: Come with some crazy stories don't even know that it's 404 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,360 Speaker 5: trauma or that it's a crazy story. 405 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:03,199 Speaker 1: You know. 406 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,359 Speaker 5: One of my teachers I teach with was talking to 407 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:06,920 Speaker 5: a girl a couple of years ago, and the girl 408 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:10,159 Speaker 5: says something like, well, you guys were all kidnapped too, 409 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 5: weren't you. And they're like and they all kind of 410 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,199 Speaker 5: look at her, like what, And you know, when she 411 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 5: was she came from Guatemala originally, when they got to 412 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,919 Speaker 5: the US border, her mom was here in the United 413 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,880 Speaker 5: States but had had, you know, paid people to bring 414 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:30,879 Speaker 5: the daughters here, and then once they got to the border, 415 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,679 Speaker 5: then these people asked for more money. And you just 416 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 5: hope and pray that it was just that they were 417 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 5: kept there. You just you just you just hope. And 418 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 5: that's something I've tried to advocate a lot, and I'm 419 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 5: we're starting to see change in that. But I want 420 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:50,120 Speaker 5: to see when my kids come. I want to see them, 421 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,120 Speaker 5: you know, start talking to an adult that they can 422 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 5: talk to in their language. That's a counselor. And I'm 423 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 5: not saying draw things out, but just check in with 424 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,720 Speaker 5: our kids and see like, are you okay? Because they 425 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,920 Speaker 5: don't even realize sometimes. So it's things like that. Those 426 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 5: are the lows. Those are definitely the lows. It's the 427 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 5: stories they come with. Those are the lows. 428 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 3: But it makes them. 429 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 5: Who they are, and it's their story, and you know, 430 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 5: you don't want to take it from them, and you're 431 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 5: not gonna try to demean it or and you don't 432 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 5: want to. I'm not trying to use their stories of like, 433 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 5: oh woe is me and my poor kids, like that's 434 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 5: not it at all. I know that my kids' parents 435 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:29,679 Speaker 5: are coming here because they they want more for their kids. 436 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,919 Speaker 4: At this time, please release call writers and anyone staying 437 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,359 Speaker 4: for an after school activity. A bus riders remain in 438 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 4: the classroom until four o'clock. 439 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:47,400 Speaker 5: The I don't have great feelings about people that are 440 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:53,200 Speaker 5: very negative about immigrants, especially knowing how hard my kids' 441 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,680 Speaker 5: parents work. I don't ask about their status. I don't 442 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 5: want to know their status. I don't want to get 443 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 5: involved in. Now, if a kid told me and wanted 444 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 5: helped with something like they need a lawyer or something, now, 445 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:10,160 Speaker 5: of course I would do whatever I could to connect them. 446 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:14,399 Speaker 5: But I know how difficult potentially their lives were, just 447 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 5: hearing little bits and pieces of their stories, and you know, 448 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 5: I have students that were on the brink of getting 449 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,400 Speaker 5: involved in gangs or were involved in gangs in other 450 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 5: countries in Central or South America, and their parents, you know, 451 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:28,479 Speaker 5: are trying to get them out of it. 452 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 3: I know that. 453 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,440 Speaker 5: And I just think I think even just looking back 454 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,439 Speaker 5: on the history of our country and that we were 455 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:37,679 Speaker 5: all immigrants at some point. I mean, we were all 456 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,439 Speaker 5: we didn't all start here, and I think America has 457 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 5: a lot of we have a lot of dark history 458 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,879 Speaker 5: for sure, And I don't know, it just makes me 459 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 5: sad sometimes when I see people, you know, being like 460 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,360 Speaker 5: this is I think, at the end of the day, 461 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:56,400 Speaker 5: it all roots to the unknown, and you know, propaganda 462 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 5: starts and you hear this negative thing and that negative thing. 463 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,439 Speaker 5: It's the fear of the unknown, for sure, and I 464 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 5: think a lot of Americans struggle with the fear of 465 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,159 Speaker 5: the unknown, which is why when people talk to me 466 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 5: and find out I've lived abroad or I've done this, 467 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,120 Speaker 5: they think some people think I'm crazy. They're like, how 468 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:17,920 Speaker 5: could you ever leave the United States and not only leave, 469 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,399 Speaker 5: but how could you live there? But again, it all 470 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,359 Speaker 5: goes back to kids or kids or kids, people or 471 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:27,879 Speaker 5: people or people. I can meet somebody that's in rural Indiana, 472 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,439 Speaker 5: and I can meet somebody that's a Beduin in the 473 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 5: Sinai Peninsul of Egypt, and I can be like, you 474 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,159 Speaker 5: guys would be best friends if you were born in 475 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 5: the same place, because you guys do the same things. 476 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 5: You're all just doing hillbilly stuff and riding around, getting 477 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:46,880 Speaker 5: into trouble, shooting, you know, playing with fire. You're all 478 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 5: doing the same things. Like you're just so I don't know. 479 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,439 Speaker 5: I see a lot of parallels between people when I travel, 480 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 5: and I think, I think the running towards the scary 481 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 5: thing has just been my typical life cycle. It's a 482 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,199 Speaker 5: I don't know if it's a dumb that I just 483 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,360 Speaker 5: run into fear. I don't know if it's just that 484 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 5: that's just been my nature that I I don't I 485 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 5: think it was the especially I think as a younger person, 486 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:16,880 Speaker 5: I think you have a lot of these feelings of 487 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 5: I'm never gonna die, I'm going to live forever, and 488 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 5: I think I ran with that for so long, and 489 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,119 Speaker 5: so I lived in, you know, probably a dreamland a 490 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 5: little bit here and there. And when you're in a dreamland, 491 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 5: like you can do whatever you want, you can fly. 492 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 3: Well, it's about almost eleven o'clock at night. 493 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,440 Speaker 1: I just got home about thirty minutes or so. Ago 494 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 1: went and hung out with some teacher friends in one 495 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 1: of their houses and had some drinks and pizza and 496 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: just kind of hung out. Sometimes we talk about school, 497 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:00,679 Speaker 1: and a lot of times we just kind of like 498 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,080 Speaker 1: hang out and do other things and talk about other things. 499 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 6: And I'm getting ready to wash my face and brush 500 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,879 Speaker 6: my teeth and go to bed and hopefully wake up 501 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:18,399 Speaker 6: and do CrossFit in the morning if I can wake up. Yeah, 502 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 6: and then next week will be our last week, and 503 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:24,880 Speaker 6: then I have like nine weeks off, which is well, no, 504 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 6: not nine weeks. I don't know how many weeks we 505 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 6: have off. 506 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 2: I don't remember. 507 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 1: I think we have about like June part of July, 508 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 1: so about two months, and then we'll start back up 509 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 1: and do it all again.