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(lively latin music)

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(mariachi music)

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(intense percussive music)

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(metallic rattling)

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- Be brave, say something that takes some courage to say.

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Something that comes from your heart.

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This place gives you an opportunity

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to say things that really matter.

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- Oh, because they were suffering,

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because they didn\'t have the power to...

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(indistinct chatter)

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- The schools say that they\'re preparing life-long learners,

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but without the joy...

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- One twenty five.

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- [Stephen Voiceover] I mean, they\'re preparing them

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to succeed in tests.

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- Wow, Mateo.

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- [Stephen Voiceover] I refuse to do any measuring.

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I do a lot of listening.

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- I love it.

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- All I\'m really saying is

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I\'m not perfect, you\'re not perfect, nobody\'s perfect.

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- [Stephen Voiceover] I hope that they will not be afraid

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of real challenges.

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- [Audio of Donald Trump] Are you ready?

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We will build a great wall along the southern border.

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- Donald Trump, he wants to take us out for good.

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- If you\'re angry about something

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that is wrong in the world,

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that anger could make you wanna do something to change it.

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I wanna see everybody, everybody being brave.

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Everybody using all of your fantastic brain and your heart

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to write something that matters to you.

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(indistinct chatter)

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- \"It was a hard day\'s run,

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up the Canyon, through Sheep Camp,

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past the Scales and the timber line,

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across glaciers and snowdrifts hundreds of feet deep,

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and over the great Chilkoot Divide,

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which stands between the salt water and the fresh

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and guards forbiddingly the sad and lonely North.\"

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- The sad and lonely North?

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- [Stephen] Isn\'t that a great phrase?

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\"The sad and lonely North?\"
- Oh yeah because...

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- [Child] I guess.

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- It better not be my ranch.

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- Don\'t live there because it gets kind of cold.

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- Yeah, it\'s freezing cold.

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What is a glacier?

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- Oh I know!
- Melvin?

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- Like ice.

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- [Stephen] It is ice, and what\'s special about them?

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- Ice crystals!

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- [Stephen] It\'s not just ice like you see on the side walk.

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- Crystals.

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- [Stephen] Well, it might have crystals in it.

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- A thin... No.

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- It\'s thick.
- Thick ice.

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- It could be like a mile thick.

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They move slowly across the land

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and they carve up the land.

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They scrape it up,

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and during the ice age,

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they traveled all across the world, these glaciers,

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and carved up the land.

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OK. \"They made good time down the chain of lakes

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which fills the craters of extinct volcanoes

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and they were building boats

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against the breakup of the ice in the spring.\"

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What does that mean?

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- The breakup?

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- The breakup of the ice in the spring.

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- [Melvin] They break up, they melt up.

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- They melt.

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- Right, so they\'re building boats

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so they can get to the places where they think there\'s gold.

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- And some people might think that\'s breakup,

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you know when a woman and a man break up.

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(laughing)

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- That\'s not what it means in this case.

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[Child singing] Never say never...

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- But breakup means separate,

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so if a man and a woman breakup, they separate.

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- Yeah.

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- If the ice breaks up, it separates.

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Yeah, it\'s the same meaning.

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That\'s a good connection.
- It\'s like the same.

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Yeah, a breakup.

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- You could write a story,

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and maybe you\'ll write a story today

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about two pieces of ice breaking up.

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- Yeah. (laughing)
- That would be funny.

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- \"...decline the invitation, mailing off gifts.

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Heather was away too.

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She and Kevin had gone skiing in Vermont.

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Her eyes were shining brightly

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and she had a funny, frozen smile on her face.

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We were driving one time,

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and he told me I smelled bad. Sweaty.\"

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What do you think about that, by the way?

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- You can\'t just go and be like, \"Oh, you stink.\"

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You can\'t do that.

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You have to say it in a way that they won\'t be offended

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because it\'s true.

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Everybody stinks, everybody has their moments.

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I just walked in and I said...

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- It went up and down as if it was traveling

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across the sentence.

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Isn\'t that kind of cool?

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It\'s very musical.

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(speaking in spanish)

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- \"And I met you and got married.

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I never did anything like that again.

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No more bakery attacks.\"

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- Look at this!

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- Wow, rich people!

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This is still poor?

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- This is still poor people.

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I\'ve never noticed that before.

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- Oh, let\'s start writing,

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because then we can

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listen to each other.

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- My, or they were brothers.

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- [Child] There were two ices that broke up...

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- [Stephen] The things I teach here

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are really mostly can\'t be measured.

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I think I specialize in what can\'t be measured,

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probably on purpose.

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I refuse to do any measuring.

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I do a lot of listening.

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- [Child] There were two ices that broke up

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but the...

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but they kissed and moved to Alaska

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and the man killed the woman. (chuckles)

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This is when Melvin killed the woman.

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(laughing)

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Now, this is where the cops killed...

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- Wait, wait. OK, hold on.

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I want to make sure I understand.

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So there\'s two pieces of ice, right?

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- Yeah.
- And they\'re separating,

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so they move up to Alaska?

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Is that so they can get frozen together again?

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- Yeah, but...
- And then why are the cops

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chasing them?

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I don\'t understand.

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- They killed her,

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and then killed Melvin.
- I guess he was a suspect?

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- And they were two sub-stecks.

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- Two suspects.
- Then they had to kill them

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because they were all guilty for that.

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- OK, but when you come back to it,

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people are gonna care what happens to your characters

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if they get to know your characters first.

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So if right away we have cops chasing...

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- This is the last one.
- Just listen.

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Listen, this is a hint or some help for you, OK?

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Advice as a writer.
- Just because...

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- Hold on, hold on.

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If right away we\'ve got killing, and cops, and everything,

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if you want the audience to care

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about what happens to the pieces of ice,

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take some time...

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You can do this next time.

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Take some time at the beginning,

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and tell us what an ordinary day is like

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in the life of the ice.

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Just listen, in the life of the ice.

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What do they do on an ordinary day?

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So next time go back and tell us what we need to know

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because then when something happens to these characters,

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I\'ll really care about it.

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OK?
- Like me.

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- [Stephen] It\'s great.

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I love the connections you\'re making in this story.

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Let\'s see, all we have is Rocio.

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OK, see you.

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Allison, did you have a good time today?

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Good, here\'s your...

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(soft instrumental rock music)

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(metallic rattling)

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- [Woman] Jerry!

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Where did you disappear to?

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(indistinct chatter)

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- France.

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- France if...

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- Hundreds first. Write 260 here.

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- How many times does 3 go into 14?

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[Stephen] We have a waiting list

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of nearly 300 children.

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(indistinct chatter)

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All of our classes are free of charge,

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and the word of mouth has traveled.

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(indistinct chatter)

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So there\'s a great need out there for this kind of work.

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- \"She tippy-toed down the stair case as quiet as a crab,

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clutched a day old...\"

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- [Woman] \"I\'ll come back and tell you about it.\"

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Dun-dun-dun!
- What is that?

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- \"Tacite,\" what does it mean, Jolene?

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Tacite? Quiet.

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And what does \"audite\" mean?

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- [all] Listen.
- Listen. Yes, good.

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So here\'s what we\'re doing today,

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but you may not talk while I\'m talking.

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Here\'s what we\'re doing.

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You all have a sheet in front of you.

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You\'ll recognize this sheet

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because we\'ve studied a few of these before, these verses.

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These are...

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Just listen. Have faith.

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There\'s no need to freak out.

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It never helps.

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So the Beatitudes are verses from the Bible

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spoken by Jesus

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when he was teaching a group of people.

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He\'s up on a hill and he\'s talking to people,

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and he\'s giving them beautiful words.

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Not yet.

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We\'re looking at the last one today

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on the back of the paper, the very last one.

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Tutors, if you have a child who...

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for whom it\'s difficult to write words --

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some of the kids are very young and it\'s a struggle --

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just let them tell you what to write,

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and you write it down for them, OK?

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At the end of the day, we\'re gonna listen to each other.

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- Wait.
- Exactly,

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to wait for something, right?

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- OK.

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- Blessed is my sister.

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- That\'s not how you spell \"because.\"

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- [Stephen] People ask me why

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are we studying Latin.

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I think it will make them better thinkers.

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- Go ahead, write it down.

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- [Stephen] When they\'re solving what I call

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\"the big beautiful puzzle\" in Latin.

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they\'re using their brains in a really disciplined way.

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- So over here it says \"chilem,\" right?

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- Yup.

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- Mea sora.
- Yeah, mea sora.

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- [Stephen] As all the students in the room

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try to make themselves understood in Latin,

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they are meeting each other in that effort

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and that act is bringing them closer together.

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- It\'s a what?

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- All right boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen.

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If you haven\'t finished, it\'s OK.

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(indistinct chatter)
Shhhhhh.

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Life is a work in progress.

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No one\'s every truly finished with anything.

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All right, so...

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Ah, no. Samantha\'s gonna go first.

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Shhhhhh.

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Everybody listens to everybody.

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Audite. Audite. OK.

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(speaking in latin)

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(speaking in latin)

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- [Stephen] Nice, thank you Fer.

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(speaking in latin)

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- [Stephen] Wow, that\'s so compassionate.

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Thank you, Betzi. Good job.

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(gentle clapping)
- Excellent.

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(speaking in latin)

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- And what does that mean in English?

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- I bless myself because it\'s sexy.

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(laughing)

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- [Stephen] Thank you, Melvin. You\'re next too.

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(instrumental reggae music)

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(radio announcers speaking spanish)

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(traffic noises)

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- Melvin!

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(indistinct chatter)

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- Make them really warm because it\'s cold outside.

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Good, put them on your cheeks.

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Make sure they\'re warm.
(relaxing sighs)

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You\'re gonna go up and down their back, nice and easy.

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Not too hard.

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Good, and then come back to the middle,

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and we\'re gonna bring both hands down

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and pop your back leg up.

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(laughing)
Lift it up!

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Get all the stress out! Shake your knees!

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Left arm.

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Side-to-side.

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Good.

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Get it all out! Raise your arms up!

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Now swing your arms.

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Deep breath, and dive.

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Deep breath in, all the way up!

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Everyone say, \"I am brave.\"

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- [all] I am brave!

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- [Saskia] I am strong.

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- [all] I am strong!

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- We\'re strong!
- I am strong!

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- [Saskia] Good, open up. I am brave!

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- [all] I am brave!

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(laughing and indistinct chatter)

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- [Saskia] Try to stay up!

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Take a deep breath in,

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and lower back down.

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(groans)

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OK.

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- That\'s big!

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- [Woman] What you\'re doing here is...

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(indistinct chatter)

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- [Woman] There was this little boy and his older brother.

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His older brother...

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(indistinct chatter)

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- OK, I need your attention.

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Stop talking please.

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Shhhh. Quiet.

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Thank you, thank you.

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Thank you.

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These books were brought here today by our guest,

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Peter Carey, who wrote the book.

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Peter wrote the book you have in your hands

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called \"True History of the Kelly Gang.\"

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You\'ll hear that he\'s not from here.

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He lives in New York City,

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but he\'s originally from...
- Australia!

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- Yeah, you\'re right.

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Good job, Melvin.

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(chuckles)

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He\'s originally from Australia.

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He\'s lived in New York for a long, long time,

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but many of his books take place in Australia,

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including this one.

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Peter has won many prizes,

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and he has twice won something called the Booker Prize

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which is among the most prestigious, important prizes

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a writer can win anywhere in the world.

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And he\'s won it twice.

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- This man, Ned Kelly, who

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robbed banks and

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was hanged at a very young age

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for the murder of three policemen

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is, in Australia, our national hero.

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When a man like Ned Kelly --

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who was meant to be trash, according to the newspapers --

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stood up and showed that he was braver,

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more decent, funnier

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and just smarter than the police,

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everybody loved him because

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he was on the right side in the view of most people.

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- Erica?

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- [Erica] Is your wife from Australia?

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- [Peter] No, she\'s from the country of the bad people.

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(laughing)

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- [Peter\'s Wife] I\'m from England.

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- She\'s from the English?
- Yes, yes.

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- [Stephen] All right everybody,

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you know how it goes when there\'s a reading.

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Everybody stops talking and

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no rustling papers or crinkling things.

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- I lost my own father at 12 years of age

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and know what it is to be raised on lies and silence

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as my dear daughter,

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you are presently too young to understand a word I write.

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But this history is for you,

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and will contain no single lie.

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May I burn in hell if I speak false.

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God willing, I shall live to see you read these words,

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to witness your astonishment

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and see your dark eyes widen and your jaw drop

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when you finally comprehend the injustice

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we poor Irish suffered in this present age.

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She cried, \"I would kill the bastards if I were a man!

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God help me.\"

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She used many rough expressions.

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I will not write them here.

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Thank you.

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That was fun, wasn\'t it?

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(applause)

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- Hey, you did a great job listening quietly.

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Now listen to my voice.

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So she\'s angry because it\'s not fair

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how her family\'s being treated

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and how her people, the Irish people, are being treated.

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So they\'re immigrants, right?

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I think all of your families, everyone in this room probably

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is a family of immigrants, or the children of immigrants.

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- [Child] And they don\'t want us to stay here.

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- Well yeah, there\'s a lot...

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Right, immigrants don\'t have it easy.

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There\'s a lot of people who have negative feelings

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towards immigrants.

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OK, so we\'re gonna write now for about 15 minutes.

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Since this book is in the form of a letter

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from Ned Kelly to his daughter,

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you could write a letter.

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In this story, there are encounters with the police.

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Perhaps you or someone you know has had

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some sort of run-in with the police, for good or bad.

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I know a lot of people in this neighborhood

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who have been picked on by the police very unfairly,

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just like what we read today.

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You could also write about poverty,

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what poverty is like.

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What does it mean for someone to be poor,

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and different ways of being poor.

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Do you remember in Latin class,

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do you remember what we read, the Beatitude that said,

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\"Blessed are the poor in spirit?\"

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So there\'s different kinds of poverty

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that you could talk about,

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different ways of being poor.

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You could also talk about different kinds of prisons.

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We have someone locked in a prison.

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There are prisons for your body,

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and there are prisons for your mind.

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So there\'s different kinds of prisons.

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Someone could be trying to control the way you think,

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and many children feel that school is like a prison.

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So you could write about school,

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what it feels like to be in school.

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Melvin, yes.

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- And maybe...

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- Is it a joke?

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- Maybe in the brain?

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- In the brain, what do you mean \"maybe in the brain?\"

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- You\'re stuck in the brain.

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- You could be stuck in your brain?

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Yeah, sure.
- Yeah, with a toilet.

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- Oh, no.

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Melvin, try today not to include toilets in your writing.

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(laughing)

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Just as a challenge to you as a writer.

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(laughing)

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Today just reach a little beyond that.

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Since we read about an immigrant,

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you could write, what does it feel like

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to have two countries --

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to have the country your people come from

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and the country you live in now.

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Right? You can write about that.

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You\'re an expert on that.

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You know what that feels like.

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OK, so those are all possibilities.

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You have 15 minutes. Pencil, pad, go.

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- [Child] Do you have a sharpener?

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(indistinct chatter)

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- [Stephen] I would guess that

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nearly all of them have

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a significant level of trauma in their lives,

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emotional and physical.

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Nearly all of them would say

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that they don\'t have anywhere to go

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where someone will just listen to them.

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So the chance to write their thoughts and feelings

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is healing and sustaining.

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- Thank you, Jimmy.

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Jimmy, are you done?
- Yes.

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- You ready?

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You proud?

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Good.
- Yeah, he wrote a good one.

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- Wonderful, OK find a seat wherever you are.

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Now, um...

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What\'s that?
- The president.

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- (laughing) OK, that\'s great.

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Go to your seat. Find your seat.

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- I don\'t have a seat.

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- Oh, it disappeared?

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- No.
- Squeeze in there

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next to Hugo.

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Hugo\'s friendly.

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Now this part, in my opinion,

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is the most important part of the day --

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when we stop everything,

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put everything down,

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nowhere to go,

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and we just listen to every voice.

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And I bet if we were to close our eyes

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and listen,

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we would know who\'s speaking

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just from the sound of their voice.

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Everyone\'s voice is unique, so let\'s enjoy that.

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OK, whoever is under the table, come out now.

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- It\'s Alex.
- Alex,

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you said you were gonna cooperate today.

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You promised me.

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All you have to do is just relax and listen, OK?

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OK, so Mariana is up. Everyone listening to Mariana?

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- Well, I remember when my father was sad at this time

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and I saw my dad cry for the first time in front of me.

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I could smell the rotten smell of garlic

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like if it was the inside of a person

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who was rotten inside,

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a smell like a rotten seafood dish.

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That\'s it.
- Hmm, wow.

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Thank you, Mariana. OK, Leslie.

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- I know your little secret.

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You like to throw away scarves out the window

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and how happy you felt when they flied in the air

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and how colorful it looked to your eyes

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and how you stopped throwing scarves out the window

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because you know your father will still remember you.

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Sincerely, Me.

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- [Stephen] Wow. Thank you Leslie, very much.

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OK, who\'s next?

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- Luis.

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- [Stephen] Luis? OK.

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Luis, you\'re up.

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- In this world, there\'s a lot of poverty.

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There is people who can\'t afford food, clothes, or a home.

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These people look different because they are poor.

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There is many people who don\'t look at them.

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They don\'t look at the fact that they are

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normal human beings like us.

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- [Stephen] Dolly, nice and loud OK?

00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:13.480
- When I was first coming to America,

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I was very confused because I actually felt excited

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to go and visit a new country,

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but what I didn\'t know was that we were actually leaving

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to go to the US forever.

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- Immigrants have freedom,

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and they don\'t have freedom in their country.

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A lot of immigrants are important in this country

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because they work so hard.

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From, Jose.

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- [Stephen] Thank you, Jose. I agree with you.

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Thank you everybody for beautiful writing

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and for taking good care of each other,

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listening with respect and love.

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Peter, would you like to say anything before we

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wrap it up?

00:22:51.810 --> 00:22:53.560
- Well, it is very...

00:22:53.560 --> 00:22:54.770
- Wait, wait, wait. Hold on.

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Alex, Franklin.
- What you guys have done

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is really moving and often very funny.

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The garlic and the smell like rotting seafood.

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Now that\'s a sense, isn\'t it?

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That\'s a sense of smell.

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Yeah, Luis writing about poverty

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was really, really terrific.

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Whose was the scarf story?

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- Leslie.
- That was really,

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really, really beautiful,

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and you really sustained that in a lovely way.

00:23:25.137 --> 00:23:27.554
(indistinct chatter)

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It\'s nice to meet you too after everything.

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(bus engine rumbling)

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- If it wasn\'t without the authors,

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I wouldn\'t be thinking about the world and society.

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They inspire me, kind of.

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They really give me hope to become better at writing

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and better at education.

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Minorities like Hispanics

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are not really getting the same opportunities sometimes,

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and not that many Hispanics...

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They say that they don\'t...

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they\'re not capable of doing good

00:24:06.500 --> 00:24:09.160
and having a career but

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I want to change that.

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I want to be that Hispanic girl who will go to college

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and show everybody that we Hispanics can do anything too.

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Because we\'re smart.

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That\'s what I think.

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(speaking in spanish)

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- For the food,

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she says a lot of the time kids will criticize you

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because of the food that you eat or the religion.

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(speaking in spanish)

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And for the clothes that you\'re wearing.

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- I technically have friends that defend me

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when people tease my last name,

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and I actually like that,

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so I actually fight with them.

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- [Maria] You what, sweetie?

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- I fight with them.

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I don\'t like it when they tease my last name.

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- [Maria] No sweetie,

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well nobody likes to be teased for anything, yeah.

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You have every reason to feel upset about being teased.

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What\'s your last name?

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- Guallpa.

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They tease me.
- Guallpa?

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That\'s a beautiful last name.
- I know.

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- That\'s OK, yeah.
- They just start screaming.

00:26:03.274 --> 00:26:05.700
They just start laughing at me and then

00:26:06.710 --> 00:26:09.509
in class, I don\'t feel good.

00:26:09.509 --> 00:26:11.507
I don\'t like... (sobbing)

00:26:11.507 --> 00:26:13.924
I don\'t feel like fitting in.

00:26:14.816 --> 00:26:16.979
- [Maria] Oh sweetheart, that\'s OK.

00:26:16.979 --> 00:26:20.960
It\'s just because, you know, kids can be mean.

00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:22.730
And it\'s OK that you\'re crying.

00:26:22.730 --> 00:26:25.090
Let it out. It\'s good to let it out.

00:26:25.090 --> 00:26:26.860
- I was like, I just want to punch him.

00:26:26.860 --> 00:26:27.693
- Yeah.

00:26:33.449 --> 00:26:37.199
(speaking in spanish)

00:26:57.829 --> 00:26:58.791
- [Maria] Oh, wow.

00:26:58.791 --> 00:27:01.374
(upbeat latin music)

00:27:02.831 --> 00:27:06.581
(speaking in spanish)

00:27:24.210 --> 00:27:27.960
(speaking in spanish)

00:27:53.575 --> 00:27:54.927
- [Stephen] Let me look at your face, Nani.

00:27:54.927 --> 00:27:56.960
I want to remember which one is which.

00:27:56.960 --> 00:27:58.145
Twins are hard for me.

00:27:58.145 --> 00:27:59.185
- You can tell by this.

00:27:59.185 --> 00:28:00.160
- OK, yeah.
- Because she doesn\'t have...

00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:02.030
- You see?
- OK, but I wanna

00:28:02.030 --> 00:28:04.710
look at your face. So you\'re Nani?

00:28:04.710 --> 00:28:07.010
Nani. And you\'re Gigi?

00:28:07.010 --> 00:28:10.320
Nani. OK, I\'m gonna remember. Nani...

00:28:10.320 --> 00:28:13.540
Parents dearly, even desperately

00:28:13.540 --> 00:28:16.366
want their children to succeed in school

00:28:16.366 --> 00:28:21.150
on the terms that are set by the public school system,

00:28:22.360 --> 00:28:26.464
which means they want good grades on their report cards.

00:28:26.464 --> 00:28:28.954
- More every day to the great...

00:28:28.954 --> 00:28:31.010
- And I understand that desire.

00:28:31.010 --> 00:28:33.272
They came to this country

00:28:33.272 --> 00:28:36.700
for better opportunities for their children.

00:28:36.700 --> 00:28:40.060
They\'ve made great sacrifices and

00:28:40.920 --> 00:28:44.660
the school system offers one path.

00:28:45.980 --> 00:28:46.990
- [Children] Jimmy! Jimmy!

00:28:49.663 --> 00:28:51.054
- This is like my comfort zone.

00:28:51.054 --> 00:28:51.914
- [Stephen] Oh good.

00:28:51.914 --> 00:28:55.140
- It\'s like I hope no one from my school comes here.

00:28:55.140 --> 00:28:57.173
It\'s like they found out my secret place.

00:28:57.173 --> 00:28:59.280
This is like my secret place.

00:29:01.061 --> 00:29:01.894
I don\'t know.

00:29:05.162 --> 00:29:05.995
- They\'re immigrants,

00:29:05.995 --> 00:29:07.390
or are living with parents that are immigrants.

00:29:07.390 --> 00:29:08.750
Even if the kid was born here,

00:29:08.750 --> 00:29:12.274
there\'s still a certain anxiety level that they live with

00:29:12.274 --> 00:29:15.260
simply knowing that their parent could be deported

00:29:15.260 --> 00:29:16.890
from one day to the next.

00:29:16.890 --> 00:29:18.340
And I think that\'s an anxiety

00:29:18.340 --> 00:29:20.560
that they can\'t necessarily talk about at school

00:29:20.560 --> 00:29:22.315
or discuss with anyone

00:29:22.315 --> 00:29:25.980
so it often comes out in the writing.

00:29:27.550 --> 00:29:30.810
I mean, sometimes if we\'re talking about something...

00:29:30.810 --> 00:29:33.210
sometimes something about my past will come up.

00:29:34.710 --> 00:29:37.750
You know, my father was a heavy drinker.

00:29:37.750 --> 00:29:40.650
He was a rather violent man.

00:29:40.650 --> 00:29:44.720
Not towards us, not towards the kids, but towards other men.

00:29:47.380 --> 00:29:49.300
I don\'t think that kids...
- Hi, Maria.

00:29:49.300 --> 00:29:52.770
- Hi sweetie, how are you?

00:29:52.770 --> 00:29:53.603
How was school?

00:29:53.603 --> 00:29:54.436
- Good.
- Good?

00:29:54.436 --> 00:29:56.040
Did you pass your spelling test on Friday?

00:29:56.040 --> 00:29:57.706
- Yes.
- Yes!

00:29:57.706 --> 00:29:59.083
- Hello, Maria.

00:29:59.083 --> 00:30:00.190
- Hi, Samantha.

00:30:01.333 --> 00:30:04.570
So, they don\'t ask me too many questions.

00:30:04.570 --> 00:30:06.130
I think they\'ve gotten used to...

00:30:06.130 --> 00:30:09.092
now they\'ve gotten used to kind of having me around

00:30:09.092 --> 00:30:11.930
and they know, they know.

00:30:11.930 --> 00:30:13.910
Most of them are familiar with my backstory

00:30:13.910 --> 00:30:17.170
and know that I\'m from Mexico and

00:30:17.170 --> 00:30:20.750
you know, I think that there\'s a sense of

00:30:20.750 --> 00:30:22.150
not only comfort in that,

00:30:22.150 --> 00:30:25.252
but also a sense of, \"Well she did it.

00:30:25.252 --> 00:30:27.171
She came to this country

00:30:27.171 --> 00:30:29.510
when she was four-years-old illegally,

00:30:29.510 --> 00:30:30.700
and then went to college,

00:30:30.700 --> 00:30:33.550
and now she\'s a published author living in New York City.\"

00:30:33.550 --> 00:30:36.700
So I think to them, that\'s really exciting and inspiring.

00:30:38.010 --> 00:30:38.843
Yeah.

00:30:40.320 --> 00:30:42.400
- Which one is chicken and which one is cheese?

00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:43.988
- Um, they separated it, so then...

00:30:43.988 --> 00:30:44.950
- Hey Maria.
- Yes?

00:30:44.950 --> 00:30:46.490
You only get one empanada.

00:30:46.490 --> 00:30:48.405
OK, just take one and go back to your seat.

00:30:48.405 --> 00:30:49.470
- I don\'t want that.

00:30:49.470 --> 00:30:50.682
- [Maria] You don\'t want this either, sweetie?

00:30:50.682 --> 00:30:52.468
(stammering)

00:30:52.468 --> 00:30:54.020
- [Maria] Chicken and cheese.

00:30:54.020 --> 00:30:55.481
- OK, I\'ll take the cheese.

00:30:55.481 --> 00:30:57.585
- And can I get some water?

00:30:57.585 --> 00:30:59.397
- [Maria] Like that? Cheese?

00:30:59.397 --> 00:31:01.718
(bell ringing)
- Oh, guess what?

00:31:02.460 --> 00:31:04.390
- I wanna show you something.

00:31:04.390 --> 00:31:05.770
Does anyone read the paper?

00:31:05.770 --> 00:31:08.300
Does anyone\'s family read the paper, yeah?

00:31:08.300 --> 00:31:10.880
I want you to maybe question whether I\'m really doing

00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:11.770
what it looks like I\'m doing.

00:31:11.770 --> 00:31:13.151
Like, am I really tearing this?

00:31:13.151 --> 00:31:14.020
- Yes.
- No.

00:31:14.020 --> 00:31:14.970
- Yeah?

00:31:14.970 --> 00:31:16.750
It could be that I\'m not, right?

00:31:16.750 --> 00:31:18.730
It could be that it\'s just a trick.

00:31:19.850 --> 00:31:21.430
But it sounds real, right?

00:31:21.430 --> 00:31:23.080
Like it\'s really being torn, yes?

00:31:24.700 --> 00:31:26.150
Yeah?
- Yeah.

00:31:26.150 --> 00:31:28.240
- So one of the oldest tricks in magic,

00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:29.300
it came from ancient China,

00:31:29.300 --> 00:31:30.160
was that you take those pieces

00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:31.519
and put them back together like that.

00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:34.360
(children gasping)
Isn\'t that funny?

00:31:34.360 --> 00:31:35.880
Isn\'t that weird?

00:31:35.880 --> 00:31:38.776
That\'s a very strange thing to see happen, yeah?

00:31:38.776 --> 00:31:41.445
So you can clap if you want, you can applaud. I don\'t care.

00:31:41.445 --> 00:31:45.920
(laughing)
(applause)

00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:47.000
Where I came from,

00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:48.390
it just never seemed like that was possible

00:31:48.390 --> 00:31:49.790
that you could do magic as a job.

00:31:49.790 --> 00:31:52.337
I\'m from a place in the South.

00:31:52.337 --> 00:31:54.920
My family had a lot of problems.

00:31:54.920 --> 00:31:55.940
They had a lot of...

00:31:55.940 --> 00:31:58.020
no money, and it\'s just kind of something where

00:31:58.020 --> 00:31:58.960
it was just very hard growing up

00:31:58.960 --> 00:32:02.140
but it just never seemed possible to do magic for a living.

00:32:02.140 --> 00:32:04.120
But really, the thing that you want to do?

00:32:04.120 --> 00:32:04.953
It\'s possible.

00:32:04.953 --> 00:32:05.786
You should, you can do it.

00:32:05.786 --> 00:32:07.010
You have to go after it, though.

00:32:07.010 --> 00:32:07.990
You have to work hard.

00:32:07.990 --> 00:32:10.120
I\'ll hold this one, you hold this one.

00:32:10.120 --> 00:32:12.090
So I have one... hold tight, hold tight.

00:32:12.090 --> 00:32:13.312
I have one and you have one, yeah?

00:32:13.312 --> 00:32:15.560
Use your imagination.

00:32:15.560 --> 00:32:17.474
One, two, three, four,

00:32:17.474 --> 00:32:19.605
five, six, seven.
- Six, seven, eight.

00:32:19.605 --> 00:32:21.094
- [Magician] Go. Whoa!

00:32:21.094 --> 00:32:23.700
(children exclaiming)

00:32:23.700 --> 00:32:24.838
- [Magician] This kid is amazing.

00:32:24.838 --> 00:32:25.680
Now give him a round of applause.

00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:29.080
That was really nice.
(applause)

00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:35.831
- So how about we write about magic?

00:32:35.831 --> 00:32:38.460
It could be whatever magic means to you.

00:32:38.460 --> 00:32:41.969
You could think of a certain day that you felt was magical,

00:32:41.969 --> 00:32:45.160
and one story could be

00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:47.510
about something that looks like one thing

00:32:47.510 --> 00:32:50.020
but really it\'s something else.

00:32:50.020 --> 00:32:53.380
You could also write a story about someone tricking someone.

00:32:54.410 --> 00:32:56.030
Melvin, this is not...

00:32:56.030 --> 00:32:59.150
Remember what we talked about, appropriate moments?

00:32:59.150 --> 00:32:59.983
This is not the one.

00:32:59.983 --> 00:33:01.620
You\'ve got 15 minutes.

00:33:01.620 --> 00:33:04.759
Your time starts now.

00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:07.176
(indistinct chatter)

00:33:08.722 --> 00:33:09.920
- I don\'t know what to write.

00:33:10.999 --> 00:33:12.607
- Magic is fake.

00:33:12.607 --> 00:33:15.190
- [Stephen] I like to give them meaningful puzzles

00:33:16.270 --> 00:33:20.030
and ask them to think, to really, really think --

00:33:20.030 --> 00:33:21.770
because they\'re not empty vessels,

00:33:21.770 --> 00:33:24.531
they\'re full of thoughts.

00:33:24.531 --> 00:33:26.790
And I just think too often the school system

00:33:26.790 --> 00:33:28.950
does not have faith in them.

00:33:28.950 --> 00:33:31.270
They don\'t have faith that the lives of the children

00:33:31.270 --> 00:33:33.100
have intrinsic value,

00:33:33.100 --> 00:33:36.380
that the children have stories to tell.

00:33:36.380 --> 00:33:37.960
- When I do magic,

00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:41.375
I feel like a bear eating mushrooms

00:33:41.375 --> 00:33:45.050
and feeling happy, and doing magic.

00:33:45.050 --> 00:33:45.883
- [Stephen] Beautiful,

00:33:45.883 --> 00:33:47.500
she feels like a bear eating mushrooms.

00:33:47.500 --> 00:33:49.100
(laughing)

00:33:49.100 --> 00:33:50.580
Thank you, Michelle. Who\'s next?

00:33:50.580 --> 00:33:54.500
- True magic lies within the individual

00:33:54.500 --> 00:33:59.500
and their ability to use their creative imagination

00:33:59.690 --> 00:34:03.000
to turn dreams into reality.

00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:04.610
- [Stephen] Thank you, Kelly. Who\'s next?

00:34:04.610 --> 00:34:07.030
- It was not unknown that I wasn\'t alive.

00:34:07.030 --> 00:34:08.113
I was dead.

00:34:08.113 --> 00:34:11.610
And suddenly my world turned upside down

00:34:11.610 --> 00:34:13.808
and I\'m different,

00:34:13.808 --> 00:34:17.720
and I finally found what I\'ve been looking for all my life,

00:34:17.720 --> 00:34:19.750
what I\'ve wanted all my life.

00:34:19.750 --> 00:34:24.350
And only that helped set me free, and now I am alive.

00:34:24.350 --> 00:34:25.380
Now I breathe.

00:34:26.864 --> 00:34:28.848
- That is magical.

00:34:28.848 --> 00:34:31.127
Thank you very much, Aylen.

00:34:31.127 --> 00:34:34.790
There once was a magic pencil

00:34:35.810 --> 00:34:39.050
who danced in the air like no other pencil.

00:34:40.380 --> 00:34:41.960
That\'s the beginning.

00:34:41.960 --> 00:34:43.670
Please do continue it, OK?

00:34:43.670 --> 00:34:45.300
That\'s very promising.

00:34:45.300 --> 00:34:47.870
I want to know all about these magical properties

00:34:47.870 --> 00:34:49.010
of the pencil.

00:34:49.010 --> 00:34:50.430
Thank you, Hugo.

00:34:50.430 --> 00:34:53.010
So boys and girls,

00:34:53.010 --> 00:34:55.610
today I\'ve got these.

00:34:55.610 --> 00:34:58.890
They\'re tiny little sunflower seeds.

00:34:59.790 --> 00:35:02.910
And today what Matt did for us

00:35:04.150 --> 00:35:06.720
is he planted a seed,

00:35:06.720 --> 00:35:09.620
an idea -- the idea of magic,

00:35:09.620 --> 00:35:11.250
the idea of believing

00:35:12.270 --> 00:35:16.030
and the idea of trying to understand the way things work.

00:35:16.030 --> 00:35:19.480
That seed is gonna grow in your imagination

00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:20.870
for the rest of your life.

00:35:20.870 --> 00:35:24.580
So I want us to thank Matt with a huge round of applause

00:35:24.580 --> 00:35:25.948
for what he did for us today.

00:35:25.948 --> 00:35:28.198
(applause)

00:35:29.626 --> 00:35:32.959
(rhythmic latin music)

00:35:35.930 --> 00:35:37.290
[Stephen] Oh, did you finish the story already?

00:35:37.290 --> 00:35:38.790
- No, no, no.
- Close?

00:35:38.790 --> 00:35:40.240
- Almost.
- Almost.

00:35:40.240 --> 00:35:42.430
So wrap that up in the next minute or two

00:35:42.430 --> 00:35:45.440
and then write a poem, one poem for the entire group.

00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:48.040
So one poem for each group, just five lines, OK?

00:35:48.040 --> 00:35:48.873
- OK.

00:35:48.873 --> 00:35:50.900
- [Stephen] And you can just toss in all the ideas together

00:35:50.900 --> 00:35:52.890
and someone could write it down for you,

00:35:52.890 --> 00:35:54.850
or someone else can write it down, OK?

00:35:54.850 --> 00:35:55.683
- Sounds good.

00:35:55.683 --> 00:35:57.294
- [Stephen] One poem for the group.

00:35:57.294 --> 00:35:58.870
(indistinct chatter)

00:35:58.870 --> 00:36:01.760
- You might want to say something really exciting.

00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:05.340
- [Stephen] I want the attention in the room

00:36:05.340 --> 00:36:09.130
to flow horizontally from one person to another

00:36:09.130 --> 00:36:10.500
regardless of age.

00:36:10.500 --> 00:36:13.160
So a kindergarten child

00:36:13.160 --> 00:36:15.230
would be paying attention to a grown-up,

00:36:15.230 --> 00:36:18.250
but that grown-up will also be listening to that child,

00:36:18.250 --> 00:36:21.450
and all the ages in between all listening to each other.

00:36:21.450 --> 00:36:23.920
- So, like, his girl, right?

00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:25.870
- This is what I love,

00:36:25.870 --> 00:36:29.075
when I get to step away and watch.

00:36:29.075 --> 00:36:32.010
They get to work in small groups together,

00:36:32.010 --> 00:36:33.270
and they\'re happy.

00:36:33.270 --> 00:36:34.840
They\'re doing something, they\'re learning,

00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:36.010
and they\'re happy together.

00:36:36.010 --> 00:36:38.570
They\'re having fun, and I can just step away

00:36:38.570 --> 00:36:40.210
and watch and enjoy it.

00:36:40.210 --> 00:36:41.662
It\'s beautiful.

00:36:41.662 --> 00:36:43.720
(indistinct chatter)

00:36:43.720 --> 00:36:44.600
- Yeah, it does.

00:36:44.600 --> 00:36:48.680
This is the ideal, that the village is raising the child.

00:36:48.680 --> 00:36:52.710
That they\'re all taking care of each other,

00:36:52.710 --> 00:36:55.467
listening to each other, helping each other.

00:36:55.467 --> 00:36:57.100
It\'s what I love.

00:36:58.231 --> 00:37:01.178
This is the vision right here.

00:37:01.178 --> 00:37:06.178
(gentle instrumental music)
(indistinct chatter)

00:37:13.482 --> 00:37:16.399
(distant sirens blaring)

00:37:24.997 --> 00:37:28.330
(rhythmic latin music)

00:37:34.569 --> 00:37:37.236
(elevated train clacking)

00:37:39.410 --> 00:37:41.710
- [Stephen] I\'ve just written to my employees

00:37:41.710 --> 00:37:44.410
to confirm that I have no money to pay them

00:37:44.410 --> 00:37:45.800
this summer or fall.

00:37:47.040 --> 00:37:51.080
Our last year\'s grant was cut in half starting July 1st.

00:37:51.954 --> 00:37:55.140
The job now becomes keeping the door open.

00:37:56.380 --> 00:37:58.650
Saskia will not return this fall.

00:37:59.770 --> 00:38:02.510
I want very much to keep Maria.

00:38:02.510 --> 00:38:05.590
My top funding priorities are me,

00:38:05.590 --> 00:38:08.050
the rent and the electricity, and Maria.

00:38:09.940 --> 00:38:12.800
Harsh reality down here in the grassroots.

00:38:14.836 --> 00:38:17.586
(elevated train clacking)

00:38:19.304 --> 00:38:21.804
(child crying)

00:38:26.140 --> 00:38:30.680
So far I have not applied for government funding

00:38:31.520 --> 00:38:35.500
because I\'m afraid that there are too many strings attached.

00:38:36.650 --> 00:38:41.360
That they\'ll force me to report on results.

00:38:41.360 --> 00:38:45.530
That they\'ll want data that proves that

00:38:46.830 --> 00:38:51.440
my school is improving children\'s academic standing.

00:38:52.410 --> 00:38:55.630
And that\'s why I\'m appealing to individuals

00:38:55.630 --> 00:38:59.690
and to foundations, because it gives me the most freedom

00:38:59.690 --> 00:39:01.390
to do things the way I want to do.

00:39:02.493 --> 00:39:04.430
(child crying)

00:39:04.430 --> 00:39:05.750
I\'m appealing widely.

00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:08.420
There has to be urgency,

00:39:08.420 --> 00:39:11.140
but there also has to be a sense that

00:39:12.300 --> 00:39:14.570
we\'re OK even if you don\'t

00:39:15.590 --> 00:39:17.240
do what I\'m asking you to do.

00:39:18.920 --> 00:39:22.040
I think that if people hear you being too needy,

00:39:22.890 --> 00:39:27.560
they\'re not confident that you are a stable organization.

00:39:28.850 --> 00:39:31.740
But if you are too

00:39:32.770 --> 00:39:34.540
casual and too...

00:39:36.310 --> 00:39:37.490
too self-sufficient,

00:39:38.570 --> 00:39:43.560
they don\'t see where their help will have an impact.

00:39:43.560 --> 00:39:46.840
They don\'t understand how you need them.

00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:50.410
So you need to need them and not need them at the same time.

00:39:50.410 --> 00:39:52.780
I think I\'ve got the right tone here,

00:39:52.780 --> 00:39:54.548
and I\'ll just send it.

00:39:54.548 --> 00:39:57.548
(gentle instrumental rock music)

00:40:04.220 --> 00:40:06.210
- [Stephen] We\'re going to Forest Park,

00:40:06.210 --> 00:40:09.780
so we\'re going to be spending time with trees.

00:40:11.720 --> 00:40:15.778
Everybody who comes on the trip will hug a tree.

00:40:15.778 --> 00:40:17.090
(children exclaiming)

00:40:17.090 --> 00:40:18.490
Yes, that is an order.

00:40:18.490 --> 00:40:20.263
That is a requirement.

00:40:20.263 --> 00:40:22.763
- [Child] Don\'t do what I did.

00:40:27.607 --> 00:40:31.274
(singing in spanish)

00:40:37.974 --> 00:40:39.998
- You should stop us.

00:40:39.998 --> 00:40:42.415
(indistinct chatter)

00:40:45.150 --> 00:40:48.220
- [Stephen] Really appreciate where we are.

00:40:48.220 --> 00:40:50.068
Stop and look around

00:40:50.068 --> 00:40:54.090
and listen to what it\'s like without all the noise,

00:40:54.090 --> 00:40:56.440
and to notice what it sounds like

00:40:56.440 --> 00:40:58.290
when the wind goes through the leaves,

00:40:59.409 --> 00:41:02.230
and what it feels like to have green everywhere you look,

00:41:03.548 --> 00:41:06.398
and what it feels like to have the earth under your feet.

00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:10.510
We don\'t get this opportunity in the city very much.

00:41:11.350 --> 00:41:14.300
And listen to the tree

00:41:14.300 --> 00:41:16.940
and write down what does the tree say to you.

00:41:18.195 --> 00:41:23.195
In Latin, you\'re gonna write a prayer to the tree.

00:41:23.249 --> 00:41:25.666
(indistinct chatter)

00:41:28.873 --> 00:41:30.440
Ooh, how does that bark feel?

00:41:31.910 --> 00:41:32.799
- Hard?

00:41:32.799 --> 00:41:33.826
- Hard, yeah.

00:41:33.826 --> 00:41:36.212
It\'s kind of scratchy too, right?

00:41:36.212 --> 00:41:39.050
Remember the Latin poem we read

00:41:39.050 --> 00:41:42.505
where Dido was insulting Aeneas?

00:41:42.505 --> 00:41:43.338
- Yeah.

00:41:43.338 --> 00:41:47.380
- And she said, \"You are like the oak trees

00:41:47.380 --> 00:41:49.500
that grow on the cliffs.\"

00:41:49.500 --> 00:41:51.500
This is what she was telling him.

00:41:51.500 --> 00:41:53.678
And it\'s a big, strong tree.

00:41:53.678 --> 00:41:55.060
(indistinct chatter)

00:41:55.060 --> 00:41:57.690
Brian, I\'ll leave you to listen to the tree,

00:41:57.690 --> 00:42:00.450
but I really want to know what the tree has to say

00:42:00.450 --> 00:42:03.520
about that vine that\'s wrapping itself around.

00:42:03.520 --> 00:42:06.090
I want to know if the tree loves the vine...

00:42:06.090 --> 00:42:08.632
- Or doesn\'t like it.
- Doesn\'t like the vine.

00:42:08.632 --> 00:42:11.210
- All right, I\'m gonna go on my way back.

00:42:11.210 --> 00:42:14.380
- I wish I married a tree.
(laughing)

00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:19.530
- [Stephen] You get to observe the whole cycle of life here.

00:42:19.530 --> 00:42:23.430
You get to see the dead tree that we were sitting on,

00:42:23.430 --> 00:42:24.680
and from the dead tree

00:42:24.680 --> 00:42:28.010
little sprouts of trees are growing, new trees.

00:42:28.010 --> 00:42:31.150
The whole cycle of life is right here with us.

00:42:31.150 --> 00:42:34.080
Enjoy the walk out, quietly please,

00:42:34.080 --> 00:42:37.440
so you can respect everybody\'s desire to

00:42:38.760 --> 00:42:40.201
see and hear.

00:42:41.984 --> 00:42:44.984
(gentle instrumental rock music)

00:42:56.414 --> 00:42:59.831
(intense percussive music)

00:43:12.390 --> 00:43:15.080
- Today we\'re going to read a poem.

00:43:15.080 --> 00:43:17.050
It\'s one that I gave you called \"The Flower,\"

00:43:17.050 --> 00:43:20.825
and it was written by a man named George Herbert

00:43:20.825 --> 00:43:23.420
almost 400 years ago.

00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:26.170
And George Herbert was...

00:43:26.170 --> 00:43:29.710
OK, if people are gonna talk while I\'m talking,

00:43:29.710 --> 00:43:32.310
I might have to call their parents to come get them.

00:43:34.470 --> 00:43:35.810
All right?

00:43:35.810 --> 00:43:37.550
Everyone listens to everyone.

00:43:37.550 --> 00:43:40.140
Right now you\'re listening to me,

00:43:40.140 --> 00:43:41.580
and then when you put your hand up

00:43:41.580 --> 00:43:43.000
and you have something to say,

00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:44.100
we\'ll all listen to you.

00:43:44.100 --> 00:43:46.380
But you are not talking while I\'m talking.

00:43:48.130 --> 00:43:49.570
So the poem is called \"The Flower.\"

00:43:49.570 --> 00:43:52.180
It was written almost 400 years ago

00:43:52.180 --> 00:43:54.330
by a man named George Herbert.

00:43:54.330 --> 00:43:57.570
George Herbert was British, and he

00:43:58.930 --> 00:44:00.450
was a religious man.

00:44:00.450 --> 00:44:02.490
He was a Christian.

00:44:02.490 --> 00:44:04.170
Oh gosh, we\'re doing it again.

00:44:05.700 --> 00:44:08.680
I swear, if you talk while I\'m talking one more time

00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:10.830
I\'m gonna tell your parents

00:44:10.830 --> 00:44:13.270
you can\'t come for the rest of the week.

00:44:13.270 --> 00:44:16.590
Come on, guys. Get back into your brain that you use here

00:44:16.590 --> 00:44:18.370
when you\'re respectful and patient.

00:44:19.226 --> 00:44:21.630
All right, follow along though, look at the page.

00:44:21.630 --> 00:44:23.800
Don\'t stress out if you don\'t know a word.

00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:26.640
Just pay attention to the words you do know.

00:44:26.640 --> 00:44:28.350
\"Oh, my only light.\"

00:44:28.350 --> 00:44:30.300
He\'s saying, \"God, you are my only light.\"

00:44:30.300 --> 00:44:33.610
\"It cannot be that I am he.\"

00:44:33.610 --> 00:44:35.180
It wasn\'t me, was it?

00:44:35.180 --> 00:44:38.510
\"On whom thy tempest fell all night.\"

00:44:38.510 --> 00:44:42.920
So he\'s saying, could it be that I\'m the same person?

00:44:42.920 --> 00:44:47.060
Me? Me with all these flowers coming out of me.

00:44:47.060 --> 00:44:49.140
Could I really be the same person

00:44:49.140 --> 00:44:52.350
that your storms fell on when it was dark?

00:44:53.240 --> 00:44:56.360
Am I the same person who was depressed?

00:44:58.180 --> 00:45:03.180
Who felt like his life was meaningless?

00:45:03.320 --> 00:45:04.690
Is that me?

00:45:04.690 --> 00:45:07.640
How can I be so happy now when I was so sad before?

00:45:10.790 --> 00:45:14.380
I want to say something personal about this too, Justin.

00:45:14.380 --> 00:45:17.550
A lot of you know this, but I, uh,

00:45:17.550 --> 00:45:21.560
have something called manic depression which is...

00:45:21.560 --> 00:45:22.610
Cristian, are you listening?

00:45:22.610 --> 00:45:24.480
Luis, are you listening?

00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:26.570
I have something called manic depression

00:45:26.570 --> 00:45:29.980
which means my brain is naturally missing

00:45:29.980 --> 00:45:32.890
certain chemicals that it needs, Michelle.

00:45:32.890 --> 00:45:36.170
Certain chemicals that make it think properly.

00:45:36.170 --> 00:45:40.750
So in the past, I went through a lot of depression.

00:45:40.750 --> 00:45:44.090
I went through phases where I didn\'t want to live anymore

00:45:44.090 --> 00:45:49.090
and I even planned to take my own life, it got so bad.

00:45:50.227 --> 00:45:54.860
Those were really dark, dark times and...

00:45:56.230 --> 00:45:58.370
I didn\'t want to stop teaching,

00:45:58.370 --> 00:46:01.290
I just couldn\'t teach in the school system anymore

00:46:01.290 --> 00:46:04.004
because it was making me depressed.

00:46:04.004 --> 00:46:08.470
That\'s when I sort of fell apart

00:46:08.470 --> 00:46:10.220
because I couldn\'t take it anymore.

00:46:11.500 --> 00:46:13.940
The school over there was very violent.

00:46:14.820 --> 00:46:16.140
There were fights...

00:46:16.140 --> 00:46:17.180
Hand down, I\'ll get to you.

00:46:17.180 --> 00:46:18.430
I\'m not gonna forget you.

00:46:19.758 --> 00:46:22.590
There were fights almost every day --

00:46:22.590 --> 00:46:27.270
in the lunchroom, in the hallways, in the classroom.

00:46:28.170 --> 00:46:31.000
It was a violent place,

00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:33.320
and I think the violence came from...

00:46:33.320 --> 00:46:35.040
sometimes came from their homes,

00:46:35.040 --> 00:46:37.810
sometimes their homes were violent.

00:46:37.810 --> 00:46:41.180
But also it came from the way they were treated.

00:46:41.180 --> 00:46:43.550
How would it make a young person feel

00:46:43.550 --> 00:46:47.350
to walk into a place and be scanned, x-rayed,

00:46:47.350 --> 00:46:50.400
and have cops with guns and bullet-proof vests

00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:51.670
in your school?

00:46:53.460 --> 00:46:57.240
When I left, I wanted to start a place where

00:46:57.240 --> 00:46:59.690
everybody would feel like they belong,

00:46:59.690 --> 00:47:01.720
where there\'s no pressure,

00:47:01.720 --> 00:47:04.490
and where people practice loving each other.

00:47:04.490 --> 00:47:07.510
Listening to each other is a way of loving each other.

00:47:09.350 --> 00:47:10.480
That\'s the history,

00:47:10.480 --> 00:47:13.280
it all comes from this idea of depression.

00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:15.120
But when I started Still Waters,

00:47:16.560 --> 00:47:19.190
you know, I didn\'t have a job.

00:47:19.190 --> 00:47:21.860
I was on unemployment, I was eating...

00:47:21.860 --> 00:47:24.500
I used food stamps...

00:47:24.500 --> 00:47:25.333
Sit.

00:47:25.333 --> 00:47:27.010
...food stamps to survive.

00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:30.980
And what made me come back up

00:47:30.980 --> 00:47:33.310
like the flower in George Herbert\'s poem

00:47:34.360 --> 00:47:37.210
was working with children in

00:47:38.216 --> 00:47:39.680
a room

00:47:40.834 --> 00:47:45.780
where there are no tests, no homework, no pressure,

00:47:45.780 --> 00:47:49.200
no bullies, no stress --

00:47:49.200 --> 00:47:51.820
just people who will listen to each other

00:47:51.820 --> 00:47:53.850
and help each other get through the day.

00:47:55.661 --> 00:47:59.120
George Herbert said, \"I\'m a flower,\"

00:48:00.010 --> 00:48:02.600
and he explained why he\'s a flower,

00:48:02.600 --> 00:48:04.920
and he claims we\'re all flowers.

00:48:04.920 --> 00:48:06.230
What are you?

00:48:06.230 --> 00:48:07.870
OK Paul, what are you?

00:48:07.870 --> 00:48:09.940
- A fox.
- A fox.

00:48:09.940 --> 00:48:11.186
Why are you a fox?

00:48:11.186 --> 00:48:12.019
- [Paul] Because I run.

00:48:12.019 --> 00:48:13.750
- [Stephen] Because you run, OK great.

00:48:13.750 --> 00:48:14.988
Melvin, what are you?

00:48:14.988 --> 00:48:17.299
- A sloth.
- A sloth!

00:48:17.299 --> 00:48:20.208
Ooh, a sloth. Why are you a sloth?

00:48:20.208 --> 00:48:21.508
- I have a list.

00:48:21.508 --> 00:48:23.460
(chuckles)
I\'m slow.

00:48:23.460 --> 00:48:25.923
I want to sleep every day.

00:48:25.923 --> 00:48:30.750
I talk slow.
(laughing)

00:48:30.750 --> 00:48:31.660
- [Stephen] Do you climb trees?

00:48:31.660 --> 00:48:33.370
- Um, no.
- Oh.

00:48:34.350 --> 00:48:35.748
- I\'m scared of heights.

00:48:35.748 --> 00:48:37.590
(laughing)

00:48:37.590 --> 00:48:38.423
- [Stephen] What do you think I am?

00:48:38.423 --> 00:48:39.440
I don\'t have to be an animal.

00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:40.704
I could be a...
- A Smurf!

00:48:40.704 --> 00:48:42.484
- Ooh, I know!
- A Smurf?

00:48:42.484 --> 00:48:43.524
(laughing)

00:48:43.524 --> 00:48:45.693
(excited chatter)

00:48:45.693 --> 00:48:47.470
- [Child] You\'re wearing blue and your hair is white.

00:48:47.470 --> 00:48:50.500
- I can\'t believe I handed that to you.

00:48:50.500 --> 00:48:52.287
OK, not counting Smurfs.

00:48:52.287 --> 00:48:54.930
Hold on. Shhhh.

00:48:54.930 --> 00:48:56.240
A real thing from nature.

00:48:56.240 --> 00:48:58.010
It could be a plant, it could be an animal.

00:48:58.010 --> 00:49:00.350
Something that really exists.

00:49:00.350 --> 00:49:03.580
- I think you\'re like a wave

00:49:03.580 --> 00:49:05.770
because you know how the wave,

00:49:05.770 --> 00:49:08.090
when you were going through a rough time though

00:49:08.090 --> 00:49:12.300
so the wave was going up harshly,

00:49:14.251 --> 00:49:17.190
and right now you\'re...

00:49:18.280 --> 00:49:23.280
you\'re giving shelter to all of us when we need time

00:49:23.410 --> 00:49:26.100
just like the ocean is when it\'s peaceful.

00:49:26.100 --> 00:49:27.810
- [Stephen] Oh that\'s beautiful, Rafael.

00:49:27.810 --> 00:49:29.297
Thank you very much.

00:49:29.297 --> 00:49:32.630
(rhythmic latin music)

00:49:38.513 --> 00:49:40.930
(engine puttering)

00:49:42.758 --> 00:49:45.591
(percussive reggaeton music)

00:49:59.030 --> 00:50:03.447
(latin guitar music)

00:50:04.680 --> 00:50:06.480
- [Audio of Donald Trump] The fact is

00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:09.000
many killings, murders, crime,

00:50:09.000 --> 00:50:11.970
drugs pouring across the border are money going out

00:50:11.970 --> 00:50:14.220
and the drugs coming in.

00:50:14.220 --> 00:50:17.010
We need to build a wall

00:50:17.010 --> 00:50:19.350
and it has to be built quickly.

00:50:24.193 --> 00:50:26.610
(indistinct chatter)

00:50:33.974 --> 00:50:35.336
- [Maria] Can we have breakfast with the pets?

00:50:35.336 --> 00:50:37.218
- Alta, give them back now.

00:50:37.218 --> 00:50:38.621
- [Girl] Hello, somebody home?

00:50:38.621 --> 00:50:41.038
(hands clapping)

00:50:44.073 --> 00:50:46.634
- [Child] I\'m blind, but I\'m wise.

00:50:46.634 --> 00:50:48.414
- I\'m blind, but I\'m wise.

00:50:48.414 --> 00:50:50.012
That\'s a great beginning.

00:50:50.012 --> 00:50:52.700
Fabulous Samantha. You are a true poet.

00:50:52.700 --> 00:50:53.993
Yes?
- We were talking

00:50:53.993 --> 00:50:56.081
and instead of being a teacher...

00:50:56.081 --> 00:50:58.307
Sometimes I feel like I want to be a teacher

00:50:58.307 --> 00:51:00.336
but then I want to be a doctor.

00:51:00.336 --> 00:51:01.310
I don\'t know.

00:51:01.310 --> 00:51:02.143
- [Stephen] You could be both.

00:51:02.143 --> 00:51:04.260
You could be a doctor who teaches other people

00:51:04.260 --> 00:51:05.380
how to be a doctor.

00:51:06.690 --> 00:51:07.867
What do you think of that?

00:51:07.867 --> 00:51:08.720
- A teacher-doctor. (chuckles)

00:51:08.720 --> 00:51:10.330
- Yeah, a teacher-doctor,

00:51:10.330 --> 00:51:11.460
but you know something else?

00:51:11.460 --> 00:51:12.930
Can I tell you something else?

00:51:12.930 --> 00:51:16.480
It\'s fun and it\'s important to think about

00:51:16.480 --> 00:51:18.940
what you might be when you grow up.

00:51:18.940 --> 00:51:21.910
It\'s really fun to think about all the possibilities.

00:51:21.910 --> 00:51:24.980
But also remember that right now you\'re a kid,

00:51:24.980 --> 00:51:27.410
and a lot of times in school they tell you that

00:51:27.410 --> 00:51:28.920
do well in school because

00:51:29.890 --> 00:51:32.630
20 years from now you can have a good life.

00:51:32.630 --> 00:51:35.210
But I want you also to be happy right now,

00:51:35.210 --> 00:51:37.200
because this is your life too.

00:51:37.200 --> 00:51:38.250
You know what I mean?

00:51:38.250 --> 00:51:40.400
Right now as children,

00:51:40.400 --> 00:51:41.960
this is an important part of your life.

00:51:41.960 --> 00:51:44.010
You don\'t give up your whole childhood

00:51:44.010 --> 00:51:48.020
because 20 years from now you might want a good job

00:51:48.020 --> 00:51:48.990
or whatever.

00:51:48.990 --> 00:51:52.830
Still dream about what you want to become,

00:51:52.830 --> 00:51:55.430
think about what you want to be and do,

00:51:55.430 --> 00:52:00.064
but also be happy being a kid right now. Yeah.

00:52:00.064 --> 00:52:02.505
Be a kid as long as you can.

00:52:02.505 --> 00:52:03.930
- [Child] I would like to be a teacher for now.

00:52:03.930 --> 00:52:05.020
I want to be a teacher now.

00:52:05.020 --> 00:52:06.390
- [Stephen] You\'ll be excellent.

00:52:07.720 --> 00:52:08.958
- [Child] I\'m gonna jump all of this up.

00:52:08.958 --> 00:52:11.125
(indistinct chatter)

00:52:14.599 --> 00:52:15.799
- [Child] Oh Stephen, where\'s the...?

00:52:15.799 --> 00:52:17.540
- [Stephen] Another source of trauma

00:52:17.540 --> 00:52:20.370
for the children here is racism.

00:52:21.360 --> 00:52:26.360
The culture around them looks down on them,

00:52:27.110 --> 00:52:29.920
that expects less of them.

00:52:29.920 --> 00:52:31.910
That has to hurt.

00:52:35.490 --> 00:52:38.310
And the neighborhood is being gentrified

00:52:38.310 --> 00:52:40.780
which means a lot of white people are coming here

00:52:41.970 --> 00:52:43.350
with money,

00:52:43.350 --> 00:52:47.260
and they\'re pricing out the families who\'ve been living here

00:52:48.220 --> 00:52:50.500
so many of the families can\'t afford to stay

00:52:50.500 --> 00:52:54.020
in a neighborhood that is their home.

00:52:59.631 --> 00:53:01.530
- [Melvin] Here\'s my books.

00:53:01.530 --> 00:53:03.020
- Here my books.

00:53:03.020 --> 00:53:05.810
- And here\'s the toys.

00:53:05.810 --> 00:53:07.966
Here\'s the two beds.

00:53:07.966 --> 00:53:09.416
- [Filmmaker] Which is your bed?

00:53:12.297 --> 00:53:14.600
(speaking in spanish)

00:53:14.600 --> 00:53:16.410
- She just said that, um,

00:53:16.410 --> 00:53:18.340
this building was recently sold

00:53:19.490 --> 00:53:22.680
and their lease is up in November, so she\'s nervous

00:53:22.680 --> 00:53:24.950
that they\'re probably gonna have to move again

00:53:24.950 --> 00:53:27.817
and they\'ve only been here a year.

00:53:27.817 --> 00:53:31.567
(speaking in spanish)

00:54:26.627 --> 00:54:29.190
- [Leslie] Hipsters are moving in.

00:54:29.190 --> 00:54:30.023
I have no problem with them,

00:54:30.023 --> 00:54:34.236
it\'s just they\'re like taking away our homes, you know?

00:54:34.236 --> 00:54:37.060
There\'s cafes which is kind of segregated.

00:54:38.665 --> 00:54:40.960
I don\'t know if they notice

00:54:40.960 --> 00:54:45.036
that there\'s only a specific race is in the cafe,

00:54:45.036 --> 00:54:46.810
but they\'re like...

00:54:46.810 --> 00:54:49.501
Literally, it\'s really so weird because

00:54:49.501 --> 00:54:52.420
every time I pass there there\'s always

00:54:52.420 --> 00:54:57.350
an average fair person there

00:54:57.350 --> 00:54:59.090
with their fancy Apples

00:54:59.090 --> 00:55:01.040
typing and drinking a coffee.

00:55:01.040 --> 00:55:02.369
- [Girl] It\'s always Apples.

00:55:02.369 --> 00:55:04.240
- There\'s no sign of a different culture.

00:55:04.240 --> 00:55:05.520
It\'s only them.

00:55:05.520 --> 00:55:07.840
- [Girl] And not even....

00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:09.980
- Sometimes I just feel like I should just go in

00:55:09.980 --> 00:55:11.854
and just like, \"Hey, give me a cup of coffee,\"

00:55:11.854 --> 00:55:13.316
but I don\'t know.

00:55:13.316 --> 00:55:15.720
I don\'t know if they would be OK with it.

00:55:15.720 --> 00:55:16.596
- [Girl] OK, I\'m gonna be chanting,

00:55:16.596 --> 00:55:19.575
\"Do it! Do it! Do it!\"

00:55:19.575 --> 00:55:22.492
(soft country rock music)

00:55:28.776 --> 00:55:31.276
(playing piano)

00:55:35.821 --> 00:55:38.321
(bell chiming)

00:55:39.560 --> 00:55:41.110
- [Stephen] OK everybody.

00:55:41.110 --> 00:55:46.110
We are so very, very lucky to have as our guest today

00:55:46.520 --> 00:55:48.933
Dan-el Padilla Peralta,

00:55:48.933 --> 00:55:50.750
and this is Dan-el right here.

00:55:52.010 --> 00:55:55.720
Dan-el came to this country from the Dominican Republic

00:55:55.720 --> 00:55:57.190
when he was four years old.

00:55:57.190 --> 00:55:58.940
Correct me if any of this is wrong.

00:56:00.390 --> 00:56:03.790
They had a rough time for a while, a really rough time,

00:56:03.790 --> 00:56:05.700
and actually ended up homeless.

00:56:07.206 --> 00:56:09.530
They moved a lot from one place to another.

00:56:10.380 --> 00:56:12.360
But through all of this,

00:56:12.360 --> 00:56:15.390
Dan-el took a real interest in the classics,

00:56:15.390 --> 00:56:17.210
in ancient history,

00:56:17.210 --> 00:56:20.670
and he met a man -- who he can tell you more about --

00:56:20.670 --> 00:56:22.570
who took an interest in him

00:56:22.570 --> 00:56:24.730
while he was in the shelter

00:56:24.730 --> 00:56:28.010
and that man helped him get into a really good school,

00:56:28.010 --> 00:56:29.990
a private school on a scholarship,

00:56:29.990 --> 00:56:31.870
a school called Collegiate.

00:56:32.830 --> 00:56:36.290
And since then has gone to three

00:56:36.290 --> 00:56:39.209
of the greatest universities on earth.

00:56:39.209 --> 00:56:42.510
First he got his bachelor\'s degree

00:56:42.510 --> 00:56:44.657
from Princeton University.

00:56:44.657 --> 00:56:48.710
Second, he went to England and got his master\'s degree

00:56:48.710 --> 00:56:51.120
from Oxford University.

00:56:51.120 --> 00:56:55.550
And third, he came back to the United States to California

00:56:55.550 --> 00:56:59.330
and got his PhD, his doctorate from Stanford University.

00:56:59.330 --> 00:57:00.840
It\'s absolutely amazing.

00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:03.297
So Dan-el, do you want to give them some context for this?

00:57:03.297 --> 00:57:04.450
- Yes! Absolutely.

00:57:04.450 --> 00:57:08.710
Well, this person on the front of the book

00:57:08.710 --> 00:57:10.840
is little me when I lived in Bushwick.

00:57:12.010 --> 00:57:14.660
I lived not that far away from here.

00:57:14.660 --> 00:57:18.260
My family spent a few months at the Bushwick Family Center,

00:57:18.260 --> 00:57:21.270
which is around the corner from Chauncey Street

00:57:21.270 --> 00:57:23.760
for those of you who have walked down there.

00:57:23.760 --> 00:57:26.020
So this story in the book

00:57:26.020 --> 00:57:28.230
comes as I talk about

00:57:28.230 --> 00:57:32.670
what it was like to learn Latin with an amazing teacher.

00:57:32.670 --> 00:57:37.040
When I went to private school in the seventh grade,

00:57:37.040 --> 00:57:38.660
I met this extraordinary person.

00:57:38.660 --> 00:57:41.010
She is the very best teacher I\'ve ever had,

00:57:41.010 --> 00:57:43.580
and it so happened that she taught Latin and Ancient Greek,

00:57:43.580 --> 00:57:47.870
so I decided I was gonna take Latin and Ancient Greek.

00:57:47.870 --> 00:57:49.150
So here we go.

00:57:49.150 --> 00:57:53.260
Sophomore fall, Dr. Russel\'s Latin and Greek classes

00:57:53.260 --> 00:57:56.810
finally began translating real ancient writers.

00:57:56.810 --> 00:57:59.120
Dr. Russel had us read Ovid\'s account

00:57:59.120 --> 00:58:01.330
of the Daedalus and Icarus myth.

00:58:01.330 --> 00:58:04.980
\"I advise you to fly in the middle, Icarus,

00:58:04.980 --> 00:58:07.990
lest the waves push your wings down if you go lower,

00:58:07.990 --> 00:58:10.720
or the sun burn them if you go higher.

00:58:10.720 --> 00:58:13.630
Take your course between the two.\"

00:58:13.630 --> 00:58:17.010
So one of her questions to us was,

00:58:17.010 --> 00:58:20.500
is it too dangerous always to fly high?

00:58:21.377 --> 00:58:24.100
- [Stephen] In your life, children,

00:58:24.100 --> 00:58:26.000
what would it mean to fly high?

00:58:26.000 --> 00:58:28.167
- Like follow your dreams?

00:58:29.450 --> 00:58:33.400
- Something you want to do, like for example a goal,

00:58:33.400 --> 00:58:37.200
a goal that you want to do at the end of the summer.

00:58:37.200 --> 00:58:39.820
- I would, like, go to Mexico in some other way

00:58:39.820 --> 00:58:42.310
because there\'s a university there.

00:58:43.880 --> 00:58:47.799
- I always wanted to do, like, a rollerskating ninja.

00:58:47.799 --> 00:58:49.507
(laughing)

00:58:49.507 --> 00:58:51.270
Because I\'ve got a ninja mask already.

00:58:51.270 --> 00:58:52.495
I already have it.

00:58:52.495 --> 00:58:55.080
(chuckling)

00:58:55.080 --> 00:58:57.560
- [Stephen] I\'m interested in your thoughts

00:58:57.560 --> 00:59:00.360
about should you stay in the middle,

00:59:02.246 --> 00:59:06.230
or should you try to go too high, or even too low?

00:59:06.230 --> 00:59:07.880
- I mean, it\'s like you can\'t think about

00:59:07.880 --> 00:59:10.170
being safe all the time because

00:59:10.170 --> 00:59:12.610
you\'re gonna be paranoid about staying safe

00:59:12.610 --> 00:59:15.110
and that\'s all you\'re probably gonna worry about

00:59:15.110 --> 00:59:18.750
and you\'re never really gonna do the things that

00:59:18.750 --> 00:59:20.368
perhaps you want to.

00:59:20.368 --> 00:59:23.530
- If you\'re taking a risk, even if something might go wrong

00:59:23.530 --> 00:59:27.520
you could still fix the problem and go back up.

00:59:27.520 --> 00:59:29.220
- [Stephen] Well said.

00:59:29.220 --> 00:59:33.250
- When I was young, all I wanted was to travel.

00:59:33.250 --> 00:59:34.190
I wanted to go places.

00:59:34.190 --> 00:59:35.510
I wanted to see things.

00:59:35.510 --> 00:59:36.720
I wanted to go to Europe.

00:59:36.720 --> 00:59:37.940
I wanted to go to South America.

00:59:37.940 --> 00:59:38.990
I wanted to go Africa.

00:59:38.990 --> 00:59:40.590
I wanted to go everywhere!

00:59:40.590 --> 00:59:44.460
I slowly began putting together

00:59:44.460 --> 00:59:48.940
something about my family\'s life in the United States.

00:59:48.940 --> 00:59:51.140
I realized that my family was

00:59:51.140 --> 00:59:52.390
growing up in the United States.

00:59:52.390 --> 00:59:54.940
\"Sin papeles,\" we were undocumented.

00:59:56.010 --> 00:59:58.350
We were not in proper immigration status.

00:59:59.720 --> 01:00:04.240
And this knowledge that

01:00:04.240 --> 01:00:05.710
we didn\'t have papeles,

01:00:05.710 --> 01:00:09.046
we didn\'t have immigration documentation,

01:00:09.046 --> 01:00:12.620
and how it impacted my life

01:00:13.490 --> 01:00:16.370
is the theme of this book right here.

01:00:18.130 --> 01:00:21.260
Because not having papeles, not having documentation

01:00:21.260 --> 01:00:24.140
meant that at several stages of my life

01:00:24.140 --> 01:00:26.580
I had to take risks.

01:00:26.580 --> 01:00:29.200
My parents, and especially my mom,

01:00:29.200 --> 01:00:33.090
had told me over and over again that college is the goal.

01:00:33.090 --> 01:00:34.210
\"Everything you are doing,

01:00:34.210 --> 01:00:36.000
you are doing so you can go to college,

01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:37.930
and you can go to the very best colleges.

01:00:37.930 --> 01:00:40.000
Everything we have sacrificed as a family

01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:42.070
is for you to go to college.

01:00:42.070 --> 01:00:45.460
We stayed in the States, we became undocumented

01:00:45.460 --> 01:00:48.820
so that you could go to college.\"

01:00:48.820 --> 01:00:50.250
I got to Princeton and then I realized

01:00:50.250 --> 01:00:51.850
that are all these other obstacles!

01:00:51.850 --> 01:00:53.760
I had to take still more risks.

01:00:53.760 --> 01:00:55.860
But for that, you\'ll have to read the book.

01:00:55.860 --> 01:00:57.046
I\'m not gonna give any of those away.

01:00:57.046 --> 01:00:58.640
(children grumbling)
Ha-ha!

01:00:58.640 --> 01:01:02.255
Keep studying Latin, because it lives forever!

01:01:02.255 --> 01:01:03.683
(cheering)

01:01:03.683 --> 01:01:04.980
Thank you so much for having me.

01:01:04.980 --> 01:01:05.813
- [Stephen] Thank you.

01:01:05.813 --> 01:01:08.146
(applause)

01:01:10.150 --> 01:01:12.867
- I might read it later for the reading part.

01:01:12.867 --> 01:01:14.350
- Oh, yeah.

01:01:14.805 --> 01:01:17.080
- It was really inspiring.

01:01:17.080 --> 01:01:19.200
It makes me think that I want to do that too.

01:01:19.200 --> 01:01:20.320
- You will do it!

01:01:20.320 --> 01:01:22.590
My family had nothing,

01:01:22.590 --> 01:01:26.910
and the first time I looked up just how much Princeton costs

01:01:26.910 --> 01:01:29.570
I said to myself, \"Oh my goodness, how...

01:01:29.570 --> 01:01:31.670
My mom can\'t afford this.\"

01:01:31.670 --> 01:01:34.460
But I was lucky that I had, at my high school,

01:01:34.460 --> 01:01:35.293
there were teachers

01:01:35.293 --> 01:01:38.195
and mentors who said, \"Don\'t worry.

01:01:38.195 --> 01:01:39.690
Some of the schools you\'re applying to

01:01:39.690 --> 01:01:41.350
will be able to give you financial aid,

01:01:41.350 --> 01:01:42.850
and you could keep striving.\"

01:01:43.708 --> 01:01:44.791
- Yeah. OK.

01:01:45.754 --> 01:01:47.750
- Have a great rest of the summer.

01:01:47.750 --> 01:01:49.240
- You too!

01:01:49.240 --> 01:01:50.310
- And maybe I\'ll see you again here.

01:01:50.310 --> 01:01:51.650
- [Leslie] Yeah, I hope you come back.

01:01:51.650 --> 01:01:53.279
- I will come back.

01:01:53.279 --> 01:01:54.778
- I\'m going to have to head out.

01:01:54.778 --> 01:01:56.190
Nice meeting you.

01:01:56.190 --> 01:01:57.408
- It was a pleasure to meet you.

01:01:57.925 --> 01:01:59.350
(children shouting)

01:02:00.891 --> 01:02:03.199
(soft instrumental rock music)

01:02:08.993 --> 01:02:11.410
(indistinct chatter)

01:02:18.995 --> 01:02:21.412
(boat horn blowing)

01:02:30.989 --> 01:02:33.239
(cheering)

01:02:34.742 --> 01:02:38.320
- I feel like we\'ve really been a family this summer.

01:02:38.320 --> 01:02:39.950
We\'ve done great work together,

01:02:39.950 --> 01:02:42.600
and we\'ve been kind to each other,

01:02:42.600 --> 01:02:45.120
and patient and loving to each other,

01:02:45.120 --> 01:02:48.670
and that\'s what matters most. But in September

01:02:48.670 --> 01:02:51.400
some of our dear friends won\'t be around,

01:02:51.400 --> 01:02:54.670
so let\'s give applause as thanks

01:02:54.670 --> 01:02:57.080
for all of the wonderful people who\'ve helped us

01:02:57.080 --> 01:02:58.709
all summer long.

01:02:58.709 --> 01:03:00.501
(applause)

01:03:00.501 --> 01:03:03.720
This has been a great summer.

01:03:03.720 --> 01:03:04.993
- [Child] It\'s a pirate ship!

01:03:04.993 --> 01:03:08.135
We even have a pirate ship in class!

01:03:08.135 --> 01:03:11.947
(electronic beeping)

01:03:11.947 --> 01:03:15.780
(car radio playing pop music)

01:03:25.580 --> 01:03:30.274
(speaking in spanish)

01:03:30.274 --> 01:03:33.274
(faint latin music)

01:03:34.121 --> 01:03:35.365
(shouting and cheering)

01:03:35.365 --> 01:03:37.041
- [Audio of Donald Trump] Are you ready?

01:03:37.041 --> 01:03:39.350
(cheering)

01:03:39.350 --> 01:03:43.520
We will build a great wall along the southern border

01:03:45.840 --> 01:03:48.674
and Mexico will pay for the wall.

01:03:48.674 --> 01:03:51.306
(cheering)

01:03:51.306 --> 01:03:54.889
- [Crowd] Build that wall! Build that wall!

01:03:57.457 --> 01:03:59.957
(pens and pencils rattling)

01:04:06.510 --> 01:04:08.940
- I\'m feeling tremendous pressure right now

01:04:10.660 --> 01:04:14.300
because we\'re running out of money.

01:04:18.461 --> 01:04:19.700
Y\'know, that\'s

01:04:21.430 --> 01:04:24.230
stressful for me

01:04:24.230 --> 01:04:25.810
and for the families I work with

01:04:25.810 --> 01:04:27.180
and for my own family.

01:04:28.485 --> 01:04:31.460
We have no safety net.

01:04:31.460 --> 01:04:36.460
We have no savings, or investments, or property

01:04:36.510 --> 01:04:37.810
or anything,

01:04:39.400 --> 01:04:41.210
and no guarantee that...

01:04:43.680 --> 01:04:46.650
that I can feed my kids with...

01:04:51.551 --> 01:04:55.660
You know, after the next two to three months

01:04:55.660 --> 01:04:58.870
there\'s no guarantee that we have anything,

01:04:59.750 --> 01:05:01.330
so it\'s hard.

01:05:04.197 --> 01:05:07.590
It\'s a mental struggle right now.

01:05:09.975 --> 01:05:14.317
I just wrote a letter to the families here

01:05:14.317 --> 01:05:18.170
asking, if they\'re able, could they make a donation

01:05:18.170 --> 01:05:20.040
of $5 a week.

01:05:20.930 --> 01:05:25.630
And if they are not able to make that donation, it\'s OK,

01:05:25.630 --> 01:05:27.030
I\'ll still teach their kids

01:05:27.030 --> 01:05:30.240
and they\'ll get all the same opportunities.

01:05:30.240 --> 01:05:32.420
But if they are able to give that much,

01:05:32.420 --> 01:05:34.800
that would be a huge help.

01:05:34.800 --> 01:05:39.800
And so far the response has been very positive.

01:05:40.100 --> 01:05:43.145
They\'re just immediately handing me $5 bills,

01:05:43.800 --> 01:05:46.580
so you know, that...

01:05:46.580 --> 01:05:49.020
The love that the children and their families

01:05:49.020 --> 01:05:50.380
have for this place...

01:05:51.770 --> 01:05:53.280
I think that that will...

01:05:54.180 --> 01:05:55.380
that will win.

01:05:57.620 --> 01:05:58.940
But it\'s hard.

01:05:58.940 --> 01:06:03.720
It\'s hard having no real promise of stability.

01:06:05.880 --> 01:06:07.070
Hello, Jimmy.

01:06:08.240 --> 01:06:09.620
Do you like the sunshine, Jimmy?

01:06:09.620 --> 01:06:10.805
- Mm-hmm.

01:06:10.805 --> 01:06:11.820
It hurt my eyes.

01:06:11.820 --> 01:06:12.710
- It hurts your eyes?
- Mm-hmm.

01:06:12.710 --> 01:06:14.600
I\'m gonna get braces now.

01:06:14.600 --> 01:06:15.841
- You\'re getting braces?

01:06:15.841 --> 01:06:17.939
When are you getting braces?

01:06:17.939 --> 01:06:19.560
- Like, when this...

01:06:19.560 --> 01:06:21.640
when it\'s Christmas.

01:06:21.640 --> 01:06:23.240
- Really?

01:06:23.240 --> 01:06:24.720
Why, are your teeth crooked?

01:06:25.810 --> 01:06:28.270
Yeah? I never noticed that.

01:06:28.270 --> 01:06:30.040
Yeah, good.

01:06:30.040 --> 01:06:33.860
I know their families have the same pressure.

01:06:33.860 --> 01:06:38.470
A lot of them are being displaced by the new

01:06:38.470 --> 01:06:41.570
wave of residents coming to this neighborhood,

01:06:41.570 --> 01:06:42.870
the people who have money.

01:06:43.810 --> 01:06:48.810
So the families are being pushed out of their homes,

01:06:48.830 --> 01:06:51.670
often with no idea where they\'re going to go next,

01:06:54.570 --> 01:06:59.570
so, you know, we all have our struggles

01:06:59.800 --> 01:07:03.080
and we just try to help each other as much as we can

01:07:03.080 --> 01:07:04.010
along the way.

01:07:05.787 --> 01:07:07.480
(indistinct chatter)

01:07:07.480 --> 01:07:08.971
Hey Elmer, how\'s it going?

01:07:08.971 --> 01:07:10.925
(speaking in spanish)

01:07:10.925 --> 01:07:12.466
(exhausted sigh)
- I\'m tired.

01:07:12.466 --> 01:07:13.818
- [Stephen] You are?

01:07:13.818 --> 01:07:14.818
Oh, gracias.

01:07:18.999 --> 01:07:22.749
(speaking in spanish)

01:07:24.346 --> 01:07:27.213
(indistinct chatter)

01:07:27.213 --> 01:07:31.210
(fire engine siren blaring)

01:07:31.210 --> 01:07:33.460
- I do not like Donald Trump.

01:07:33.460 --> 01:07:34.960
He\'s racist.
- Yup.

01:07:36.385 --> 01:07:38.890
- But they do nothing.
- Here he is.

01:07:38.890 --> 01:07:40.140
Look at that headline.

01:07:40.140 --> 01:07:42.105
\"Stop the Bull\"

01:07:42.105 --> 01:07:44.270
(laughing)

01:07:44.270 --> 01:07:45.570
\"If Trump the racist

01:07:45.570 --> 01:07:48.949
plans to visit the holiest place in the world for Muslims,

01:07:48.949 --> 01:07:52.900
such a visit will set the whole region on fire.\"

01:07:52.900 --> 01:07:55.930
Oh, this guy from Syria, a refugee

01:07:55.930 --> 01:07:58.253
has been living in Brooklyn for five years.

01:07:58.253 --> 01:08:00.390
He wants Trump to know something.

01:08:00.390 --> 01:08:03.420
He says, \"Syrians live a normal life.

01:08:03.420 --> 01:08:05.310
They are not terrorists.

01:08:05.310 --> 01:08:07.900
They are not ISIS, as Trump says.

01:08:07.900 --> 01:08:11.020
They just want to be secure from war.\"

01:08:11.020 --> 01:08:12.620
Right? They want safety.

01:08:12.620 --> 01:08:16.450
- I see more struggles in people\'s eyes

01:08:16.450 --> 01:08:20.760
and more, like, less of hope and more depression.

01:08:21.943 --> 01:08:25.659
I\'ve seen that Donald Trump has been...

01:08:25.659 --> 01:08:29.760
not a big influence on the rights coming in,

01:08:29.760 --> 01:08:32.470
but a big influence on America,

01:08:32.470 --> 01:08:35.030
on how people are being treated.

01:08:35.030 --> 01:08:37.260
Because I\'m a Mexican,

01:08:37.260 --> 01:08:40.865
and personally I\'ve been offended by Donald Trump saying

01:08:40.865 --> 01:08:45.200
how drugs are being taken in because of Mexicans

01:08:45.200 --> 01:08:48.410
or how Mexicans are taking other people\'s jobs --

01:08:48.410 --> 01:08:49.780
even though that\'s not true.

01:08:49.780 --> 01:08:52.650
- You\'re so stupid!
(laughing)

01:08:52.650 --> 01:08:54.643
- [Child] You have to take it off!

01:08:54.643 --> 01:08:58.260
- A Republican named Donald Trump who,

01:08:59.603 --> 01:09:04.603
for some reason, doesn\'t like Latin Americans,

01:09:05.010 --> 01:09:09.640
thinks that they\'re drug sellers,

01:09:09.640 --> 01:09:12.410
that they\'re bad people but

01:09:13.530 --> 01:09:14.820
that\'s all not true.

01:09:18.559 --> 01:09:20.570
I know that he...

01:09:20.570 --> 01:09:23.090
on purpose he wants to do this because

01:09:23.090 --> 01:09:25.180
I know that it\'s his land,

01:09:26.222 --> 01:09:28.810
his USA, but...

01:09:29.690 --> 01:09:32.480
but he has to know that...

01:09:33.770 --> 01:09:37.470
that the Bill of Rights declares that we all live...

01:09:39.574 --> 01:09:40.574
live freely.

01:09:49.735 --> 01:09:52.422
- The people that bought it, it\'s a real estate corporation.

01:09:52.422 --> 01:09:54.370
They dropped off a letter

01:09:56.120 --> 01:09:58.240
on November 5th, at the beginning of the month,

01:09:58.240 --> 01:10:00.579
and they wanted them out by the end of the month.

01:10:00.579 --> 01:10:03.746
(speaking in spanish)

01:11:01.133 --> 01:11:03.110
- OK, here\'s a napkin.

01:11:03.110 --> 01:11:05.247
Take a napkin and take a concha.

01:11:05.247 --> 01:11:06.962
- [Child] The conchas are so far away!

01:11:07.117 --> 01:11:08.332
(laughing)

01:11:08.332 --> 01:11:10.428
My arms are short, but my legs are long.

01:11:10.428 --> 01:11:12.243
- Wait, what?
- Where are the napkins?

01:11:12.243 --> 01:11:13.090
- [Child] I\'m not joking.

01:11:13.090 --> 01:11:14.008
My arms are short and my legs...

01:11:14.008 --> 01:11:15.228
- [Stephen] Mexican bread.

01:11:15.228 --> 01:11:17.147
(indistinct chatter)

01:11:17.147 --> 01:11:20.980
(singing in spanish)

01:11:22.985 --> 01:11:24.710
(laughing)

01:11:24.710 --> 01:11:25.950
- [Child] How much? How much?

01:11:25.950 --> 01:11:27.077
- Let\'s begin.

01:11:27.410 --> 01:11:28.860
Let\'s begin.

01:11:28.860 --> 01:11:30.950
So we\'ve talked before about

01:11:30.950 --> 01:11:33.780
Satan as a hero in Paradise Lost.

01:11:33.780 --> 01:11:35.070
Often when we think of heroes

01:11:35.070 --> 01:11:37.240
we think of someone we admire.
- A leader!

01:11:37.240 --> 01:11:39.420
- [Stephen] Right, who\'s a leader,

01:11:39.420 --> 01:11:41.240
who\'s brave in some way,

01:11:41.240 --> 01:11:44.310
who helps other people and makes a sacrifice.

01:11:44.310 --> 01:11:47.700
So he said, \"Wait, because things might get better,

01:11:47.700 --> 01:11:50.340
and because if we don\'t wait,

01:11:50.340 --> 01:11:52.820
things might get worse.\"

01:11:52.820 --> 01:11:54.950
So that was his main argument.

01:11:54.950 --> 01:11:56.604
\"Let\'s just wait.\"

01:11:56.604 --> 01:11:57.519
Melvin?

01:11:57.519 --> 01:12:01.120
- \"What can we suffer more?\"
- Oh, yes.

01:12:01.120 --> 01:12:02.960
- \"What can we suffer worse?\"

01:12:02.960 --> 01:12:04.740
- [Stephen] At the top of 33, do you see it?

01:12:04.740 --> 01:12:05.650
- [Child] Yes.

01:12:05.650 --> 01:12:10.650
- \"Is this then worst, thus sitting, thus consulting,

01:12:11.085 --> 01:12:15.350
thus in arms?\"
- Yes, that\'s good Melvin!

01:12:15.350 --> 01:12:18.707
Right, he\'s saying things can get worse

01:12:18.707 --> 01:12:20.720
and they can get better,

01:12:20.720 --> 01:12:22.849
so let\'s not do anything.
- I feel bad for Satan.

01:12:22.849 --> 01:12:26.380
- [Stephen] But sometimes if you just wait

01:12:26.380 --> 01:12:27.480
for things to get better,

01:12:27.480 --> 01:12:29.188
if you have that kind of hope,

01:12:29.188 --> 01:12:31.570
it means that you\'re not really doing anything

01:12:31.570 --> 01:12:33.110
about your problems.

01:12:33.110 --> 01:12:37.060
Hope can be the thing that makes you want to keep going,

01:12:37.060 --> 01:12:39.600
but hope can also be the thing that stops you

01:12:39.600 --> 01:12:43.140
from doing anything about your troubles.

01:12:43.140 --> 01:12:44.440
If you just say, \"Oh I\'ll just wait.

01:12:44.440 --> 01:12:45.490
Things will get better.\"

01:12:45.490 --> 01:12:48.270
Not always. Like with this group,

01:12:48.270 --> 01:12:50.690
the terrorists who are attacking everywhere now.

01:12:51.690 --> 01:12:54.390
If you just wait and hope that they\'ll stop doing it,

01:12:54.390 --> 01:12:56.160
they probably won\'t stop doing it.

01:12:56.160 --> 01:12:58.552
- [Child] They\'re taking it too far now.

01:12:58.552 --> 01:12:59.740
- Way too far.

01:12:59.740 --> 01:13:02.009
- That might be the beginning of World War...

01:13:02.009 --> 01:13:03.564
- War III.
- Yeah,

01:13:03.564 --> 01:13:06.178
a new kind of war. Yeah.

01:13:06.178 --> 01:13:07.939
- [Child] I get nightmares.

01:13:07.939 --> 01:13:09.900
- Nightmares, you get nightmares from that?

01:13:09.900 --> 01:13:11.770
I know, it\'s pretty scary stuff.

01:13:12.710 --> 01:13:15.470
Why are we reading this book?

01:13:15.470 --> 01:13:19.260
Can you tell me why you think we\'re doing this?

01:13:19.260 --> 01:13:21.700
- [Child] Because it\'s like a puzzle that we can solve.

01:13:21.700 --> 01:13:23.730
- [Stephen] Yeah. It\'s beautiful,

01:13:23.730 --> 01:13:26.960
and that\'s really satisfying to solve a beautiful puzzle.

01:13:26.960 --> 01:13:29.450
What are other reasons for reading this book?

01:13:29.450 --> 01:13:30.283
Kimberly?

01:13:30.283 --> 01:13:31.407
- I think you said this,

01:13:31.407 --> 01:13:33.492
that it relates to our mind.

01:13:33.492 --> 01:13:34.890
- Yes!

01:13:34.890 --> 01:13:36.810
It relates to our mind,

01:13:36.810 --> 01:13:39.080
and we can look at this whole book

01:13:40.310 --> 01:13:43.500
as a story about the human mind.

01:13:44.740 --> 01:13:47.237
What\'s our favorite quote, one of our favorite quotes

01:13:47.237 --> 01:13:49.670
about the mind?

01:13:49.670 --> 01:13:51.760
Melvin?
- The mind is the only place

01:13:51.760 --> 01:13:53.094
you can make a...

01:13:53.094 --> 01:13:55.860
a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven.

01:13:55.860 --> 01:13:58.400
I don\'t...
- Yeah, well said.

01:13:58.400 --> 01:14:00.190
\"The mind is its own place,

01:14:00.190 --> 01:14:04.020
and of itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.\"

01:14:04.020 --> 01:14:05.520
Right, so...

01:14:06.560 --> 01:14:09.070
I believe that this whole book

01:14:09.070 --> 01:14:11.440
is really about the human mind.

01:14:11.440 --> 01:14:14.767
It\'s a story of what happens inside you.

01:14:14.767 --> 01:14:19.387
And so this meeting that the fallen angels are having

01:14:19.387 --> 01:14:21.600
is like the way you think

01:14:21.600 --> 01:14:22.640
when you\'re trying to make

01:14:22.640 --> 01:14:25.437
an important decision in your life,

01:14:25.437 --> 01:14:29.520
when you have to decide what you\'re going to do next.

01:14:29.520 --> 01:14:31.580
So you start talking to yourself,

01:14:31.580 --> 01:14:33.380
and I think all these angels

01:14:33.380 --> 01:14:35.310
are doing exactly that right now,

01:14:35.310 --> 01:14:38.070
and the whole thing is about our mind.

01:14:39.370 --> 01:14:41.376
So Beelzebub gets up,

01:14:41.376 --> 01:14:45.000
and he says, \"You\'re fooling yourselves.

01:14:45.000 --> 01:14:48.450
This is prison. This is not a safe refuge.\"

01:14:49.384 --> 01:14:52.842
(soft instrumental rock music)

01:14:57.235 --> 01:14:58.602
(metallic rattling)

01:15:05.687 --> 01:15:07.813
- Just put a piece of tape on the end there.

01:15:07.813 --> 01:15:09.747
- [Stephen] I think one of the big problems

01:15:09.747 --> 01:15:12.090
that my students face

01:15:12.090 --> 01:15:17.090
is a message from this society that

01:15:17.765 --> 01:15:19.490
they don\'t belong.

01:15:20.400 --> 01:15:22.480
[Stephen] Hey Santa, nice to see you!

01:15:23.961 --> 01:15:26.895
[All singing] Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock

01:15:26.895 --> 01:15:29.728
(indistinct chatter)

01:15:32.788 --> 01:15:35.392
(bell ringing)

01:15:35.900 --> 01:15:38.839
- Thank you to everybody for coming today.

01:15:38.839 --> 01:15:42.030
(speaking in spanish)

01:15:43.497 --> 01:15:46.880
(speaking in spanish)

01:16:02.060 --> 01:16:04.584
How do you say... Feliz Navidad.

01:16:04.584 --> 01:16:07.049
(speaking in spanish)

01:16:07.049 --> 01:16:08.125
(laughing)

01:16:08.125 --> 01:16:10.271
(speaking in spanish)

01:16:10.271 --> 01:16:13.438
(strumming acoustic guitar)

01:16:14.540 --> 01:16:15.770
Bye-bye. Bye Brittany.

01:16:15.770 --> 01:16:17.690
[Stephen] There\'s a great battle

01:16:17.690 --> 01:16:19.130
happening in this country

01:16:20.370 --> 01:16:24.920
over who belongs here, whose country this is.

01:16:24.920 --> 01:16:27.730
So my children internalize that message

01:16:27.730 --> 01:16:29.640
that they don\'t belong.

01:16:29.640 --> 01:16:33.530
And what I try to offer them here

01:16:33.530 --> 01:16:35.380
is a place where they do belong,

01:16:35.380 --> 01:16:38.280
where they matter very much,

01:16:38.280 --> 01:16:41.720
where they are loved and listened to,

01:16:41.720 --> 01:16:45.220
and that this place belongs to them.

01:16:45.220 --> 01:16:49.303
They belong here, and this place belongs to them.

01:16:53.442 --> 01:16:56.025
(metallic rattling)

01:17:18.528 --> 01:17:21.945
(percussive instrumental music)