Hope Where Are You?

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  stories with Mr Ewing.

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  They were going to read a really special book.

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  And I think it comes at a very important time

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  in our lives, in an education and are learning more

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  importantly, our community.

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  It is called hope.

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  Where are you by our moan do shit, Annalisa!

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  Wow! Huh?

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  Before we get started, I just want to ask the

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  question. What is the word hope mean?

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  Was it worth hope mean to you?

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  All right.

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  This is a great word that I think Take a

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  few moments and talk with your friends or your family

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  or whatever sitting around while you're listening to this story

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  and talk about the word.

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  Oh, hope!

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  Where are you?

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  Mulu? Africa?

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  I miss everyone of everything about school, even the two

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  hour walk to get there.

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  I spent my days helping my mother while my sister's

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  play staying busy keeps my mind off my hunger.

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  I listen to school lessons on the radio with my

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  dad. When my dad is not home today I overheard

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  my dad saying that he might not let me go

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  back to school.

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  My older sister was married a 12.

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  I'm just 11.

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  I have dreams of becoming a teacher.

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  I need to go back to school.

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  I worry about my younger sister.

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  I'm scared for myself.

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  My teacher, Amina comes to my house with two men

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  I have never seen.

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  They bring with them a box of food for our

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  family. My mom takes me and my sisters outside to

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  get water, she says.

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  Let's stay out here for a little while.

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  They need to speak with your dad for three.

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  Spent a long time talking with my fought to my

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  father. I wonder what there's, Huh?

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  What do you think they might be talking about?

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  Find out My dad pulls Mia's aside to tell me

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  I have decided that you will be returning to school.

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  He continues.

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  Can I see you teach some?

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  Can I see you teach some math to your sisters?

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  I'm quite excited as I explain the wonders of numbers

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  to my sisters.

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  Even my mom and my dad decided to participate.

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  I believe I will become a teacher, finding that warm

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  and fuzzy feeling inside, I ate my eat my pieces

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  of Jim potty and dream about my future hope Really

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  good word.

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  The next dreaming about future you go so she Anna.

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  We move last weekend into a house in the country.

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  I feel lonely.

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  I love the city, the energy, the people.

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  But now everything has suddenly shut down.

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  I won't be able to go to school.

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  I make new friends.

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  My older brother worry is helping my parents on.

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  I was done with my room pretty fast.

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  I don't have much.

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  We moved what?

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  We moved by often wherever Dad confined work.

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  So I got rid of everything apart from my tools.

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  Because I love to tinker and my rugby ball in

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  my backyard.

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  All I see is rolling hills and moving boxes.

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  Nothing else in sight.

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  I feel invisible.

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  I'm not myself.

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  Do you know?

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  Do you understand?

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  Or you ever get that feeling of feeling invisible?

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  No, I am.

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  Why don't you build something with your tools choir?

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  You believe Bari believes we are happiest when we're building

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  with our hands?

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  My brother is right.

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  I cut and rearrange the cardboard boxes to build my

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  old neighborhood.

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  And then I used markers to draw the people.

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  I miss so much, I imagine what they're feeling and

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  locked down.

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  I put old rusty cans all over my cardboard world

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  and draw germs on them.

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  Ah, that's a good ideas.

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  His quarry again.

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  He joins me with my rugby ball.

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  Let's do something about those germs.

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  I start throwing my rugby ball to knock them down.

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  I feel empowered.

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  Another great word empowered.

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  That always connects for the word hope for me.

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  Do you know what the word empowered means?

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  Now might be a really great time to take a

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  moment. Actually, look up that word or talk to someone

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  about what that word in power needs.

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  I imagine myself defeating the germs to free my friends

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  in our old neighborhood.

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  This is brilliant, says Qari.

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  He pulls out his phone, and since pictures of my

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  game to our old friends, they want to play as

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  well. We create a chat group to share our best

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  throws. Laughing.

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  Aren't I say?

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  Everybody needs to do this?

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  It feels so good.

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  It feels even better because we're doing it with friends,

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  says Qari.

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  I realize I am not alone.

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  I feel like myself finding that warm and fuzzy feeling.

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  I created video challenging Mawr friends and former classmates to

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  join in our game.

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  You know, sometimes the best way actually feel hope is

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  to stay connected with their friends and family.

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  And luckily we live in a time where we have

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  to acknowledge to do them.

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  We have our phones or laptops are tablets.

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  A lot of different ways that we can stay connected.

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  Really important.

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  Okay, North America.

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  My brothers are doing homework.

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  Mom is teaching her high, still high school classes.

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  Everybody is staring at screens.

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  I am bored, bored, bored.

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  I try to follow my classes on the computer.

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  It's hard.

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  I miss playing outside with my friends and I miss

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  dancing. It feels like my skin is crawling and I'm

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  antsy. I wish time could go faster.

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  Maybe I can speed it up if I run really

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  fast. Oops.

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  I disturbed everybody again.

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  Just stop moving, Screams Mikey and ah, not again!

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  Yells Peter, I'm getting on everybody's nerves.

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  I'm not myself.

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  You know exactly how that feels that you do too.

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  Okay. Could you try to re quietly for a while?

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  I sit still for two minutes.

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  My legs start twitching.

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  I'm ready to burst out.

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  I'm going to get in trouble again.

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  All of a sudden, the phone rings are running.

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  Answer it.

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  It's Mrs Robinson.

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  Who? Enquires.

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  How are you, Kate?

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  I sneak under the underneath the table and tears welling

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  in my eyes.

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  I whisper, I'm bad.

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  I can't sit still.

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  Mrs. Robinson reminds me that school will use yoga to

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  calm down in the morning morning, she suggests I practice

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  when waking up and promised to center Videos are set

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  and promises to send her videos to Mom.

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  Do you ever have a problem sitting still?

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  I bet you do.

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  I knew to.

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  Even as a teacher in front of the room, I

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  can't sit still for very long.

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  It's always good to find ways and out leads for

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  that energy.

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  A week later, I'm leading my family through Mrs Robinson's

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  You yoga.

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  I'm finishing with the tree pose.

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  I'm really good at this.

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  Even my brothers could see it.

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  Thank you, Kate, Mom says.

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  What a wonderful way to start the day.

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  I feel hopeful, helpful?

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  I feel wanted.

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  I feel like myself finding that warm and fuzzy feeling

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  keeps me calm and focused all day.

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  Oh, Asia.

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  My parents were both doctors.

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  They're needed at the hospital.

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  So my honest staying with me when she arrived, I

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  refused to say goodbye to my parents and hid in

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  my room.

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  Now I miss them.

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  I missed the experiments that we could do together tinkering

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  and three d printing.

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  My, I only loves to watch television.

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  I'm ashamed of myself.

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  When my aunt spoke to my parents today, I spied

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  a nasty rash on my mom and dad's faces.

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  They were wearing medical mess all the time.

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  I wish I could help them somehow.

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  I have always loved science and technology, so I enjoyed

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  the virtual classroom.

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  Mr John.

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  His lessons are highlighted, the highlight of my day and

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  the only time I feel like myself.

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  But today I am quiet.

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  When he proposes a project, my friend Jen realizes something

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  is wrong.

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  I would usually be excited.

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  He calls me after class and asked, How are things

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  going? Bow?

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  I confess my behavior and worries for my parents.

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  I wonder how I can help you still have the

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  three D printer at home.

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  Ask Jen, Why don't you use it for the project?

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  What kind of project?

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  Most teachers talking about my down mom and dad call.

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  I answer.

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  Look, Bo, she says.

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  As a model, the brand new headpieces.

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  That gin and I collaborated design and three d print

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  for them.

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  That asked, Do you think you and Jin can make

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  some for our doctor and nurse friends with pride?

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  I answer.

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  Of course.

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  Mom and Dad are beaming.

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  I am very busy feeling more like myself, finding that

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  warm and fuzzy feeling I get ready to start three

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  D Printing Mawr headpieces.

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  I love how both found something that he was passionate

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  about and excited about.

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  Actually help other people goes back to our word.

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  Oh, Gabby, Latin America.

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  We're home all the time.

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  It is not easy.

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  I try to keep up with distance learning as my

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  teacher calls are lessons on the computer.

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  But sometimes I get distracted.

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  Nico and Felipe A.

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  My little twin brothers cry a lot.

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  It drives topping nuts.

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  He gets angry and yells at Mama, I hate it

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  when this happens.

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  Mama says that Poppy is worried about his business.

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  She tries to comfort me with everything will go back

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  to normal, and we will be fine once this is

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  over. I hope she is right.

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  My family is not itself anymore.

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  Does that sound familiar?

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  I know it sounds familiar to me in my house.

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  I wonder if it's like that in your house.

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  But remember, like Mommy said, it will go back to

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  normal or we'll go into that next cycle or next

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  stage the next day.

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  I'm distracted with my When my grandfather calls, I'm fearful

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  that he will hear Nico sleeping, crying and pop up

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  poppies. Loud voice in the background.

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  Grandpa as What's wrong?

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  Gabby? I can't stop myself.

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  I tell him that my parents are stressed and fighting

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  a lot.

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  The twins, right constantly.

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  I don't bake with my dad anymore.

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  I miss the smell.

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  I miss walking under the jacaranda trees with him while

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  I share my school stories and e are freshly baked

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  cookies. Grandfather says Gabby, I have an idea for your

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  class project.

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  Why don't we write the story of how these days

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  have been for you?

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  I'll help you with your writing.

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  You can do the drawings.

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  Sounds like a great idea.

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  Your grandfather called, Mama said.

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  She hugs me and whispers, Your dad and I would

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  love to see your storm story.

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  I finish reading it to them and they sit in

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  silence. Hoppy leans over to Mommy and says, I'm sorry

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  and gives her a big hug.

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  He turns to me with a large smile on his

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  face. Gabby, why don't we bake cookies, singing and baking?

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  I feel myself again finding that warm and fuzzy feeling.

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  I decided to share my story with my teacher and

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  classic maids in my next lesson, all the song.

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  Dream Europe.

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  It's been a couple weeks since we started learning from

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  home. My teacher make sure I brought my books and

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  things home, including my violin, before that school closed.

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  It's been hard.

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  Grandma has been very sick.

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  I can see my parents are worried.

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  I'm worried as well.

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  We can't talk or visit Grandma.

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  I'm very sad and I'm struggling to express my feelings.

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  And I don't want to bother my parents.

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  We live in a small apartment, but I feel very

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  alone. I'm not myself.

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  We get the phone call that Grandma is gone just

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  like that.

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  I didn't get to say goodbye, Mrs Rossi, our next

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  door neighbor calls.

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  I heard the news.

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  Allesandro, I'm so sorry.

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  I say quiet.

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  Not sure what to say, Mrs Rossi continues.

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  Don't forget your violin, Alesandro.

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  And these times you can express yourself through your music.

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  I mumble.

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  Thank you for the call and hang up.

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  I look at my violin for a long time and

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  finally pick it up playing.

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  I start to feel relief.

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  As tears rolled down my cheeks, my parents were watching

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  me smiling.

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  My parents tell me that Grandma always loved to hear

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  my music, that I should go out to our balcony

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  and play for the sky.

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  I step out early evening and start playing.

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  To my surprise.

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  Other neighbors come out and play their instruments and people

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  begin to sing.

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  I feel like myself again finding that warm and fuzzy

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  feeling. I hope Grandma can hear my music.

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  I love that he found the warm and fuzzy feelings

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  through his music.

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  I wonder what you're gonna find to help you through

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  this time, to find hope and are warm and fuzzy

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  feelings. We have a lot that's going on in our

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  world right now.

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  On top of all this, learning that we're doing from

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  the inside of our own houses were going to get

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  back to our school, we're going to get back into

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  a classroom and we're going to get to be together

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  and together we're gonna be stronger.

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  But right now go find that warm and fuzzy feeling

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  that's going to make you happy.

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  That's going to give you a voice to let people

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  know how you feel or that warm and fuzzy that's

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  going to help you be.

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  What changes our world and help to fight what's going

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  on in our communities.

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  Reach out and find hope.

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  Spread that hope and give hope to others.

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  I hope that you've enjoyed our story today.