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Welcome to Students Incorporated Kids!

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A podcast that invites you on a journey of imagination and creativity through the magic

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of reading and writing.

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I'm your host, Mrs. Brooke.

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Episodes include author interviews, student discussions, and inspirational stories dedicated

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to all things kids.

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This podcast is created and produced with the help of students from the International

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Community School of Bangkok.

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Welcome back!

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Today we are in for a treat!

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We'll be interviewing two authors from ICS.

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Did you know we had this talent right beneath our noses?

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At 2!

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Now I do!

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I'm your host, Believe.

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In today's episode, we will begin by reviewing our secret guests and getting an inside scoop

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under the lights.

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Then we'll interview them as authors.

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And I'm your co-host, Mira.

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Finally, we'll get to read excerpts from both of their books.

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Before we begin the interview, our fun fact true is going to share a fun fact.

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Thanks so much, Mira.

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Our fun fact today is about students.

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The elementary school goes from K4 through 5th grade.

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How many total students are in the elementary school?

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Hmm, there are 24 homeroom.

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So if we multiply that by 15, then add 42 divided by, uh, I don't know, how many?

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Drum roll!

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Wow, that is one big school of fish.

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I mean students.

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Enough with the fish jokes.

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You need to tune it down.

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Bye!

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If any of our listeners can think of a better fish pond, then please let me know.

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Wow, something sure was bubbling up with our fun fact crew.

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447 students?

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That's incredible.

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ICS has grown so much over the last 30 years.

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Now let's get a sneak peek at the lives of two of our beloved ICS teachers who have helped

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serve at ICS.

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Introducing Miss Lori and Mrs. Aza.

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Miss Lori and Mrs. Aza, we're delighted to have you both today.

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Thank you so much.

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It's so great to be here with you guys.

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Can you tell us a little bit about yourselves?

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For each question, Miss Lori, can you answer first and then Miss Aza, can you follow up

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so our listeners know whose voice is whose?

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Sure thing.

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So this is my fifth year teaching first grade here at ICS.

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I found my sweet spot teaching first grade for sure.

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My students love to learn and always keep me laughing.

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I also enjoy traveling and learning about new cultures.

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I have three brothers, one of them being my twin and then an older sister and eight nieces

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and nephews.

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I also love running, staying active and eating new foods.

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So I'm Mrs. Aza.

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I love to do anything to do with art.

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So I like to paint, draw, I work with yarn, do crafting like that kind of stuff.

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I like to take care of plants.

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Also my baby at home.

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I have a baby named Wesley who is almost one years old and I'm married to Mr. Ben who works

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at ICS.

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Both of you have such unique life stories.

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Why did you decide to come to ICS?

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Well, I actually grew up in Nigeria, West Africa and I attended an international school

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that's similar to ICS.

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After graduating from college, I decided I wanted to teach in an international school

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environment.

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And so thankfully only after a couple of years of teaching in the States, God opened the

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doors for me to teach at ICS in Thailand.

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So similar to Ms. Lori, I grew up living overseas.

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I'm originally from the US, but I was actually an ICS student quite a few years ago.

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So I graduated from high school here at ICS.

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I used to wear the cool uniforms that you guys are wearing right now.

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Well, actually they've changed them.

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They're much nicer now.

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But I used to wear the uniform and it was really a great experience for me as a student

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here.

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So after I got my teaching degree in the US, I went ahead and decided to come back to teach

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at ICS and I was teaching middle school art up until last year.

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And I'm taking a break from teaching now to be at home with my baby.

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We are so happy to have you a part of ICS community.

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Why do you like teaching?

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Teaching is so much about building relationships with my students and even parents.

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I love learning with my students.

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I like teaching them things every day.

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And actually, I love learning from them as well.

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And I always enjoy seeing life through their eyes.

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They keep me curious and they teach me about loving with no reservations.

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Also first graders give the best hugs.

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I also believe teaching is the best way to impact lives.

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My teachers believed and encouraged me and so I want to do that for my students every

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day.

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And last, I want to help them see themselves the way God sees them.

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For me, watching my students achieve things that they didn't think that they could do

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before is like the best experience for me.

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So as I've been an art teacher in the past, a lot of times I'm teaching kids skills or

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giving them tools that they've never tried or even thought or believed in themselves

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they could do before.

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Especially with drawing something maybe realistic like a portrait or a picture of like their

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favorite pet and that aha moment where my kids will take their artwork and kind of step

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back and look at it when they're done.

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And there's this look in their eyes and just like, wow, I cannot believe that I just made

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This is the best experience for me.

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And that's why I love teaching is just to see that glimmer in their eyes.

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I also like to see what kind of things they're already interested in.

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So each of us, I believe each of you guys already comes to the classroom with things

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in you that you're excited about, that you're drawn to kind of like a magnet that you want

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to learn more about.

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And those are things that God has given you dreams and ideas and even stories.

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We're going to talk more about that.

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And I love tapping into and seeing what that is in each of my students as well.

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What is the best book you've ever read?

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Oh, that is a tough question.

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There's so many, but I came across this one a couple of years back.

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It's called The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse, written by Charlie Maxey.

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It is for all ages, for kids and adults.

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And it's packed full of simple yet wise truths that we all need to be reminded of.

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And the artwork is very unique and beautiful.

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I also know my dad would have loved it, which makes me like it even more.

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Interesting fact, the book was so popular that it became a short film and it won the

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Oscar.

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So we definitely need to check out this book.

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That sounds really cool.

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I'm going to check that out when I get home.

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So growing up, I was very, very close with both of my grandmas, my dad's mom and my mom's

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mom.

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And both of them have shaped different parts of me.

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One of them, my dad's mom really taught me a lot about art.

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And that's one of the reasons I'm an art teacher.

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My other grandmother taught me a lot about books and stories.

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And one of her favorite authors is a lady named Patricia Palacca.

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She's still living.

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You guys might have heard of her before.

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And her books are amazing.

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She writes the stories and she does the illustrations.

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And her book, The Keeping Quilt, is one of my favorite books because it shows the story

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of a family through the story of this one quilt as it's passed down through the generations.

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And the story reminds me of my grandma and it's just really touching and really beautiful.

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Those sound like great books.

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What was your inspiration to write each of your books?

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Well, my book is actually about my dad, but I'll give you the background.

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I had an assignment to write a children's book my senior year of college.

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But during that time, my life had been turned upside down after losing my father to cancer.

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I still remember feeling really devastated, often wondering how I could continue on.

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But then I thought about my dad's incredible life story that needed to be shared.

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And so I knew there would be future grandchildren and others that would be inspired by his long

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obedience and trust in God, even despite the struggles he went through.

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So I decided to write a biography on my dad's life, including lots of photographs and cool

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information.

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I hoped writing this book would honor my dad's life and give God glory.

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That story sounds so meaningful and I'm hoping that I get to read it once we're done with

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this interview.

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Mine, This is Wild, actually started as an assignment in my senior class at college as

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well.

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So I was getting an illustration degree from my college along with my elementary ed degree.

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And I told my professor for my big project, I wanted to create a couple of illustrated

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pages from a children's book.

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And he kind of looked at me and said, well, why don't you just write the whole book?

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And I thought, well, why don't I?

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So I went ahead and just wrote the story and I drew all the pictures and made a book.

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And I had never done that before.

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It was a really big task.

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I didn't know anything about printing books.

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I didn't know anything about anything.

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And so I actually went online to something called GoFundMe and I wrote about my project

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on there and lots of friends and family, all the people on my Facebook supported my project

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to help me pay for my first 100 copies of my book so I could actually get it printed

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and put it into the real world.

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And people in my town actually heard about the project and I got to take it into local

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schools and share it with other second grade classrooms, which was really cool.

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And I was just shocked at how this book opened up doors and new friendships for me all over

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the place.

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That's beautiful and really touching.

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What was the hardest part about writing a book?

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Alright, for me, since this was a children's book, I wanted to keep my story simple enough

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for kids to understand, but a book adults would enjoy as well.

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So it was difficult to find that medium.

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So I also had a hard time knowing how to end the book.

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I don't know if that's how it is for you.

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Sometimes when you write, the ending is always the hardest.

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Because I wanted there to be a sense of hope and God's faithfulness in my dad's life,

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but also be honest with the truth of the pain and the sadness of losing my dad.

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So since the loss was raw, I often cried a lot about it too.

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So that was hard writing it, but I knew it was a powerful story and I wanted to keep

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going on and be able to write out his life so others could be touched by it.

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Your story actually, Miss Lori, reminds me of a picture book called The Heart and the

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Bottle by Oliver Jeffers.

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I don't know if you've read it before, but if you haven't, you'll have to check it out.

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It's very meaningful.

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It takes a sad event and sees the beauty and the hope in it as well.

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I think you'll love it.

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For me, the hardest thing about writing a book, because mine was a big project, I really

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wanted to print a bunch of them to give to people and sell to people.

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That was probably my hardest job was figuring out how to design it.

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I had to go talk to printers.

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I had a lot of questions that I had no answers for, and so I had to find people who knew

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how to do this stuff and ask them to help me.

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Do you either plan on writing another book?

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Yes, actually, I have had a dream of writing a book with many of my students.

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They could help draw the pictures and then help write the story as well.

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I also would love to work with my mom to write a book because she's a very creative writer.

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And since we did grow up in Nigeria, I've always had the idea of maybe writing a story

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about my family in Nigeria.

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So as you can see, I have lots of different ideas of stories to write and books.

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It is a long process, but it's definitely worth it.

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Yeah, I really hope to actually this year write another book.

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I have been reminded recently because my little boy is getting to the age where he likes to

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look through books.

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He doesn't let me finish the page reading.

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He gets bored.

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He just wants to see the picture.

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So he flips through, flips through.

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But he's getting to the age now where we can share that together.

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And I'm reminded of how important, especially at a young age, stories and reading is.

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And it's really inspired me to do my next one.

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I've been thinking about what that might be.

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I've started sketching it out ideas.

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And I'm hoping actually it's going to be a collaboration with my grandma, who I told

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you guys about earlier.

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She wrote a poem way back when she was in high school.

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And that was a long time ago, back when people used to type on typewriters.

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And she kept that poem and she's given it to me.

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And I'm hoping to be able to turn that into a picture book for kids.

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So I can share that with my child, who will be her great grandson.

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That's awesome.

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You both the definition of lifelong learners.

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Thank you for joining us.

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You've been great guests and we've learned so much from you and about you.

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Thank you so much.

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I feel so lucky to be able to be on your podcast today.

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Yeah, me too.

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And getting to talk with you guys makes me even more excited to write the next one.

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And hopefully you can get some copies with that to share with you.

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And maybe one day you guys will write your own book.

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After a commercial break, we're going to read a little from Miss Lori's book called You

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Win or Lose by the Way You Choose.

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Then we'll read a short part from Miss Asia's book called Apartment Friends.

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We'll be right back.

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We apologize for the interruption, but we have a very important message for you.

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Team Our Reporter on the ground is Harry Jeremiah, the captain of the Boys' War City soccer team

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and a player on the TriSport team.

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Hi, Jeremiah.

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Can you tell us what is coming up soon?

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The TriSport tournament is coming up and it's from April 27 to April 29.

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What is a TriSport team?

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A TriSport team is where they pick 15 high schoolers to play three sports, soccer, basketball

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and volleyball.

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And there are teams all over Thailand that are coming to play each other.

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Well, make sure you get out there and watch some soccer while supporting our school and

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players.

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You can also watch it on the live stream.

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Just check out the ICS Instagram page for more details.

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Thanks, P for the update on your TriSport team.

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Now we're going to read some of Miss Lori's book written about her dad and dedicated to

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her mom.

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You Win or Lose by the Way You Choose by Lori Crouch

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A little boy named Jim Crouch was born far away in Nigeria, West Africa on July 20, 1945.

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As he grew up, he liked to collect quotes.

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One of his favorite was, you win or lose by the way you choose.

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Sometimes he made good choices and sometimes he made bad ones.

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We try to remember how important his choices are.

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You may wonder how a person can know so many of Jim's specific choices.

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I know because Jim is my dad, I was blessed to see firsthand how he won in making good

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choices.

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I pray that God will help me to make strong choices too.

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Dad chose to devote his life to Christ and to others.

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He won by the way he chose.

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Most of all, he won by accepting Jesus because he gained internal life.

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That was so thoughtful and warm.

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Thank you Miss Lori for sharing a part of her life with us and an important lesson we

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can carry into our lives.

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Now we're going to read some of Miss Asia's book.

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The second Greek student that the book includes will be revealed.

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Any guesses who it could be?

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Hmm, does his name start with an E?

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Does his name have to do anything with the mountain?

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Sure does.

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Let's take a look.

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Apartment Friends, written and illustrated by Asia Miles.

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Everest lived in a middle-sized apartment in a big city.

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I love my middle-sized cat, my paints, my trucks, and my comfy apartment, Everest said.

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Right next door a middle-sized girl and her bunny moved in.

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This girl looked different than Everest and even ate different snacks.

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He saw her every day before school, sometimes at lunch time, and in the evenings.

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She liked to play with her middle-sized bunny outside.

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I wonder what her name is.

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Everest wandered to his cat and trucks.

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On the fourth day, Everest decided to introduce himself.

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My name is Everest, he exclaimed.

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She blinked and Everest confused.

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Everest, he said again and smiled, pointing to himself.

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Then he pointed at the middle-sized girl.

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You he asked.

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If you want to read the rest of this book, you can check it out from the ACS Library

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or to finish me stories, you can go with her to her class for a chance to read the ending.

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I'll come back with you soon, Ms. Lori.

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Thank you for joining us today and giving us a sneak peek into your lives as teachers

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and authors.

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And with that last thought, we are running out of time for this episode.

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Stay tuned for the next special episode, we'll continue to interview inspiring guests, hold

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students, discussions, and argue in socks, all with surprising fun facts.

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