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WDYM Interview with Emma · WDYM What Do You Mean?

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• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: And today's episode is going to be a special episode.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: We are doing an interview, one of the first interviews that we've had here on the WDYM.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: And this one's actually an in-person interview with uh someone very special to me.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, this is my daughter.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: This is my daughter, Emma, who is now transitioning to the middle school.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: And she wants to um take some time to tell you about it.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_00: So, first and foremost, let's introduce Emma Gillespie.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_01: Hey! Hi, Emma.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: All right, all right, all right.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: So the thing with Emma, Emma is now transitioning from elementary to middle school.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, she is now, what, in the sixth grade now?
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, from the sixth grader.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: So so the thing is with moving on to the sixth grade.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_00: Now, um, the one thing I do want to rewind and say is that sixth grade for me was still elementary, uh, way back in the early 1990s, 80s, whatever you want to call it.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: It's not funny.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: But now, sixth grade is now a middle school, and with middle school comes options to do other things.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh first off, let's talk about that.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: Let's get the actual experience from the person themselves.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: How is middle school?
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_01: Middle school uh can be a challenge, actually.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but it's really balanced.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: You just one thing you have to be is organized.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_01: I'll just tell you that very much.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: Organized in what way?
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: You have to be organized um by in your locker.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_01: We also have lockers, um, organized in your scheduling and what you do.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: So like if you do a sport or a club, you have to have time for your homework and classes and your studying.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_01: That's just a need for all of you guys if you're in middle school.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: Very true, very true.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: Now, the some of the things that you compare and contrast when it comes to um middle school is first off, what time what time are you waking up?
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_01: I'm waking up around 5 40.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um for most people it can be between five o'clock and like five forty.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_01: When that's when people wake up.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_01: It depends when your bus comes.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_01: My bus comes at 6 21, I'm pretty sure.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_01: So you have to be up and ready.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_01: And you also when you wake up in the morning, you have to have like a goal or almost like a thing to get you up.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_01: Like tomorrow is Monday and Mondays are known as the hardest because after a weekend you can sleep in, you don't have to really do anything and uh then you have to start school again.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_01: So that can be a challenge for people that are um that sleep in.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_01: But early birds, not so much.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_01: It depends on for me, it depends on the day.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_00: So one one thing that um that my audience is is that we're used to waking up uh when we went to school way back in the day, we woke up later and then we had the extracurricular activities either during or not even during, it was most likely after.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um let's talk about some of the things that you do uh the extracurricular things.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: What are some of the extracurricurricular things that you do at middle school?
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_01: Well, like clubs, I guess, or after school things activities I do, it's something called shokar.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um you it's it's every Tuesday and Thursday practice.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_01: Uh speaking of practice, I had practice yesterday because we're getting into the competition season.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's also really fun.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_01: You should try it out if you really like performing in front of an audience and you like singing and dancing because it just it's amazing.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_01: And we also have we also have to practice really hard.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_01: Like you have to practice at home too and get because it can be hard to dance smooth, it depends what you're better at.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_01: If you're better at singing, if you're better at dancing, it's just a combination of that and you're along for the ride.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so overall, how do you like how do you like it?
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's really fun too for me, but sometimes like some people are in there, some guys, and maybe like one or two girls can be really negative about it, cut or be like rude on the team, and that it could get them out of like numbers or blockings for things.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_01: Because it's just it's just you have to be you cannot have two Fs.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: You can have one F, but you cannot have two F's or else you cannot participate, which I'm always above and beyond, not trying to bag, but um yeah, so it just depends on your style when it comes to that.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, well that's cool.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so as we talk about your extracurricular activities, let's go back into school.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like how overall, like, you know, how is what's the what's some of the difference between elementary and middle school?
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_01: Well, first of all is the timing.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_01: You in elementary you would leave school around I think you would get off at like 3 50, I'm not for sure, but you would be home by like four o'clock.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_01: Four, yeah, or four fifteen.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_01: Um, in middle school you wake up at like five to five forty in between that time and you get off at or you're done with work at one forty-five and you'll be on the buses by two o'clock.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_01: So that's a different time zone.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_01: Another thing about middle school is the scheduling.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um we have two electives each year for sixth graders.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_01: You cannot do sports like representing Fairfield.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, because cheerleading, for example, goes up to sixth grade.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, so you have that extra year and then you go on to volleyball, softball across, all of that harder things that Fairfield represents.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um just to clarify, Fairfield is the um the city schools that she goes to, so just so that okay, well we see that we have to let me know if I can help.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, thank you.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um so, um, okay, we talked about that.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: We talked about um the city schools and all that stuff.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um w what else you gotta add?
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_00: Is there anything else you wanna add about middle school?
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um middle school is just the everybody goes through that time change, if you know what I mean.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um they all some people are later, some people are earlier, like you just have to go through it.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_01: Because a lot in the beginning of the year I kind of got teased a lot um by an eighth grader and the sixth grader.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: But uh after that, y the one thing you need to get through in middle school is self-confidence.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: That is key in middle school because I feel like I've like been more confident than I have, and other people do tease.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_01: Like all like even eighth graders will look at you weirdly, but you just have to remember that self-confidence is key when it comes to middle school.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's one of the ways I get through and friends, because they always have your back.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: That is very true.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_00: Uh one thing I do learn in life is that when you have a good circle of friends, uh it makes life easier, so to speak.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 8:41
  unknown: Very much.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: So we've covered a couple things.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: We've covered uh the differences between or let's let's talk about that.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about some of the differences between uh we're gonna call it junior high school for me and middle school for you.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so let's talk about topic number one.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: How is your lunch?
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: My lunch is at 10 30.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so well, it depends when you get out of class.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_01: The maxim so some people can stay in class and do work, but ninety ninety-nine percent of the people eat.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_01: There's a long lunch line and there's two cafeterias actually.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's something called cafe one and cafe two.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I'm in cafe one and we are also divided in teams.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you had that.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_00: We weren't divided by no teams at all.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_01: I was I'm on Team Arrow, which is one of the ad well, every group, I think, for other than one group is advanced.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm a part of an advanced group.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_01: My teachers want me to become advanced next year, and I think they're setting it up because my math teacher definitely wants me to.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll give a shout out to them.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: That's the being in an advanced class is is something that should be celebrated for one.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_00: And actually, let's rewind time, let's go back.
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  SPEAKER_00: In junior high school, there was no, at least in my book and still in this book today, I don't know if there was an advanced class when I was in junior high.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_01: It was like called gifted, maybe?
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: No, uh well, it depends.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_00: It depends on how you took that gifted.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: If that gifted was something to be, you know, to be something that is like celebrated, like advanced classing, or the other side of gifted.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_00: If you were on a short yellow bus, then you were gifted.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but that's that's the way it was back in junior high school.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: So that's one difference.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_00: Another difference that you did say is that lunch.
• 10:37
  unknown: Oh, yeah.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't, we didn't, we didn't have that.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_00: We had one, we had one cafeteria, two lines, and I gotta tell you right now, lunch back then was pretty bad.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: The best thing about we had lunch was something called the square pizza that you probably don't even have right now.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_01: No, we don't have square pizza.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_00: You hear that?
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_00: That was the thing.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: Wednesday was square pizza day.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: It was either cheese or pepperoni, or I'll take that back.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_00: It was cheese and sausage.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_00: And those things sausage, yeah, those things those things were really good.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_00: And that was the highlight of junior high cafeteria food.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: So for well, since you brought up pizza for pizza, uh, it's every so it's every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday they serve it.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_00: But you get it, they get it Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_01: We was Well, the thing is that you don't always have to get pizza.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_01: There is a lunch of the day, for example, uh chicken and broccoli, that's been a thing.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_01: That can still be Wednesday.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: It's just some if people that are pickier can have pizza.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_01: It's just an option.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: Do you hear that?
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: That they have options.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if again, if you went to junior high, you didn't have options.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: You was ever on the plate, fries, hamburger if we're lucky, and pizza on Wednesdays.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: See, the the the differences between now and then is just alarming to me.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it it it can be.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_01: Also, we're talking we have new technology.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_01: We have our own computers.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: And that's another funny thing.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_00: Again, back in in junior high, we all didn't have a computer.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_00: We all had, we actually, what would you call that?
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_00: We had a projector.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_02: A projector?
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we have like a smart board.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_00: A smart board, you ladies and gentlemen, do you hear that?
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: A smart board.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we do you still have chalk?
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: A chalkboard and chalk.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but we don't use it much.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: You hear that?
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's just an example of what school used to be back in the 80s and 90s and stuff.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: Chalk chalkboard is now eradicated for a what do you a computer now.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: Correct?
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: To be honest, yeah.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's crazy.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_01: Another thing with technology is that a lot of people misuse it.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you can there's something called a demerit.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Did you guys have a demerit?
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: No, we had detention.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: Detention?
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: Well, there is people that still get detention, uh-huh, but it's something called demerits.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_00: No, we didn't have no demerits.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: We was you go into detention.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: And detention back in the day was was you go after school and write like a hundred sentences of of the sentence of the day.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: The few times I had detention in junior high, had to write a sentence a hundred times before I could leave detention.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_00: And by the time I written it all, handed to the detention teacher, she just crumbled it up and throw it away.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_00: So, okay.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_00: So I was like, it's a big waste of time.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_00: But uh yeah, yeah, learned your lesson.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: And that and from that, I never had detention again from junior high.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: That was seventh grade.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_01: Well, for demerit the demerit system is actually technology.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_01: So if you get five demerits in a week, um you get lunch and recess detention.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_01: Or and then um if you get ten if you get five more the next week, you get detention, and then if it keeps on going, it gets worse and worse.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: And people can probably if they're really that bad, they could get suspended from that.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so that that that that's that's pretty crazy for school to schools to have that now, especially with tech technology.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_00: And on top of that, here's the funny thing, I don't know if you know this or not, but we get notifications when you get demerits and stuff.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: Did you know that?
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I've only gotten one demerit, or maybe two the whole school year, actually.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: Because one was for the whole class, but the teacher told me that it wasn't us, and me and my friend Samara actually.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um Big shout out to Samara.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: Hey Samara, how you doing?
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_00: How you doing?
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_00: How you doing?
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_01: Um But sh me and her were the only quiet ones she saw, and she hasn't removed the demerit yet, but she told us ourselves that we were not the people.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_01: So technically I've gotten one demerit for coming, not coming prepared, even though I jot my pencil, like my tiny pencil pouch in the hallway when it was still locker switching time.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: I shouldn't really have asked, but it's like the small things, you know.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: They can be really strict on that.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: But it's it's to me, I don't want to get t in trouble by a teacher just because it's a little like I mean I'm not like a troubled kid, at least I don't think I No, you're you know, I could I could vouch for that.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_00: You're not a troubled kid.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just nervous.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want that to happen to me.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_01: So like you just have to be good on top and you have to have good grades.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: Because mm, one of my other friends, not so much, doesn't have much good grades.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: But it's just it's just how you participate in class.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you don't want to be a teacher's pet.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_01: You just gotta show that you care for class instead of just being always right there with the teacher's pet.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: Because people actually called me a teacher's pet beforehand, but it's just because they were probably jealous that I got the good grades.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: So that's just you just have to be on top of everything in middle school.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: And the thing is that you know, kids these days is that education's probably not the primary thing people think about at this age.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: And uh and then it's it's it's cool that you know that you're so focused on education, you know.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_00: Even even me as a kid, if I was your age, I was not 100% focused on education.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: Now, don't get me wrong, I didn't come back with the C's and D's and stuff like that.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: But uh, you know, it's it's important to focus on your school, and and it's really cool that you're doing that well.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: So again, big props to you.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, thank you.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um so another thing with what you were saying about like your grades, like to me I just need to be the best I can be.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't want to always have that straight A.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I have a B and the lowest grade I've had was a not to brag, but a C.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: But um you just it just depends on how focused you can be in school.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta show you care once again, because most teachers do what they've done they've been doing for years.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_01: Like we have a textbook in science, so that's probably one of the boring things of science most boring things of science.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: But like as long as you show that you learn listening instead of messing around, which fifty percent of the class does actually and um you just gotta show it.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_01: Just not being, hey, I did my homework and can I get a treat or something like that.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_01: You just have to like turn it in on time.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_01: There's always mistakes.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_01: I've actually struggled before, especially with math.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_01: Math is a little hard, but it's easier than it was in fifth grade for me.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_01: I don't just we learned something called area model division.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm so glad you brought that up.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_00: Area model division, area model math is something completely new today that these kids that is being taught to these kids that was not taught to us back in junior high school.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and the funny thing about it is I I'm I'm pretty decent at math.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm good at math, I think.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: I can't do this for the to save my life, you know.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: I I can't do this area model where they draw all these four squares and this is the thousands.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like, dude, just do the math the old school way and it'll be done faster.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_01: They never actually taught us long division until this year.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: See that?
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: That now that's that's the that's a that's a plus for the junior high schools right there.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: Because we know how to do some math.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if you take the time to put the uh equation together, we'll get it.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: They want us to uh this area model stuff, they want us to actually draw squares and put this over here and put that.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: Why are we doing that?
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: Well, in fifth grade, um it's I don't know.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: Fifth grade was really hard for me.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: I thought we were gonna be taught long division because there was ad I was some classes were less advanced, but Bradley, which and Sims for us.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: Who's Bradley and Sims?
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: Miss Bradley.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to Miss Bradley with Sims.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they were great teachers, by the way.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: But um they they I think we were more cause their friends, my one of my friends, um, were more advanced actually.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_01: And they would do harder work when they finished.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_01: So I was put in that class and at the end of the year we had like a uh like a what is it called?
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: I can't think of it, but like a award ceremony for the fifth graders for passing.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_01: And like you would get I got a gold um oh that presidential award thing.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, at the end of the year.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: As a presidential award from uh President Joe Biden, I think, is that correct?
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think so.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_02: Signed it.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: So I mean, in conclusion, let's wrap this up.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: In conclusion, we got it, we we figure that, you know, middle school today is way better than obviously way better than junior high school by leaps and bounds when it comes to technology, extracurricular activities.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: Everything is better except the math situation.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'll I'll say, I'll say junior high, we had the math to just draw the lines, do the math in your head, and then write it down as opposed to this was area, what area model divisions?
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_01: Area model division, area model multiplication.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: Where's the boo button for that?
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: We gotta boo that.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's where's that at?
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: Crickets, baths, remember?
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I don't have a boot boo, I'm gonna boo it for you.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: Boo! Because area model division is terrible.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: So uh anything else you gotta add about it before we go out?
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: Uh before, I just want to talk about how, like, not related to math or anything, but the bullying.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_02: Bullying.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: It's different.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, as I said, in the beginning of the year I was teased a lot and um and it's just I was crying before and these two boys would I'm not gonna say their names, they don't they're not worthy.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_01: But they would tease me about like the littlest things.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_01: And I it was just so upsetting.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: But then after that I just realized that you just need to ignore them or just you know, just say nothing and just move on.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know because I actually got somebody suspended for before for bullying um because of that.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: It's just you just have to take it in your own hands.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_01: Like you could tell a teacher, but but I there's somebody called a like a report thing in the office, and I just reported that and that got him that got that guy suspended for like a week and a half.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: So you just gotta take m things into your own hands when it comes to like bullies these days.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know how bullying was for you.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like, was it harder?
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: Was it more physical?
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: Because there has been some physical fights in sixth grade.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, as expected, when you have um clashes of people and cultures and all that stuff.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: But the thing about me back in junior high was that I was a class clown.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: As if you could tell, I'm pretty sure you are.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm I like to keep the laughter and funny and stuff like that.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, people wouldn't pick on the funny guy, you know what I'm saying?
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: But there was only those one person uh that we had a disagreement with.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that's a story for another time.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_00: I had to tell you, I have to tell you that just uh when you get a little older, you know what I'm saying?
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: But but you know, that's a whole different story.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_00: But the thing about bullying and all that stuff and the mindset that I had back in the day was that they're not gonna stop me from doing what I want to do.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_00: Like they're not gonna be uh, you know, d to um distract me from my goals and all that stuff, despite what you may think and what you may know, you're not gonna distract me.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: And plus, I was certain I had a good circle of friends too that stood up with me and all that stuff.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, those are those are very important.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_00: Tomorrow does that for me.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, keep that in mind in the future.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: And any kids that happen to be listening to this, always remember that one, people do have your back despite everything.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: And the best thing about it is just ignore them.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: If you feed into what a bully is doing and saying, then they've won.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: But if you ignore it and keep moving, then you know that whatever they're saying is water off a duck's back.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: It's not gonna phase you one way or the other.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: So that's one of the important things to understand going forward.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: That if you give in to this person, this bully, this negative feeling, then that negative feeling is already won.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: You just gotta keep going, keep riding, and keep doing you.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_00: All right, well, uh, I want to thank you for doing that.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, you know, this is uh the first interview on the WDUYM.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_00: And so let's clap that up.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: Anytime to be honest.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I see.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_00: See now it's funny because when I got this thing back in last year, I was expecting this much sooner.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_00: So it took almost a year for them to get on the podcast and actually want to be a part of it.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, that's funny.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: But anytime you want to get on here, let us know as long as you do your homework and do your research and do some plot points.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_00: We can always do something here, why not?
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: Of course.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: All right, I love writing.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: With that being said, we're gonna end the WDYM.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: This is your host, Michael Gillespie, and this is Emma Gillespie.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: We'll talk to you guys later.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: Peace.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_01: Bye.