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You see that white thing moving around over there?
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Do you know what that is? It's a skunk. That
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is a skunk, and it is headed straight towards
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us. And listen, George, I'm just going to tell
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you. This is the Best Dash Collective. I'm Houston
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Blackwood, host of the show. And in studio today
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with me is Georg Mauta. We call him George. And
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we're super excited to have you on the show today.
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Yeah, I'm excited too. Yeah, good. So this is,
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you seem a little nervous. You told me you were.
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But, you know, all the things you've done in
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the last two months, this should be like the
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least nervous thing about it. um anyway so just
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for the audience who who's not listening who
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doesn't know george is our exchange student for
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the year and we've been excited about this since
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march man uh it's been a crazy fun ride with
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you already and so um i wanted to capture you
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an episode with you early in your time here and
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then sometime in april may of next year just
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have a follow -up of all the things that you've
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seen and done. Also, a special note, we've got
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Kaylee Thigpen in the background as our producer
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today, so excited about that. So, George, man,
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give the audience a little bit of a rundown of
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who you are and where you came from. Yeah, my
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name is Georg Malte in German, and I'm 16 years
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old. My birthday is on the 3rd of December, so
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I'm a winter kid, and I really like the winter.
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And I really like Christmas too. And in Germany,
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and also here, I really like to do sports. I
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do sports all the time. And my main sport in
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Germany is table tennis, actually. And here I
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do the most cross country, so I run. And I really
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like it. And it's a little bit different to what
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I did in Germany with running. and um i still
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really like it and i have the opportunity to
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play soccer in spring season and i'm really excited
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for that too so and um i'm really happy and thankful
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to be here and yeah that's a lot man that's a
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lot for any uh american alabama kid right but
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you came here to a different country different
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home and you've done all those things and excelled
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And also, by the way, he goes to school, too,
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and does very well in school. So it's really
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a treat to have a guest in our home who's not
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really a guest at this point, but watching you
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do all those things and step into them and just
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the confidence and just the fun you've had doing
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it. So give us a little bit of background on
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why you wanted to be an exchange student. So
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that's actually a little bit complicated a little
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bit complicated. Sorry, so my dad was When he
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was in school He went to Australia and he had
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a really good time. He was there like I think
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for 12 months and We're the two families and
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at a second family He was at the home with I
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think six host brothers Wow a really big family
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and he really enjoyed it and his really good
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friend and his host brother um it turned out
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that they stayed together for like 20 30 40 years
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okay stay connected yeah stayed connected and
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um so my sister went two years ago three years
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ago also to australia to him yeah actually and
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she had also a really good time for four months
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and um so i really wanted to go also yeah and
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do an exchange here for me it was like pretty
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clear that i want to go to america yeah and then
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many of my friends also went to canada so we
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my dad and me thought about if i want to go to
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canada or USA and they're like different arguments
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and one main argument for Canada was that I was
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like I had actually the option to decide where
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to go so I had to I could decide that I want
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to play table tennis in this club and it was
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like a pretty big argument but I also uh signed
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up for scholarship for the usa and um and it
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turned out as a really good decision okay then
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i went here because um i mean i i also really
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wanted to go into the usa that was for me clear
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if it was like in school or after school doesn't
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matter but i really wanted to go um because of
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the mindset like the school system i really want
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to try and all the significance of sport. I'm
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a really big fan of sports. Yeah, so are we.
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So, yeah. And then I got a scholarship in February,
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and then it went pretty fast. It did. So you
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mentioned scholarship, and I think the audience
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would know what a scholarship really means, but
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it's very expensive. yeah for y 'all for the
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students to come here and stay if you don't have
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the scholarship yeah so it's a big deal because
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you know and you had to meet a lot of you had
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to meet a lot of criteria to get that scholarship
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too right yeah exactly um like i think we have
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like also other exchange student students here
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in hartzell and for example lucy she is a german
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yeah exchange student and i talked about her
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i talked to her and she told me that she had
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to pay like 20 000 yeah um so it's very expensive
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and um so i had a really good opportunity to
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not pay for that but the scholarship is um actually
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pretty interesting because it's a political scholarship
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it's from the bundestag that means from the government
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in germany to the government here to the congress
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here in the u .s yeah um so here in the u .s
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there's the same program it's named cbyx i think
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in germany it's ppp and um they um i think they
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they founded it 40 years ago to strength the
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um the relationship between these countries yep
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because they have a really long history and relationship
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and it's really important especially in this
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world that changes all very fast and all the
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time to stay connected and to have relationships
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like we have um and like on the lowest like from
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person to person and not on only diplomacy right
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on the political um level yeah You're right about
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that. Of course, you know, anybody that knows
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history knows the historical relationships. But
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since that, you know, in the last 40 years, since
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the fall of Soviet Union, Germany and the U .S.
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have been very strong partners. And so it's not
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no surprise to me that these things are sponsored
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often. And having a German connection is not
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new to us. We chaperoned and led one a very short
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exchange years ago when I was a teacher. Do you
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know that we got to choose you, basically, out
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of, like, some profiles? Yeah, I didn't know
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it, yeah. Yeah, so for the audience, like, we
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decided in March to do this, and we contacted
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the person who was responsible for it. And she
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sent us, like, three or four profiles, and we
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read through them all. And here was this blonde
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-haired, blue -eyed athlete, scholar, you know,
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great family. We were like, well, that just sounds
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like us. And so it was like a German rowan. So
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we said, hey, CJ, we want George. And she was
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like, done. And the rest was really history.
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And so we waited. All right. So I want to get
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to you mentioned some of the political parts.
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And your understanding of world politics is a
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lot different than American high school students.
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We're going to get to that in a minute. But for
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the audience, what's the biggest difference between.
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First of all, what part of Germany are you from?
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Again, Cologne? From Cologne, yeah, from the
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west. Okay, the northwest. And so if everybody's
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looking at a map, you know, there's Berlin, Berlin
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and Hamburg in the north. If you go all the way
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over towards France, that's where Cologne is.
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Yeah, it's next to France, yeah. Yeah. So what's
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the biggest difference between being a high school
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kid in Germany and being a high school kid here?
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I thought about the question today in the morning.
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Okay. Because I was pretty sure that you'll ask
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a question. Oh, for sure, yeah. But I couldn't
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really agree on one point. So many differences?
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Yeah, like really a lot of differences. But I
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would say in school, it's the relationships between
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the teachers and the class. the students in Germany
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it's like you go to school and then you go home
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again okay that's it and here it's that way more
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what do you do in school do you have fun at school
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sports how how does the community work what relationship
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do you have with the teacher and teacher like
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I many many students here like hug the teachers
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hug not hack the teachers um and in germany that
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would be like unimaginable just because there's
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just like this distance like teacher teacher
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student and they have like uh it's all business
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huh yeah it's like yeah yeah i can see that uh
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having been in a few classes when i went to germany
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two or three times but i sat in a biology classroom
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one time which is what i taught and they were
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on a very near topic to what i was teaching back
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home man it was chaos like i couldn't no it was
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controlled but it was chaotic the differences
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and how how it was flowing it was just so like
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strict and like orderly and just um yeah you
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know i don't know if you're having a good time
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and trying to teach whatever but so i can understand
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that difference um do you do you appreciate or
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or prefer like the relationships you have with
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the teachers here more so than just the business
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approach of germany i think they're like advantages
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on both systems I would say like one advantage
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maybe on the German side is that you can really
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focus on the on the school things and maybe when
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it gets to like the last years and this reaches
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like a really high level And then I think it's
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pretty good that they are like teaching and you
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have the authority of the teachers and that you
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look up to them and really learn from that. And
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I think here you have the advantages that you
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really have fun in school. Yeah. And I mean,
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in my opinion, that's a better school system
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here. More fun? Okay. Yeah, it's more fun and
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then you have a higher motivation to learn. Agreed.
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I would agree. Even if you don't learn as much
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as you would learn in one lesson, but at the
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end of the year, you have the opportunity to
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learn with your motivation and to remember more
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things because it's actually fun. Yeah. Okay.
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Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of things. memory and
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scholastic things tied to how much you enjoy
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what you're doing and what you remember of it.
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Yeah. Much like, well, you can remember everything
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about your favorite food, you know, where to
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go and get it and all that. So that's good. What
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has it been like being around all of these Alabama
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students and really just jumping straight into
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the culture of Alabama, like small town South?
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Southeastern, Southern culture. What's it been
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like for you? I think since it is a small town,
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it's easier for me to integrate in the community.
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Because I'm new and I'm one of the only ones
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who is new. So everyone is interested and everyone
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is really excited. it's welcoming yeah me and
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it's really friendly and I felt like really welcomed
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when I came here and yeah so I'm like I feel
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really integrated and have a lot of fun yeah
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you are integrated is a good word because that
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means not just part of like it means like you're
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in the middle you know like you are part of the
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thing and make you can't separate you from the
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thing yeah that's absolutely true like there's
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not much spare time uh in our home rowan has
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his things he's doing and some y 'all cross over
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a good bit but then you have your own things
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you know like you came you got dropped off by
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one kid today after cross country and then you
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left with another kid to go do a thing and you
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came back and that happens all the time yeah
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you know and that's that's how we we flow with
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it you know we don't mind that for sure um it's
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been fun to watch our community just wrap around
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you like that you know yeah i really enjoyed
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seeing that too what is uh what is it like being
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away from your parents and your family because
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it looks like by all appearances you have a really
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close solid family unit um so um actually i think
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my my parents really want to hear more from me
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because i don't really give them like many updates
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but i think i called them like three or four
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times a week or a total no total george you've
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been here two months man yeah that's not yesterday
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not really much like in two months but um and
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i also sent them like voice messages okay but
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like my parents really want to listen more for
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me yeah i bet um uh somebody asked us if rowan
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was going to germany next year and kyle made
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that his mom made that real clear like that's
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his senior year and they're like not no but hell
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no he's he's not leaving yeah i don't know that
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i could be away from him like that just at this
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age you know there will be a time but yeah um
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okay is it have you had any moment of being homesick
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since you've been here not yet but I don't really
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know because I've never had homesickness. Okay.
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So I don't really know how it is, but I don't
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feel like I want to go home again or something.
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Okay. Well, then you haven't. I don't know if
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you've had time to be homesick. Yeah, maybe.
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Because you've been running or playing table
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tennis constantly or whatever. Okay. And I really
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have fun. Yeah. Why should I? Yeah, why should
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I want to go home if I have like fun here? Yeah,
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I mean some things of course I miss like for
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example the food Some kind of food or like more
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in Germany. So I miss it, but I think Like all
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in all Overall, it's I really like it here and
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I will enjoy the time here As long as I can absolutely,
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what has it been like to be involved with all
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of Rowan's friends? Like at our house or wherever
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you go all the time. I mean, it really helped
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me. So it really helped me that Rowan had like
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a really big friend group and that they do a
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lot of things together to integrate me, myself,
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in a friend group and get new friends. So I really
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like it. And I really like the friend group too.
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So I really can enjoy the time. And yeah, I mean,
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we do a lot of things together. Non -stop. And
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so yesterday y 'all were out of school for fall
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break and you, they got up in the morning and
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some of them went and played golf and you slept
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in and then they, no, no, no, no. That was Monday.
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They went. That was Monday. They played golf,
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and then you all went hiking down to Kinloch
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Falls. Yeah. And that's one of the most beautiful
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parts of Alabama. It's out in the Bankhead Forest.
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Yesterday, you had a cross -country meet, and
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some of them went, four or five of them went.
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And you ran, ran a really good time, like 18
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.06. Yeah. Which was also 50 -something, 60 -something
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out of 280. Yeah. Right? Impressive. That happens
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every time. Very fast. So then y 'all all left
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and you're walking back to the car. And I'm over
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there being old and fat and trying to get over
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there because it was hot. I look up and there
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goes Evan's truck. And y 'all are all in the
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bed, you know. And I'm like, stop, time out.
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Nobody offered me a ride, you know. But it was
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just a testament because y 'all were just all
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in the bed like you've been growing up in the
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south, riding in the back of a pickup truck.
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And y 'all went on down. But that actually, I
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saw it. I saw y 'all coming and that just warmed
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my heart because that's how I grew up, man. Like
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we were always in the back in the eighties, nineties
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in the back of somebody's car truck. And, uh,
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just seeing you have that moment. It was really
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cool. That was really cool. Yeah. It was really
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cool. Um, what, how has it been with table tennis?
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Cause so your parents said that you were good
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at table tennis. And I didn't really know what
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that meant. I didn't know. Cause I play ping
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pong. Right. Yeah. And I'm like, you know, like
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maybe I could, maybe I can do it. and then so
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we go watch you play table tennis and i'm like
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whoa this is a different animal so what's it
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been like here uh table tennis compared to your
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competitions in germany um so at first um i mean
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i'm really thankful to have the opportunity to
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play table tennis yeah i was like um the first
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first thing when it was clear that we that i
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came and that i will come to you was um like
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at first i was really thankful because um i saw
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you and my mom was directly like that's a really
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good family and um and i was really thankful
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and then i asked my dad if i have like every
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any opportunities to play table tennis and he
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was like yeah i think so maybe indicator and
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i was like really happy yeah because i mean you
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cannot expect that In such a really big country,
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they have the opportunity to play table tennis.
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It's not that popular here. In Germany, it's
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really popular. So I was really thankful. But
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I didn't expect, of course, the same thing as
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in Germany. In Germany, I play like five, six
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times a week. And really professional training.
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So I came here with the expectations that...
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have like some opponents i can play table tennis
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with and stay on the same level yeah so when
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i come back to germany come i can still play
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yeah the same team and i think that expectation
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was right and i really have the opportunity to
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play good table tennis here yeah you've been
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in decatur and you've beaten everybody there
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Yeah. You've lost like twice out of probably
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100 matches, maybe. And then so then we carted
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you over to Huntsville to play. And I thought,
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well, it's going to be tough. And apparently
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you came home and you whipped all of them, too.
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Yeah. So that's really cool. I'm glad you had
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the opportunity. And it's it's fun to go and
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watch. But now it's like I just drop you off.
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I saw you beat everybody. Now it's not fun. It's
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like I've watched the same movie. So I just let
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you go and do your thing. But it's fun. It's
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fun to see you have that opportunity to go. Yeah.
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excel and do something you really love yeah um
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that's that was important to us to give you some
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kind of continuity yeah you know and what your
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lifestyle is um that's good stuff what are you
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looking forward to the most in the next say so
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it's october so two four eight months i don't
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really know like i look forward for the next
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day and um what i can do this day and what i
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can do next day okay and um one thing i'm really
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excited On the soccer trip to the beach. Oh man,
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yeah. That'll be in March. Fair warning, March
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beach is not as fun as July beach because it's
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colder. It's still sunny and it might be windy,
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but it's still beautiful. And all the boys get
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in the water anyway. It's a really good time.
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We look forward to that too, a lot. Christmas
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coming up in a couple months. It's going to be
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a good time. I think you're going to enjoy that
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too. So good. Hey, I've got this book for the
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audience. I don't know if y 'all can see it.
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It's called Factfulness. And you were reading
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that when you first came here. And I think you
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came on a Wednesday, I think Thursday or Friday
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of that week. We had a conversation about this
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book. And just briefly, and it impressed upon
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me your mindset. Hey, you're reading this book.
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It's a thick book with small print, right? So
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kind of a big deal. What is that about and how
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does that book affect your outlook every day?
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Because I think you live that thought process
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constantly. So the author is a Swedish man who
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is a doctor. And he's really impressive. And
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he was in many countries and he saw many different
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types of people. and and poverty really rich
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people so he saw all kind of stuff and um he
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actually writes about that he actually writes
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about um how the world is divided in four parts
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of different income levels and he says that we
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on level four the highest level the highest income
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level um have completely wrong thoughts and views
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on the rest of the world. Because he says, and
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he makes it clear in, I think, 11 different parts
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and says how we think false and wrong about that.
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And he divides the world in these four levels
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and said that one billion people live on level
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four. and most of the people would think on level
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four that that the world is way worse than it
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actually is because he says that and he has like
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quiz questions and then he has statistics how
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many people answered that right and he is comparing
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that with animals they can only like say they
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are like multiple choice answers and these animals
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do of course only 25 of the questions right okay
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so um and the people do actually worse than the
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animals they actually do like 10 of the questions
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right the the 1 billion who are living in level
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exactly oh wow so we're really wrong about how
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um how the world is and how good actually the
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world is because we think the world is way worse
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than it actually is we think um for example there
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was a question how many people are vaccinated
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against some diseases and we think it's way less
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than it actually is so and he says that we think
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this because of the media because the social
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media says that to us and show us all the bad
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news. And I mean, if we only see the bad news,
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we believe this. And the more dramatic news is,
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the more we want to see the news. And so the
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big newspapers and media only show dramatic things
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and only bad things. It's impressive that you
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even... Did you get all of that out of that book?
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Do you feel like that's true? Definitely, yeah.
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Is it true in Germany and in Alabama? Yeah, actually
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he shows that pretty nice with these statistics
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because he shows in different countries and on
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different income levels actually too how we think.
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also like he asks people that are specialized
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on the topic and they are still worse than the
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animals oh my gosh yeah so it's like um really
28:28
interesting to see and um i think the statistics
28:33
shows that shows that that this is actually true
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and i think that's really true because we only
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talk about bad things we only think about what
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can happen and um i think that's why maybe we
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will talk about that also that's why i think
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the church is also really important because it
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talks about exactly these things and how we should
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handle anxiety and bad things and bad beliefs
29:11
Let's talk about that, too, because we go to
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Daystar Church, and it's a big thing for us.
29:16
We're all Christian believers, and we feel like
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attendance is important for a lot of reasons.
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And you said that at home, you all go to church
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on kind of a seasonal thing. The country cultures
29:28
are different, but it seems like you've enjoyed
29:31
our church a lot. And so what has that been like
29:34
to consider? what you know about the world politics
29:42
because you all study it and discuss it more
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in your in your student group in germany than
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our kids do here for a lot of reasons yeah um
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i wish we would more but what has it been like
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to have that christian influence that church
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influence into your thinking of what the world
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is like yeah and and to handle the anxiety and
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fears and doubts and man we've had some great
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sermons since you've been here yeah and our preacher's
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been bringing it um what's it been like um We
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really did. I think my dad also taught me a lot
30:18
about these things. In my opinion, it's really
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important, especially in this time. My dad and
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me also talk a lot about the future and what
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can happen. He is convinced that many people
30:38
will lose their jobs. And that physical health,
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psychological health is really important. Psychological
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health. Psychological health is really important
30:55
because we have to know how to handle these situations.
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And I think the church teaches us it doesn't
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depend on which situation you are. It teaches
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us how to handle these situations and gives us
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a different view on the world and on our mind.
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I love that. In simple terms, it gives us hope.
31:28
It gives us something to believe in that helps
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us get through a situation. Absolutely, man.
31:35
That's 100 % true. You and I have not had a deep
31:38
theological conversation. you know but i've seen
31:42
you like you wanted to go to church and you paid
31:43
attention and you i've we've talked briefly about
31:46
the lessons and stuff so it's cool that you're
31:49
soaking that in um do you think that you spend
31:52
a year here then you go home to germany does
31:54
that change how you approach that part of your
31:56
life there as far as like going to church all
32:00
the time or yeah maybe probably um but the church
32:05
in germany is like completely different and um
32:08
but i will definitely try to go sure um more
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often than we do in germany and um yeah my sister
32:20
also went to australia and his her host there
32:24
was a pastor okay so so she was also like she
32:30
was also really impressed by that yeah um so
32:34
but she doesn't really go maybe i can motivate
32:37
her to go with me so i think for sure Yeah. You're
32:42
going to get a good, you're going to see a lot
32:45
of things. Our church is very good at teaching,
32:47
teaching why, the context of it. I'm going to
32:51
make a hard pivot to something that, I love this
32:53
deep conversation, but I need you to look over
32:56
your right shoulder. You see that white thing
32:58
moving around over there? Yes. Kaylee, can you
33:01
see that white thing? Do you know what that is?
33:04
that is a skunk and it is headed straight towards
33:07
us and listen george i'm just going to tell you
33:09
man i don't want to get that thing pissed off
33:12
at us so i'm going to keep an eye on it as we
33:16
wrap up oh my god it's running fast it's running
33:19
towards the light literally y 'all there's a
33:20
skunk because we're about 50 100 maybe 75 feet
33:25
from the pond and uh oh there it goes it run
33:28
away we scared it okay good okay man listen Like
33:32
there's one thing about being in Alabama. You
33:34
get sprayed by a skunk and you're done. Nobody
33:36
wants to be around you. But we are also out of
33:39
daylight, I think. I don't know how this looks
33:41
on camera, but it's like we're camping, which
33:43
I kind of intended us to transition in the dark
33:45
just to, there's a thing like the world is my
33:48
studio, you know? So listen, I appreciate your
33:51
thoughts, man. It has been, this is for George's
33:54
parents, Christian and Nadja. Is that right?
33:58
Man, y 'all did a great job. raising this young
34:01
man and getting him ready for the world and I
34:03
would hope that if Rowan went out into the world
34:06
that he would be represented the same way or
34:09
received the same way that George has been I'm
34:11
just your teachers and everybody's been around
34:13
it's just loved having you around and it's been
34:15
it's been phenomenal for us to have you here
34:18
so we're gonna wrap this thing up and I just
34:20
want you know I appreciate you uh i'm so glad
34:23
that you got to be here with us and just experience
34:25
all the things that are america and alabama and
34:28
uh and hartzell it's been good so it's good uh
34:32
final thoughts for the audience as we uh wrap
34:35
up and try to not get sprayed by a skunk anything
34:39
you want to leave the audience with yeah i really
34:42
appreciate you and i'm really thankful to be
34:46
here and your family and at this friend group
34:50
and at this school yeah and exactly here yep
34:53
uh it was good it was it was meant to be um for
34:56
sure so we're gonna get out of here before uh
34:59
something else comes along um it gets us there's
35:03
no telling we're in the dark out here uh hey
35:05
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35:37
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35:41
appreciate y 'all listening. Look for an update
35:43
in probably April, maybe May. We'll see how we've
35:48
changed, George. Hey, can you say Roll Tide or
35:50
War Eagle? Roll Tide. Okay, you got it. Good.
35:54
Just so the world is resting easy. Anyway, thanks
35:57
for listening, guys. And we appreciate our new
35:59
videographer in the back, Kaylee Thigpen. She's
36:01
done a great job tonight. So good stuff. Y 'all
36:04
be good out there. Remember, life is in the dash.
36:08
Go make yours count. See you next time. See you.
36:11
Good stuff, man. All right. Man, listen, I was
36:14
getting real nervous about that skunk. That dude
36:16
was looking at me.