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Episode #32-Jeanne Tuia, Auburn High School Senior · The Recess-An Inside Look at the Auburn School District

• 0:18
  SPEAKER_01: Hello, and welcome to the Recess Podcast.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Dr.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_01: Alan Spacotti, the proud superintendent of the Auburn School District.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_01: The recess is where we tell the stories of the people and the programs that make Auburn such a great place.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_01: The people we are concentrating at the end of the school year are very special graduating seniors from the class of 2025.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_01: And I have the joy and honor of interviewing a graduating senior from all four of our high schools and sharing that conversation with you.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: So I think we're going to have a great time today with the ASB president of Auburn High School and a really cool kid, Jeannie Tuya.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_01: Jeannie, welcome.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: Hello, everyone.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: Hello.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_01: I've had actually, I do know Jeannie from uh several different things that we've had a chance to cross paths and in her leadership.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but I want to share that with our Auburn community uh because she's a great kid and a great leader in the school.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_01: I think you're gonna hear some of those themes.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_01: So we're gonna jump right in with the question I ask all of my guests.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_01: Who is your favorite teacher and why?
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but this is really cool because it's real time.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_01: You're in school now.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and if if you want to, you could also add on like elementary and middle in addition to Auburn High.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so elementary school.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: I attended Washington Elementary.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, my favorite teacher would definitely there's about two.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: I'd definitely say uh Miss Burge.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: She moved schools, but she was my fourth grade teacher.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: She was just a huge inspiration and really just someone I really looked up to just because you know, I'm a young kid and I'm trying to figure out school, come to school.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: I needed like motivation to be happy and just overall find a reason why I enjoy coming to school.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: So I'd say Miss Burge was definitely one of my favorites, and another one of my favorites in elementary was Mr.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: Markwell.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: He's the camp director for Camp Auburn.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: But overall, he was my fifth grade teacher and he really made like my last year very fun.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, I really enjoyed him as well.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um a middle school teacher, I'd say Mr.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: Merino, Mr.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: Marino from Olympic, he definitely left an impact on us because he was also our soccer coach and our history teacher, and he really just you know, I would go to school every day and he like he really cared.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's like someone who actually wants you to come to school and they find purpose or see some value in you, and they just like they give you a reason to like want to come to school.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: So Mr.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: Marino, he's uh he's at Mountain View currently right now, but yeah, he was definitely my definitely one of my favorites.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: And for high school, Auburn, there's there's a lot of good teachers.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_00: I I can name several to you, but it'd definitely be Miss Morrison or Miss Jensen, Kelly Jensen.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: Those two are my top two just because they just really believed in me the past four years, and like I said, they give me a reason and a purpose to come to school every day and make it fun.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: Can you talk about what Miss Morrison and Miss Jensen do at Auburn High School?
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um they're they were both activity coordinators.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um Miss Jensen, she served the first two years of my high school, freshman and sophomore year.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: Basically, they were in they were planning all the fun events at Auburn.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: They do the assemblies, they do the dances, they do anything students really wanted to plan.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: And then Morrison, she just became the new activities coordinator for this year, and yeah, she just does all the fun things and anything we want, she puts it to work and puts it in action and really just helps us execute our plans.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_01: Great.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_01: So it's always interesting to me to hear favorite teachers, and you actually hear this from the adults and what they remember, but especially our current students, you know, it's so much of it is about like how they know you as a person, how they empower you, and even though what we're here for in some respects is learning the content, the standards, uh, that's not usually the thing that like differentiates you.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_01: Like you said, there's a lot of good teachers in Auburn.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_01: Hi, and of course I'd agree.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but the question was your favorite teacher, and your favorites are the one that like you connect with personally, uh, and it just goes above and beyond uh in in a connection.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_01: So uh great, great answers and um some wonderful folks we have in the district.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_01: So you mentioned teachers at Washington, Cascade, and Auburn High.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_01: Uh did you attend other schools in Auburn?
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: I attended for elementary, I attended Chinook, and then I transferred to Washington.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_00: And then I also I attended Cascade and Olympic for middle school and then high school, it's been Auburn all four years because Trojan's rule, but yeah.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_01: Trojan's rule, all right.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: That's a throwdown.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but I think you're safe to to do that uh in in our community.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um tell tell us you're really connected in this school.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_01: What extracurricular activities have you done throughout your school career?
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_00: Well, when I was younger, I just like I always was passionate about helping people and just like being a reason why people would enjoy to come to school and being people's happiness basically.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_00: So I was always into like the planning and doing all the fun stuff.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: So not to brag or anything, but my elementary, fifth grade, I was ASP president, and then middle school I was ASP president in eighth grade, so like it just kept going on and on.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_00: And then in high school, I was vice president, and then now I'm ASP president.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_00: So I feel like a lot of my peers they knew who was like passionate to keep going and like being present or being involved in ASP.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, that's like one of my main things I'd say is my top extracurricular, is that it's just been something I've been so passionate about because I always want to make a difference or just help others or make others happy.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um I've participated in sports like volleyball, I've done track previously.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um I'm in a group called PSA.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_00: Peers uh spreading and supporting awareness.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's a group where we like to help students and students who are involved in like alcohol and substance abuse and just anything like that.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_00: We're here for them.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: And that's partnered with Miss Jackson.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um I've been in A Town Mentors, that's for helping freshmen and their first year and just guiding them.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_00: I've just it's a lot of the lot of groups I join are things that like I'm interested in, are mostly just groups that are there to help others or strive to make others better in any way.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I love how you show up for your peers.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_01: Tell us about that group and how it started.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um last year the ASB exec board, it was all seniors and it was me, I was the only junior.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_00: Basically, we would have um one segment of our ASB meetings that we would go over, and we had this thing called Trojan Voice.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_00: Trojan voice is where students would uh come to the table and they would drop in a little piece of paper saying anything that they complain about or something that they want to change or something they want to see different of.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: And basically, um we got a lot of like notes talking about how the bathrooms were always filled with students who were smoking, vaping, or just they weren't able to use the bathroom at all, and they just wanted something that can help them.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_00: So we took the we took this message from a lot of the students and we took it in action and decided to start up a a club where we help students out who are involved in alcohol and substance abuse, and we partner with Miss Jackson and s and basically it was a student-led thing because we were trying to help students.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: We know that there's you know, there's it's not really in our control, but we do want to be a resource out there for them because you know, we want to know we want students to know that we can help them.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's fantastic.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_01: I got to attend the kickoff assembly in the Performing Arts Center.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I think you did two of them with like two grades at a time level.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I was at one of those, and it was so inspirational uh to have something student-led um where students are trying to be a part of the solution, and and part of my focus with this podcast and especially interviewing our seniors is highlighting all the good things that our students are doing.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and this was a great example of that.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_01: You know, sometimes the bad news spreads faster than the good news, and we want to amplify that there's a lot of kids.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_01: I think you had like 40 people show up for the after-school club meeting that day, and it was just a huge success.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_01: So, congratulations, Jeannie.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you and and your fellow students just did an awesome job there.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I want to also kind of tell a story and mention something.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_01: So I did not know you were president in elementary school and middle school.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_01: I did know you are at Auburn High.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um we had an opportunity back in in December where uh King County Council member Pete von Reitbauer um pulled together like a community leader gathering and brought in former governor Christine Gregoire as a speaker and to have her we uh he asked us to bring some high school students, student leaders to hear from uh two-term governor.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_01: And many of you probably know Governor Gregoire is a proud Trojan herself, Auburn High graduate.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and uh she was inspiring, and afterwards uh I introduced her to the current president of the Auburn High ASP, Jeannie, and you guys hit it off and talked for eight or ten minutes, and she was just tickled.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_01: Uh what do you remember about that experience?
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um it was like it was so main character.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: I felt so special because like there was people who wanted to come up and talk to her from other schools, and it was literally just me and her.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like we were connecting right off the bat, and you know, like I it just I don't know, it felt really special to me in the moment, and I can see my dad in the back and he was just smiling and just seeing that I'm having a conversation with the former governor, and it was just it was a great experience, and we just kept going on and on, and she just mentions that sh I should continue to keep pushing and being a leader that I am, and I really take that to this day, and yeah, it was just a very good moment.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_01: So I know she was speaking to kids like you when she really promoted the value of public service and leadership.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh have you thought about, you know, besides you know, career aspirations, have you thought about wanting to continue to be a leader as you move on beyond high school and it into your community life?
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_00: I've thought about it several times.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people ask me, you know, that question, like, are you interested in doing things like that?
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I've always just I don't know, I've always looked into being a teacher or something because teachers really make an impact.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_00: You see them every day at school, um, they yell at you, they tell you to do your work, but it's like there's always there's always something in a teacher that really inspires them.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_00: So if I really wanted to pick a job or some type of career that relates to that, I'd say a teacher because they just bring a lot of inspiration in students.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: Fantastic.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: Good answer.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I could give you an application right now.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: We'd love to have you come back and be a teacher someday uh in the Auburn School District if that's what you choose.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: All right, let's shift gears a little bit here uh and talk about what are you looking forward to over the next few months of school?
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: And just so all of you know, we're recording this uh probably around the the start of fourth quarter, and uh we have a little time left in the school year, so by the time you hear this it might be later.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_01: But what what's uh ahead for you in April, May, and June?
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_00: Number one, of course, I'm ready I'm ready to graduate, that's for sure.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: You know, just spending time with my underclassman friends, I I get really sad that I'm leaving them, but I know that I made an impact for them.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: But just overall spending time with my peers and knowing that this is like my last few months of high school, so I'm really trying to make it memorable memorable and just being a part of meeting other people and just being a part of the senior class and just overall coming together and collaborating, but just overall spending time with everybody, and that's what I'm looking forward to.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_01: And that's that's the best.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I think back to being a senior, you know, signing your books and all the last things that you go through together.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: And uh Auburn High is in such a good place now.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'm so proud of their school culture and student leadership.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: Like you go to pretty much any assembly is student-led, heavy student participation.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_01: Uh the kids are respectful and engaged, and and Jeannie's smiling and nodding.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_01: I just tell you proud of that, right?
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, very.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: So to have, you know, these last few uh weeks and months to be together and be with those folks is gonna be really special.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um one thing that you're doing this spring, uh, I see you're wearing a hoodie.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: If if you see the promotional picture uh for this podcast, you'll you'll probably see Jeannie's wearing a Camp Auburn hoodie that uh is our outdoor ed camp for fifth graders, and you're gonna have a role in that uh this spring.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_01: So could you just kind of talk about what that is?
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um it's a camp for fifth graders overall.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: I've been to Camp Auburn myself, and I've been Head Rover for the past three years since sophomore year, and just it's such a great experience.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: You know, when us high schoolers go to it and you know we're learning songs, singing together, it's just really a moment for all of us to be ourselves.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, we're not we have no worry in the world other than making these kids happy and just giving them the best week of their life.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_00: So it's really just a great it's a great camp and for like parents who like are scared to let their kids go, I really think that they should allow it because overall it's good for it's good to learn about of course the environmental education and then to um letting them enjoy and really see what's out there, meet new people and all that.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_00: So just overall, Camp Auburn, it's a really great experience.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: I love it so much.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like I said, I've been doing it for so long and it's just it's such a great time, and that's when it gets closer to graduation, all the fun things happen, the sun comes out, like it's just it's just a great time, really.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_01: One of the underrated aspects of camp, I think, is having the high school rovers uh just be a role model and you know, give give the fifth graders something to look up to, to model after, to look forward.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and and some of them say, Oh, I'm gonna do that when I'm in high school.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_01: I can't wait to come back.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I'm glad you're one of those kids.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_01: So um I I just I love how you impact other students who are your peers and also uh the the uh younger generation, so to speak.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: And that leads to my next question.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: Uh as a graduating senior, what advice would you have for a middle school student who's entering high school next year?
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: Uh my advice to students who are entering high school to really be yourself.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: I know a lot of people state that, I know a lot of people talk about that, but really high school is, you know, it's a time for growing and maturing, but it's really it's really where you find yourself and find who your people are and find how you want to be in high school.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: And this is like my favorite thing that a lot of teachers say to me is high school is what you make it.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: Really, you just you just gotta do your own thing and you really gotta roll with it because a lot of people will say things, people will do things, and a lot of things happen in high school, but really high school is what you make, and you know, if you make it enjoyable, if you make it fun, and you be yourself, I think it's really I think that's really the best way to do high school overall.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, I've just I'd say be yourself, be happy, go out there, join clubs, get involved, really like just I really try to think of it as a high school musical aspect, but really just get out there and have fun.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_00: Like that's how you live high school, but yeah.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, be yourself and high school is what you make of it.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I'm always like taken aback by how many of these overlap with just really good advice on life, right?
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: You want to find out who you are and who your people are, uh, and you want to be authentic and be yourself, and uh and then you know, we're all uh in in some way presented with the same world and you you make of it what what you want to.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_01: You can you live your life.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: So uh a lot of that starts in high school and uh that's great advice for the younger kids.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um let's kind of take ourselves out of school for a second.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_01: It's really important to remember our students are human beings first, and uh school's just a part of their life.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_01: So what do you do when you're not at school?
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um when I'm not at school, I'm working with my family or spending time with my family.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: I really I love my family so much, like I really can't express it.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: I love my family so much because it's really my huge support system, and my parents, they really like push me to become a leader and really push me to be like involved and just overall be that one person to stand out and really, you know, do everything.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'd say like I'm just always with my family or I'm always working and I really just I care about my family so much, and that's my number one thing.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: And if I'm not with my family, I'm probably with my friends, but yeah, I just I'm just enjoying time with my friends and family, and if not that, I'm at the animal shelter, the Auvrin Valley Humane Society.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: That's um on A Street going down there next to a Loco.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: I'm always there and I'm just always with the cats there, or just helping feeding, but yeah, I either help out the shelter or with my family and friends, and I'd say those are my top two.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's cool.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: Do you work there or volunteer?
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I volunteer there, yeah.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_01: Good for you.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, what do you look forward to this summer?
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, you graduate, you're done with all your high school work, you get a little time off before what's next.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_01: What are you gonna do?
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_00: My goal is to get rich.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: I want my family to be rich, so just work, work, work, and really just my next focus is my brother.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: I really want him to go out there and you know, he's really young, he's in elementary, but I know he's gonna do sports, but my main focus is of course to get rich and make money and help support my family and then see where it goes from there.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: That's good.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: Well that that takes us right into your future.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_01: So uh let's talk about uh after high school.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: What's what's next for you?
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um after high school, I had a few I had a few things I was interested in.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um either one going to Tacoma Community College and joining the radiology program.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: I was interested in becoming an ultrasound tech, but I feel like my main like something I really want to do is just overall be in the medical field because yeah, I just like I said, I'm always passionate to help people and just do something there.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: So I feel like that's another good spot.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_00: But just overall that and yeah, I think that's my next big plan.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: Or become a paraeducator, work half and half, and yeah.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_01: Well that's great.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_01: If uh if you wanted to do that, we'd love to have you here in Auburn uh working as a pair, and there's some really good advantages to that in terms of uh, you know, the the experiences that you have on the job, and you know, it really is uh a pretty nice way to start your your uh work career, so to speak.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_01: And uh sometimes that leads to being a teacher, sometimes people do that for a while and and they have other uh passions and pursuits, and uh if you want to head into the medical field or go to school at the same time, you know, all those routes are possible, so you'll figure that out.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: But if if you're interested, uh Jeannie, if you're interested in being a para or anybody listening to this podcast, I'd be happy to connect you with our human resources uh to at least talk through that.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_01: You mentioned a couple different careers here.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_01: Do you have a dream job?
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, my dream job, even since I was younger, was to be a pediatric surgeon.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's a lot of schooling, but I've always I was always interested in being like a teacher for kids or just working with kids overall, so you know, we need good people to do all these jobs.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_01: Everything you just mentioned, uh certainly in the medical field, certainly in education, certainly working with kids.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_01: So uh whoever gets you is gonna be really lucky and and have a leader, and uh I just think you're gonna do amazing things, and I look forward to following your success and hope hopefully somehow I'll hear about it.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: I have a feeling that you're gonna do great things and and uh we're gonna keep hearing about Genie Tooia and uh wonderful success.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_01: So uh let's go ahead and pivot here because I like to ask end on a fun question and ask every person I interview.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: What was your favorite thing to do at recess?
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh my favorite thing to do at recess, um, it was two things.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: It was either kickball, because I was really good at kicking them all really far.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, I would I would beat everybody at kickball.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: Or I'd say jump roping.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: I remember we would have jump roping competitions and it was like it got really like heated one time, I think it was during third grade, and we were doing two ropes at one time, and my friend she was trying to compete with me on who could do it the fastest, and yeah, I'd say jump roping or kickball is my top two because I love to get competitive and things like that.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_01: Uh uh devoted listeners to the podcast know that kickball was my favorite thing to do a recess, and I'm not sure if any of my guests have mentioned kickball, so uh that's awesome.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: I enjoy that.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: Do you get to do either kickball or jump rope today?
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_00: Today?
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like in in your life uh as as a high school senior.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I try to teach my brother how to, because like the double ropes, it's really cool.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: And if you can do that, that's like you gotta concentrate and do it.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I say like the last time I did it was two weeks ago.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I still do it here and there.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: Fantastic.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we want you to get out and play and uh stay young.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: Jeannie, uh you've I think helped all of us think about some things that uh are inspiring and give us a real uh optimism and faith for the future, and uh this is exactly why, you know, the the 2000 plus people in the Auburn School District who work here do this work, uh it's to help uh the next generation, and and you're just such a uh shining example of the potential of the CLASA 2025 and all the amazing kids we have in the Auburn School District.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_01: Jeannie, it's been great talking to you today.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, before we wrap up, is there anything else you'd like to share?
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, one last thing I wanted to share is that um all the teachers I've had previously at Auburn High School, I've been so blessed to be under their teaching and just overall so huge shout out to them.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um shout out to Deanna, Miss Graves, um Ms.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: Jackson, Morrison, and all of my ASB Exec board members, just everyone overall who's made Auburn a great experience for me.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_00: And definitely shout out to Mr.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_00: Gardner.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's my day one.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody knows that we go back and forth, but yeah, thanks to him for making Auburn a great place and just overall the teacher overall all the teachers at Auburn.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, thank you.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I appreciate you taking a moment to share gratitude and uh use this podcast to call out some amazing folks who are doing amazing work with kids.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: So uh congrats to all of them and Jeannie, thanks again for being with us on the recess.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_01: This has been the recess.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we're produced by Vicki Alonzo, and I would love to invite you to share this podcast.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: Jeannie's an amazing kid.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we want to get her story out there.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: If you know Proud Trojans, uh, please spread the word.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_01: I look forward to seeing you on the next episode.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: So thank you for listening.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: I'll see you next time.