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S2 E15 - Amazing Student Interviews · Inside the OSD

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  SPEAKER1: In this episode, we are going to hear about a recent project in which students interviewed someone they wanted to learn more about.
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  The selections our students made ranged from adults right here in our building to a chef living halfway across the world.
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  I was fortunate to participate in an interview as well.
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  You're going to love hearing from our students.
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  SPEAKER2: Welcome to this episode of Inside the OSD podcast, where it's all about the kids.
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  Here is your host, lifelong educator in our superintendent, Doctor Leslie Bergstrom.
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  SPEAKER1: We'll start with you, Miss Galica.
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  Can you start by introducing yourself to our listeners and your role at OMS?
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  SPEAKER3: My name is Liz Galica, and I teach seventh grade English and enriched English for the 7M team at OMS.
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  I've been teaching here for seven years, and this is the only place I've ever taught since I graduated.
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  SPEAKER1: Well, aren't we lucky?
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  That's awesome.
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  So can you explain this particular project and what students were asked to do?
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  SPEAKER3: Sure. So it was a profile narrative, and the essential goal of it was for each student to connect with an adult that
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  they wanted to learn more about.
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  They wanted to learn more about their career, kind of.
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  It was open ended, but anyone that they felt like they had some questions to ask that they could connect to get some more information, and then in the end,
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  they would take what they had learned and write up like a profile narrative like you'd find online for an interview with someone.
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  SPEAKER1: So what growth or skill development did you see happen as kids moved through this process?
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  SPEAKER3: A lot of professionalism and things that maybe they aren't or haven't been exposed to in terms of connecting with someone, typically someone older could be
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  someone that they have already spoken with or someone who - they just wanted to
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  SPEAKER1: know more about.
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  SPEAKER3: Right. And so a lot of professionalism and like reaching out, maybe through email or just having to connect, thinking of questions, even follow up emails
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  for -- sometimes they had additional things when they were writing their profile that they had to reach back out about.
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  So just the follow up and those interpersonal connections.
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  SPEAKER1: Did students have questions regarding email etiquette or anything of that nature?
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  Did you have to talk through...?
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  SPEAKER3: We talked through it a little bit in like how to, you know, do a follow up, thank you and things like that and making sure that they come across
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  professional and not tech speak or things like that.
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  SPEAKER1: Right. What great skills.
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  Yeah that's exciting.
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  Okay. So now I want to hear from our students.
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  So you've volunteered, right?
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  Everyone's volunteered?
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  Okay. You volunteered to talk about your specific experiences.
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  So we're going to start by having each of you introduce yourself to the listeners.
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  SPEAKER4: I'm Violet Krueger.
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  SPEAKER5: I'm Eli Hawkins.
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  SPEAKER6: I'm Maya Ducett.
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  SPEAKER1: Thank you very much, all three of you.
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  So you're all seventh graders and you just started semester two.
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  So you're kind of getting the groove of middle school.
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  So first, before we talk about your assignment, how was this first year at OMS been for you?
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  SPEAKER4: I think I've had a lot of fun, and I've learned, um, about a lot of different peers and teachers, so I liked it so far.
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  SPEAKER1: Good.
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  SPEAKER5: Yeah, I've enjoyed it, and I've enjoyed having some more choice than last year.
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  SPEAKER1: Choice? That was a big one.
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  So new people and choice.
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  And how about you, Maya?
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  SPEAKER6: I've enjoyed it as well.
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  I really like having more teachers as well, and they've all been really great.
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  SPEAKER1: Oh, that's wonderful to hear.
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  So can each of you talk about who you chose to interview and why you selected them?
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  SPEAKER4: So I selected a person called Marsia Taha.
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  She's a chef in a restaurant in Bolivia.
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  Wow. Um, and her restaurant has been on the list of the top restaurants in South America.
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  And I really enjoy cooking and baking, so I thought it would be interesting to learn from someone who's doing that as her career.
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  SPEAKER1: What a fascinating selection.
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  How did you know about her?
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  SPEAKER4: I used to live in Bolivia and my dad is a photographer, so he would take pictures of that kitchen and that restaurant.
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  SPEAKER1: All right. So you have a lot of familiarity with her as a figure, but did you you didn't know her before this process?
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  SPEAKER4: I'd met her before, but I'd never really talked to her much.
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  Maybe just a hello.
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  SPEAKER1: That's really exciting.
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  Okay, how about your choice?
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  SPEAKER5: I chose to interview Miss Black, the orchestra teacher here at OMS, because I just really like music.
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  So I'm in orchestra here, and I enjoy talking to her.
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  SPEAKER1: Oh that's great.
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  I bet that made her feel good to be selected for that.
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  And how about you?
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  SPEAKER6: I interviewed a woman named Monica Hesse.
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  She's a columnist with the Washington Post as well as an author.
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  And she knew my dad in high school.
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  So I we were able to get a connection with her.
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  And I really like writing.
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  So I found it really interesting to learn about her career and how she was able to achieve that.
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  SPEAKER1: What fascinating selections, you guys!
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  This is something else.
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  So what was it like to prepare for the interview?
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  SPEAKER4: So at first reaching out, it was -- I was a little nervous to do it because, you know, she had worked with my dad.
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  So I wanted to like in a way, I was representing my dad.
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  So I wanted to come off well.
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  And before I was really nervous.
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  But I think as the interview went on, it got easier to talk with her.
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  So I think at the beginning you're nervous about it, but then the more you do it, the better it gets.
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  SPEAKER1: Terrific.
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  SPEAKER5: Well, I definitely put a lot of work into it, and I just was I was having a lot of fun thinking of things to ask her and stuff I wanted to learn
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  about.
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  SPEAKER1: So even though you.
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  You see her regularly?
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  There were still things that you really wanted to know.
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  Nice. How about you?
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  SPEAKER6: I found it quite enjoyable, so it was kind of hard to reach out to her.
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  But once we did, um, I had a lot of really good time just talking to her and getting to learn more about a career that I'm interested in.
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  SPEAKER1: Was it a Google Meet or a telephone?
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  It was a
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  SPEAKER6: Google Meet, so we were able to talk face to face, which was really nice.
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  That is
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  SPEAKER1: really nice. Did you have a Google meet too?
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  Yes. Okay. And I imagine you were in person.
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  Okay. Okay.
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  So what was the highlight for you?
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  SPEAKER4: I think it was just really interesting about learning a career that I think is interesting.
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  I feel like going into cooking, it's kind of like it's more uncertain because it's like, well, people like your food.
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  But her view on it was like, you're going to you're going to fail.
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  It's going to happen, but it's okay.
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  And she was able to get back up again.
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  And she's a really good chef now.
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  SPEAKER1: What an amazing lesson.
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  Yeah. Okay.
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  I
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  SPEAKER5: think the highlight for me was just sort of getting to know a person that I sort of look up to and enjoy being with and getting to know more about her.
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  SPEAKER7: Very sweet.
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  SPEAKER6: The highlight for me as well was learning about her career and as well learning about her job as a columnist, because I'd never really thought about doing that.
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  But now I really think that would be a really cool job option in the future.
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  That would be.
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  SPEAKER1: Fascinating.
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  SPEAKER6: And just learning about her books and her take on the world as well.
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  SPEAKER1: Oh really? She's also an author of of a book.
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  Okay. Wow. Many.
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  Oh, I've got to look her up.
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  That's really cool.
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  Okay, so what's the most important thing you've learned?
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  SPEAKER4: So like I said before, maybe getting back up there when you fail.
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  But I also think it was interesting to, in this career that presenting food on a table isn't just about getting the people to like your food, but more showing
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  where that food came from and showing your own identity within the food, which is something I think a lot of people overlook.
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  SPEAKER7: For sure.
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  SPEAKER1: That means that there's so many layers of meaning to what's in front of you, right?
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  SPEAKER7: Yeah. Wow.
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  SPEAKER5: I think one of the most important things I learned was just how important it is to communicate with them and to be flexible, like we had some problems with
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  scheduling something.
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  She wasn't able to make it the first time.
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  So we had to come up with a new time.
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  And it was just--
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  SPEAKER1: So communicating through that change and understanding the need to be flexible?
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  Yeah, okay. Those are really important skills for everybody.
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  SPEAKER6: I think the most important thing that I learned was she talked about how writing is not the fairy tale it's made out to be.
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  And you don't just sit down and write an entire novel.
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  It takes a long time to actually work on it.
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  And as well as columns, she said she would write like 7 or 8 columns a week, but only like three would get posted.
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  So it's not just this fairy tale where everything comes together.
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  It takes a lot of hard work and time.
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  SPEAKER1: Well, that's an amazing insight into that world.
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  I would never have expected that she wrote that many columns in a week, only to have a few in the paper.
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  That's really interesting.
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  So how will you use this stuff in the future?
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  SPEAKER4: So I think that learning that you're going to fail is going to help me in the future a lot.
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  I know that sometimes I get frustrated in the kitchen when something doesn't work out, or I'm supposed to be making dinner, but it doesn't taste good, but
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  it's okay to fail. And that's how you learn.
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  SPEAKER1: Well, not only is that a great lesson, but I love the fact you're cooking for your family.
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  That's what a good experience that is.
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  What's your favorite dish?
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  SPEAKER4: I really like making Chinese food, so orange chicken is fun.
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  SPEAKER7: Okay, that
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  SPEAKER4: sounds --
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  SPEAKER7: That sounds wonderful.
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  Okay.
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  SPEAKER5: I think I'm considering becoming a music teacher.
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  So just the stuff I learned about how she went about becoming a music teacher, well that's exciting.
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  SPEAKER1: So hopefully in ten years we'll be seeing you back.
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  Okay? Okay.
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  And you, Maya?
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  SPEAKER7: As well.
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  SPEAKER6: I think I would also like to take a career as an author and maybe try to intern at the Washington Post as she did or get a job there, because I find it really
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  inspiring that all of the work that she's put into this and how much she enjoys her job, oh.
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  SPEAKER1: That's amazing, you guys.
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  Thank you all very much.
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  Yeah. Thank you for having us.
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