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Episode #17: Khysner Ayo- Auburn High Senior · The Recess-An Inside Look at the Auburn School District

• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome to the Recess Podcast.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Dr.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: Alan Spacotti, the proud superintendent of the Auburn School District.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Recess is a chance for us to tell the story of some of the people and programs that make Auburn a really wonderful place to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: These last few episodes of the school year, those people are our graduating seniors.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we have really enjoyed getting to tell their stories and just see the variety of backgrounds and experiences and clubs and sports and academics and all the things that kids are involved in, and then hear a little bit about where they're going.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: I could literally do a thousand of these episodes and talk to amazing seniors who are in all walks of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we have a few that uh are gonna stand in for their peers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh my guest today is a senior from Auburn High School, Keisner Io.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she is an outstanding senior, and I think you're really going to enjoy this episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so let's bring her in right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome, Keisner.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hello, thank you so much for having me here today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, uh the pleasure is all ours.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh on the recess, we get to just tell a story, we have a conversation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and you know, this is gonna be a fun time to get to know you a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we do that at first by asking the same question of all of our guests, regardless of whatever their job is or their student.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um who is your favorite teacher and why?
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  SPEAKER_02: You see, these kinds of questions, they they stress me out because how can you just choose one favorite, you know?
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, so unfortunately, I will not answer that question specifically, but I will answer some of my favorite qu my favorite teachers.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I would say, just from high school itself, um, there have been three teachers that really stand out to me and have helped me become the person I am today.
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  SPEAKER_02: And first, I would start off with Miss Tarsi.
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  SPEAKER_02: She's the DECA advisor and teacher at Auburn High School.
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  SPEAKER_02: She's an amazing woman.
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  SPEAKER_02: She's been my number one supporter all throughout high school, all the way from freshman year online through COVID.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, she's just been there with me.
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  SPEAKER_02: We've had lots of shared experiences.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh, we've traveled together, and yeah, she's just become my school mom, and I'm so thankful to have her by my side.
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  SPEAKER_02: And along with that, another teacher would be Mrs.
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  SPEAKER_02: Dodge.
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  SPEAKER_02: She's the AP PreCalc teacher at Auburn High.
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  SPEAKER_02: And she actually really made learning fun for me.
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  SPEAKER_02: Even though she teaches math, and you know, some people are like, ugh, math, that's so gross.
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  SPEAKER_02: Why?
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  SPEAKER_02: But not me though.
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  SPEAKER_00: We love math.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: But with her, she just made it such a fun subject, and everybody who enters into her classroom just knows that it's a community in there.
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  SPEAKER_02: And she just made it super fun.
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  SPEAKER_02: And now, of course, lastly, I said three teachers.
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  SPEAKER_02: This last teacher, um, he's been my favorite teacher, I think, for for a long time.
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  SPEAKER_02: His name is Mr.
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  SPEAKER_02: Chandler.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm sure you've heard of him.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's a football coach, and he also teaches um honors language arts for 10th graders, and now he also teaches AP research.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so I've had him from um 10th grade and now as a senior for AP research, the first ever in Auburn High, and he's just been a wonderful teacher for me.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's become a safe space for me and a lot of students, and some students would even say he's kind of misunderstood in a way because people think he's scary, he's strict, but really he just cares and he shows it in his own little way.
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  SPEAKER_02: So, yeah, those are my three teachers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fantastic.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh that's kind of a lot, sorry.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I was once told don't accept the premise of the question, and you modeled that beautifully, and uh, we are three times as as rich.
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  SPEAKER_00: So tell us about your journey to being a senior at Auburn High, and uh you can just pick up the story wherever you'd like to.
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  SPEAKER_02: So actually, I'm an immigrant.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, I moved from the Philippines when I was nine years old with my mom.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, we moved here so that um my mom and my stepdad would get married and we would just start a new life here.
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  SPEAKER_02: And from the Philippines, though, I left my private school there.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, I went to a Catholic private school, and it's it was called St.
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  SPEAKER_02: Paul College of Makati.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, it's a school that's actually from K to 12, so all throughout.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that school honestly really, I guess, molded me into the person I am now.
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  SPEAKER_02: It helped me, it helped discipline me, it helped um create my work ethic, and it really just helped me become a great student.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so from transitioning from such a rigorous school there with like 12 classes every day on just so much work to moving to Dick Scoby, I went, I went to elementary school there, and it was just such a I don't know, just like a cool experience, I guess, from going there to my first ever experience at a public high school, I mean public school here in America.
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  SPEAKER_02: So, but Dick Scoby really helped me transition in that way, and that was that was a really fun experience for me.
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  SPEAKER_02: I did fifth grade there, and then for middle school, I went to Cascade, and oh my goodness, people sometimes they think middle school and they say it's their worst years.
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  SPEAKER_02: But for me, I have very fond memories of middle school.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, and I think it's probably because of the teachers that I got there, and I also met my best friend in middle school, Gabriella Rabutiako.
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  SPEAKER_02: She's my bestie, she still is, and even past mid high school, I think she'll still be my best friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to Gabriella.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes, I love her.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so yeah, Casky, then now I'm at Auburn High.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um I want to just ask you about two things that you've already mentioned that uh we haven't had much uh conversation about on the recess.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so one is you mentioned being an immigrant and coming to school in the United States.
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  SPEAKER_00: What was that what was that transition like for you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh what was that first year at Dick Scoby like um in terms of uh adjusting to school in America culturally, linguistically?
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  SPEAKER_00: Just you know, put us in your shoes for a minute.
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  SPEAKER_02: I was more fortunate than others because at my private school we actually learned English.
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  SPEAKER_02: It was just a part of our daily life there, so I didn't have much of a hard time transitioning language-wise.
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  SPEAKER_02: But for me, the biggest worry was my differences.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, I didn't really see a lot of students that looked like me or just had the same experiences I did, and that which is totally normal, you know, everybody has their own experiences.
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  SPEAKER_02: But that's definitely something I struggled with.
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  SPEAKER_02: But I took that and I used it as a motivation, you know, to try and get out there, meet new people, experience new things.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so even though I only went to Dick Scoby for one year, I experienced a lot.
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  SPEAKER_02: I joined a lot of things.
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  SPEAKER_02: I did the crossguard, I did the um the reading, the global reading challenge, I joined the Dick Scobie Steppers, um, and I met a lot of cool people there.
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  SPEAKER_02: And yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh the Steppers had some great performances and uh parades.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you do the parade down Main Street?
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  SPEAKER_00: I did the Christmas parade.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are fun times.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um and then you mentioned starting high school in the pandemic, and I have to say, uh certainly a lot of people in my generation we are just like happy to leave the pandemic in in the rear view mirror.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um but I also think back to my own high school experience, and I remember it vividly, and things that were important to me at every step, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th grade.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so this is a part of your experience and the senior classes experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um what what was it like?
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  SPEAKER_00: And just how will you think back on your high school experience being a little different than than most people?
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  SPEAKER_02: Honestly, the difference uh really pushed me to just be more involved in my school.
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  SPEAKER_02: The thing that I that I always wanted from moving from the Philippines to here was to be rooted in this school, to be rooted in this community.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so that was just the one thing that really just drove me everywhere I went, just to be like I really belonged here.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_02: And so, with that, it just motivated me once again to just keep on trying, keep on meeting new people, keep on experiencing new things.
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  SPEAKER_02: And even in Mr.
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  SPEAKER_02: Chandler's class, sophomore year, we wrote a whole um essay about our experiences.
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  SPEAKER_02: What did you learn?
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  SPEAKER_02: How did you grow in that way?
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  SPEAKER_02: And I just, yeah, once again, it just really it just became a motivator.
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  SPEAKER_02: The fact that there was a huge difference, the fact that I didn't get the same experience other people other people usually do when they enter high school, you know, the big golden high school years.
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  SPEAKER_02: And because of that, I just became a lot more integrated into my school community.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so I'm actually thankful that I faced that, even though it was such a huge challenge, and I hated it.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_02: I hated it so much, but yeah, it helped me become the person I am now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well put.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, thank you for sharing that experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh I had a mentor once tell me uh life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you handle it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um you know, that's a a great example, and it's it was a it's a tough time, and you know, I think we all learned and and grew, but um, you set a great example for jumping in and and rolling up your sleeves and uh being determined.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh good job.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna uh move around to a few different questions in different parts of your life as a student.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um let's start with this one.
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  SPEAKER_00: What extracurricular activities have you done throughout your school career?
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my goodness, there's just been so much.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like I previously mentioned, I all I wanted was to just be involved as much as possible.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, I think the one thing that really did jumpstart my career, I guess, and just joining everything was yearbook.
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  SPEAKER_02: I was a part of the yearbook committee in eighth, seventh and eighth grade for Mrs.
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  SPEAKER_02: Dozier in Cascade Middle School.
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  SPEAKER_02: And from there on, I was, I was, I loved it.
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  SPEAKER_02: I just I felt that leadership in me.
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  SPEAKER_02: I was actually an editor, so that's where I grew as a leader and bringing so many different people together and creating something, you know, creating such a an amazing thing that you actually get told and see and everybody gets to see it.
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  SPEAKER_02: So that was the first activity that I would say that really stood out um and helped me with everything else.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then from then on I joined theater in I actually joined it in seventh grade.
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  SPEAKER_02: I joined the um Auburn High School Productions in seventh grade.
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  SPEAKER_02: And in eighth grade, I actually even um I was a lead in one of the musicals for Greece.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if you watched it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I missed that one.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I saw SpongeBob this year.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: It was great.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_02: I was in that one too.
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  SPEAKER_02: So that's another one of my activities.
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  SPEAKER_02: Other ones would probably be DECA.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm also a part of the ASB and the leadership in AHS.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I was a part of Filipino Club for a little bit, and then I just had to find time for other things.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, and of course, also the National Honor Society, and I'm actually in the Junior City Council as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tell our audience about that because I don't think a lot of people know that there's a junior city council or or what it does at least.
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  SPEAKER_00: So explain that to the audience.
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  SPEAKER_02: So the junior city council is a group of students in the school district, and we meet like we meet once every other week um every month, and during our meetings, they don't last very long.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_02: It's like 30 minutes, sometimes it goes to an hour, but we are a group of students who are supposed to be the advocates for the youth in our in our um school district, and so when there's something very important that we need to speak up on, um we use our voice and we speak up on that.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_02: And so we are kind of we're the mini little city council.
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  SPEAKER_02: So whenever there's something the city council is doing and we feel like, oh, there needs to be more done for the pe for the students or something that needs to be redirected, that's what we're for.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we're the voice for the youth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good.
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  SPEAKER_00: And do you meet with the mayor in that council or the do you ever meet with the Auburn City Council?
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_00: Who do you network with?
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  SPEAKER_02: Um sometimes um the deputy mayor.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the deputy mayor is at our meeting all the time or when he can make it.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, so we have him as our network and as our connection to the city council.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_02: And we even have our monthly meetings where a group of us actually goes to a city council meeting and just update them on what we're doing.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, fantastic.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: Good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thank you for sharing that with our listeners.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um before we move on, I know this is not an extracurricular activity, but when you came in and um we were talking about the podcast, I mentioned that I uh one of the people I had was uh art teacher Elizabeth Ronley, and you said, Oh, I have Miss Ronley uh for ceramics, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh do you enjoy that class?
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  SPEAKER_00: Tell us about it.
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  SPEAKER_02: I love that class.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I have that class as my sixth period, and my fifth period class is actually AP research with Mr.
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  SPEAKER_02: Chandler.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so having ceramics right after such a stressful class, it was a stress reliever.
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  SPEAKER_02: It helped me and me, me and my best friend, because we had those two classes together.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so every day, right after AP research and all the stresses that we had in that class, we would just come into ceramics and we just pound on the clay, you know, and we just create something new with it and we use all our anger and all stress and just put it into the clay.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_02: And so that's kind of how we used it.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I I need to get some of that clay.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_00: I think that would be good support for superintendents once in a while.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, it's very helpful.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_00: Good.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_00: Well, thanks for sharing uh the extracurricular activities you've been involved in.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: I love that you have like a really interesting and and diverse uh set of activities.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: Uh let's move on and shift gears again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we're recording this uh about a month before graduation.
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  SPEAKER_00: It'll air a little bit later, but uh a lot of your senior milestones are coming up.
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  SPEAKER_00: What are you looking forward to the rest of your senior year?
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_02: Well, there's prom that's coming up in less than a month.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um I'm really excited for that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Me and my friends are still trying to plan what are we gonna be doing before, at the dance, after.
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  SPEAKER_02: So um that's definitely something to look forward to.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_02: And then of course, graduation, um, and all just the celebrations of how much and how far we've come all together.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_02: I'm just super excited to celebrate and recognize all of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: As you should be.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: That'll be fun.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: Uh take some time to enjoy it.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: I know that you're you're working really hard to the end, but uh these are some some great memories.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: Think about you're gonna leave the school uh and you're gonna be replaced uh partly by an upcoming rising senior in eleventh grade, but really by an eighth grader coming into school.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you've been through four years of high school.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: What advice would you have for a middle school student who is about to have their first year of high school?
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  SPEAKER_02: Open as many doors as possible.
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  SPEAKER_02: That was the one thing that really helped me.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, like I said before, I just wanted to be as involved as possible to feel rooted in this community.
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  SPEAKER_02: And when you go up and you open the doors and uh and see all the opportunities you have, it really helps you.
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  SPEAKER_02: And sometimes people are like, Oh, I don't feel like I belong here, I don't have a place.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_02: But because I opened the as many doors as possible, that's how I found my people, that's how I found a safe place in my school in Auburn High School, and it can be so overwhelming sometimes, it can be so crazy.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_02: But when you do just take the time and just see everything that's happening and every possibility there is for you, then you just feel rooted.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_02: You feel like I'm here and I I have so much left to do, and there's just so much I can do, and so yeah, just open as many doors as possible, see all of your possibilities and everything that you have for you.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: I could not have said that better myself.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: That's great advice.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I've seen it over and over again.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: Kids who put themselves out there, who try new things, uh, who who make new friends and and build relationships, uh just get the most out of that experience.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: So well put.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: You're you're wise beyond your years.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: Uh what do you do when you're not at school?
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so I have three younger siblings.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_02: Um my little brother, um, he's seven.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then my little sister, she's four, and I have a newborn little brother, he's three months.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I have a full family of young little children running around.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_02: So you can just imagine, as soon as I get home, my little sister just bombards me with hugs and kisses, and then I have to go straight.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I have to do my chores, I have to do all that, and then I have to take care of the little ones, you know.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_02: So that takes a majority of my time after school.
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  SPEAKER_02: But I can't complain though, because I love them and I enjoy spending time with my little siblings.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_02: So that's definitely something I do outside of school.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_02: Um, other times when I do find time for myself, um, I love art.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_02: I love all forms of art.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I love listening to music because that's definitely a form of art.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I myself also like to write songs.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I love drawing, I love reading, and one thing I feel for me that really drives me as a person is just stories overall.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_02: So I love anything stories.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_02: I love to read, I love to write stories, and I love to talk to my friends and just spend time with my family.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, that's what I do.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: Sounds like a rich life.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_00: I try.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: And gosh, what a wonderful family.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: And good for you.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_00: For uh, I'm sure that you do your share of helping out with the younger siblings.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh kudos to you.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's look ahead now.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: So uh we get to graduation.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: What's next?
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_02: What's next?
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I actually just recently committed to a college.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_02: Um I'm moving to California, so I'm going to where the sun is.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_02: Um I'm attending Chapman University.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if you've heard of it.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: I have a friend of mine's daughter went there.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, really?
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_02: So I actually visited uh my last DECA international competition.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_02: We went to California, Anaheim, California, and from there, the school was only like 10 minutes away.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_02: So I asked my teacher, hey, can we go visit real quick?
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_02: And I s and she said yeah.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_02: So I went to go visit the campus and I just fell in love with it.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_02: It's just it's such a beautiful campus.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_02: And as soon as I stepped in and looked around, I was actually with my best friend.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_02: I could almost cry just thinking about it.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_02: But um I just felt like I could be there and I saw myself going there, and so and I also received really good financial aids, and that's like a huge deal right now because oh my goodness, it's a private university, so it's super expensive.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_02: So just that fact in itself, and also I see myself going there.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_02: I just know I have to go there.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: So no right or wrong answer, but do you know what you intend to study when you're there?
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, I intend to study a business management.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_02: Um one day, someday, I hope, I will one day, I will be running my own business, my own nonprofit organization.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_02: So I need to be able to learn how to manage that.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, that's what I'm I will be majoring in.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: Good.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: Any idea of what kind of nonprofit you'd like to start?
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_02: Um I do, but I want to keep it a secret.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, fair enough.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and wherever uh your studies and your career and your uh entrepreneurship take you, I'm sure you have wonderful things ahead for you.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: Uh my next question is what is your dream job?
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_00: I think I've asked this of of all the high school students.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, did you just answer it?
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: Or are you thinking about anything else?
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I think it relates to it, but honestly, I mentioned it briefly, but one thing that really drives me, and I think is my purpose in life is to share stories.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_02: And so with that, I don't have one specific dream job.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_02: And if it if I had to answer that question, I would say it is to just share stories.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_02: Um I want to be that person that's able to connect with others and just connect through stories because everybody has so many different stories, and right now I'm sharing my own story, and so I I want to be able to help others share their stories, find their own story.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_02: And whether that be through my talents in acting, writing songs, writing stories, um, creating an organization to help others find their own story, yeah, that's just that's gonna be my dream job, I guess.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: What a wonderful dream.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: All right, we've enjoyed uh the the past 20 minutes or so with Keisner Io.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: And we're uh sadly to the last question, uh, but also happily because the question is, what was your favorite thing to do at recess?
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_02: It's been a long, long time since I've had recess.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_02: But I would say my favorite thing to do at recess was go on the swings.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_02: Um, that feeling of going really up high and going back down low.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_02: I would say that's one of those things.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_02: If I could bottle up a feeling, I'd bottle that up that up.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_02: The feeling of flying.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, I would say going on the swings is just a fun little thing to do.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's perfect.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: You probably uh push your younger siblings on the swings these days.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_02: Constantly.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um we didn't ask you to prepare this, but uh I I don't want to pass this opportunity.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: What is recess like in the Philippines?
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_02: Recess in the Philippines, I'm trying to remember.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_00: Do they have recess?
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_02: We didn't really have recess.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_02: Um you see, my days in the Philippines were so long.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_02: I'd wake up at 5 a.m.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_02: and get ready for the bus to pick me up at 6 a.m.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_02: and then go to school.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_02: It starts at like 7 30 a.m.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_02: I think, and I'd get home at 5 p.m.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm trying to remember what we would even do in that time at school, and I I can all I can remember is just how it's just non-stop.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_02: It's just we're always working and doing school work, but at the same time, I I don't remember it being stressful though, because the way that we did it in the Philippines and I'm sure in other countries too, is that in at least in the first few years, the students are in one class throughout the whole school year.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_02: And so because of that, we were able to be build a community and just a family, and so even though we felt like we were always bombarded with schoolwork and stuff and you know, all those stresses, we still had that community and we were able to help each other out.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_02: So I think our recess would be the time in between when the teachers would be passing and trying to get to their next class.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_02: So and within those times we would like do our own little thing, we'd play hide and seek, we would just, you know, just do whatever things we did as children.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, that would be my recess then.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that's fascinating.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for opening that memory so that we could all uh learn a little bit about that experience.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_00: You've really uh been a wonderful guest and uh a great enrichment to the Auburn School District and our community, and uh I look forward to seeing you at graduation.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_02: It's not very long left.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: No, it isn't.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_00: Well, enjoy what is left.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: Uh thank you for being a guest on the podcast.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, of course, thank you so much once again for having me.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_00: My guest has been Auburn High School senior Keisner Io, uh, who has shared her story, and uh we look forward to telling the stories of many others on the recess podcast.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we're already looking ahead to the podcast next year and a few enhancements uh as we tell more of the stories of the people and programs of the Auburn School District.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_00: If you've enjoyed this podcast or others, please share them with your friends uh and help us to spread the word about the great things happening in Auburn.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, this has been the Recess Podcast.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_00: I'll see you next time.