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Hey everybody, it's Cameron here.

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So Raul and I were talking the other day, and he told me that this week is book week at school,

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and just because we're not at school together doesn't mean that we can't read some books together.

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So the book that I have on my computer to read for you guys is called The Little Prince, okay?

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And it's a story that my mother used to read to me a lot when I was a kid,

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and I still love reading it now so I figured I would read a little bit for you guys and hopefully

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you guys enjoy it and if you want to hear more because I'm not going to be reading the whole

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story I'm only going to read a short little part of it you can ask your parents to go on YouTube

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for you and look up the audio version of The Little Prince so I looked that up as well it's

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on there so all you have to do is type in Little Prince on YouTube and you'll find it okay so

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without further ado, I hope you guys enjoy it. Chapter one. Once when I was six years old,

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I saw a magnificent picture in a book called True Stories from Nature about the primeval forest.

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It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. A boa constrictor is a

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snake, okay? So it's a big snake. So the boa constrictor was swallowing an animal, probably

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a mouse. In the book, it said, boa constrictors swallow their prey whole without chewing it.

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After that, they are not able to move and they sleep through the six months that they need for

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digestion. So they eat and then they don't move. They only sleep for six months. So September,

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October, November, December, January, February, they sleep the whole time. So half a year.

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i pondered deeply then over the adventures of the jungle and after some work with a colored pencil

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i succeeded in making my first drawing my drawing number one it looked like this and it's a shape

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so the picture is a line and then there's a little bulb so it's a snake with something inside of its

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belly after it ate i showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups and asked them whether the drawing

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frighten them. But they answered, frighten? Why would anyone be frightened by a hat? So it kind

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of looks like a top hat with the straight lines. My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a

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picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand

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it, I made another drawing. I drew the inside of the boa constrictor so that the grown-ups

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could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained. My drawing number two looked

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like this. So now it's inside and you see an elephant inside of its belly. The grown-up's

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response this time was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the

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inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, math, and grammar. That is why

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at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter.

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I had been disheartened by the failure of my drawing number one and my drawing number two.

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Grown-ups never understand by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to always be and forever

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explaining things to them. So then I chose another profession and learned to pilot airplanes.

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I have flown all over parts of the world, and it is true that geography has been very useful to me.

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At a glance, I can distinguish China from Arizona, which is in America.

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If one gets lost in the night, such knowledge is very valuable.

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In the course of this life, I have had many great encounters with a great many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence.

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I have lived a great deal among grown-ups I have seen them intimately close at hand

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and that hasn't much improved my opinion of them whenever I met one of them who seemed to me at

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all clear-sighted I tried the experiment of showing them my drawing which I've always kept

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I would try to find out so if this person is of true understanding but whoever she he or she was

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they would always say, that is a hat. Then I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors

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or primeval forests or stars. I would bring myself down to their level. I would talk to him about

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bridge and golf and politics and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such

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a sensible man. So that was chapter one of the story. I hope you guys enjoyed. I know some of

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it might be a little confusing, so I would definitely recommend to look on YouTube for

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the little prints, and maybe there's some pictures and drawings you guys can follow along. I'm sorry

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I don't have the book in front of me. I don't have an actual copy of the book, but I was able to find

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it on the internet, so I hope that is good enough. And yeah, I hope you guys are all staying very safe

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and healthy, and I hope your families are doing okay. I miss seeing you guys every day, and I know

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that um i know that this is gonna this is gonna pass and that one day you'll all be able to go

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to school again and and we'll all be able to go outside and enjoy ourselves but in the meantime

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for now please stay safe stay inside with your families and i hope to see you guys soon bye