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Hello everyone! So today I am going to share a little bit about my favorite story and my favorite

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book. So I would just like to share that these are two really challenging subjects for me to pick a

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favorite in. I studied English literature, books and stories are things that have always made me

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really, really happy. And I have always made sure that I'm surrounded by books and hearing as many

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stories as possible. So it was it was kind of hard for me to pick a favorite in either of these

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categories. But I picked one story and one book that I really, really enjoyed growing up and when

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I was about your ages. So I wanted to share those with you. Okay, so the first one is a really short

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little story um and when I first heard it it was in Amharic um in the Ethiopian language one of the

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ones that my parents speak and it was told to me as a way of kind of communicating that different

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perspectives matter that you may think that someone another classmate in your class is silly

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or another student or just someone that you know and someone that you work with but your experience

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may be different than their experience and that is why they have the perspective that they do

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so maybe if you hear them out you might be able to learn a little bit about their perspective as

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well so I of course all of that wasn't explained to me when this story was told to me it was just

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kind of a funny story but after after years of kind of like thinking back on it that's sort of

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what I've gathered um and I've written it down just to make sure that I don't mess it up so

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the story is kind of loosely translated as the lazy student and the story goes that there was

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once a lazy student who could not understand simple math one day the teacher was discussing

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subtraction in class and the student could not understand so the teacher tried to give him an

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example he said if you have five sheep in a group and one goes out of that group through a hole

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how many are you left with and the student said but teacher i'll be left with none and the teacher

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totally loses his temper gets super frustrated and says how in the world could you make a mistake

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like that you have five one leaves it's simple and the student replies crying teacher teacher i know

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the character of sheep i work with them if one goes all of the rest will follow and the teacher

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laughs and the rest of the class laughs too because all of a sudden it makes sense. So yeah

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that story always kind of made me laugh and also helped me take a step back sometimes in situations

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where I think that something is obvious or an answer is obvious and realize that someone's

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perspective might just be a little bit different than mine. Okay so shifting over to favorite book

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this one was really hard like I said I definitely could have could be talking to you about Harry

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Potter right now. That's a book that I've read and reread. I also read the Twilight series a lot

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growing up. A lot of the books that you guys probably have read as well but I decided to

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talk about one that maybe less people have heard of or less people have read. It is called Gregor

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the Overlander and it is by Suzanne Collins who is the same person who wrote the Hunger Games

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series and gregor the overlander is kind of like an epic fantasy novel and it was the first book

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that was written in the underland chronicles which is just like the series that this book is a part

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of so it's a really weird book um there's a lot there's kind of a lot going on in it but basically

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the moral of the story is that there's this kid and his name is gregor and he lives with his family

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in a small apartment um in New York City and his baby sister who he's supposed to be watching

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really closely one day falls through this kind of like air duct in the ground um in the building's

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basement and he dives in after her of course because he's worried about his sister um and

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then they fall into this totally new world called the Underland and the humans that live there kind

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of have like this really like translucent skin sort of like fairy like and there's like bats

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and rodents and insects and all of the things that you would expect to live underground but

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they're like gigantic um and there's princes there's princesses there's kings um there's

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prophecies there's a lot of interesting things going on in this world so it's it's a really

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cool book I would definitely recommend it it was one of my favorites growing up and I read the

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whole series um and I think that each book is really good and kind of stands alone really well

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um yeah so favorite story favorite book check hope everyone's doing well bye