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Hello and welcome to the Iplacea podcast. My name is Lorena.

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My name is Patricia.

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And my name is Nayara.

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Today, our guest is Luke.

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Hi, Luke. How are you?

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Hello. I'm doing fantastic. How are you?

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We are great today. Thank you for coming.

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We have some questions for you. Patricia, take it away.

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Are you ready?

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I was born ready.

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What is your function inside this school?

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My function at this school, I'm one of the English auxiliares, so I teach 6th graders, 4th graders, and some of the infantile classes.

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I help conversation, I help writing, and getting comfortable around the English language.

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Great. What's your full name?

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My full name is Luke Haru. Yeah, interesting one.

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in which universities did you study oh I studied at the University of Oregon in the United States

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for my bachelor's in trumpet performance and then I got a master's degree at the University of North

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Texas in trumpet performance as well so two degrees in music and been teaching for a long time

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do you play any instruments there we go yeah uh I'm a trumpet player I play some piano you know

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if you don't know what a good piano player sounds like I can trick you um and yeah I sing a little

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bit play trumpet all those why did you came why did you come as an assistant to Spain um my cousin

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actually did this exact same program years ago and she was she talks about it every time we get

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together and so since I was uh 15 years old I've wanted to do this program and traveling is one of

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favorite things and I've always wanted to learn some Spanish and it was a great time to come

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abroad and meet some new people and study and teach so yeah how much time have you worked here

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oh I've been here for about six to seven months seven months I would say um yeah and it's been

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wonderful this school year it's been great which grades do you help as an assistant so this year

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I've worked with many of the classrooms through this school but my primary classes are infantile

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five so five-year-olds fourth grade and then sixth grade so what was your first impression

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when you arrived here oh when i arrived i honestly fell in love with it i loved this school uh the

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community around it it's very different from the united states schools um how everything is ran is

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very interesting to me so i really connected with it and it was fun it was putting me kind of on my

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toes as we say so i wasn't comfortable which made me excited and i liked it so everything about it

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the community the weather I like warm weather where I'm from it's always raining and very cold

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so everything about it I fell in love with do you feel good in this school I feel great in this

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school yeah I get to teach music as well I forgot to mention earlier um to all of you guys and it's

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one of my most absolute favorite things to do so I get to teach music and hang out and dance with

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you guys which is funny when you get to see me dance so i apologize for that um do you have any

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brothers or sisters i do i have a older brother who is 33 years old he lives in oregon and he's

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actually a principal at a high school and then i have a older sister as well who is 30 years old

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and she lives in melbourne australia and she is a representative for many different things she's

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done politics and she's done commercial companies so yeah she's just a general representative for

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some companies and yeah well this is a very important question for me because i love music so

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okay what what type of music do you like oh that is you know the age-old question is very difficult

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um I like any type of music and that's one answer that people don't like but growing up my mom and

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sister only listened to country music so growing up that was in the house my brother and father

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only listened to classic rock and my best friends only listened to hip-hop so I grew up with those

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three and I'm a classical musician so I have studied everything from Beethoven to studying

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hip-hop and I've studied Beethoven to Tupac so anything that you can possibly put a trumpet into

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is my favorite I listen my Spotify playlist goes from a Haydn trumpet concerto to

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Eminem I don't know it's everything yeah which career would you like to study apart from the

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one you're studying now um so outside of here I am well a trumpet player so music is my primary

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career back home in the states and then teaching has been something I've been doing since I was 16

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I've been teaching trumpet lessons. So teaching and music, I would say, are my main focuses.

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But my other passion is I'm a huge coffee nerd. So I study coffee. I roast coffee.

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I probably drink too much coffee. So that maybe.

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Wow. Do you like Spain?

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I love Spain. I'm hoping to explore as much of it as possible before we leave.

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I've been to Madrid, of course, Valencia, Barcelona, Sevilla, and I'll be going to Gran Canarias and Mallorca soon.

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So getting to explore all of Spain is beautiful.

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It's one of my favorite places I've ever been.

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It reminds me of Southern California, which is where I was born.

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And it's beautiful, always warm.

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it has enough cold in the winter to satisfy you know um and i love it it's gorgeous there's some

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mountains i can you know i've gotten a lot darker i've been able to tan you know oregon is not very

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sunny so i love it what do you like to do in your free time oh my free time is

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man I play music all the time if I'm not playing music or teaching I'm probably roasting coffee

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and if I'm not doing those I'm traveling traveling is one of my favorite things I used to do it in

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the United States I would go around as much as I possibly could and coming out to Europe it's

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incredible I've been traveling many weekends in a row and then yeah being able to come back home

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to Madrid and Alcalá is beautiful. I love it. So traveling is my biggest pastime, I'll say.

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Where are you from? So I was born in San Diego, California. And when I was around your age,

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when I was 11, I moved to Portland, Oregon, just north of California. And yeah, Oregon is a very

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rainy and foresty place. That's where Washington and Oregon is where the Twilight movie series

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were filmed. So if you imagine dark and forests and rainy, that's where I grew up for a long time.

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So Oregon and California, pretty much the whole West Coast of the United States.

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We're happy to hear you. This is the final. How are you feeling?

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I'm feeling great

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this is really fun

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I like doing these

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so thank you for having me

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so Luke

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thanks for the time

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you spent with us

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of course

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yeah

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thank you

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bye