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And it is just a whole, it opens your behind to everything that you take for granted and makes you appreciate your family, having a roof over your head and having Running Water and just the Bare Necessities and essentials that we take for granted every day. So, if there is anything that i really took from this trip, it was, just appreciating my mother, you know, saying thank you. You know, just for a meal. Or having a great education, and being able to have a full scholarship to such an Amazing ...

And so to actually go to my class and share with all of my, you know, peers exactly what has happened in the unspoken truth, was just more rewarding than anything. I have to say that i am working on, i got a pretty Good Relationship with the school district, and at this point, pretty good. And really good, so i am working on it with the officers now, on getting into schools, and to talk to the young people. And as early as september. And when they get back in. And so, are you, where are you curr...

And the thing that really got them, that like really got to them is when they got into the market and all of these people are coming up to them and you say no, i want to see what she has. Or everybody else that was trying to get a sale from actually helped that person get a sale from me and not really asked for anything in return, and it was like, wow. Why are they helping this person and they need to get, you know, they need to make a living and so while arent they trying to get me to go to the...

And when we first got there, it was, it was kind of late, it was real hot, and dark, and you could not see too much and this is a little bit and so, a lot of kids were excited. And you know, to the and adequate, and debrief, and we woke up early and hit the road and first we start off and i went on a small safari where they got to meet ba baboons and we went into a bat cave and so all of the kids were like really in awe. And after that, we headed to another city called kamatzi, the home of the a...

Three part process, one of the parts where they had to write a letter or an essay, explaining why they want to go, and why they should be selected. The second part they had to maintain a 2. 0 gpa. And in the third part was they have to display Good Behavior at school as well as at the boys and girls club. The requirement for the 2. 0 was i think as far as next time, not sure if that will be part of the requirement because like i said one young lady after she got a passport and a ticket and every...

There was preparation, which i felt was key. And a lot of thought went into that. And i know that you talked about, you know, the impact that it had on the young people, but having seen you and the other adults in the studio, i dont know who got the most out of it, you guys or the kids . Really. And it comes through here, and even as you are speaking now. And i told the kids, and i use the phrase a lot the world is bigger than the block. Yeah. The most important piece of it, is their academic di...

Really and it was, it was huge and they understood that. And a lot of the kids did not, some of them did not go to school. And the ones that, some of them that did, they were always late. And the grades was bad. And some of them disrespectful to their parents. And had an excuse for everything. But when they see what took place the whole walking from and getting captured and walking through this hot forest and being put in a dungeon and put on the ship and ship to the americans for months and the...

Maintain a 2. 0 gpa. And in the third part was they have to display Good Behavior at school as well as at the boys and girls club. The requirement for the 2. 0 was i think as far as next time, not sure if that will be part of the requirement because like i said one young lady after she got a passport and a ticket and everything come to find out she was not even in school. And we thought of her going now, she was going to school and have the gpa is over a 2. 0. And so it might be something that s...

There was preparation, which i felt was key. And a lot of thought went into that. And i know that you talked about, you know, the impact that it had on the young people, but having seen you and the other adults in the studio, i dont know who got the most out of it, you guys or the kids . Really. And it comes through here, and even as you are speaking now. And i told the kids, and i use the phrase a lot the world is bigger than the block. Yeah. The most important piece of it, is their academic di...

Because we are learning about the atlantic slave trade and i was able to give the brutal truth and for me that was orewarding because i know that a lot of kids are sheltered and dont understand and i cant say that i have understood because i have been reading the same textbooks my entire life and not fully understanding how strong and how proud i should be to be of african decent. And so to actually go to my class and share with all of my, you know, peers exactly what has happened in the unspoke...