Tuesday, February 07, 2006
WEDJ Field Trip
Yesterday, I took the day off from work to go on a WEDJ field trip. It was a men's day out. Me, 2 other male friends of the school, 4 teachers, and 18 male students from the 5th and 6th grade make a subway trip down to the Warner Theater to see a free viewing of the film "Boys of Baraka" which is a part of the D.C. Environmental Film Festival. It was such an honor to spend time with these extremely well-behaved fun young men.
"Boys of Baraka" is a documentary about how 18 underprivileged boys from Baltimore City spend a year at a middle-school in Kenya for at-risk youth. It was fantastic. At the beginning of the film a 10 year-old WEDJ student asked me if the movie was about people who had made bad choices:
Me: No, I think its about kids who had made bad choices but now were making good ones.
Student: Well I hope it is about the bad choices.
Me: Why is that?
Student: Because then I will know what not to do.
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"Boys of Baraka" is a documentary about how 18 underprivileged boys from Baltimore City spend a year at a middle-school in Kenya for at-risk youth. It was fantastic. At the beginning of the film a 10 year-old WEDJ student asked me if the movie was about people who had made bad choices:
Me: No, I think its about kids who had made bad choices but now were making good ones.
Student: Well I hope it is about the bad choices.
Me: Why is that?
Student: Because then I will know what not to do.
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