WEBVTT 1 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:07.020 Say your names. 2 00:02:07.820 --> 00:02:08.800 My name is Monta. 3 00:02:08.900 --> 00:02:09.740 My name is Daddy. 4 00:02:09.940 --> 00:02:10.580 My name is Mommy. 5 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:13.920 Seegsman. 6 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:14.780 Leopard. 7 00:02:15.440 --> 00:02:15.840 Neetan. 8 00:02:16.700 --> 00:02:17.500 Soopie. 9 00:02:18.580 --> 00:02:19.340 Cowboy. 10 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:23.180 Cat in this bag, okay? 11 00:02:23.940 --> 00:02:27.100 And make us believe if something alive is in there, alright? 12 00:02:28.100 --> 00:02:28.940 Alright. 13 00:02:29.420 --> 00:02:30.420 He's going to try. 14 00:02:31.340 --> 00:02:32.400 Everybody watch. 15 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:35.060 Come on. 16 00:02:35.780 --> 00:02:37.360 Okay, go. 17 00:02:50.920 --> 00:02:55.360 Adjusting through acting was an innovative workshop for Southeast Asian youths in Chicago's 18 00:02:55.880 --> 00:02:56.780 uptown neighborhood. 19 00:02:57.220 --> 00:03:01.760 Designed to instill greater self-confidence in adjusting to their new country, the workshop 20 00:03:01.760 --> 00:03:08.060 introduced Cambodian and Laotian kids ages 10 to 17 to theater games and acting techniques. 21 00:03:08.580 --> 00:03:13.380 Created by Janice Finney, a Chicago playwright and director, adjusting through acting was 22 00:03:13.380 --> 00:03:17.580 sponsored by Travelers and Immigrants Aid and was supported by a Neighborhood Arts Project 23 00:03:17.580 --> 00:03:21.620 grant through the Chicago Office of Fine Arts and a Chairman's grant from the Illinois 24 00:03:21.620 --> 00:03:22.400 Arts Council. 25 00:03:23.160 --> 00:03:27.700 The adjusting through acting workshop met twice a week from October 1984 to February 26 00:03:27.700 --> 00:03:31.480 1985 in facilities donated by Truman College. 27 00:03:32.220 --> 00:03:37.400 One project used the Hansel and Gretel story as a point of departure for the youths to 28 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:38.920 tell their real life stories. 29 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:42.700 The workshop extended to field trips outside the classroom. 30 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:10.200 On the edge of a small clearing near a great forest there lived a poor woodcutter and his 31 00:04:10.200 --> 00:04:13.520 wife and his two children, Hansel and Gretel. 32 00:04:13.920 --> 00:04:21.080 The wife was a children's self-mother and she was very cruel to them. 33 00:04:22.080 --> 00:04:32.760 They had always been very poor but one time there was a great famine in a country and 34 00:04:32.760 --> 00:04:41.720 a woodcutter could not earn even enough to buy any food for his family. 35 00:04:42.400 --> 00:04:47.520 The poor woodcutter worries day and night. 36 00:04:47.520 --> 00:04:53.420 Finally he said to his wife, what shall we do? 37 00:04:53.840 --> 00:04:56.240 We will surely starve. 38 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:03.660 The food we have left is not enough for the children. 39 00:05:04.140 --> 00:05:06.360 Let's alone for us. 40 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:14.580 My name is Momkid and what I'm going to tell you, I tell you because I don't want it to 41 00:05:14.580 --> 00:05:19.040 happen to anybody else or to any other country. 42 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:22.340 The communists won in 1975. 43 00:05:23.300 --> 00:05:26.020 They burned all the houses in my village. 44 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:28.620 They killed many, many peoples. 45 00:05:29.220 --> 00:05:36.400 They killed the people who are the leaders of our country and the people who are educated. 46 00:05:38.060 --> 00:05:45.400 In my village many families are rounded up and killed when they try to escape. 47 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:53.840 One family, they brought back and put them in a circle and tied their hands behind their 48 00:05:53.840 --> 00:05:59.740 backs, then throw a bomb and kill them all except the baby. 49 00:06:00.300 --> 00:06:03.080 So they say he must not leave either. 50 00:06:03.080 --> 00:06:13.880 So they throw the baby up in the air and he landed on the knife on the end of the gun and died. 51 00:06:15.100 --> 00:06:19.040 You're going to pretend that there's a bunch of rocks in here, okay? 52 00:06:19.340 --> 00:06:21.000 Very heavy, all right? 53 00:06:21.460 --> 00:06:22.500 Make us believe it. 54 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:24.420 What could it be? 55 00:06:24.520 --> 00:06:25.680 Keep going, Polly. 56 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:26.340 Heavy, heavy. 57 00:06:30.280 --> 00:06:30.920 Stone. 58 00:06:32.260 --> 00:06:33.520 Try picking it up. 59 00:06:33.540 --> 00:06:35.100 See if you can get it up off the floor. 60 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:37.440 Lazy. 61 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:39.700 I'm longer than that. 62 00:06:42.380 --> 00:06:42.860 Oh. 63 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:46.580 Okay, good, good. 64 00:06:47.540 --> 00:06:49.380 In this bag, okay? 65 00:06:50.300 --> 00:06:51.640 Can you do that for me? 66 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:53.280 You know nothing. 67 00:06:54.320 --> 00:06:57.240 Do something with us to show us that there's nothing in this bag. 68 00:06:57.620 --> 00:06:58.240 Yeah, thank you. 69 00:06:58.920 --> 00:06:59.740 Okay, here we go. 70 00:06:59.740 --> 00:07:00.740 Use it. 71 00:07:01.640 --> 00:07:02.260 Use it. 72 00:07:02.260 --> 00:07:03.000 It's nothing. 73 00:07:03.580 --> 00:07:03.860 Oh, yeah. 74 00:07:07.960 --> 00:07:08.080 Oh. 75 00:07:08.780 --> 00:07:09.580 It was in the bag. 76 00:07:10.740 --> 00:07:10.900 Yeah. 77 00:07:11.500 --> 00:07:11.880 There. 78 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:13.640 What was in the bag? 79 00:07:14.020 --> 00:07:14.540 Nothing. 80 00:07:15.700 --> 00:07:17.080 I told you, see? 81 00:07:18.640 --> 00:07:19.680 Okay, good. 82 00:07:19.980 --> 00:07:20.280 Nothing. 83 00:07:21.180 --> 00:07:22.240 Nothing was in the bag. 84 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:25.740 You think you're going to get married soon? 85 00:07:26.320 --> 00:07:26.960 I don't know. 86 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:27.800 Yeah? 87 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:28.940 I don't know. 88 00:07:28.940 --> 00:07:29.560 I don't know. 89 00:07:31.300 --> 00:07:33.980 How old are girls usually in Cambodia when they get married? 90 00:07:35.500 --> 00:07:36.640 17, 16. 91 00:07:36.640 --> 00:07:36.800 17? 92 00:07:37.320 --> 00:07:37.640 Yeah. 93 00:07:37.940 --> 00:07:39.180 And how old are you now? 94 00:07:39.860 --> 00:07:40.660 I'm 17. 95 00:07:43.260 --> 00:07:44.520 You're going to get married now? 96 00:07:44.940 --> 00:07:46.820 No, not so soon. 97 00:07:46.980 --> 00:07:47.820 I'm too young. 98 00:07:48.860 --> 00:07:54.300 Do they arrange, do parents pick who your husband's going to be or do you pick? 99 00:07:54.860 --> 00:07:55.880 My parents. 100 00:07:56.940 --> 00:07:58.780 You don't have a say in who you marry? 101 00:07:59.740 --> 00:08:01.700 Do you like that? 102 00:08:02.260 --> 00:08:03.960 I don't know. 103 00:08:05.940 --> 00:08:10.760 But my parents have to ask me first if I like that or not. 104 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:12.960 And if you say you didn't like it? 105 00:08:13.580 --> 00:08:14.660 Then they won't. 106 00:08:14.900 --> 00:08:24.380 But some parents, you know, they force the girl, the daughter to marry whoever they like. 107 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:28.080 But my parents, they don't do that. 108 00:08:28.080 --> 00:08:29.180 They won't force you? 109 00:08:29.200 --> 00:08:29.620 No. 110 00:08:30.300 --> 00:08:34.920 How would they pick a man, how would a parent pick a husband for their daughter? 111 00:08:35.260 --> 00:08:36.000 What would be the... 112 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:45.560 Sometimes, you know, the boy, maybe the parents, I don't know how to say. 113 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:54.520 It's like my father has a friend and his friend has a son, you know. 114 00:08:55.300 --> 00:08:56.680 So a friend is a family? 115 00:08:56.680 --> 00:08:57.680 Yeah. 116 00:08:58.200 --> 00:08:59.440 Do they like it's... 117 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:03.840 In America, parents like their children to marry somebody with money. 118 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:05.620 Is that important? 119 00:09:05.620 --> 00:09:07.440 Yeah, important too. 120 00:09:08.040 --> 00:09:08.440 Money? 121 00:09:10.100 --> 00:09:10.720 And rich. 122 00:09:11.140 --> 00:09:11.580 Rich. 123 00:09:12.540 --> 00:09:14.960 What about like Polly and Juan T? 124 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:16.400 I don't know. 125 00:09:36.460 --> 00:09:38.680 How is it, Nethan, how does it work? 126 00:09:40.380 --> 00:09:41.500 I don't... 127 00:09:41.500 --> 00:09:42.320 What happens? 128 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:45.060 How does your mother decide or your father decide? 129 00:09:45.980 --> 00:09:48.580 My mom and my dad, they don't like each other. 130 00:09:49.400 --> 00:09:51.540 And her mom tells her to marry my dad. 131 00:09:52.900 --> 00:09:57.800 That's what happens because of their arranged marriages? 132 00:09:58.680 --> 00:09:59.520 Yeah. 133 00:10:01.300 --> 00:10:02.740 Who will you marry? 134 00:10:05.740 --> 00:10:07.420 This guy. 135 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:10.980 Get a married bond? 136 00:10:11.280 --> 00:10:11.980 No. 137 00:10:12.260 --> 00:10:12.260 138 00:10:18.520 --> 00:10:20.720 Does the boy pick the girl? 139 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:21.180 Yeah. 140 00:10:21.980 --> 00:10:24.220 And then what does he do? 141 00:10:25.300 --> 00:10:27.100 How does he tell her that she wants her? 142 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:28.660 Does he tell her or her parents? 143 00:10:29.520 --> 00:10:30.640 Sometimes the parents. 144 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:32.160 What happens? 145 00:10:32.620 --> 00:10:34.000 Sometimes they tell each other. 146 00:10:34.040 --> 00:10:34.900 They say they like. 147 00:10:35.920 --> 00:10:37.560 And what do the parents say? 148 00:10:39.020 --> 00:10:40.080 I don't know. 149 00:10:41.180 --> 00:10:43.680 What is a wedding like in Laos? 150 00:10:44.060 --> 00:10:44.860 Is it beautiful? 151 00:10:45.820 --> 00:10:47.200 What do you do? 152 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:49.980 What do you do? 153 00:11:21.900 --> 00:11:23.520 No, not the boy. 154 00:11:25.420 --> 00:11:28.080 Come on, hand up. 155 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:29.140 Take the card. 156 00:11:32.880 --> 00:11:33.900 Okay, you. 157 00:11:34.640 --> 00:11:35.940 Say it in English. 158 00:11:38.640 --> 00:11:40.540 Okay, you. 159 00:11:40.940 --> 00:11:42.120 You put your shirt in. 160 00:11:42.780 --> 00:11:43.160 No. 161 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:45.340 You take the zipper. 162 00:11:45.340 --> 00:11:45.340 163 00:11:45.340 --> 00:11:45.340 164 00:11:48.260 --> 00:11:49.260 Hey, you. 165 00:11:50.180 --> 00:11:51.560 Come on, you. 166 00:11:53.640 --> 00:11:54.760 No, okay. 167 00:11:55.260 --> 00:11:57.740 Hey, you. 168 00:11:57.740 --> 00:11:57.980 Hey, you. 169 00:11:58.240 --> 00:11:59.120 Hey, you. 170 00:11:59.340 --> 00:12:02.200 Oh, first he got a body now he's taking off. 171 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:02.880 No, no, no. 172 00:12:03.400 --> 00:12:03.960 You put your hat. 173 00:12:04.680 --> 00:12:05.880 You put your hat. 174 00:12:06.500 --> 00:12:06.500 175 00:12:08.460 --> 00:12:10.460 You put the zipper in here? 176 00:12:10.880 --> 00:12:11.140 No. 177 00:12:11.280 --> 00:12:11.440 Hey, you. 178 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:11.520 Go. 179 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:12.040 Go. 180 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:12.440 181 00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:21.920 Now, although the old woman seemed so kind, she was a wicked witch who ate little children. 182 00:12:22.640 --> 00:12:29.400 So while Hansel and Greta were sleeping, she was thinking of the fine meal she would have. 183 00:12:29.920 --> 00:12:33.740 Okay, Peter, one time you told me about the time you and your sister were walking across the field 184 00:12:33.740 --> 00:12:38.280 and you came across all these bodies hanging in the woods. 185 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:41.420 And their necks were slashed. 186 00:12:41.940 --> 00:12:44.900 And they took the belly to be eaten. 187 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:46.940 And they took their livers, their livers? 188 00:12:47.780 --> 00:12:48.060 The belly. 189 00:12:48.060 --> 00:12:49.560 The belly to eat them. 190 00:12:51.900 --> 00:12:53.760 How many people were there? 191 00:12:55.560 --> 00:12:55.960 Ten. 192 00:12:56.560 --> 00:12:57.700 How many? 193 00:12:59.020 --> 00:13:01.060 I don't know how many, but it's a lot. 194 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:05.260 How, were you, what were you doing with your sister in the woods? 195 00:13:07.540 --> 00:13:08.200 In the woods? 196 00:13:08.520 --> 00:13:10.160 When you were walking with your sister? 197 00:13:10.160 --> 00:13:11.080 Yeah. 198 00:13:11.540 --> 00:13:13.900 Was that before the Khmer Rouge or after? 199 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:15.220 After that. 200 00:13:19.460 --> 00:13:22.280 Who do you think did that, the Khmer Rouge? 201 00:13:22.620 --> 00:13:23.380 Mm-hmm. 202 00:13:23.880 --> 00:13:29.580 And who do you think, was it the soldiers who killed them that took their stomachs, or who did that? 203 00:13:29.760 --> 00:13:30.320 Just people. 204 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:33.840 In the Khmer Rouge, they don't let him eat. 205 00:13:35.140 --> 00:13:38.020 Don't have anything to eat. 206 00:13:38.640 --> 00:13:41.900 Some people kill some people to eat them. 207 00:13:42.040 --> 00:13:42.540 Like the food. 208 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:44.280 Oh. 209 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:48.000 They waited till people died, though, didn't they? 210 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:49.880 They didn't kill people to eat them. 211 00:13:50.300 --> 00:13:51.500 You know, some people are sick. 212 00:13:52.700 --> 00:13:55.060 They can't kill him, then they kill him. 213 00:13:55.760 --> 00:13:57.920 Okay, Hansel were free. 214 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:00.860 She cried it, the old witch is dead. 215 00:14:02.620 --> 00:14:03.720 Okay, right. 216 00:14:04.020 --> 00:14:04.960 Go, stop. 217 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:07.220 You guys are green and red. 218 00:14:07.220 --> 00:14:09.620 Just don't say, don't say green and red. 219 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:12.040 Okay, red light, green light. 220 00:14:12.280 --> 00:14:15.200 Yeah, red light means stop, green light means go, right? 221 00:14:15.540 --> 00:14:17.100 Okay, now, you know how to do this? 222 00:14:17.220 --> 00:14:17.700 That's what I think. 223 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:24.940 Anybody that you saw moving, you have to send them back. 224 00:14:25.780 --> 00:14:27.700 Send them back if you see somebody moving. 225 00:14:37.220 --> 00:14:37.220 226 00:14:42.040 --> 00:14:43.760 Ray, stop. 227 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:45.060 You're a fool. 228 00:14:49.460 --> 00:14:50.780 Go to the back. 229 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:52.120 230 00:14:53.900 --> 00:14:54.700 I stopped. 231 00:14:54.980 --> 00:14:55.420 No, get out. 232 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:56.200 No, I stopped. 233 00:14:57.460 --> 00:14:58.460 I didn't stop. 234 00:14:58.520 --> 00:15:00.260 No, when you say you have to get out. 235 00:15:00.460 --> 00:15:01.340 No, no, I didn't stop. 236 00:15:01.800 --> 00:15:02.640 You have to get out. 237 00:15:04.380 --> 00:15:06.060 Maybe he eats some people. 238 00:15:06.060 --> 00:15:07.100 Ghosts? 239 00:15:07.980 --> 00:15:08.480 Yeah, last. 240 00:15:08.640 --> 00:15:10.460 They live on a big tree. 241 00:15:11.400 --> 00:15:11.880 A big tree. 242 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:12.760 And long hair. 243 00:15:13.140 --> 00:15:20.740 Yeah, the way they look like, pajamas, the woman, she wear white, white like a pajama, 244 00:15:20.900 --> 00:15:23.860 and the long hair, they make their lips red, right? 245 00:15:24.560 --> 00:15:27.100 Then they scare people. 246 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:28.560 They live on a big tree. 247 00:15:29.920 --> 00:15:31.740 And how do they country? 248 00:15:32.380 --> 00:15:34.020 I don't know, they just kill. 249 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:35.360 They call? 250 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:38.500 Yeah, they call by the phone. 251 00:15:38.740 --> 00:15:42.780 When you pick up, then you say hello, then that's why you're dead. 252 00:15:43.620 --> 00:15:45.100 You mean they call you on the phone, lady? 253 00:15:45.140 --> 00:15:45.420 Yeah. 254 00:15:45.780 --> 00:15:48.060 When you hang up the phone, then you're dead. 255 00:15:48.740 --> 00:15:50.280 The blood come out of your nose. 256 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:52.180 People really die like that? 257 00:15:52.340 --> 00:15:54.920 In Wisconsin and Washington. 258 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:57.040 Lots of people die. 259 00:15:57.480 --> 00:16:00.120 What do they look like in this country, the ghosts? 260 00:16:01.420 --> 00:16:02.280 Like people. 261 00:16:02.280 --> 00:16:04.740 They look like us, right? 262 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:07.280 He wear sunglasses. 263 00:16:08.260 --> 00:16:08.940 Wear sunglasses? 264 00:16:08.940 --> 00:16:09.300 Yeah. 265 00:16:09.980 --> 00:16:11.320 He never take his sunglasses out. 266 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:13.700 But they could do magic, right? 267 00:16:14.640 --> 00:16:15.320 What is that? 268 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:16.820 They take the money, the ghosts. 269 00:16:17.100 --> 00:16:17.980 They take the money? 270 00:16:18.260 --> 00:16:18.740 Yeah. 271 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:21.420 Well, why are they doing this? 272 00:16:22.340 --> 00:16:23.020 I don't know. 273 00:16:23.220 --> 00:16:23.860 I don't know. 274 00:16:24.760 --> 00:16:26.240 How do you get rid of a ghost? 275 00:16:26.500 --> 00:16:27.600 How do you get rid of a ghost? 276 00:16:27.640 --> 00:16:28.780 You have to call a monk. 277 00:16:29.680 --> 00:16:30.560 Uh-huh. 278 00:16:31.400 --> 00:16:32.900 Do you wear anything? 279 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:34.580 Or what do you... 280 00:16:34.580 --> 00:16:36.180 Yeah, wear something. 281 00:16:36.680 --> 00:16:36.900 What? 282 00:16:37.620 --> 00:16:38.900 Like cigar. 283 00:16:39.040 --> 00:16:40.740 How can I love that? 284 00:16:41.100 --> 00:16:42.360 Oh, some look like... 285 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:42.360 286 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:44.960 Like this one. 287 00:16:45.820 --> 00:16:45.820 288 00:16:47.460 --> 00:16:48.200 See this thing? 289 00:16:48.560 --> 00:16:49.340 Yeah, like that. 290 00:16:50.640 --> 00:16:52.700 Now, will that keep the ghost away? 291 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:53.260 Yeah. 292 00:16:54.680 --> 00:16:55.880 Does everybody wear one? 293 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:56.800 No. 294 00:16:57.020 --> 00:16:58.540 I have item wear. 295 00:16:59.200 --> 00:16:59.600 Uh-huh. 296 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:03.280 How did the ghosts get to this country from your country? 297 00:17:03.980 --> 00:17:04.980 They ride a... 298 00:17:04.980 --> 00:17:06.020 A plane. 299 00:17:07.080 --> 00:17:07.560 Airplane. 300 00:17:07.800 --> 00:17:08.300 They took an airplane. 301 00:17:08.300 --> 00:17:10.320 Maybe they come by the people. 302 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:14.820 They come with his wife and his son or daughter who are dead. 303 00:17:15.620 --> 00:17:16.780 Who are dead? 304 00:17:17.300 --> 00:17:17.760 Yeah. 305 00:17:18.280 --> 00:17:18.720 They're dead. 306 00:17:19.300 --> 00:17:19.880 Oh, I see. 307 00:17:19.980 --> 00:17:25.980 If someone dies in a family, and then they move to the America, is that it? 308 00:17:25.980 --> 00:17:27.420 Not his family. 309 00:17:27.980 --> 00:17:30.080 Just only the husband, they die right there. 310 00:17:30.220 --> 00:17:31.540 The family, they don't know. 311 00:17:32.140 --> 00:17:33.320 Just only the husband died. 312 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:34.360 The family don't know that. 313 00:17:34.580 --> 00:17:36.260 But his husband was a ghost. 314 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:37.840 I don't know. 315 00:17:38.420 --> 00:17:39.380 I'm lost. 316 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:40.540 Your body. 317 00:17:41.260 --> 00:17:41.980 So then... 318 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:43.660 It stinks inside. 319 00:17:43.660 --> 00:17:44.000 Something stinks. 320 00:17:44.520 --> 00:17:45.040 You know, when you open the door, it stinks. 321 00:17:45.040 --> 00:17:47.920 When they knock the door right there, then go open it, it stinks. 322 00:17:48.300 --> 00:17:49.060 Nobody there. 323 00:17:49.300 --> 00:17:50.320 You just smell something. 324 00:17:50.380 --> 00:17:51.260 Yeah, it stinks. 325 00:17:51.460 --> 00:17:52.720 What does it smell like? 326 00:17:53.820 --> 00:17:54.580 Like before death. 327 00:17:54.580 --> 00:17:55.280 Like a person's death. 328 00:17:56.700 --> 00:17:57.980 Like a person's death. 329 00:17:58.280 --> 00:17:58.280 330 00:17:58.280 --> 00:17:59.220 Like a person's death. 331 00:17:59.220 --> 00:17:59.680 Like a mouth or something. 332 00:17:59.780 --> 00:18:00.220 Yeah. 333 00:18:00.700 --> 00:18:01.760 Like a mouth death. 334 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:03.820 Oh, a mouth death. 335 00:18:04.740 --> 00:18:07.360 Then what would you do if that happened to you? 336 00:18:08.740 --> 00:18:10.880 If someone knocked and you don't even smell that, what would you do? 337 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:13.900 We didn't even open the door. 338 00:18:14.800 --> 00:18:15.320 We don't know. 339 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:17.580 We think somebody's cooking. 340 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:18.260 I don't know. 341 00:18:19.820 --> 00:18:20.240 Yeah. 342 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:24.140 Has anybody had a ghost in their house? 343 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:25.160 No. 344 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:51.240 I don't know. 345 00:18:52.540 --> 00:18:59.920 I don't know. 346 00:19:00.540 --> 00:19:02.820 I don't know. 347 00:19:03.600 --> 00:19:05.580 I don't know. 348 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:06.980 I don't know. 349 00:19:06.980 --> 00:19:07.380 I don't know. 350 00:19:07.560 --> 00:19:08.920 I don't know. 351 00:19:10.660 --> 00:19:11.060 I don't know. 352 00:19:11.820 --> 00:19:12.040 I don't know. 353 00:19:12.300 --> 00:19:13.060 I don't know. 354 00:19:13.400 --> 00:19:15.120 I don't know. 355 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:16.600 I don't know. 356 00:19:16.860 --> 00:19:19.500 I don't know. 357 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:20.220 358 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:20.220 359 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:20.220 360 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:20.220 361 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:20.220 362 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:20.220 363 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:20.220 364 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:20.220 365 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:20.220 366 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:20.220 367 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:20.220 368 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:20.220 369 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:20.220 370 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:20.220 371 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:20.220 372 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:20.220 373 00:19:21.340 --> 00:19:29.780 Since we understand that the majority of the teenagers lost the touch of the Cambodian culture, 374 00:19:30.900 --> 00:19:35.200 and then the Cambodian leaders, I mean community leaders in Chicago, 375 00:19:35.340 --> 00:19:44.400 are trying hard to organize traditional ceremonies, cultural activities, 376 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:52.400 so that we can bring all or bring part of the culture back to the Cambodian children 377 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:57.200 to be in touch with their culture and their arts. 378 00:19:58.200 --> 00:20:01.160 Being exposed to this kind of thing, 379 00:20:02.980 --> 00:20:09.400 we can make the Cambodian children feel proud of their own culture 380 00:20:09.800 --> 00:20:15.380 so that they can identify themselves in the future. 381 00:20:16.800 --> 00:20:25.060 What we are doing this is not aiming to have the Cambodian children to aim to go back to Cambodia, 382 00:20:25.060 --> 00:20:37.440 but what we intend to do is just make them feel confident of themselves 383 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:45.040 or identify themselves who they are so that they can have something to hang on, 384 00:20:45.380 --> 00:20:52.600 and for a long run they have hope to build the future and help themselves. 385 00:20:55.060 --> 00:21:25.040 The Cambodian children are not just a part of the Cambodian culture. 386 00:21:25.040 --> 00:21:25.040 387 00:21:25.040 --> 00:21:25.040 388 00:21:25.040 --> 00:21:25.040 389 00:21:25.040 --> 00:21:25.040 390 00:21:25.040 --> 00:21:25.040 391 00:21:25.040 --> 00:21:25.040 392 00:21:25.040 --> 00:21:25.040 393 00:21:25.040 --> 00:21:25.040 394 00:21:25.040 --> 00:21:25.040 395 00:21:25.040 --> 00:21:25.040 396 00:21:25.040 --> 00:21:25.040 397 00:21:25.040 --> 00:21:25.940 They are part of the Cambodian culture. 398 00:21:25.940 --> 00:21:47.240 The Cambodian boys like to play cards and stuff, right? 399 00:21:48.460 --> 00:21:48.720 Yeah. 400 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:49.260 Where? 401 00:21:50.700 --> 00:21:53.980 They play, what do you call it? I forget the game. 402 00:21:53.980 --> 00:21:54.520 The kate. 403 00:21:54.540 --> 00:21:55.220 The kate. 404 00:21:57.180 --> 00:22:00.400 Their parents don't like them to play cards, how come? 405 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:02.540 No, they just play for fun, I think. 406 00:22:03.900 --> 00:22:06.460 My cousin, he plays for fun, he's not playing for money. 407 00:22:08.980 --> 00:22:12.440 Someone told me that they're starting a Cambodian boys' game. 408 00:22:13.100 --> 00:22:13.440 A game? 409 00:22:14.040 --> 00:22:17.300 Yeah, on the lake side. On the lake, you know? 410 00:22:17.300 --> 00:22:18.140 Are they rough? 411 00:22:18.140 --> 00:22:23.340 No, it's not. It's not. I don't know about the game. 412 00:22:25.040 --> 00:22:26.220 Why are they doing that? 413 00:22:27.260 --> 00:22:32.140 I think they play for money, I don't know, for fun. 414 00:22:33.380 --> 00:22:36.640 I mean the game, you know, a game of boys like the other kids. 415 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:38.660 Yeah, I think they want to, you know? 416 00:22:42.020 --> 00:22:44.020 I kind of plan on, I don't know about it. 417 00:22:44.080 --> 00:22:47.480 Is it because of all the other games and screw that the Americans have? 418 00:22:47.480 --> 00:22:52.300 Yeah, I think they learn from that. They want to look just like the Americans did. 419 00:22:52.700 --> 00:22:53.460 So they have a game? 420 00:22:53.480 --> 00:22:53.960 Yeah. 421 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:57.260 Would you join a gang of Cambodian kids? 422 00:22:57.540 --> 00:22:59.080 No, I don't think so. 423 00:22:59.960 --> 00:23:00.900 Why not? 424 00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:03.860 Because I don't like the way they act. 425 00:23:05.020 --> 00:23:05.960 To be or...? 426 00:23:05.960 --> 00:23:08.700 Yeah, they're mean and they say a lot of bad words. 427 00:23:09.380 --> 00:23:11.220 And they do bad stuff to little kids. 428 00:23:12.300 --> 00:23:12.780 Why? 429 00:23:13.880 --> 00:23:14.960 I don't know. 430 00:23:15.900 --> 00:23:19.660 I want to ask them to, but that's not my friend. 431 00:23:22.080 --> 00:23:26.180 Do they ever try to have fights with like the other gangs in this uptown? 432 00:23:26.860 --> 00:23:29.840 Yeah, I think Spanish. 433 00:23:30.300 --> 00:23:34.980 Spanish. Do they teach each other how to fight? 434 00:23:37.120 --> 00:23:41.200 I think so, but I don't know anything about that. 435 00:23:43.080 --> 00:23:44.960 Do they try to get you to join? 436 00:23:46.120 --> 00:23:47.780 No, I didn't talk to them. 437 00:23:50.360 --> 00:23:52.640 I didn't meet them, I didn't talk to them. 438 00:23:53.500 --> 00:23:55.140 Do you like going to the game room? 439 00:23:57.060 --> 00:23:59.200 Before, yes, but now I don't like. 440 00:23:59.880 --> 00:24:01.180 How come you don't like it anymore? 441 00:24:03.080 --> 00:24:08.860 I think it's full. I was playing about $20 on one day. 442 00:24:09.020 --> 00:24:10.060 Oh, you lost $20? 443 00:24:10.060 --> 00:24:12.500 No, I played. 444 00:24:13.440 --> 00:24:18.200 My mother tell me if you want to play, play one day and stop forever. 445 00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:22.680 Then I play $20 and I don't like to play anymore. 446 00:24:24.240 --> 00:24:25.220 Your mother's smart. 447 00:24:26.580 --> 00:24:27.560 Yeah, I think so. 448 00:24:27.700 --> 00:24:29.500 Who gave you the $20, your mother? 449 00:24:29.860 --> 00:24:34.320 No, I work from Michigan, pick blueberry. 450 00:24:35.300 --> 00:24:37.600 Oh yeah, what was that like? Did you like Michigan? 451 00:24:38.280 --> 00:24:41.960 Sure, it's quiet there, no gang and it's good. 452 00:24:42.780 --> 00:24:43.180 Yeah? 453 00:24:43.500 --> 00:24:45.100 Yeah, it's good, very good. 454 00:24:45.740 --> 00:24:46.180 Yeah? 455 00:24:47.600 --> 00:24:54.660 And you know in the morning it's quiet, only Saturday and Sunday they have people at the lake. 456 00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:02.520 If it, I mean Monday to Friday, there's no people quiet because they work. 457 00:25:10.360 --> 00:25:13.160 Yeah, I... 458 00:25:20.020 --> 00:25:22.820 Yeah, I... 459 00:25:43.020 --> 00:25:45.640 Do you remember the first time you saw snow? 460 00:25:46.860 --> 00:25:47.380 Yeah. 461 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:48.900 What did you think of it? 462 00:25:50.820 --> 00:25:51.920 I don't know. 463 00:25:52.660 --> 00:25:56.500 You don't remember? Did you try tasting it? 464 00:25:57.520 --> 00:26:01.300 Because I know, my mom told me that. 465 00:26:01.320 --> 00:26:02.920 In Cambodia, when it was rain? 466 00:26:02.920 --> 00:26:15.760 When in Thailand, I have an American friend, I mean teacher, and she told me about the snow and then I played with the snow the first time. 467 00:26:16.140 --> 00:26:19.700 Did it look like what you thought it would look like? 468 00:26:20.560 --> 00:26:20.900 Huh? 469 00:26:21.140 --> 00:26:25.960 Did it look like when in Thailand, did you picture what it might look like? 470 00:26:26.100 --> 00:26:28.160 Oh, I know, I watched a movie. 471 00:26:28.280 --> 00:26:28.920 Oh, you watched a movie? 472 00:26:28.960 --> 00:26:31.540 Yeah, American movie and I saw it. 473 00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:40.740 It was scary, Americans are really shocked by what they saw, but somebody said the movie really wasn't as bad as it really was. 474 00:26:41.040 --> 00:26:42.280 Yeah, it's true. 475 00:26:44.020 --> 00:26:48.800 What was worse? I mean, why wasn't it real? Why do you think it wasn't real? 476 00:26:48.820 --> 00:26:56.660 There was shots, some of them they cut head out. The only shot they showed, they shot people. 477 00:26:56.800 --> 00:26:57.680 In the movie, the only shot? 478 00:26:57.680 --> 00:27:01.080 Yeah, but some other they cut head out. 479 00:27:03.040 --> 00:27:15.680 In the killing fields, those scenes are very, very true, very, very real, but not real enough, and not true enough, and not bad enough, and not suffering enough for my own people, Cambodian people. 480 00:27:20.980 --> 00:27:32.680 They set off through the woods, determined to find their way home, but though Hansel and Gretel walked it and walked it, they were still lost, and not a thing looked familiar. 481 00:27:38.140 --> 00:27:50.520 Just when they had given up hope, they heard a happy cry. There was their father coming towards them. Hansel and Gretel cried to their father, hurrying to help them. 482 00:27:50.520 --> 00:28:01.040 I have looked and looked for you. He took them home, and Hansel and Gretel found that their cruel stepmother had gone away forever. 483 00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:39.740 They took them home, and Hansel and Gretel found that their cruel stepmother had gone away forever. 484 00:28:44.500 --> 00:28:49.440 They took them home, and Hansel and Gretel found that their cruel stepmother had gone away forever. 485 00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:49.540 They took them home, and Hansel and Gretel found that their cruel stepmother had gone away forever. 486 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:19.520 They were able to live comfortably, happily, and happily. 487 00:29:19.520 --> 00:29:21.180 They were able to live comfortably, happily, and happily ever after. 488 00:29:37.060 --> 00:29:40.580 Remember, this is Cunadai. We learned this last year. Remember this? 489 00:29:40.580 --> 00:29:47.020 Like what? Like this? Yeah, he taught, yeah. 490 00:30:03.320 --> 00:30:12.500 I don't know the answer. I don't know. I don't know too. 491 00:30:12.500 --> 00:30:14.060 I don't know.