For the past few years I've been doing cultural arts engagement. I don't know if I call it a program. It's just an opportunity for schools, for people who are interested in learning more about the cultural arts and kind of what I call the original arts of the land. When I grew up I found that the art that we were learning was more western and we didn't have a huge focus on the traditional arts that my mom and my grandma were doing. So that just kind of became an interest for me to try to help more people learn how to do cultural arts. So in my program or what I offer schools is there's a lot of opportunities I actually don't even know how to put it all together. So I try not to be a one-off craft. I try not to be just come in and do a project with no history connection. So one of the things that I encourage is that before I go in to do actual hands-on art experiences is that we have a conversation about culture and how arts fits in culture. And not just first-nation culture but all cultures in the world because every culture in the world has their own forms of expression and the forms that we used a long time ago were the original ones here. So I like to tell people about that. And then I like to talk about how I go about collecting, preparing natural materials for a lot of the arts opportunities. So in a regular classroom setting I can't do that at all within one class block. So I also think that when I do that talk beforehand and I kind of have a provide opportunity for the kids to experience like washing fish scales or dying porcupine quills that, you know, like what are we going to do next? You know, it kind of creates I guess a further inquiry like they were interested, right? Instead of just kind of this is all your supplies and this is what we're going to make, right? Before I go and do any art I feel like that kind of stops it from being just a token craft or a token activity that we get to learn more about even the relationship to the land because a lot of my material does come from the land that as our ancestors have always had a relationship with the land and we encourage to continue that so that's a neat part of my job is that connection to the land too. And I get to kids to just kind of experience that and know that that's what our ancestors did for thousands of years. So I hope that kind of sums up what I do but I mean it's just natural to me to go and share and that's what our family does. When I first designed this cultural engagement that I go into schools with my first audience was students. So I former employee of Edmonton Public Schools and one of the things that I had the opportunity to do was to pilot this project while I was there and I found that it was easy to go into elementary schools because kids are just more excited for learning. I just had this idea that old people were already set in their ways and that high school kids don't want to be involved just from experience. So I first designed it for elementary school and then from that just going to different schools or different programs offering it through teacher professional development and things like that. I learned about taking all of my activities and making adaptations so that all ages could do it. So my original target was elementary school but now that I found there's a huge demand for what I do. There's a lot of people that are interested in bringing in cultural arts into the school whether it's because of all what's happening with reconciliation or learning about residential schools or people just trying to incorporate the history, the original history of Canada that you know there's a high demand for it so then I started to play around with different ways of delivering information. First simple topic so for example like porcupine quill work. Porcupines or the quills are dangerous, they're sharp so right away you don't want little kids playing with it but how could you create an opportunity for them to understand the concept of quill work. So being able to do that I've opened my audience a little bit more and then there are places where I've been to quite a few times so I feel like maybe those quillers can be advanced by now but we can go into different variations of quill work. So starting with basic understanding my original audience was elementary school but now I deliver to early learning all the way through high school including teachers and staff, staff PD, retreats so just to people who want to have a cool cultural arts experience but then it does teach a little bit of history and I try not to scare people off. I mean try not to make it too hard, make it easy enough so that people can complete and have a cool experience. For the original audience that I had developed this with like the pilot project in Edmonton it was really in my heart I wanted our First Nation Maintain Inuit kids to see culture in the city to find a sense of identity because we all know that when we have a strong sense of identity we can pretty much tackle anything but coming across a lot of young kids that might have grown up in the city don't know their extended family from whatever First Nation community they come from so one of the beliefs that we always had at my face of employment was our halls, walls and resources should reflect our population and the schools that had a high Indigenous population were kind of my... they had a soft spot, like I have a soft spot in my heart for them because those are the kids that probably needed the most that connection to identity because you know you are First Nation when you are in a group of other people so whether that's a comfort in identifying yourself as okay it's okay that I'm different because I am First Nation but then one of those things that I can do is make me strengthen me as a First Nation person so a lot of my projects I hope that the children or the people that participate came up with a stronger sense of identity with a passion for exploring further into the arts you know a long time ago I was taught that our forms of expression, our arts are tools just for economic or to make money they are ways to help your mind and your heart it's storytelling so it takes care of our health and well-being and that's kind of what I would wish my participants come out with is recognizing that it's helpful it's not just something to do that the more you do it could be calming it could be relaxing it could be kind of your own therapy but you know it's pretty powerful when you can do storytelling in many different ways so that's kind of what I hope for a lot of people that experience the cultural arts with me especially the kids but you know when I target the teachers I hope it's something that they can take into the classroom so that the kids can see themselves in the classroom because that's where they come from that's their own history so I guess another thing that I want people to understand is I got to travel all over the world I'm a volleyball player so I got to go all over Canada played in the United States I even got to go to Europe but I found a lot of times I was defending stereotypes or I guess breaking myths about us and it just kind of became my line of work I guess is trying to help people understand rather than getting mad at them that they don't know the real us and we have our own ways of doing being so creating that understanding for all people is that in my heart I kind of think it will eliminate racism one day because of the kinds of conversations that I have because when I parallel cultures we're not all different we're actually kind of the same it's just that those tiny elements that make us unique are different and creating an understanding is kind of I guess the overall objective my heart is with the kids because as adults we can design programs we can say hey these are cool these are going to work but if the kids don't love it they're not going to gravitate towards it and they're not going to just naturally want to do it all the time so I'm scared that culture is going to become too much of just a subject one day that we can just have this experience and you know they fall in love with it and want to learn more so when I go into school usually before I go I offer the variety of topics that I like to go in with and like I said I like to have a conversation to start with so the first conversation I like to have is about culture in general all cultures in the world have common elements and for someone that you know comes from culture it's easy to say oh in your culture this is what you do in my culture this is what we do you know so we do paralleling instead of just pointing out the differences so for me that cultural conversation is the most important thing that I take into the schools as it is a conversation that I can say you know when we learn about an art project you know we can go back to all those common elements and see how it fits so that's the first conversation I go into I call it like an introduction to culture because it has those common elements that I can I guess refer back to when I do the cultural arts another thing that I like to go into the schools with is talking about traditional foods so my mom is Lorraine Yuzichipi and she has been doing traditional foods presentations my whole life I don't remember if she ever didn't do presentations but she liked to talk about how we can harvest the food from our own land from our community that it's a healthier way of living so being able to have a conversation with kids create an experience so when I go into a classroom and do the cultural or traditional foods presentation I take in little samples of all the food that we collect from Stanley Buffalo and we make a version what I call grocery store Pemicin but it's just because all the food comes from the grocery store so it's one of my popular ones a lot of people like doing that one it's simple it's fun it's delicious one of the other kinds of stuff I go in with I guess another topic is traditional games I know there's a lot of traditional games workshops and stuff that people go to but when I do my presentation on games I like to talk about how there's different stages of learning in there and helping kids recognize that they're actually learning instead of just playing a game I feel that the traditional games equipment because it's made of natural materials I can talk about the relationship to the land again I can talk about you know when we're done playing with it we can give it back to mother earth it'll turn back into earth so those kinds of things but recognizing the different stages in games and sometimes we don't even know we're playing a game and learning at the same time so kids find it awesome when they realize that they can learn through game and then sometimes I get the I wish I could play games all the time to learn instead of doing schoolwork so that's another one of my favorites so those are the kind of tune I wouldn't say artsy but the rest of them are more project focused so I like working with natural materials so the most requested one right now is pretty penquill work there are places where I have done a visit where the kids actually wash clean and dye porcupine quills before they use them which is I think a real thorough experience right like they get to do that otherwise people that don't do that I just come in with colored quills already so they don't get to see that process so there's other materials that I dye I also dye horse hair, moose hair, fish scales, the porcupine quills and caribou hair because they teach all kinds of cultural arts and one of the things through doing the natural material collection and washing and prep and dye I talked about how different groups of indigenous people might not have used all these materials but we all have a common relationship with the land and a lot of our things are harvested the same way so with the cultural arts I like to talk about teaching quill work, bead work we're known for our bead work but a lot of times people don't recognize that our bead work actually evolved from quill work so a lot of our beading techniques are old quill work techniques so having kids realize that oh okay I get it those are kind of those things that make sense right so I like working with leather so a lot of times when we do a lot of our art I will use leather I feel like I can say that's the original canvas of the land and so a lot of our painting a lot of the hair embroidery will go on leather working with power flesh you know power flesh is actually a French word but the rawhide component of making containers and things like that the kids can make a little envelope depending on the time I have some people have made boxes or other kinds of containers which involve math which a lot of people don't realize too like the already components of that exist from school you know the science in it the math and the literacy the numeracy like all that kind of stuff we can pull a lot of that from these cultural arts and find ways of enhancing those elements I guess but you know it's fun when we can do it from an arts perspective so a lot of the arts that I do go in with it's really I like to teach the technique so that kids learn to apply the technique rather than assume that the technique is only for that project so when I do quill work I will teach quill wrapping and sewing down the quill in three different versions so instead of just making a project so then they apply the technique to the project which I think is more freeing more liberating in a way there's room for creativity whereas if you go in with a project that already has you know its limits it's not as fun same with beading I go in with just a beading technique I go in with three beading techniques and then the kids get to create something on their own so I think having that flexibility is really important so I've also done collaborations with other kinds of art so for example this one time I had a junior high art project where our theme was reconciliation and the calls to action so I've taken the three days that we worked with the kids and broke it down into learning about those calls to action reconciliation having those pre-conversations then learning art techniques and then watching the kids come up with an art piece influenced by the calls to action so whatever calls to action spoke to them the most or one that they wanted to focus on whether it was a call to action that was important to their family or in the direction they were going if they wanted to be in the health field or in education so they picked one call to action to portray into art so I have one school right now that applied to do all the 94 calls to action into an art piece so hopefully we get the grant but it's creating opportunities like that that I love to go into places and talk about we don't have to follow this agenda in all the topics that I send out but that we can also come up with our own version last year I worked at Valkyrie School and we did a piece dedicated to the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Canada and so the kids did some research and they found information that you know it told us all the locations of the documented cases of missing women and then so our art piece it was funny because our art piece it was a leather and we strung it up like on a high tending frame and then we did an image transfer of all the provinces across Canada but when I brought the leather it was already in the shape of Canada so I thought that was really like it was meant to be kind of thing so then when we did that the kids learned how to do we just did a quick daisy chain like a daisy flower so they made these little flowers and documented all the locations on that hide where the missing cases were so for them to go through that realization you know that these are real people that they had to look up a name and to see where they went missing from then to find that on the map and then to document it in a way like the cultural arts on the leather with the beads and the flowers the flowers being connected to the environment and the land it was a really powerful experience because not only was it the kids when people would walk by they're like oh where are you up to so it invited a lot of people into the classroom which also created more opportunities for the conversation for missing and murdered Indigenous women but that's probably one of my favorite things that I've done in the classroom but I like to design things because teachers, schools, the audience that I go to whoever I coordinate with knows they're people the best so I'm always willing to design something whether it's unique, whether it's something that I've done already but to create an experience that you know that they're going to have conversations about for a long time and then lead into other conversations last week sitting in the kindergarten class after I've been there quite a few years you're like what are we going to do next you know it's the people that want more that's kind of what I go like there is a huge need for it but when I see kids finish a project when I see kids bring things to parallel the significance of it you know that's what it's then they get it right like I feel like they get it but when it comes to kids it's just the fact that they made something so I'll give you an example one of my schools that I did we did a doll project where the kids all made dolls so we started from scratch and we just had leather and we stuffed them and then the kids designed clothes and to hear stories a year later where the kids still carry their dolls or see pictures on Facebook of those kids with those dolls I guess the stories that come from the parents too I'm thankful for parents that reach out to say hey this actually meant something to my child I guess it's just mostly the feedback I have this thing about I know education you know they give grades and things like that but I feel like when it comes to things that have to do with identity maybe we shouldn't do that that how can we really measure like oh you are doing 70% in learning your language what does that say about how we're maybe not influencing this person to just learn so I get scared that I hope my arts and my opportunities never turn into a child receiving a grade because I'm hoping that it influences you know their identity their sense of self that's one thing I'm always scared of the success I don't really depend on grading or I don't have a criteria mine is just as long as they try and they get to hear the stories of the connection to culture the connection to the land a little bit of history of how we got to this place from doing these arts a long time ago to now like for me that's enough for them to know to learn and I can't force them to do more art or to like it but I don't know if I have any real success measurement but I guess the stories the feedback the demand the desire like a lot of people want to want to have this in their school want to have their students experience it and it's time for us to do that we're going to help people well the other thing is there's a lot of there's not a lot of funding out there for artists to go into schools schools have to find ways so I've had schools that apply for grants through SAS Cardsport so last year we got three grants this year I had seven schools apply you know for the November 1st deadline so for it to go up from like more than double rate so the the the desire for it is there but I think if it was any other kind of opportunity like you know field trips and stuff like that there would be money because it's unique it's hard for schools to get me to come in whereas when I was in Edmonton because it was my job it was easy for me to go into schools I had my budget and it was at no cost to schools right so but now it's a cost to schools because well I'm not a paid employee the nobody has all the materials that I use so to have that supplies on hand and people want it but yeah I'm just the interest I guess is my the interest for it would probably be my measurement it's since I've come home there's a lot of people I want to invite me to their schools to move back to Saskatchewan I found that it was a because people didn't know what I did I was in an area where nobody experienced what I do in the schools that it was almost like a hard sell I felt like I had to convince people a lot more in the beginning whereas now I just you know I get emails or phone calls and asking my availability but the hardest well not the hardest part but I mean I don't see it as a barrier but because I've been doing this for a long time my back my educational background I actually am not a teacher I don't have a B.Ed I went to school to be a welder I wanted to do I wanted to be a welding artist I wanted to do metal sculptures and I also did a cultural arts instructor program which you know I learned a lot about the arts in the north so when I when I tell people that I'm not a teacher I feel like they look at me like I have less oh you know like I'm I don't know I just feel like okay I don't qualify to be here but then at the same time I I can see the there is a lack of cultural arts knowledge and ways of incorporating cultural arts in the classroom so for me that's my strength and luckily when I did work with Edmonton Public you know my supervisor and my co-workers you know there was a lot of collaboration and when I designed this program you know I got to go into the schools and you know those teacher colleagues that I had you know helped me and we basically just kind of I think because they were open to it right to them it didn't matter if I was a teacher or not it was my abilities of being able to go into the classroom to create these opportunities for kids coming home and trying to tell people you know this is what I do to not be an actual teacher I don't want to call it a barrier because I don't I mean I don't see a need for it for myself because I love doing this and it's not a huge criteria for myself to do it's a passion it's something that I already know so going into the classrooms is just natural anyways my whole life everybody said that I should be a teacher but I didn't want to be a teacher I don't want to teach people stuff that they might not like so I'd rather create cool experiences for people so yeah when I first came back it was a hard sell but now other people know what I do yeah I think I like that I don't have to work every day I don't have to I'm busy all the time and I can be free for a lot of things it's like when I worked with Edmonton Public I had a lot of requests outside the district whereas I'm a district employee so it was really hard to say I want to help them but I can't because my job limits me I have my area, I have my school so now that I'm just doing independent contracting then it's easy like I travel all over the place and it's awesome I'm missing out on kids whereas when I was in my other job I felt like oh I only have these kids but these kids need it too so just being free I feel like it's better but yeah that was the only bit I'm in the momentum now, the challenges aren't really there so think of my ancestors our method of nurturing a child to have the abilities and skills that they need to be contributing to society I guess you know when I think of those old ways I feel that's more truest to indigenous education rather than the western way the ways of doing that is also different as we didn't have classrooms no authoritative figures I guess in the groups but you know from going into classrooms now I find that the whole idea of culture in the school can be a little more specific to to be a little more specific to the truest cultures of the land here so when I have that conversation of culture in the classroom I talk about six common elements the first element is language the second one is kinship the third one is the process and transferring of traditional knowledge the fourth one is the connection to the environment the fifth one is the ceremonies and celebrations and then the last one is the forms of expression so part of the reason I teach people is to tell people about those six common elements and these elements came after attending multiple kinds of cultural awareness trainings other kinds of events where people were trying to talk about indigenous culture but for me working in such a diverse area in Edmonton I found that these are things that everybody will understand not just indigenous people but all cultures in the world so paralleling those conversations so that we have common elements of culture was I find it more comforting rather than just always finding out a difference and then you have to know those differences so when I think of indigenous education I hope that I don't sound like I'm bashing western education but you know there's when it comes to language we're not all on the same page when it comes to language there's formal communication and we learn how to read and write then formatting and things like that whereas there's more of feeling and consideration and compassion and empathy when we communicate in person which is more true to culture as when we transfer traditional knowledge you know they're not giving us tests they're not giving us assignments or things like that so in how we communicate with one another I feel like that's kind of there's a difference in that so the cultural component for language and communication I feel it's more person, not person or I know empathetic when we do it in person so the kinship system so in our families we have all of our cousins which are like our brothers and sisters so we don't have a kinship system regular education we understand people's jobs roles and responsibilities but in a family you learn from people so growing up I was able to go and live with my auntie or a couple of my aunties because I have a lot and they all had different things to teach me but in my culture I understood that they might have things that my mom doesn't see it their way but it's still helpful to me and that's why she sent me because there's things that I could do and learn from other people and when I think of a classroom setting to be able to learn from other people there's no flexibility in that there's one teacher responsible for all of these things so when my mom sent me well not sent me I sounded like she's forcing me away but I had opportunities to go stay with other people that was for me she knew that it would strengthen me or mentor me into my own strengths and abilities which I feel like this is how I would love to learn is to go and spend time with people that will help me and when you think of a family structure that's kind of our role and our job is to help that way compared to a classroom setting or in education in your own and you might not have that relationship with people that are there doing the same thing so when I think of how we transfer traditional knowledge our format in western ways really you have your teacher who's kind of giving instructions you sit behind a desk or at a table and I was taught our traditional way of learning you're spending time with the person there's no barriers in between you and you're learning hands on and they're not going to say you know here's your assignment come and show me afterwards and give me a mark I know I was already talking about that but even being able to ask for information we're told that okay it's time for science it's time for math whereas if I were to go and seek traditional knowledge I make that choice I take that tobacco and I'm going to offer it I know what I'm getting into because I'm seeking that information so being able to apply that transfer of traditional knowledge process I feel more connected to our indigenous ways to our culture so just acknowledging that you're going to go and learn something that you're making an effort you're taking that offering I feel like because our kids don't do that for all the other subject things it's a bit of a disconnect but when I think of the thinking when you're done, when you're learning, when you've learned what you needed to learn and you have that opportunity to say thank you or to give a gift what we gift people when they give us their time and their knowledge it feels like it comes full circle that you got what you needed so that you give that way and give that gift and teachers don't often receive that from students an example I always give in school is have you guys ever taught your teachers thank you for teaching me about math I'm going to be smarter with money when I grow up those kinds of things but it's not part of our process to teach kids to be thankful for what they're learning in the classroom so when I think of indigenous education from that perspective I think there could be a lot more relationship that way talking in a full process of acknowledging what you're getting and then being thankful for it afterwards when it comes to the connection to the environment every culture is connected to the environment and there's so much information in there and I think of my arts process I have to collect wash clean dye stuff I don't just go hunting for art supplies we have a relationship with the land and how we use it even when it's the food that I eat the lunch that I have the water that we get all comes from the land so when I was growing up in school in the community I also went to school in town and then I went to residential school so when I think of the connection to the land and the environment I didn't have that when I went to public school because I felt like because we had more activities at residential school and at home that were connected to First Nation, to our culture I felt that relationship was there but I didn't feel when I was in public school and sometimes I worry that when I go to public school that connection to the environment is not identified or pointed out to kids as much as it was when I was in school in my community and residential school I keep in mind my own experiences when I go into schools I really believe that the environmental connection is really important because our food how we behave on the land what our buildings are what comes around our buildings I guess and I remind kids even though we have we talk about our own traditional territories plants, animals have traditional territories and the cities that we live in are part of if we removed it all there would have been plants and animals that lived here too so I think that environmental connection just really acknowledges the space of where people are learning even though we're in a building that we could acknowledge that there was animals and plants whose natural home was here the ceremonies and celebrations when it comes to education we celebrate finishing school they're graduating there's all the holidays that we celebrate in education we participate in Valentine's Day St. Patrick's Day but none of those are original to this land or come from our people and the things that we do celebrate are kind of past tense if you will so when I think of graduation it means you've completed what you needed to do to get to a certain point but a long time ago our life celebrations were your inability to do things so when you became a provider that's when you were an adult you could do all these things you have these abilities so we don't really when I think of our own celebrations we could encourage people to be more I guess it's a different in a different way our celebrations our ceremonies in a school are rooted I guess in the culture so that's one thing that bothers me so when I think of education that way I would love to see that we celebrate the coming of age type of things rather than just birthdays that we celebrate events that are gonna teach us more about the land or the time of the year watching the stars and things like that instead of Christmas and New Years which are just done by a calendar system and then the last part I guess the forms of expression and that's kind of what I like to focus on and that's the art piece we always learn about other people famous people in art history and we don't focus teaching the kids about the original art forms from where they live and I feel like a lot of our families that didn't get to grow up with culture whether it's because of residential schools or not the strength and identity annoying those things can be very powerful I was gonna give you an example so this one time I did a art project and had some non first nation kids just kind of looking and watching for them to be curious about what I was doing with our first nation 18 in U.S. students I felt like what can they share that parallels with that for the first nation kids we have that relationship to the land to this land here and for that non first nation person what is that for them that's something that they're looking for too when I think of the whole art in education I like to promote ours as a tool to take care of our health and well being it's about the journey you go on not about what your art looks like and when I think of the school projects that they have to learn about art all the projects look the same and it's because of something that already exists it's about copying somebody's style whereas in our history it was your own storyteller these we didn't have logos labels universal symbols because all of our decorating came from us as an individual using the arts to promote people to be still an individual instead of being lumped together copying somebody or doing a project that everybody's doing the same thing it's important to be I guess separate one of the things that I recognize is that we're all not taught a method in organizing cultural content we learn of other cultures and we do it by element by element instead of saying these elements are the same so I feel I would love to see that all people would learn how to organize cultural information so for example when we teach other people we can say oh this is a ceremony, this is a ceremony, this is a ceremony so instead of them having to remember all of those ceremonies they could just kind of put it in a ceremony category and then learn something new right so even in our own people I feel like we're overwhelmed with culture coming back and we have to learn all these things but we need to sort it out and have a look back take a step back and see if we can see how it all fits together but nobody really teaches us how it all fits together they just say this is kind of what happens here this is how this happens this is how you do this just the process and being able to step back to look at it to deconstruct it a little bit to see how you could see that it fits it in culture so a process like that would be really neat the other thing that I would love if I see down the road is I was taught that when you are learning your mind, your body and your spirit have to be present and so in Alberta we show this resource it's a little video clip and it's about this guy he tells a story of how a young boy ran away from residential school and when he got home the elders asked him why did you run away because school is supposed to be good for you and he told them they're only teaching me with my mind so when I do my cultural arts like the PD stuff I ask the teachers when you look at your lesson plans when you look at your opportunities for students, how many of them actually consider the body the mind and the spirit of the children and when I think of how I like to get people excited before I actually do things that's almost like you're inviting the spirit to be there so in our spirituality we call on our ancestors we call for people to be there we're not always all present when we go to something like I know I've been to meetings where all my mind and my body want to be at home sleeping and when I'm in the classroom sometimes kids they might be tired or hungry so their spirit isn't there they're maybe waiting for lunchtime or they want to go back to the game at recess so not all elements are present when we are learning so to have our educators learn on how to do that for each class or maybe down the road our education system will change maybe we won't have subjects like is it Finland they think doesn't have subjects anymore but that learning to acknowledge and recognize when your students body, mind and spirit are present that a lot of things will stick but right now our classrooms these are the outcomes we have to reach and we're going to try to get that I find that when you recognize maybe in the favorite subjects like gym and art the kids are excited that means their spirit is present their mind is ready and it's fun the setup is usually different they're not in a desk they're not behind there's no barrier in between the lesson and the learning so those are probably the two most important things that I would like to see would be the ability to deconstruct culture to take a step back and kind of make it into categories so that it makes sense and then to make sure that our children's body, mind and spirit are present in learning we're just all people I guess because when I think of when I used to go to school here there's a lot of people that we're looking for strengthen identity they're like I didn't grow up with culture and I came to learn using the elements of the university they have a lot of opportunities for your spirit to grow we should have that all along in our lifetime and I know a lot of our own people our indigenous people need that but for all Canadians to recognize that would be kind of awesome that becomes common common part of education that we teach others to be compassionate have empathy I already see a difference in kids just from the work that I do when I do presentations to different groups talking to the older people who didn't grow up with cultural information or weren't aware of just history of indigenous people in general to high school kids that have a lot of experience and they're learning more about it so I can see the change in understanding history so I think the same could happen for understanding culture which I feel is a huge element of education because it groups us together as a people having the same values so one of the things I always tell people about is when George Erasmus talked about how where common memory is lacking there can be no community so when I think of what we need to create all these common awesome memories so that a lot of people can be part of a greater community and I think that starts with education it starts with educating people with the same experiences and powerful powerful opportunities I guess then those powerful opportunities become the common common memories of everyone


guys this is part three of this story I will be linking parts one and two in the cart so please go back and look at those you have to really bear with me because part three part one and two I already thought about actually half of it I didn't so I am coming up with this story off the top of my head I know what I how I wanted to end but girl we're just gonna basically wing it if I remember correctly Landon's mama has just revealed why her aunt aunt Kitty went away to the woods and her mother Francine basically what's the cause of aunt Kitty's fiancee dying in a car accident they were supposed to be these very successful dress makers Francine was modeling the dresses Francine got jealous of Kitty because she was gonna stay in Alabama and get married and Francine was to make it to France be a big shot and that didn't happen okay so I'm a little bit belong to anyone when Landon's mom and reveal something about the grandmother that she's been wanting to keep a secret for as long as possible so many announces I told you that I think it's a good time to let you also know that grandma is ill she's not feeling well she has cancer baby and so we need to all be in good spirits around her don't let her know that you know though because she doesn't really want people feeling sorry for her and she just wants to pretend like everything is okay and so Landon was a little confused she said but doesn't she want us to take care of her she said no she doesn't want us to take care of her until she gets really sick and she's shook he said he said okay I'll try mama when Landon went over to his cousins the cousins were like Landon gets who we saw on the edge of the woods and we've never seen her this close I said who and they said the old cat lady miss kitty aunt kitties now now they can call a unkitty since she's family now yes unkitty so and yeah I've been calling I've been going between portion and passion this is the same person girl so passion is passion right okay so passion was like and guess what Landon she wants us to come over to her house and Landon was confused he said what do you mean us and red said just like that she wants all of us to come over to her house because she wants to just talk to us and so Landon was up what did she got to talk to us about poor she wrote her her her eyes don't act chicken Landon a passion passion wrote her eyes and was like don't act chicken again Landon now that we know that she's family she's not gonna hurt us right before they had dinner they just have to go out to the woods and meet this old woman but they didn't want Denise knowing about it well their mother and aunt knowing about it so they show up at the house and poor shit was a little nervous patching was a little nervous I'm so sorry but she was like y'all go ahead and knock on the door and right when rent wasn't gonna knock on the door that's when the door open up and kitty was basically like y'all go ahead and come on here I've been waiting on you on evening so when they walked in the house smoked a fresh baked bread and so that's when red said mmm what's that smell she's like oh I've been baking goodies for y'all all night you walk them into a kitchen and they sit down and sit in an already placed at the dining room table with plates and little cups for them to drink out of and she's a y'all are y'all hungry and red said well we were just about to have dinner but we could eat we could eat anyway so she got the bread she had baked this ginger bread and also some banana nut bread and all these little goodies teacakes for them and red when he got it he started gobbling gobbling up real fast she said now slow down now child you don't want to get you don't want to choke yourself so she sat down the old woman sat down at the other empty chair finally and she said well y'all I'm sure y'all know by now that I'm a kitty and they say yes ma'am but then she said I heard from your mother twins she called the twins twins girl old people she's gonna I heard from your mother twins that Francine isn't feeling so well and that's when the twins look confused and passion was like how do you know that's when the old lady said well from Denise of course and they all looked at each other and read it read and I'm passionate like our mama our mama you've been talking to our mama and so on kitty reveal yeah I've been talking to your mother she comes up here almost every week to check on me and they all look shocked they could not believe that aunt Denise have been going up to the old to the woods and they never knew about it so kitty goes on to say she's like you know it's been a while since I've seen my sister I know a lot of things have happened and of course you kids don't don't need to know everything but I really would love to see my sister before it's too late so I need for y'all to do me a favor and so the kids were listening you know waiting for what she's gonna say I need for y'all to convince your parents to have a dinner for her that way I can show up and surprise her and so Landon who is the you know he's he's wise beyond his years child and so he's a do you think that's a good idea and then kitty kind of looked at him and said yes all that's in the past if I've moved on surely she has so yes talk to your mothers and let them know you know that I'm coming but tell them not to let Francine know so that's what they did the twins went to their mom Denise they you know convinced her that they wanted to have this party for the grandmother Landon went to his mother and did the same thing so so a couple of weeks spent by and they planned this huge party for Francine right everyone made dishes girl let's see what they had on the menu this time they had green beans they had catfish they had stuffed salmon Boat of milk pound cake red velvet cake girl sweet tea peach cobbler yeah I'm sorry Jamie's like what I mean wait a minute they had everything that I wanted to eat right now so they made all this food for Francine to celebrate her you know why she's still alive let's celebrate her lifeless celebrate her so they had this you know this gathering and it was just a family okay family a couple of distant cousins came on so no French it's family you know just close family so they're all having a good time and for the first time in a very long time Landon saw his mother smiling and just happy and just you know having a good time and it was really good it was really good to see his mama in this in that headspace so as it was getting later they heard a knock at the door Francine was a little confused they go who could that be now it's getting a little late and everybody who's here is here you know everyone that I would assume will be here is here already right so I did Denise excuse herself and she walked to the front door and Francine could hear some whispering and whispering and in walked in it was this beautiful woman with she had her silver hair braided all the way around to the side she had yeah she had a beautiful gown I mean she just looked absolutely royal so Francine was looking around and she at first she couldn't recognize her until Kitty spoken said good to see your friend scene and that's when Francine's got up and she was like is that who I think it is and she's like yes it is it's kitty and that's when they walk towards each other they embrace each other and just was hugging it cugging each other and this one Francine was saying I'm so sorry I am so sorry I'm so sorry that I did thank Kitty was like oh baby that was so long ago you're my baby sister I'll always love you I forgave you a long time ago so now I'm here I'm here for you so they're embracing hugging each other and that's when the aunts would like hey you know let's let them hash it out it's been a long time since they talk let's let's give them their space basically everyone's feeling great right they're like awesome you know we have reunited these sisters they finally can hashing not necessarily hashings out but you know since Francine is ending her life it's basically in front for both of them and let's just close this door they forgive each other and let's move on about ten minutes have gone by and all of a sudden they hear a shout in anger and they hear they hear kitty's voice over everything she's like I knew I knew I should never came over here you've never changed you always been jealous of me and Francine and said jealous of you for what you were dusty then you owed and dusty now can Francine can drag and read for days y'all Francine was like you were dusty then you owed and dusty now so kitty was upset kitty's upset she's starting to cry she's like you know what you are the most selfish person I've ever met my own sister after all these years you need to tell me that if I could forgive you you're gonna bring up this stuff now she's like Francine I feel so sorry for your children I'm done she turns around to the girl she's like Denise I'm so done baby I'm so sorry I came here and Denise is like no no no no I'm kitty no you have to say she's like no I gotta go I gotta go and that's Francine Francine turned around and said y'all will end on this uh-uh baby don't shake the table Francine's turn around pointing fingers at her kids she's all y'all knew about this Denise and Linda's mama are looking each other confused but yeah they're like yeah mama we thought that it would be a good time for you to rekindle back with your sister and kitty and for you say no no never y'all get out she kicked them all out she's no y'all need to leave she said I'm sorry for the babies but y'all need to leave so they gather gather up their kids they looked at each other all confused because they thought you know child now so all everyone went home table of course the next weekend Linda when goes over to his aunt Denise's house and the twins are shaking their head and passion said I was up and I heard I heard mama crying all night she was talking to grandma grandma was really upset say basically was saying how they should have never done this and how she she probably could never forgive us for that and landing with Landy was confused time time goes by and unfortunately a couple of months later Francine ends up dying of cancer that's what she had she was terminally ill she dies of cancer what happened is that I guess as her lads trying to make things right is that the grandmother ended up leaving the house to kitty kitty was very surprised she thought that she would donate the house or whatever she wasn't she was surprised that her sister after all these years was still leave something to her but kitty was comfortable where she had mine you this was someone who had an opportunity to go off the Paris France in the 50s and she was perfectly fine staying in Alabama so she thought it over and she finally told you know the um the children Francine children you know what I know y'all think of me differently living out here in this old shack but I like where I live it I like that I have my dresses I sew every now and then she said y'all have families why don't you go ahead and move into the big house so sure enough Denise ended up moving into the house because she has the most children and Landy's mom was perfectly fine with that they still went over every other weekend they had all these good cookouts and they worked on the garden the kids learned all about gardening doing a summertime and yeah that is it you guys you know not every story has an actual happy in it but I think this was this has sort of a happy ending all right you guys make sure you stay tuned for the next story it is called the contract now this one is set in the 80s in LA say it right girl it's set in the 1980s is in Los Angeles and it's about an aspiring actress and again it's called the contract so stay tuned for that one and this one will be a scary one by the way all right you guys thank you so much for watching take care


Unfortunately, it looks like we're going to get a hard sliding knock down here, but uh, I got a little trick for myself. You never seen a Videl player do this, huh? Now go on, do it now! How's it going, everybody? Datu Doi here, back with another round of Dragon Ball Fighter's Rank Matches. This time playing it suggests a team of Android 17, Videl and Yamcha. I really like the idea behind this team, they just seem like very get-in-your-face kind of characters. But I will admit we are close to Demonic, so hopefully this doesn't end up too poorly for me. Get down there, let's go, Videl! Down heavy it actually worked! I should have done the actual sliding maneuver, but whatever. One, two, one, two... Dragon Rush, oh, we actually backed up enough that it didn't hit us. Yo, that was kind of crazy. One, two, this should be death. I'm going to go ahead and do this level one, get 17 back out in the driver's seat. And that's what we call a good start to the game. Zalmasu did not see Videl coming. Uh-oh, this looks like a similar situation to me. One, two... Oh, there's the back step. Let me hit him with the dodge. Oh, defense. Ah, why did I ever flow? Oh, he dropped it. Mashed, he mashed my grab! If he was standing up and didn't mash, that actually would have hit and we could have got a snap off of it. Unfortunately, it looks like we're going to get a hard sliding knock down here. But, uh, I got a little trick for myself. You've never seen a Videl player do this, huh? Now go on, do it now! But the real trick was the friends we made along the way, Bart, uh-oh. Oh, he's in a very, um... Not that, not the double Sunday. Please put Yamcha down. I'm begging you, don't take him out. I didn't mean like that. So this is what we're doing now. Why did I drag her? Dude, I'm Dragon Rush happy this game. I'm too... I'm too easy to Dragon Rush. I'm Dragon Rushing too much. I actually don't think we'll be clicking Dragon Rush for the remainder of this set. I simply beca- That's the weird QM. Ha-ha! Oh! Oh, nice one, 17. I actually appreciate that. He blasts. Useless. All right, we got a sliding. It's been a long time since I felt like we were in the driver. She's doing that back dash wake-up thing a lot more now. All right, I'm glad we got out. Sick! Wow, he blocked it! He blocked that just straight up! All right, I'll give it up. I'm impressed. Oh, that was unfortunate for me. He's doing it. You saw him do it there? Did you see him do it there, though? Okay, that was so tough. That was so tough. I really didn't see that going my way. Ha-ha! 17! That was really tough. I did not know how that was gonna work with the Videlisus for the extension, but it ended up turning out all right. Mmm, poorly timed Super Dash on my part. What's the punish? Does he get three bars? Nobody wants to snap. Okay, understandable. I'm not gonna fight you on it. You are my hero, man! You're my hero! Back there! Yo, Videl takes no trash from anybody. He's gonna do it again. Back the wake-up, jump. Oh, no! That was sick. Ha-ha! How did I become the one that panicked in that situation? Waste of a bar! Yabcha waiting in the wings! Can we kill? One, two, three, four, one, two. Plank this man in the ground, 17. Show him what it means to be fertilizer. Hey-o! Take a win! I like to do. I enjoyed that team very much, although we did get a very strong start and kind of started crumbling. Maybe an early game spark would have been better in some situations. We kind of played it weird, but I'm happy with the result. The end result was a W. Now, will we get a rematch? There it is. I kind of forgot we started on this map. Very popular map. Ah, he's taking the lead early. Who's he snapping out to? Oh, he wants to get started right! Mother's... I got carried away. I got carried away. That was, um... You guys know nice dr. Dewey? That was... That was shit-eating dr. Dewey. That was the guy that just likes teasing people. Oh, my goodness, but it felt so right. I don't care what you say. That felt good. And it was worth. He tried it again, dude. The back dash heavy has its flaws. Come on, now. Oh, it lags so bad right there. Get back there. All right, let's go. Pombo meal. Can I get this in a combo piece? Ah, too early. Too early! I messed it up completely! Oh, we had such a good thing going down tech. Wake up. Are we up? Okay, understandable. Oh, I tried to... I tried to... I tried to mess with this guy. One, two... Vanishing. I'm mashing Vanish, dude. Why is it lagging so bad now? I'm just gonna play defense.  Please turn the... turn the weather back down, dude! Turn the weather back down, Cret! The AC is so cold in here! I need to get my sweater. How much bar did he have? He did a level three and I was like, that's gonna cost you all your meter. No, he had three bars left. Okay, catch him. Oh, wait, this isn't gonna work. This might not kill. I didn't... I didn't do this combination right. Okay, it did work. It did work, but I missed a lot of damage off Yamcha Super. I missed a ton of damage.  Oh, God. Oh, no! That was tight. That was tight.  I love this game. Defense. Defense. I don't got the tags. And the frame is just like, it's coming back down, but it spikes every now and again. It didn't spike there. So, uh, don't take that Dragon Rush as me. I just missed it. Uh, level three, uh... uh... Uh, we're gonna... See, there it is. Thankfully, it was a cinematic. So, hard for anybody to get up to that there. I'm going to need defense on my side. Or he can mess up. Well, behind the back. That was sick, dude. That was sick. You got 17, man. None of us are better than 17. He's gonna... Six... I thought he was gonna Dragon Rush, but Six-M is cool too. All right, so we're in a good spot to win. I'm not going to... Okay. No, you don't. That was sick. Not the move. Not the move to do there. Four bars, and he still has a considerable lead. I'm not gonna jump at him this time. Ah, it's come on. Bad time to lag. He gets extension off this. This is sliding in the corner with medium slicer. He didn't want it. Don't go down taking it to my heart, dude. Mixed up. Oh, what? No co- I panicked. I panicked. I panicked. I'll fully admit that I panicked. The drop kick was not a part of my master plan. Is he gonna level three? Okay, there it is. It's a one-touch game now. Next touch wins, and he's got the hard knockdown, so I'd be surprised if he doesn't win. On a physical level, I believe I'm hurt. Oh, he hit me with the Lotus. Oh, he hit me with the Lotus, and I'm not a fan. We're getting demoted. We're getting demoted. I can't- Why am I re-batch into the weather? Oh, no, no, no, no. No, that's so scary. What a scary said. Happy Halloween. It's not Halloween. Many days removed, actually. Just calm down! What the? I punished him? I don't got nobody to talk to you. Whoa, whoa! I was kind of sick. Where'd you get those hops, 17? We both went for key blasts. This was just a smarter decision. Nice, he converted it. I'll give it up. Get back there. Ah, let me talk to you. Let me talk to you real quick. No Tex! No Tex, but we gotta get Zamasu down while he's still here. Otherwise, our chances of winning this game go drastically down. All right, good. That's a Zamasu for us. But should we- Should we back out while we have the chance? Nah, nah, dude. Oh, wrong combo! Wrong combo alert. It should be fine. It should be fine regardless. Just a little scared. Just a little scared. It's fine. It's still fine. I just got a little scared. Okay, we gotta watch out for the blue health on 17. That's pretty sizable. He's gonna be looking for that. Ah, he didn't- Oh, no! He's mad! Dude, we got a delay. We gotta go for the staggers because trying to dragon rush here is not the move. These buttons are coming out whether we want to see him or not. We hold spark in here. We don't do anything too crazy. Just gotta eat the mix. Eat the mix. I'm actually quite hungry. I didn't eat it. I like it, dude. Give me that beam assist. May I talk to Mr. Mezior Goku Black? Oh, level three alert. Level three alert. What's he gonna do? Does he spark this early? I don't think he's the kind of guy. I don't think he is. We'll see. Oh, coming in hot! Behind the back of the leg! Switching. Okay. Two dashes for the present.  I just died. Can actually got a little rowdy there. Not gonna lie to you. It's still getting a little rowdy. It's a fun set. It's been a fun set though.  It's just been a rowdy. Stricted finish. Who's coming in next? Your boy, Yamcha. No tags. I just can't take for the life. I got to start swinging. I have to start swinging now. He's did it again. This time we spark for sure. This one feels like a no brainer spark. So I do want to watch after reads. Just down tech Bardock me right in the face. Right in the old kisser. I'm getting Bardock pretty heavily right now. Please hit him. Please hit him. Please hit him. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I can't believe this man was still swinging in that situation. Oh, come on. I jumped. I jumped with the help. Get something out of here, dude. It hit me. Bardock assist. Hit me. Are we gonna get demoted here? Oh, we got to play with her. No, that's fine. I tried mashing. Wasn't the move 17. Get me out of this and I will thank you. I will thank you. No questions asked. Oh, my lagging stuff. We're so good. We're so good. We can't we just shouldn't lose. He almost Bardock me. You can hear him, dude. You can hear him as you have seven friends. I'm not sick. That was cool. That was cool. That was cool. That was cool. I ain't backing out. I ain't back. If I don't get demoted. The only way you're getting out of here is if you demote me. You think you bested me fighters? I'm not leaving. I'm not leaving. 395 pity points. I ain't going anywhere. Let me back in. Let me back in. Yeah. He's not afraid to demote somebody. This is what I like to see. Here I go. Oh, so you really thought. You really thought I was going to take that to motion, huh? Oh, you really thought. You really thought I was getting demoted. That's crazy. All right. Don't mess up the comma this time. Oh, I missed the comma. I'm saving meter meter gain. Let's get it. I definitely didn't drop it though. Meter gang gang. Ah, why did I do that move? We're doing it, dude. He's beginning to believe it's over. Damn, but that was more confident than I am. Baby. How did I spark? I sparked so early. I did it. I did it just as I was feeling myself. I get it back.  Stay back. 17. Come on. We got one Goku Black left. This guy has been a problem character for me this entire game. I'm tired of it, dude. Oh, bad move. I mean, it's a terrible move. I threw it out knowing that he keeps doing that.  It wasn't a bait. I just happened to miss. I could have won right there. You know what?  That was even worse. That looked planned, but I was going to do that. I was going to do that regardless. Two to two, baby. Two to and we ain't getting demoted. That game anyway. We might still get demoted this next game, but I'm no coward. I'll take. But also it didn't lie too much that game. I'm no coward. Give me my demotion risk. Okay. Oh, no. And we're off to a bad start. Let the games begin. You saw that though? Oh, your boy is pretty much a beat. Let's go. Hit him with the twirl. No. No. And let me introduce you to your new resting place. It's called the soil. Hey, okay. I was very lucky by the way. We played terribly right there. We just happened to fly by out of the radar. Oh, nice. No, I didn't take it again. I knew it was going to be a dragon rush there too. I'm surprised I didn't get the tech. Down we go. We do down tech. We're going pretty sick right now. I wish I didn't have my thing charged up there. I wanted the dragon rush. We're going to have to take this beating. Maybe even spark if we're feeling it.  I don't think now we won't die. Look at the hard knockdown, but we won't die and it might be worth resetting to keep the character lead. I'm not sure about that, but I think I will. I definitely will. Let's be honest. Okay. I was very scared right there. Terrified even. I miss. Thank you. I mean, this is pretty bad anyway. This is I'm not going to get any okay out this. I mean, I got a beam. I just back jam. Just in case you got too close. Jam, jam. Don't even bother, dude. Dine it, dude. I get too excited. I have too much fun with it. I can't play Videl. It's I get too into it. Just died. Dude, we're going to lose this game because I'm cheese and not in the game, but I'm like cheese in real life. I don't know. I'm still smiling from that Videl incident. Oh, he did it. Oh, and I didn't even know that was a catch all. That was interesting that he didn't block that. Maybe he was preparing for the next one.  That was sick. Drop it. Nope. No drop zone. Unfortunately, Videl is dead. Unfortunately, Videl is dead. Oh, so sad. Okay. We still can win. It's not impossible. It's just a 1v1 now with almost equal health. Now we have a pretty big lead. Actually, is this death? Is this death? Wolf. It's not dead. Oh my goodness. Is it not death? He didn't know I was going to go for the last gambit. Dude, who would have? Who would have done though? I that's why I did it because who on earth would do that? Nobody. No, that's why you got to be brainless when playing fighting games, baby. Nobody would do that, which is exactly why I did it. Let's go. What a great set. Hopefully you guys enjoyed it. If you did, leave your thoughts down below and make sure to hit the like button and subscribe. You also want to subscribe because we are due for some more Dragon Ball Fighters news here very soon. Start of a new month, which means start of a new V jump. Hopefully we get some more Broly News. If you want, stick around, subscribe. 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Welcome to Toffy TV, this is the Everton News Daily. There is only one story dominating the Everton News today, and that is Jordan Pickford, who signed a six year deal yesterday with the club, keeping him at Everton until 2024. Pickford has been speaking at his press conference today and said, amongst other things, he never once considered leaving Everton probably much to the dismay of the local media who loved those stories. He said that he came to Everton, he knew it was a big club, he knew that it would help his England aspirations, he's now England's number one, he said that's a direct result of playing for Everton, turning in strong performances week in, week out. Everton hoping, of course, that Pickford will be there custodian for many years to come. Pickford himself spoke about Bramley Moore, said that he hopes to still be here when Everton do move to Bramley Moore, and obviously that is dependent on his performance as being good enough, and also the football club moving in the direction that he wanted to. He said there's a young team, Marko Silver, obviously a new ambitious manager, said he was away with England when Silver took over and couldn't wait, he was concentrating on England as he couldn't wait to get back and start learning what this manager is all about. He said he brought in some great lads this summer and the team feels as though it's moving forward with the players they've gotten as a planning place and he wants to be at the heart of that. Also spoke about wanting to become an Everton legend and that only comes with, I suppose, winning games and keeping clean sheets and everything so there you go, that's it, there's nothing else. Steve Walsh, other than on the contract, which apparently Steve Walsh had put in place, said that Pickford performs, Everton will give him a new contract and Bill Cernwright, Marcel Brands have agreed with that decision and that's where we are. That is it, if you haven't subscribed, do it now, and if you want more videos, get over to Patreon. See you soon on Toffee TV.


Hi, Angela and Anita. First of all, happy congratulations from the entire Shankara is a care meeting. Thank you. How do you feel? How is the experience? Yeah, it was very happy moment for me because I secured all and they're in through 30 odd. So I'm very happy Super Given introduction about yourself for the viewers myself. I'm coming from the joystick of Tamil Nadu I completed my schooling in my village itself after that I got a seat in College of Engineering Indian University in Agricultural and Irrigation. Nice here in Chennai. Yeah, okay In Agricultural and Irrigation Engineering after completed my graduations. I started my UPS preparations Oh, super. When did you start preparing for UPSC? Actually, I start in my final year itself Okay, I joined the course in Shankara is Academy weekend passion, but I'm not completely involved in full-time Preparations, but I get to know about what is what in 2019 June. I started my full-field Preparations, okay, would you say that are you starting your preparation in the final year itself helped you a lot in the Examination, yeah, yeah, exactly because if I know only after my graduation said we'll take some more time to know What is what yeah true true? Yeah, but I know about all these things before my Graduations itself which reduce my times and then attempts. Yeah Okay, how many items have you given? This is my second second attempt. How was your first attempt? Do you clear a problem? So no no in my first attempt. I didn't clear in my problems. Okay, this in this attempt you cleared Yeah, super Okay, I came to know that you got 193 marks in the interview. It is way above average Congrats for that. Thank you. How did you achieve this mark? Actually, I attended in winning mark interviews. Okay, I even in a shanker I attended the mark interview Okay, mark interview has helped me a lot in a different kind of situations. Yeah, because I Personal test is more about our personality. Yeah So they gave me a different suggestions to improve our gestures and then languages Okay, and then how to approach the questions and then different situations So it helped me a lot to even put my in a different difficult situations as we okay So I think it is the one of the reason to get good marks. Okay. You said you Took a guidance from Shankara's Academy interview panel. How did it help you in your interview? Real interview in the UPSC. Yeah Because here I got a questions from the different perspective of my journey Even in an agricultural Sociological aspect of science and technology and my family background and the technological aspects So this diversity of questions helped me a lot to face any kind of questions in a real interviews. Okay So I think this is the one of the This is the one situation which helped me a lot. Super nice. I came to know that you have given Problems and mains Test series and classes and Shankara's Academy. How does that benefit you in your preparation and in the final examination? I started in 2018. Okay. I started my preparations in my college Finally, yeah, okay in that scenario. I have to come classes on Saturdays and Sundays Okay, so I'm just rich of Saturday and Sundays is filled with the UPSC preparation Yeah, so I gave the problems test here is here. Okay. The problems test series here is like The different questions like we could not expect what will come in the brilliance brilliance is like a nightmare We don't know what will come and what will not there is this code That they say everything under the Sun will be asked So this question helped me a lot to face any kind of questions. So I Residue the question from history quality geography. Now all these objects are so I have some kind of predictions Oh, okay, this kind of questions we may expect in the real situations So I think it may helpful for me in my problem's test. Okay. How about the mains? Yeah, even in my mind, so the correction is this actually one thing which helps me a lot Okay, how to improve my answers and then how to improve my the languages of my answers So I think it helps me a lot to improve my answers. Okay. What is your optional sociology sociology? Okay? Would you say that? Taking sociology as an optional helped you increase your main main smarts or would you recommend? Other students to take sociology as an optional. Yeah, it's because Sociology is not just a subject. It is like a society. We are living in. Okay. You're saying it's not more technical Yeah, it's more of a technical, but it's partially it is also very normal when we are experiencing our life Because we phase our questions from family system, caste system, religion. So it'll be easy to understand. Yeah, it is easy to understand Even the first paper you are facing I think us you have to read it from the textbook perspective in our first paper But in our second paper it is more about Indian sociology Indian society. So actually we are living in that society So we we capable to easily understand what the concepts because we know what is family what is caste what is religious So we have to learn from the technological perspective in sociology people So I think even it helped me in our interview panels as well because they asked the questions from Sociology related questions and then society related questions. Okay, so it helps me a lot. Okay, let's go Let's dig some of your Preparation techniques. How did you prepare like would you sit eight in the morning until? It is not like that. Actually, I usually wake up at 8 30 to 9 9 o'clock. I started my preparations around 10 10, okay It goes till two o'clock two o'clock and you'll have the lunch and then after I started my Newspaper it is one of the very important for you pairs of preparation Because the most of the prelims mains and the need of you the question is derived out of what is happening in and around us Yeah, so I think newspaper is is the first and foremost thing in our paper as a preparation So two to four it goes for a three to four. Okay, let me stop you there for a moment How much time will you take to read a newspaper? Yeah, actually I'm coming from Tamil medium school background for initial periods It takes nearly four hours for four hours. Okay in 2018 times and then after 2020 It comes to one and a half hours or two hours depends on the news people But in 2020 when it comes around one hour one hour 15 minutes So it is actually practice makes the man perfect. Okay, yeah, sure And how will you make notes like would would you? Maintain a separate note for the subjects and the current affairs and how was it? Yeah, I usually take notes from newspapers. Okay During my afternoon the newspaper be time two to three to four I take a note out of it for a prelims and then mains even for a mains I don't take that as a full stretch notes. Okay, just to make a point of just a topic Yeah, okay, just of the topic. So after when I studied it from the mains perspective I will get detailed things about it. Just I make a note of the topic And even in a prelims I take a note out of it That is even and till my interview preparations. I take a note from news people. Oh super nice So that helped you a lot. Would you revise it from your notes after before each and every examination? Yeah, sure because I revised before prelims and then before mains. Yeah, I did it. Okay. Thank you for sharing information with us And Finally, would you share your strategy or some of the tips or pointers for the viewers? Actually, there is a no strategy adults because every individual is the different persons everyone have the different timetables and the different sleeping time and the different studying true. True. Yeah I usually wake up at 9 or 8 30 to 9. Okay. Some people even studied at the 4 o'clock. Yeah. Different people have the different strategies So I think there is a no single strategy will help in the UPS. Okay So we have to learn that we have to clear UPS means we have to give our full potential. That's enough. Okay So coming from Tamil medium How was it give some pointers for the Tamil medium students also? Yeah, actually For a Tamil medium students we have to Uh Give some extra push towards our preparations compared to our English medium students Because they are already know the the terminal the technical birds and the terminologies in English But we are new to this field. So we have to give some extra push. They are studying for four hours When we have to study for five hours. So this is the thing we have to Do in our initial preparations because in my 2018 and the 19 days I give this but after the 2020 I accustomed with that. Oh, super. So this is the normal thing because everyone from Tamil medium will face this So give some extra push towards your English and the terminologies and the technical words Then it will be automatically easy for you. Okay. Thank you so much, Anjali and Galeta And you will be like an inspiration for all the students out there who haven't cleared yet And thank you and hope You have a bright future ahead. Thank you. Thank you so much


How's it going everybody, Dato Doi here with another Dragon Ball FighterZ video and today I wanted to talk to you all about Final Round 2018. If you're unfamiliar with what that is, Final Round is a big tournament for all sorts of fighting games and one of the biggest ones there this year was Dragon Ball FighterZ. The tournament itself recently concluded and it served as Dragon Ball FighterZ's first big major. And the main reason I wanted to make this video today is because of how much I ended up enjoying the thing. And it wasn't just me either, it's clear that a lot of people in the fighting game community and the Dragon Ball FighterZ community really did enjoy watching this unfold. The game took the second highest number of viewers right next to Street Fighter V, which is almost not even a fair comparison as Street Fighter V is a pro tour, so that game has a pro circuit that a lot of people want to tune into and see. And that's not to say that I don't want Dragon Ball FighterZ to have a pro tour, on the contrary I think it would be very good for competition as seen with Street Fighter V, but it is hard to deny that there's something special about a fighting game not having a pro tour and having the event stand on its own to settle rivalries and to just plain old see who's the best at the game. I think there's something so bare bones about it that really captured my attention. It felt like people were there because they just enjoyed the spectacle of the game and watching people who are really good at it compete to see who's number one. Usually with a pro tour you don't really get that feeling. Yeah, sure somebody won't win an event, but usually when people discuss it online it's oh whatever that's one event he got this many points. We'll see what happens at the real final. And obviously it doesn't always have to be that way, but that's what it started to feel like to me. Of course all of these feelings of Dragon Ball Fighters at Final Round were amplified by just the insane amount of crazy moments that happened at this thing. I mean if you were to read the events that unfolded during this tournament you would think that somebody wrote down the script to an FGC movie or something. You've got the reigning champ in the United States Sonic Fox going up against the legendary Goichi. This rivalry was so hyped up within the community that they participated in a first to 10 exhibition match.  The top 8 was also full of these crazy performances, but again Goichi and Sonic Fox met again in the grand finals with Sonic Fox on the winner's side this time. Meaning Goichi would have to take him down twice. After a 3-0 bracket reset, the real fight was just beginning.  Oh my god! That was actually godlike! That was actually godlike! It's unreal! And all sorts of different things. And when the game was on the line 2-1 in Goichi's favor, this happened. 3 more! Hold me speed! 3 more! I'm sorry. Oh god, I'm sorry. Alright, he got to mix up. 1 mix up. Wake up D.P. You got to mix up. 1 mix up. The crowd was on their feet, everybody was going wild and then when the camera cut back to the audience you can see that they were doing a spirit bomb for Sonic Fox. This isn't really too important but it does show one of my favorite parts about this tournament that was highlighted. And that's the community. People at home were getting very invested making a ton of jokes online and it was super funny to just scroll through my timeline and see what jokes people were making. For example, one of my favorites was that Nakiel was one of the people giving his energy in the spirit bomb and he tweeted out after he got eliminated, Sonic Fox take my energy. Of course, if you watch Super, somebody compared this to Vegeta getting eliminated and giving his last energy to Goku, which I really enjoyed. It's cool to see those references being applied to tournaments and I think that's what makes Dragon Ball Fighter special. But then of course it was 2-2 down to the final game, Goichi vs Sonic Fox and it was an intense match. And Goichi took it in the end, which I think is better for the health of the game as Sonic Fox had been dominant here for so long that I think people were starting to get the idea that he couldn't be beaten, that he had seen something in this game that nobody else had seen yet. And clearly that's not entirely true. He has weaknesses too and the great part about him is that he's so good he also showed some of Goichi's weaknesses. Goichi even going on to say in Twitter that Sonic Fox had the best offense he had ever played against. Overall, this event served to give the community something to rally behind and see what Dragon Ball Fighter's competitive scene had to offer. And I think this tournament did a fantastic job at showing just that. If you haven't watched Final Round yet, there will be links in the description to go do so and I highly advise you go check them out. Even if you don't think you're that into tournament play, I really do think you should check out Grand Finals at least. If you want to discuss the craziness that was Final Round, please feel free to do so in the comments below. I'll be down there as always. And once again, I would like to thank my Patreons who make these videos possible. I really do owe you guys a lot. I'm Dr. Doia and I'll see you in the next one.