Home in a Lunchbox

0:00This is Belie, one network, every topic, everywhere. Okay, our friends. So today we are going to read stories for those of you who are heading to school or to some sort of outing where you will need to take food in a lunch box. Have you ever taken food in a lunch box someplace? It's nice because you can take something that you have made at home and put it into the lunch box. And then wherever you go, whenever you take that food out, it's like you're eating a meal at home, maybe with your family at the table. At least that's the idea. And it's kind of nice to know that wherever you've got that food, it reminds you of your family, doesn't it? So today we're going to read a story called Home in a Lunch Box. This was written by Cherry Mole and it is read today by Mommy.

1:03And... I'm sorry, was that math kid? Are you the math kid? Yeah. Do you like math? That's so cool. I like math too. What's your favorite part of math? I'm doing a multiplication track. A multiplication. That's the best. Oh, you just wait until you get into algebra. You're going to love it. Well, at least I think you. Can you like algebra? I like algebra so much. I took it twice. Yeah. Algebra aside. Let's read a book. This one is called Home in a Lunch Box. Here we go. So in the picture we can see it's Monday. And we see a little girl and she's waiting at the bus stop. And she sees another little girl who says, hello! And she returns around and says, hello!

2:05Mm-hmm. And it looks like maybe she's not sure about that word. And she's holding up her hand and in her hand we can see there are words written in English. In ink on her hand. And the words are, hello! Thank you! And I don't know. And we can see that they're written in two languages. The other girl at the bus stops continues. And she says, what's your name? And our girl looks at her hand and she doesn't know how to reply. And so she says, thank you! What? They get into the bus. And the friendly girl who'd walked up the red-headed girl sits with some friends. And the girl who had the writing on her hand, she sits alone on the bus.

3:06She walks out of the bus alone. She walks into school alone. She walks through the corridors and sits down with her pencil on her. And oh no! There is a piece of paper that the teacher gives to her. It says, get to know you. And it has a bunch of questions. What's your favorite color? What's your favorite subject? What's your favorite sport? What's your favorite food? And the only thing she knows to write is, either, hello! Thank you! Or I don't know. And so she writes, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. And she's very alone. But now it's lunchtime. And all the kids are eating their pizza or whatever they've served at the school cafeteria. And our girl opens up her lunch box and when she does.

4:06Oh, my friends. The love that pours out of that lunch box. It's like fireworks. She can see being in the kitchen with her mom and cooking. She can see the delicious food that her parents have prepared for her. And the fun that she's had with her brother and her sisters and all of her friends. Enjoying yummy foods. At the end of the day, the school day is over. And the kids are all going their separate ways. And we see the friendly girl from the very beginning look back over her shoulder. As our girl runs home and hugs her mom. It wasn't a very good first day, was it? Well, the next day, here she is again, standing in line for the bus. She climbs into the bus, sits by herself.

5:09Now our friendly girl sees her again and is wondering. She's got a new set of words on her hands today. And the words are toilet. You're welcome. And of course, I don't know. But there's something interesting here. The kids are talking. But what are they saying? The kids in her classroom are talking to her. But what are they saying? You don't know? Why don't you know? Because it's just your inch, ribble. It's gobbling gook. It's all scribbles. She doesn't understand what they're saying. Do you know why she doesn't understand what they're saying? She doesn't speak that language. Oh yeah. She speaks a different language, the language that's written there on her hand. But she's trying. She puts her hands up and says, Toilet.

6:09Which is her saying, can I go to the bathroom, right? Oh, she comes home feeling just miserable. There's another clue here in the art about what's going on. We can see boxes full of stuff. They must have just moved in. They just moved in from a different country. So on Wednesday, here we are again. And she is trying really hard to fit in. Everyone else has come and stood up for the morning eye pledge allegiance to the flag. They're doing the allegiance, a pledge of allegiance. And she does not know how to pronounce those words. She does not understand what's going on. She puts her hand the way everyone else is. And she I put a it's hard. But lunch is full of love. On Thursday, wow.

7:13You she's trying to say something nice to the kid next to her. But he doesn't understand her. That's pretty frustrating too, don't you think? But lunch is full of love. On Friday, they're all playing out at recess. And she's alone. But lunch is full of love. On Monday, we're right back at it. There are those kids having all these conversations all around her and all of their conversations to her are. A little girl. A little girl. And she feels so shut out by all of them. But when she sits down for lunch, what happens? She comes alive with a delicious food from her family. And look, in this picture, that friendly red-headed girl

8:17has come up and looked over her shoulder and sees her eating this yummy food with the delicious smells. And she puts her hand on her shoulder. And her girl looks up surprised. Hello! Says the friendly girl again. That looks good. And what does our girl do? She offers her a big old bite. She hands a bow bun over to her. Here you go. And the other kids at the table are seeing this. And another kid hands over a piece of pizza. And so now everybody is trying their cheeseburgers or tacos or the bow and then there's spaghetti and there's rice and there's a big old mix of stuff. And everyone is trying new foods. And they say, hmmm. Thank you.

9:17June. We can see a hard lunch box has her name on it. This belongs to June. Thank you, June. I'm Rose. Juan. Daniel. Thank you, Rose. Juan. Daniel. Says June. And so now they all know her name. And she has learned their names. Rose. And guess what? When they all go home, they get to play together. And they go right into June's home, which has now been set up. The boxes are no longer sitting around. And June's mom has made delicious food for everyone. Oh, yummy, yummy. And so there's delicious recipes here at the end of this book that tell you what are in these yummy foods. And if you would like to learn what this language was that she had written on her hand,

10:23at the end of this book, the language that's written on her hand, Cantonese, is translated for you. So you can see what the English word is. And you can see what the written word is in Cantonese as well as the conversational word. So if you wanted to say hello in Cantonese, you can see how you would write it. And you can also see it's pronounced Nihao. Right? Thank you. Jeje, or bouge, you can see it written. And it's a fun way for us to learn. So a little bit about what that culture is like. And a little bit about what, how you can be friends with someone who maybe isn't from the same place that you are. And show kindness to them. So always be looking for someone who you can be kind to.

11:25Because you never know what wonderful things might come your way if you do. And you never want to be the person who is on the other side, not having anybody be kind to you. And that, my friend, is... Then, hope you can join us for another short tomorrow. Me too. You