 Welcome to the curious rat show for curious kids of all ages, where there's always a song and no question is wrong. So welcome back. We're going to continue with a question we had last week. But Lyle, could you hold up our mascot? That's curious Giraffe, and he's the one who helps us think of questions if we can't think of them on our own. So he has a song that we learned last time, and we're going to sing together first, the song that we promised. Giraffe looked over at Eagle and said, why was I born to walk? Why were you born to fly? Eagle just shrunk and gave a high vibe. Hey, we all share one big sky. Oh yeah, you can stand up. Share one big sky. Share one big sky. Get in the world. A big high five. Yeah, we're different and we know what we all get along. Cause we can all share and we can all care. We're different but we all belong. Giraffe looked over at the people and said, why do some folks have plenty? Why do some not have enough? Couldn't they all just share their stuff like we all share one big sky? Oh yeah, share one big sky. Share one big sky. Give the world a big high five. Yeah, we're different and we know what we all get along. Cause we can all share and we can all care. We're different but we all belong. Thank you. All right, have a seat and I just want to review who is here today. My name is Dorothy and you are? My name is Monae. Lila. My name is Maxwell. And Xavier. Great and I'm so glad you could be here. And we have visited a question last week about that last verse. We have noticed that some folks have plenty, others have enough and sometimes more than enough. So we have invited a special guest today to help to answer some of our questions. Naz, I've invited Naz who works at the Amherst Survival Center. And Naz is my good friend. We have shared many, many years together with kids and with different work jobs and we used to even teach together for many years. So Naz, I'm going to give you my seat and I'll be back in a few minutes but you go ahead and talk to her about the questions you thought of last week. Hello children, thank you for inviting me and I'd love to answer your questions. So who's going to ask me the first question? I will. What do you do exactly? What do I do at the Survival Center? I cook once a week and then I'm also on the board and then when we do different activities I try and help them. So I volunteer basically at the center. What could you do to help? What could you do to help? That's a very good question. So each one of you could do a little food drive in your school. You could do with your parents and your neighbors. You could do a neighborhood food drive. So you could collect food or you could collect anything that you want and you would like to and then we can have you come and visit and give it to us. That would be wonderful. So think about it. My school makes pizzas and gives it away. Okay, that's a very good idea. So I see there's another question. So who's going to ask me the other question? We help the volunteers. That's right. And as I said you could do a food drive at home. That's what you could do. You could do something at your neighborhood. You could even come with your parents and then have a visit and see what you could do. And like we having right now a diaper drive. You all use diapers when you were infants and little ones. So you could help collect that. And then we've just started a summer drive for milk for school children when they're not receiving anything from school. So you could help with that also. And just talk to friends and just talk about how you can help and do things for people who have not what we have. Okay, Simone. Is it worth it to the community? It certainly is worth it to the community because we are so fortunate. We have a good home. We have warmth. We have clothes. We have food. But there are a lot of people in our community in Amherst and the surrounding areas that don't have the same as we do. So we need to share. And the feeling that you get by sharing is wonderful. So just try. Even a smile is how you can help out. Okay. How many places are like that in Massachusetts? I don't know about how many places but the Amherst Survival Center is really unique because it's just not a food pantry. We give fresh produce every day. We have clothing and books and toys for all ages. We have a food pantry that people can come and take groceries for the whole month. We have hot lunch that we serve every day except Wednesdays and then on Thursdays we have a family night for pizzas and movies. Then we have a department that, you know, if you don't have health insurance then we can help you get the health insurance. Then we have housing. We've got all kinds of different things. So I think the Amherst Survival Center is really unique because it looks at people and offers them everything that they need to live with, not just food and clothing, but you need a house. You need all kinds of different services. So we provide that. Okay, so... How do you decide what to cook? Oh, that's a very good question. So on Mondays when I go there in the morning I look around and they've already delivered food from the local grocery stores that they have donated the farmers in the summer donate us a lot of food and then restaurants do and so whatever we have we make food for about 100 people. But we have to make sure that we have choices for vegetarians, for choices for people who eat meat and chicken and fish. We have three kinds of different vegetables that we have to cook, brown and white rice and desserts. So we have... And we have to make sure that we cook enough for about 100 people. And then we serve at 12 noon. So thank you so much. That's wonderful questions. And I look forward to seeing you on a Monday. Come with your parents and friends and share lunch. Thank you so much, Naz. You're welcome. I'm definitely going to try to get there on a Monday. May I ask what are the hours that you're open? The hours are from 11 to 3 every day except Wednesdays. And on Thursdays 11 to 7. So do come and let me know and come to Dorothy and I will make sure that I cook something special for you. Oh, we would love to see you there. Thank you. Thank you, Naz. So much. Bye. Thank you. All right. Now I just remembered that three of you had a chance to work at another place called Not Bread Alone that also helps provide meals in Amherst. Would you like to tell us a little bit about that? I think when they would like to tell someone about it. I went and I helped every month for just one day. Or whenever they ended up meeting it. And you go there and you cook and you make the... And you make mob and stuff afterwards when they're all finished. You cook and you make your own foods and it's a whole lot of fun to do. And you feel really happy that you're serving a lot of people and that they like the food. Great. And I assume do you put on plastic gloves? Do all the volunteers wear gloves when they cook? You have to... Sometimes when the food is not cooked but it's going to be. You can put one if it's not cooked but if you're in the middle of cooking it you have to put gloves on. It's very safe if you would. I think they do that wherever they cook food. And did you get to meet some people you wouldn't have otherwise met by working there? I love that. That's one of the things I've enjoyed both at the Amherst Survival Center and at Not Bread Alone. So did you have one more idea? I actually met a woman there and I think she might be teaching us some yoga sometime and teaching us how to cook some Indian food. Great. And whatever is left over from the meal you get to eat. So it's very rewarding in ways. It's also very fun because like normally you would expect to see a lot of adults which you do. But there's kids there that I associate with and it's really fun. That's great. Well maybe I'll see you there sometime. Cool. All right. I also, before we move on I wanted to tell you that I was thinking a little bit after our last program and I thought about ways to share that are not about things or food things like sharing time together sharing a joke sharing a love or a hug sharing. Anything else? Can you think of anything else? Kindness. Sharing kindness. Yes. Clothing. What? Clothing. Sharing your clothing. Yes. Yes. Go ahead. Money. Money. It is wonderful to give a portion to help others. Yes. You may want to help people out by renting out a house but like if someone's or you might want to give them a discount or you might want to do it free just because you're being kind and give them a nice place to stay and whatever they might need to be provided for. You have a generous open heart. I love your ideas. All right. My mom, sometimes when she goes to pay why or why not because we live anywhere she pays for the person she pays a couple of dollars for the person ahead and she says and she pays for that person to tell them and then the person who's the cashier is like don't worry that woman paid for your stuff. Wow. What a generous example and heart. That is a great idea. You can share a game of basketball. There you go. Other people sometimes I like to invite them to play at like baseball. Normally it's usually like toss but if I have my kickball and we get a smashing game of kickball go I'm literally smashing. A kickball game too. That's a great idea. Anybody else before we take our halfway stretch I'm going to give you a minute. Yes. Aurelia? Share food. You can share food. Yes. To everyone. I know because I have an older sister. A little louder. We have to share like my mom will cook a meal for all of us and sometimes she makes like less of one thing so we have to split it evenly. Exactly. And you can have a little less but if you split it you all get to enjoy it. Yeah. That's great. Yes. I got two things you could share. Medicine or if it's if it's the same kind of medicine. You have to be careful with medicine. And a kidney or two. Wow. Okay. I know it sounds funny but that is a very, very generous thing when someone needs that and that's only been in the more recent times that science has had the capacity to do that. So that's very generous. Okay. Let's take one more comment and then we'll move on. Yes. I just recently read a novel in fiction by Patricia Malachlan. Yes. And this boy shares his eyes. Really? It's really sad because he dies and then their families donates his eyes. Okay. That's crazy. It's hard to imagine and it's a wonderful gift when you're not going to be able to use them. These are big ideas you all have. Thank you. Okay. Monet, I think we better move on so we can. All right. So let's stand up and have our stretch, our exercise. Be careful of your own body space. Okay? Exercise your body. Exercise your mind. Learn about the world around and exercise time. Turn around and stretch this way. Exercise your body. Exercise your mind. Learn about the world. Think about people live way out this way and maybe stretch. Exercise your body. Exercise your mind. Learn about the world. Excellent. Have a seat. And I have my mystery box just to make you curious. It's in the box. And we have time for a story about this is a hint. It's the white buffalo. I thought it was a bison. And this is a picture of the white buffalo calf woman. Now this last time I told you an important story from the native people that help teach grown-ups and kids alike and elders when we forget sometimes to be generous. And this story is similar. In fact, the woman is very similar. One day when there had been a long, long drought which meant the plants couldn't grow. It was hard to find berries and it was hard to find animals for hunting. Two hunters went out from their village and they had to go quite a distance and they finally found a deer and they were roasting the deer and sure enough just like in the other story a beautiful, beautiful woman in a white buckskin dress seemed to float down from the clouds and she seemed to almost float across the ground toward them and they said, we would be most honored if you would share our meal with us. And she said, thank you. And then they said would you please come to our village we really would love our families to meet you. And she said, I will be there soon but you go ahead of me and call together the elders the youngsters, the babies the in-betweeners the men, the women the boys, the girls bring them all together because I have a gift for all of you. So they did they went back and they gathered everybody big and small. I will pass this but please hold it gently and pass it to your neighbor in a few minutes, okay? So she came and she carried the bundle that was a good example she carried a white bundle wrapped in buckskin in her arms and she went to the center of the circle and she bowed to the east and she bowed to the south and she bowed to the west and she bowed to the north and the people got quieter and quieter and they whispered to each other what's she doing? Why is she doing that? What's in her arms? And finally she set down her bundle and uncovered it and lifted up an object that they had never seen before and hers had a little bowl right on the end and she said, my friends I know it's hard when there's not much to go around but as this hoop shows you we are all connected the people of the east and the south and the west and the north and what is good for one is good for all and what is hard for one is hard for all so my gift to you this day is a pipe to put the grasses of the field to smoke and send out blessings to all enough for all and I urge you that if you share what you have you'll discover there is enough for all and my blessing will be upon you so I present this please take good care of it and it will remind you of my message so the people said, oh oh we just love how we feel when you're nearby won't you please stay with us and she said, I must village visit other villages but I will always hold you in my heart so they followed her to the edge of the woods and they saw her go into the grasslands into the plains and all of a sudden she seemed to fall and they went, oh and she rolled and when she stood up again she had transformed into a brown buffalo and she ran a little more and she rolled again and was black she rolled again and she rolled one more time and she became white as the clouds above and that was the last that they saw of her but the people say that when a white buffalo is born that she brings hope of unity and peace to all and so the white buffaloes are very very special and they're a sign of hope yes they are rare and I think the one that was most recently born was born in 2012 and it was born in Goshen, Connecticut right in our part of the United States many years ago I visited a white buffalo named Miracle who was living in the southwest United States and there had been many colored flags and plants and offerings to her from people who believed she was a sign of hope so yes so that's part legend and part a story that we know is true so I thought I would share that with you so I will pass that around too can you pass on the white buffalo okay so I thought I'd teach you a song about sharing dancing and singing because all of those things are free and we can share with each other anytime we want so it starts out and now all people can dance join in the best that you can as you catch on and now all people can dance set their mighty souls free and now all people can dance release love synergy and now all people can dance they are you they yes no matter dance and now sing now all people can sing set their mighty souls free and now all people can sing release love synergy and now all people can sing they yes no matter want our background we said we're friends and sing nice and cheer now all people can share set their mighty souls free and now all people can share release love synergy and now all people can share and share we can dance we can sing and we can share you caught on very quickly so I want to say thank you to all of you and this is my little thank you gift to you oh thank you are you passing those back such good care and you pass them around everybody had a turn very nice so I made a little gift for you with a curious giraffe you'll each get a little booklet to write down you can write down when you notice someone sharing or when you wish someone shared or if you have some new ideas of things you wonder about and that you hope someday we'll have a chance to talk about sing about or hear a story so these are for you to keep but you can bring them back to me another time so he's cute so I left it so you could color in the little bow tie alright so can you set them down we need to say goodbye to our friends who joined us today so thank you for joining us on the curious giraffe show we hope to see you again and if you notice sharing or where you wish there was sharing or if you have a question that you hope we will sometimes look into and perhaps meet someone who knows more please write us at the address that you will see at the bottom of the screen so thank you we'll see you next time bye