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"i'm 22, get out of my way!"ae (calvin) she said you need to be selfish in a way, and you need to do what it is that you want so that when you settle down you're not gonna be regretful. that really spoke to me. (tina) thank you so much. (ves) op he oue writing anything on this.and yo, face, person with wings, done. [laughter] ♪ (vanessa) when we planned our trip we plann tgop plalpa, and then we found out that there was going to be a music festival in jersey city. so we decided to go to the music festival and try and talk to some people there.

♪ (tina) the interview that took me mo bsuri we e ux cae had seen interviews from them previously and they just seemed like a bunch of jokers. and so i was kind of like-- frdn kwwh texpect.ly and they just seemed (the knux) we never felt normal. we never could fit into the mold of the nine to five. we never could fit into society, 'cause we always went against the grain. always. we didn't understand why we always went against the grain. (tina) like once they sat down they were like, "oka ge se re. let me answer some questions like i usually do." and as soon as we told them where we were coming from you could just see it in their eyes. th rllwaedo eawith us and they really saw something different. (the knux) you know what it is? it's blindly following your gold. blindly. when i say blindly

i mean there's no questioning yourself. there's no thinking about if, you know... backup plan if i do... it's blindly following your gold. you gotta know wtyowa and say, "i got it already. i got it". you know what i mean? like, there's no "if i wanna get it...", or whatever." got it", y know whati mean? some people... it takes something dramatic happening. and sometimes it's like, you just wake up one day and say, "the (...) with it, m going to do it". you have to not be afraid of falling. what's worse? falling and hurting yourself, or never ever witnessing what you're capable of? (tina) thank you so much. (vanessa)before i went on this trip i was excited about all the things that i didn't know would come out of this trip, or i didn't know would happen. so many unexpectedthings di, and they're all really great. [crowd cheering] ♪

[engine failing] [frustratedly] i don't believe you. [disappointedly] oooh, look at that. (vanessa) calvin is just the best. he's just so good at, like, saving the day. and i know that and i just, like, let him do it rather than like trying to help out the situation myself. i'm really spoiled in my life and i always have this, like, man that takes care of me. like, my dad growing up, or in school just, like, a friend. try it again. i want to be the initiator for things in my life. (vanessa) no. well, we have a so... (vanessa) talking with all these people

and realizing that i'm the only one that can really push myself forward,,, and like, i just...i have to. (truck driver) you're the ones that need a jump-start? [engine starting] i'm really excited to go to philadelphia our last big urban city. (calvin) right now we're gonna go speak with daniela romero. (tina) wow, this is our last interview. i'm really excited to meet daniela romero because a woman who's working with trying to allow people to still have their culture with them but move into the american culture and feel welcome and warm-- i'm all for that. so i'm really excited to hear what she has to say. i'm ti. hi tina. nice to meet you.

(vanessa) where were you when you were our age, 22, 23? i was in chile. i was about to finish college. i have a bachelor's in linguistics, english linguistics, so i spoke english before i came here. and i was very disoriented, [laughs] so i can hear you. and at that time the only possibility, i'd say, that was offered to me was the teach english. and i realized that i liked teaching english but probably i didn't like to teach corporate executives and people who had a lot of money to afford english classes because english classes are very, uh...a luxury. um, so i said maybe teaching is not my thing. i knew that i wanted to travel, and i knew that i wanted to live in another country. so i wanted to live for a while. i didn't know it was going to be so long. [laughs] so how was it for you moving to the united states of america,

where it's really difficult to stay? yes, it was difficult. [laughs] it was difficult first of all because i didn't have papers. i overstayed my visa. i knew that i overstayed it, that was the purpose. and i thought, "okay, i'm going to find a job." it took me years to find a job. i was coming from the third world to the first world. it's like taking a tree and planting it in another land or another soil. it is very hard. i didn't get out of my apartment for about a year. i was trapped there and i didn't want to interact with anyone. i was in shock and i was afraid. people are very friendly here and they talk to you on the train and the line. i didn't want anyone to talk to me. i couldn't understand them. i spoke english,

but it's english in-- the english that i studied was in a country where nobody speaks english. so i did some jobs under the table. [sadly] and i always had the suitcases ready to go back. and then i came across this ad that they were looking for a coordinator in this place. we teach esl: english as a second language. i think that there are roads for you in life. and if you want to take a different road, life is always going to take you back to that one. for example, teaching for me. and as soon as i started teaching, i loved it. when i see their faces-- they work crazy hours. they have to work 60 to 90 hours, and they still come to class! some of them fall asleep in class because they just can't take it. when they say, "thank you for teaching me", and you know they really mean it.

they really mean it. and at the end you realize: yes, i'm giving something, but it's much more what i'm receiving. when you started working here and, especially with the experience of you coming to this country and having a really tough time, what was it like the first time somebody, a student, came to your classroom with that same fear in their eyes? or, do you deal with that very often? like, there's somebody that's-- i mean, do you feel like your experience has really helped you? um, hopefully. [laughs] it's very easy to feel sympathy for the person who doesn't have any documents and is struggling to find a job, uh, because i know what it's like. i think that it's very important to tell the person: "i know what you're talking about. "i'm not in this power position, "'okay, please tell me your problems and i'm gonna "'give you a solution.' i know what you're talking about because i went through the same".

um, so this is what helped me. maybe it can help you. (daniela) wow, it's... (tina) very bright. (daniela) it's very distinctive. [laughs] (daniela) listen to your hearts. listen to what your other intelligence is telling you. for some people it's very clear. but i'd say that for 90% of the population it's not! so i think that you have to listen to what your life wants to tell you, instead of you trying to tell your life what you want to do with it. and sometimes that's very hard. (calvin) this road trip really heightens that experience of actively wanting to get a new sense of who you are. (calvin) this road trip helps you develop a new sense of the world and what its possibilities are, so that when you go home, you have a better sense of home as well.

(tina) i had a wonderful childhood. like, amazing parents, but have really lived an extremely conventional life. like, i feel like that made me really nervous about, you know, doing something new. (tina) talking to the leaders that we talk to-- it really made me see that there's so many different ways to live and an infinite amount of ways to think as well. (tina) all these notions that i've held as, like, "tina" were really questioned. and in that i've realized i am more than the way i define myself as well. (tina) like, it's almost ridiculous that i've allowed myself to not achieve my dreams when i only have one shot at this life. like, there is really nothing holding me back. "don't forget you only have one shot at this life thing. "the only one stopping you from achieving your dreams is the one reading this."

(vanessa) talking to so many people on this trip, i mean-- no one said that they just sat around and someone, like, gave them this opportunity. no one really had it easy, but they all made it through. so, to know all these stories and then to still not go through with what your heart is telling you to go through with is...inexcusable. "let this trip help you to discover what you are capable of." (calvin) an expectation i came on the trip with was that i would know exactly where i wanted to go after this trip. but i'm leaving and i don't really have a definitive answer, and i'm okay with that. this road trip has left me with a lot more courage to move forward than i came with. that's small but i think that's really valuable.

"i pray for faith and courage. "faith that i am walking on the right path and courage when i experience fear or doubt." my rose for this trip has been realizing that america is so big. los angeles to san francisco, you can get there in a day and it doesn't seem far. but what i never knew is that there are a million experiences in-between those two places, and there are a million thoughts that you can think and a million definitions that can be added to who you are and how you see yourself in the world. it'd be really cool if your map wasn't in miles but it was in all the thoughts that you had. (vanessa) [excitedly] oh i see them!! oh my god! (calvin) there's the other group! [horn honking] [excitedly] aww! (vanessa) i saw them through the window. (tina) me too!

(calvin) look at, it's like our sister. here we go! [horn honking] [laughing] [singing she'll be comin' 'round the mountain ] (female #5) ♪ ...they'll be comin' 'round the mountain when they come. ♪ (vanessa) is that them? (calvin) yeah, that's them. [horn honking] (vanessa) ahh, that's so exciting! (female #6) and now it's like, the last shot, and we're all together. ♪ [teams cheering] (tina) how are you? (female #7) gosh, how was everyone's trips? (tina) amazing! (calvin) [sarcastically] it was okay... (vanessa) good! really good! [laughter] (calvin) what month is it? january, february, march...

[surprised] holy smokes. it's been eight months. when the roadtrip ended i came back to fort lauderdale. i knew that there was a lot of different directions i could go. but that didn't matter if i didn't just choose one and see where it led. right now i am working as a producer for a production company, and i'm in the process of buying a place of my own. i'm really excited to move on to this next step of my life. hello roadtrip nation! it's tina here. i'm actually reporting from here at kucr. i will be graduating in about three weeks. i'm still doing documentaries and actually finished one back in winter. i launched my little organization that i was starting called tentu.org. i'm actually planning on moving to the bay area to follow my dreams of doing documentary work or community building in the bay area. i think my parents are more worried than ever about me,

but, luckily, i just have to think back to the leaders and understand that this is totally normal, what i'm going through. (calvin) right after our road trip ended i realized i wasn't ready to make any serious life decisions, so i decided that i would keep traveling. then once i moved home, i moved in to my friend's cabin. when i got back it felt like everybody was in the same exact places that i left them. people would say, "what have you been up to? where have you been?" and i'd say, "well, i just traveled the u.s. with roadtrip nation, and we interviewed all these people and i developed some really great friendships." and they'd say, "oh, that's nice. i wish i could experience-- i wish i could do that. i wish i could... could just leave." and i always was saying, "you can...you can." (female #3) this summer my two best friends and i are going on a six-week roadtrip. (male #2) trying to get advice from people who we feel to be really influential. (female #3) this could be the opportunity

for all of us to figure it out. (female #4) i think it's just hard for me to be my own motivator. (male #2) i constantly feel like i'm spread way too thin with what i plan to accomplish. (male #3) it's not that i have to pick a course for my life, and i'd better get it right, right away. 'cause you can always back up and take a new fork. (female announcer) to watch more interviews from the road and listen to the music that keeps us driving, visit www.roadtripnation.com. online you can learn more about the movement and how to bring the experience into your classroom.

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