. >> were they trying to be americans throop rahm? >> when you have kids coming from more than 45 countries you get a whole range of what it means to be american and to assimilate it people even want to assimilate and some of the students immediately started changing their dress and what we're designer jeans and converse sneakers. other kids from bangladesh continue to wear their head scarves which is a form of address that some of the girls were so it really dependent on the culture, how much they wanted to adjust. >> what was the kids reaction to your following them around and writing the story? >> most of the kids were very open. you know, i found the five kids i followed by asking their teachers when you go home at night who are students you can't stop thinking about and i got all sorts of different kids that we but for one teacher that was a chinese girl who was supposed to come look for her father after seven years of not seeing him. when she got to new york she found she was remarried and had two little boys with his new wife a