earnest brown, our clinical director, and helen parker and jessica cohen. the students who are here with me are austin, peter, and hugo. as a first-year student at our school, we are required to find and pursue a learned interest. you are -- we have -- [inaudible]. cognitive reasoning and social reasoning which is social studies and history, communication which is learning how to express our ideas and lastly personal qualities which is what you came and did over the year. at this time i'd like to hand it over to elena vasquez to talk about her interests. >> good evening, everyone. my name is elena and i'm 17 years old. i've been attending p.b.c. for two months and this is my first exhibition on comparing honduras with san francisco after only three weeks. after completing my essay comparing san francisco and honduras, i became more interested in the culture and history of honduras. i want to learn about pre-colonial times in honduras and how things have changed from then until this present day. one of the things that affects people in honduras is a fever. i