It's dark. It's pouring rain. I'm standing on the side of a lonely mountain highway in Japan.It's an hour to town by foot and I've missed my ride. A car pulls up. The passenger rolls down her window.Between her broken English and my few words of Japanese, a lot of gestures and smiles, we make it work. Her husband gets out of the car, opens the hatch for my pack. I slide in the back seat, muddy and wet.They drive me out of the rain, call ahead to my end, and drop me off as if it were nothing. No questions, n ...

Good morning everyone. Is everyone feeling okay. >> This is my first time public speaking.My name is Tam an I go to CIS and I'm in grade six. But before anything starts, I want to say thank you to all of the people that have helped me throughout this journey and I appreciate it a lot. Uh, back when I was in grade five, I was just a girl, I once spent my whole morning doing and fixing my hair, making sure it was just as perfect as it could be.But the moment I stepped into a school building, a friend of mine ...