In contrast to what often happens when you talk to random people on the street (which is that everything typically ends up coming down to a need for your money), the deaf kids that Jenna met this week were different. Many of them have trouble finding work, but some have managed to find a niche selling these large funeral flower arrangements by the side of the main road into town. She spent hours talking to them when she first met them, we visited their school yesterday and she went back to the school again today to talk to the administration.
A little background before the video: there’s a project UNICEF is doing called “Our Stories” which is an attempt to get all kinds of stories from people all over the world on video and then put them up on the internet. Why? For posterity’s sake, I guess. For those of you that are familiar with Story Corps (which airs on NPR once a week), it’s done in conjunction with them and is similar in its mission.
Anyway, my idea was that a fun way of doing this would be to ask people to tell a joke or a story that they thought was funny or would make their friends laugh. Jenna, running with the idea, asked one of the kids to tell a funny story. This is what he came up with:
[this is my weak translation — not Jenna’s]
