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- You know, human nature is to,

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when you don't know somebody,

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it's very easy to demonize them.

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But when you know somebody, you're a lot more forgiving.

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Anybody else?

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Everybody have a worksheet?

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Well, this class started in 1993,

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^in November of 1993, and I only remember that

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'cause that's the year my wife and I got married.

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You meet such a broad, diverse spread

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of local residents of Okinawa.

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And with so many perspectives, life experience, story.

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When else are you gonna be able to sit down,

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in a class, and be able to teach English

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to somebody who's 70 years old?

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(classroom chatter)

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When you talk to somebody like this, a native speaker,

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it helps you to understand the flow of a conversation

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that a book can't tell you.