The Icing on the Cake from StoryCorps on Vimeo.
Worth checking out if you haven't already - StoryCorps, from National Public Radio in the US. If you don't know about them, they have been traveling around the country gathering stories from anyone that wants to record them for the last ten years or so. Their web site has lots of really great interviews of ordinary people talking about important moments in their lives.
The story above, about, among other things, a mom making a sacrifice so that her daughter could get an education, really resonates with my students, as many of them are in college only because their parents have migrated to the big cities in the east of China to find jobs to support their families. I'll probably be showing more of these, as they are a pretty good window into American culture, and what connects us as humans in general...
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