["maestra" left untranslated]

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One of my friends posted this video on Facebook:

Chichos and Maria will probably be able to understand what all she's saying better than me (my one semester of Spanish is not much help here) but from what I've read [Japanese only: (English link, sorry guys)], it's a kindergarten teacher keeping her class calm with a singalong while there's a freaking gunfight going on outside.

I'm lucky enough to have grown up in a fairly safe city. When I went to school, we just had fire and earthquake drills, not shoot out drills like this kindy apparently has. The most dangerous thing I've ever really faced is a digimon invasion when I was eight. If it happened again now, or if there was a gunfight right outside my campus, I'd be scared out of my mind, in a different way from if the city got flooded again: No one can control a natural disaster, but you kind of know someone's behind a digimon attack or a drug war and could try to stop it. Either way, I'd be too scared to really think of anyone else.

Maestra Alanis was scared and still had the strength of mind to try and help her students. I only wish I could be as brave as her. (Or date a girl as brave as her, in the hopes that it will rub off on me. :)