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This is Episode 1: Leaving Home

Shane: Can you just introduce yourself by name in …what is your first language?

This is Episode 2: A Day in the Life

Let’s begin with a visualization exercise.

Picture a school you attended. Or, maybe you’re in it right now. ..

This is Episode 3: What Did You Expect?

Selena: Well, since I was little I didn't really realize how much America was really involved in the conflict at the time. I know, you know later on, I realized like how Bill Clinton helped resolve the war and how he stepped in and why the war actually ended…

This is Episode 4: First Day

Have you ever been the new kid? I don’t mean first day of kindergarten or college, where everyone is new. I mean the kind of new kid where your classmates already know where they’re going to sit in the cafeteria at and you don’t…

This is Episode 5: The Great Equalizer

Selena: The thing that I think is most different than in American schools is we didn't really have a lot of standardized testing. Whenever they tested us you would have to stand up, you would go in front of the class, you would be asked questions, and you would have to answer them…

This is Episode 6: Behave! 

This episode of Points In Between explores the relationship between students and the people on the other end of the equation at school: their teachers. You’ll hear stories about how students and teachers interact with each other in classrooms here and in places around the world.

This is Episode 7:  Me In English

Here’s a simple question: What is the most widely spoken language in the world?

Before you answer, let me play you something…

This is Episode 8: Here And There

Let’s begin with this:

XuHui: I've… surprisingly find that the people here seems to be more happy about their job. I mean, yeah even the bus driver are happy about their jobs. I mean, I don't think that's the situation in China. In… basically in China we never say thank you [laughs] after we get off the bus, but here I heard some other people say that. And…yeah, it's really a good way to show appreciation and show respect to everyone who has served you. No matter what you are, who you are, and no matter who he is. This kind of a relationship shows a spirit of equal[ity]. ..

This is Episode 9: Friends And Family 

Shiraj: I used to watch movies. So I kind of expected as everyone to be friendly but that was like…the wrong expectation. I mean, OK there are people [who are] friendly but to mingle with them you need to like… the chemistry… you need…It's hard to find people who had the same chemistry as you. ..