In our very first episode, we introduce ourselves and share a bit about our journey. We dive into our experiences with school life, the excitement of joining chorus, and the process of preparing for All-State auditions. Get to know us as we set the stage for what’s to come in this exciting new podcast! Tune in for a fresh perspective, fun stories, and a taste of what to expect in future episodes.
[00:00:00] Welcome to another episode of The V Word Podcast. We are your hosts. I am Ramola. I'm Delilah. I'm Gabby. I'm Amelia. And please do support us and enjoy. Let's go around and say our names because this is like the first podcast we've ever done. So my name is Ramola. I'm in seventh grade and I'm 13 years old.
[00:00:29] My name is Delilah. I'm in sixth grade and I'm 11 years old.
[00:00:34] I'm Gabby. I'm also in sixth grade. I'm also 11.
[00:00:37] I'm also in sixth grade. I'm also 11.
[00:00:44] What does everyone like to do?
[00:00:52] So I play basketball. I also do musical theater.
[00:00:58] That's good. I've actually, I've only acted like once.
[00:01:02] I think it was for the Boys and Girls Club and we did like a play. I didn't really understand it.
[00:01:07] But it was something about, I don't remember the name, but it was, it was fun though. It was a fun like experience.
[00:01:13] Yeah.
[00:01:16] I like to do like, I like to sing and do like random stuff around my house.
[00:01:25] Like anything I find, I'll just make a craft out of it.
[00:01:29] I like to, I like literally all I do after school is hang out with my friends.
[00:01:35] Yeah.
[00:01:36] So what are your like, your least favorite things about school and like your most favorite things about school?
[00:01:44] Anyone can go first.
[00:01:46] Um, my least favorite thing about school is the actual schoolwork.
[00:01:53] Oh, real.
[00:01:54] Uh, it's good, it's good.
[00:01:58] And then your most?
[00:02:00] I'm just gonna like, my most favorite thing is the not schoolwork part.
[00:02:04] So like your friends and stuff?
[00:02:06] Yeah.
[00:02:06] Yeah.
[00:02:06] And lunch.
[00:02:08] Yeah.
[00:02:08] Lunch, totally. Lunch.
[00:02:10] Y'all love lunch.
[00:02:14] Um, so my least favorite thing about school is probably like going into that one class where everyone's just getting in trouble.
[00:02:22] Where everyone's just getting in trouble for no reason.
[00:02:25] But sometimes there is a reason.
[00:02:27] But like you just walk in, like it's been a good day.
[00:02:29] You've had a good day.
[00:02:30] It's last period.
[00:02:31] And then everyone just like starts getting in trouble.
[00:02:35] Called out.
[00:02:36] Like, yeah.
[00:02:37] It just ruins you.
[00:02:38] It just ruins the rest of the day.
[00:02:40] And it's also last period too.
[00:02:42] Yeah.
[00:02:42] Like.
[00:02:42] How about you?
[00:02:43] Um, my favorite part about, I mean my least favorite part is basically same as Gabby.
[00:02:51] And my favorite part is probably like course and lunch.
[00:02:54] Yeah.
[00:02:55] Just walking in the hallways.
[00:02:57] Yeah.
[00:02:57] Yeah.
[00:02:58] Um, my least favorite thing about school probably like those like times when like you get like homework back to back like every single night.
[00:03:08] And you're like, just give me a break.
[00:03:10] I want to like hang out with my friends.
[00:03:13] Or like, yeah, exactly.
[00:03:14] Have a break.
[00:03:15] Yeah.
[00:03:15] And like my favorite thing about school probably like just seeing my friends in general.
[00:03:22] And just like hanging out with them while they're going to like my favorite classes.
[00:03:26] And yeah.
[00:03:27] It's pretty much my favorite thing.
[00:03:30] Like it's five days of school.
[00:03:32] So I shouldn't have 14 things to do for homework.
[00:03:35] Yeah.
[00:03:36] Like that's just not.
[00:03:37] No.
[00:03:38] Okay.
[00:03:39] So.
[00:03:43] No, the other thing.
[00:03:44] The other thing is with like the homework is like you, there's five days of school.
[00:03:49] I'm taking my Chromebook home today because I've unfinished classwork doing homework over the weekend that you know I'm going to put off to the last minute.
[00:03:57] Like just don't.
[00:03:59] No, because I've done that so many times.
[00:04:00] And I'll be like literally rushing.
[00:04:01] Like this morning, um, I did my homework for science.
[00:04:05] But there was like these three questions I didn't understand.
[00:04:08] And I didn't do it.
[00:04:09] So I was like, I'll just do it later.
[00:04:11] So then I literally had that period, the first period.
[00:04:14] And I was in home room.
[00:04:15] I was sitting next to my friend.
[00:04:17] I was like, I need to see your work.
[00:04:19] And I was like, I need to see your work for these three days.
[00:04:21] He was like, why do you want to see my work?
[00:04:23] Because I was like, because I didn't do this.
[00:04:25] I literally need to do this.
[00:04:26] And I was panicking because like that class was the first class.
[00:04:30] And I was just, I mean, sometimes it's good.
[00:04:32] But like most of the time, it's just like very stressful.
[00:04:34] That always happens to me, especially with math.
[00:04:38] Oh, yeah.
[00:04:39] That was me last night.
[00:04:41] I had to do my math homework this morning during science, like real quick.
[00:04:48] And then I forgot about my other homework.
[00:04:50] So I was just like, uh, I'll just tell the teacher that I left at home.
[00:04:56] Yeah.
[00:04:57] Nothing is worse than being in that class and like looking at your homework,
[00:05:01] being like, oh, yeah, I totally did this.
[00:05:03] Because like you'll like write like the math problem down.
[00:05:07] And you realizing that you didn't answer it.
[00:05:11] Like correctly.
[00:05:11] This happened to me too many times.
[00:05:16] And the thing I hate, like my math class makes us have like binders of what we put our stuff in.
[00:05:22] And what I hate, I usually put it in the same pocket literally every single day.
[00:05:26] Today, I couldn't find it in that one pocket.
[00:05:28] So I had to check the other pocket.
[00:05:30] But I was flipping out.
[00:05:31] Only checked in the one pocket.
[00:05:33] Because I knew I put it in there.
[00:05:34] But I guess I didn't.
[00:05:35] So I'm just like flipping everywhere.
[00:05:37] I'm like flipping out.
[00:05:37] I couldn't find it.
[00:05:38] And then I looked in the other pocket.
[00:05:39] And it was the first thing in there.
[00:05:41] I have a question for everyone.
[00:05:43] What is like one class that like, it's not that like you're failing, but like it's your lowest grade.
[00:05:50] And like what's the hardest thing about that class?
[00:05:54] I'm not going first.
[00:05:55] I'll go first.
[00:05:57] Social studies?
[00:05:59] Yeah, social studies is kind of hard though.
[00:06:01] My, or that's like the last time I checked my grade, which is like a month ago.
[00:06:08] It was my lowest grade.
[00:06:10] But it's like all the ed puzzles.
[00:06:11] Because he gives like.
[00:06:13] Oh yeah.
[00:06:20] At least it's not as much as the science teacher.
[00:06:23] Yeah.
[00:06:24] Yeah.
[00:06:25] There's a lot of ed puzzles.
[00:06:27] But I feel like everybody most part gets the ed puzzle part done.
[00:06:31] Yeah.
[00:06:31] But not so much like the writing and like the diagram stuff done.
[00:06:36] And that's like the only thing that I don't get done.
[00:06:38] Or like the jigsaw puzzles.
[00:06:40] That's the only thing I don't get done.
[00:06:42] But my lowest has to be in math.
[00:06:44] I'm like not even joking you.
[00:06:46] Same.
[00:06:46] I do good in everything else.
[00:06:48] And in math I have like an 80, like 87.
[00:06:51] But like that's my lowest.
[00:06:53] Right now, like the class that I'm not really, it's not really that I'm not doing well.
[00:06:59] It's just like it's the lowest.
[00:07:00] Like all my grades except for like math is like 90 and like up.
[00:07:05] And so like math is just sitting there 85.
[00:07:08] And so I think the hardest thing in math class probably like because my teacher, she gives
[00:07:17] out like homework for like the week.
[00:07:19] So it'll be like five homeworks.
[00:07:21] Like one will be like iReady.
[00:07:22] One will be like iExcel.
[00:07:24] Like that stuff.
[00:07:25] So you have to like get it complete before like Friday.
[00:07:28] And so like the hardest thing is like trying to keep track of all of them.
[00:07:31] And so like it can get like really stressful and like really like, you know, like backed
[00:07:37] up and stuff.
[00:07:38] So yeah, I think that's like what's like the hardest.
[00:07:40] The best thing about like how I keep my homework like on track, I use my planner and I like just
[00:07:48] like list.
[00:07:48] Oh yeah.
[00:07:49] With like little boxes and little check marks.
[00:07:50] Oh, I don't do that.
[00:07:51] I just skip around from classroom to classroom.
[00:07:54] Like I'm like, oh, I'm going to like do something for science today.
[00:07:57] And then be like hopping into like my ELA Google classroom.
[00:08:02] And then like back to my science Google classroom.
[00:08:05] Like I'm just going everywhere because I don't know what I want to do.
[00:08:09] That's so real.
[00:08:11] My class that I'm failing it is math and social studies.
[00:08:15] Both of them I have an 87 in.
[00:08:19] That's good.
[00:08:20] 87 is honestly not that bad.
[00:08:22] It's not.
[00:08:23] It's like because like right now my grade course is like a 99.
[00:08:27] I'm just like, what happened?
[00:08:28] What happened?
[00:08:30] Like where's the other 1%?
[00:08:31] Like what did I not do?
[00:08:33] Like it's just what happened basically.
[00:08:37] Like did I mess up that one time and then my school is just like.
[00:08:41] Exactly.
[00:08:43] What's like your, like so far, because I know like most of you guys are like new to RMS,
[00:08:49] but so far what is your like favorite like school memory?
[00:08:53] Like I don't think there's like the not a lot because like the school year like kind of just started.
[00:08:57] But like so far what's like your best favorite?
[00:09:01] You can go first.
[00:09:02] No, you go.
[00:09:03] Like my favorite part is like walking into math class every day and getting my math teacher like the funniest stuff ever.
[00:09:10] Like the funniest stuff he's ever said.
[00:09:12] Like walking into the classroom, sitting down, and he's like, what's up my skibbity sigmas?
[00:09:17] Today he showed his period.
[00:09:19] I don't know what other periods, but he showed his period for a picture that his friend sent him.
[00:09:24] It was a poster and it said skibbity, but every word was like, like the S was like show your work.
[00:09:30] Like, oh.
[00:09:32] The eye was like interpret the problem correctly.
[00:09:35] Oh my God.
[00:09:36] Like, and he like.
[00:09:37] That's actually really good.
[00:09:38] That's actually really funny.
[00:09:39] Like exactly.
[00:09:40] Did it have like a picture of him like in the middle or like what?
[00:09:43] No.
[00:09:43] No.
[00:09:44] It was like.
[00:09:45] Like someone else had it.
[00:09:47] Yeah.
[00:09:48] Yeah.
[00:09:49] Um, I think like my favorite moment from school.
[00:09:55] I don't really have like a favorite like moment like right now because like it is still like the beginning of the school year.
[00:10:01] But I'll say like my favorite moments are probably from like last year when we went to Gillette Stadium for like a, like a field trip.
[00:10:12] And like we got to see like the Hall of Fame, like the, like Gillette Hall of Fame with like Tom Brady and all that stuff.
[00:10:20] And also like the winter and spring dance because I don't know, like last year was just pretty fun.
[00:10:27] And we also had like, like four, like what are those thingies called?
[00:10:31] Like four bouncy, like really, really tall, like bouncy houses.
[00:10:36] Yeah.
[00:10:37] And like we got to like rotate between like teams and like, um.
[00:10:41] For field day.
[00:10:42] Yeah.
[00:10:42] For field day.
[00:10:43] Yeah.
[00:10:43] And it was like just like really fun.
[00:10:45] Like got to hang out with all my friends.
[00:10:47] So, yeah.
[00:10:48] I haven't made very many memories because I'm stuck doing work.
[00:10:53] But I think the dance tonight is going to be kind of fun because I'm going as Oogie Boogie.
[00:11:00] Like do you see like that green on like the hoop book?
[00:11:03] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:11:04] I'm going as like that color green Oogie Boogie.
[00:11:06] Really?
[00:11:07] Mm-hmm.
[00:11:09] You know what would put your costume over the top?
[00:11:11] If you did like the bright green tutu over it.
[00:11:14] I don't have a bright green tutu.
[00:11:16] I was going to do pink, but it's like really baggy because it's like a size too big.
[00:11:19] Oh, a pink tutu.
[00:11:19] A pink tutu.
[00:11:21] Like I don't know.
[00:11:22] But there's like, it has like worms in the mouth.
[00:11:24] Because like if you didn't know, he's stuffed with bugs.
[00:11:27] And it was like a pink one.
[00:11:28] But it looks kind of stupid because like the thing's like a size too big.
[00:11:32] Because it only had a small medium and like a small extra small in like adults.
[00:11:36] Um, and it was like really baggy.
[00:11:41] So it didn't really look that good.
[00:11:42] Yeah, I totally feel that.
[00:11:44] Like that happens all the time.
[00:11:46] Like the other day I brought an oversized teacher in a medium.
[00:11:48] I am a medium.
[00:11:50] And it was like so big on me.
[00:11:52] It was actually crazy.
[00:11:54] Sizes just like don't make sense.
[00:11:56] Especially in women's sizes.
[00:11:58] Like a size 13 jeans from like H&M wouldn't fit me.
[00:12:01] But a size 13 from like Burlington are literally like a perfect fit.
[00:12:06] Shania's over here.
[00:12:07] She's nodding.
[00:12:10] What about you?
[00:12:11] Um, same as Amelia with the dance.
[00:12:14] That's probably going to be my favorite memory.
[00:12:16] Yeah.
[00:12:19] And like probably some field trips that we're going to have for chorus.
[00:12:22] Oh yeah, the chorus field trips.
[00:12:24] The choral festival.
[00:12:25] I'm excited for that.
[00:12:26] Yeah, last year we got an excellent.
[00:12:28] It was going from one year to another year.
[00:12:33] There's glitter all over your face.
[00:12:36] There's glitter out of your face.
[00:12:38] It's okay.
[00:12:39] But yeah, last year the chorus festival.
[00:12:42] It was pretty good.
[00:12:43] Like it was really fun.
[00:12:45] We did well.
[00:12:46] But yeah.
[00:12:50] Oh and also one thing I'm really excited for is this year for chorus I'm doing all state.
[00:12:59] You got in?
[00:13:00] No, I didn't get in yet.
[00:13:02] Like the auditions haven't started yet.
[00:13:04] But like I'm really excited for all state and hopefully I get to all state.
[00:13:11] Oh wait.
[00:13:12] Oh wait, I have it.
[00:13:13] I have it.
[00:13:13] It's 440.
[00:13:15] That's so sick.
[00:13:16] I actually don't know what all state is.
[00:13:18] Okay, so all state is like this like all state like around like Rhode Island like competition
[00:13:25] about not really competition.
[00:13:27] I mean it is because like it has like auditions and stuff.
[00:13:30] But it's like this thing where you like you audition where you're like your chorus teacher
[00:13:36] like puts like auditions your name in and like you go for this audition, right?
[00:13:41] And like there's like judges.
[00:13:43] Like I didn't do this last year but this is what Miss Pym told, what the chorus teacher
[00:13:47] told me.
[00:13:47] And so the chorus teacher told me.
[00:13:53] And so it's like judges, right?
[00:13:55] And like you're like pretty much the only person in that room with the judges.
[00:13:59] And like you'll have to like before that time you'll have to learn like a song.
[00:14:04] And I'm currently learning it right now.
[00:14:06] But you have to learn like a song.
[00:14:07] And then you have to like sing your part if you're either soprano, alto, or like bass.
[00:14:12] And so you have to sing that part with like the performance track with the other parts singing
[00:14:17] behind you.
[00:14:18] So you have to like stay focused.
[00:14:19] And so you have to do like not, I don't know if it's called call and response, but like
[00:14:26] they play something on the piano like remembering things.
[00:14:29] Oh, like sight reading.
[00:14:30] Yeah, they have to play notes on the piano.
[00:14:34] And like you have to like remember it.
[00:14:35] And like our chorus teacher was like the main reasons like kids don't get into Allstate
[00:14:42] is because of like the piano thing because like you can't really remember it.
[00:14:46] But like Allstate and then like when you, once you like make the audition, you have like
[00:14:52] practices like with other schools and other kids from different schools who made it.
[00:14:58] Like practices like sometimes two times a week, sometimes even three times a week, like
[00:15:02] after school.
[00:15:03] And then like the big day, like the actual concert would be like on a Sunday or on a Saturday.
[00:15:09] So that's pretty much what Allstate is.
[00:15:12] It's just like really good like singing kids from like Rhode Island and like the whole state
[00:15:18] pretty much.
[00:15:19] That's pretty much what Allstate is.
[00:15:21] But she has us doing sight reading actually because she wants us to get good at it because
[00:15:26] she has, she says there's a few select few kids who she expects to be in Allstate last
[00:15:32] year.
[00:15:32] She actually told me straight up that I'm one of them and she expects me to do Allstate.
[00:15:37] Only if I want to, but she's like, I expect you to do it because.
[00:15:40] Yeah.
[00:15:41] Wait, did you get in?
[00:15:43] Oh no.
[00:15:44] The auditions haven't even started yet, but like we're just preparing.
[00:15:49] I thought you got it and I was like, congratulations.
[00:15:53] I hope I get in because like all my friends are like, you have to get in.
[00:15:57] They're like, if you don't get in, like I'm going to punch that like audition person in the
[00:16:02] face.
[00:16:02] Like you have to get in.
[00:16:03] And I'm like, okay, thanks.
[00:16:05] I guess.
[00:16:07] Oh, did you like, did you like register to audition for it already?
[00:16:12] Um, so it was like, like a slip.
[00:16:15] Cause like our course teacher, she like gave us like this paper, like it has like the information
[00:16:20] on that stuff.
[00:16:21] And then off the bottom it has like a permission slip and like your parents have to sign it.
[00:16:26] And then she would take it like and give the people who are like in Allstate, like the
[00:16:30] higher people, like in Allstate and give it to them.
[00:16:33] And then like that day of the audition, she'll like take you and stuff.
[00:16:39] And like, it'll be like a mini field trip and stuff.
[00:16:42] Oh, that's cool.
[00:16:43] Yeah.
[00:16:43] One thing that you guys would honestly also really look forward to in chorus is the elementary
[00:16:48] B.
[00:16:49] That's what I'm excited about.
[00:16:50] Yeah, that's what I did.
[00:16:51] I'm really excited about that.
[00:16:53] I'd love to like, just like go to the other schools.
[00:16:55] Cause I was always like, I don't know what the other schools look like.
[00:16:59] I've never been to like the other schools that we're going to go to.
[00:17:02] Like I haven't been to those schools.
[00:17:04] I've only been to Hennessy and then what's the other, what's the other school?
[00:17:08] The one that went to Martin.
[00:17:10] All the kids though.
[00:17:11] Carter, uh, Carter, you went there.
[00:17:13] White Neck?
[00:17:14] Is it that?
[00:17:15] Oh no.
[00:17:15] You went to White Neck, right?
[00:17:17] Yeah, I went to White Neck for him.
[00:17:18] Yeah, White Neck.
[00:17:19] But I've only been in there.
[00:17:21] But I think we went to White Neck last year.
[00:17:22] Yeah, you don't.
[00:17:23] Yeah.
[00:17:24] It's only the kids that are going to transfer into Riverside.
[00:17:27] Yeah.
[00:17:28] But White Neck goes to Martin cause I have friends who go to White Neck.
[00:17:31] Yeah.
[00:17:31] I went to White Neck before, like kindergarten to second grade, but then I had to move because
[00:17:38] of like COVID and stuff.
[00:17:41] Yeah.
[00:17:42] And I'm here.
[00:17:45] Do you like, uh, Waddington?
[00:17:49] I feel like I want to go to Waddington and see what that's like.
[00:17:52] Cause so many kids from this school go to Waddington.
[00:17:55] That's because it was the, it is the biggest elementary school in, um, East Providence school
[00:18:01] district.
[00:18:02] And I want to go see like the fifth graders from last year and see what they're doing.
[00:18:06] Okay.
[00:18:07] So I've talked to, I've talked to, I've talked to her, I've talked to her recently cause I
[00:18:15] do theater with her and, uh, she was telling me all the tea, all the drama that's going
[00:18:20] on in fifth grade and it's low key crazy.
[00:18:22] Like it's mad deep.
[00:18:23] We thought our fifth grade drama was deep.
[00:18:25] No, this is deep.
[00:18:26] Like there's new drama every single week.
[00:18:28] Like new tea, new tea every single week.
[00:18:31] So anytime I see her, she's like spilling all the tea to me and I'm like, no way this
[00:18:35] actually happened.
[00:18:36] Yeah.
[00:18:37] Drama is deeper.
[00:18:39] I'll just be like in theater about to learn, um, a new song.
[00:18:43] And then we're out here like talking about what happened with the, with these girls.
[00:18:49] And it's actually crazy.
[00:18:52] We've only been recording for like nine years.
[00:18:54] Yeah.
[00:18:55] I know.
[00:18:55] We have two minutes left.
[00:18:56] It felt like we've been recording for like ever.
[00:18:58] Um, is there like any hobbies that we do or anything that we like that's outside of
[00:19:03] school?
[00:19:06] This is going to sound really boring, but like all I do after school is swim when the
[00:19:13] summer is like around and hang out with friends and swim while hanging out with friends.
[00:19:18] Love all of those.
[00:19:19] Love them.
[00:19:20] Love that.
[00:19:21] And like bike rides.
[00:19:22] Oh my God.
[00:19:23] No, people think I'm like, like I'm crazy.
[00:19:25] I don't know how to swim.
[00:19:28] People look, people look, people look, think I'm crazy.
[00:19:32] They're like, no way you've never learned how to swim.
[00:19:34] Like girl, like when I was like younger, when like most people do learn how to swim, I like
[00:19:38] never had like a pool around me that I could go to.
[00:19:41] That makes sense.
[00:19:42] Which makes sense.
[00:19:43] Like now my, my godmother has a pool and I go all over the time, all the time, but also
[00:19:48] like all my cousins are there.
[00:19:49] So like, there's nothing really I could do.
[00:19:52] As long as you can touch the bottom, you can't.
[00:19:54] No, I touch the bottom.
[00:19:56] Not at the boys and girls club though.
[00:19:57] I like, I cannot pass that swim test.
[00:19:59] I can't pass that damn swim test.
[00:20:01] I'm not even lying.
[00:20:02] I'm being like, I was in like first grade passing the swim test.
[00:20:06] Oh God.
[00:20:06] Wait, really?
[00:20:08] Yeah.
[00:20:08] I went there when I was like younger, but then COVID hit and I didn't go there anymore.
[00:20:13] How about you?
[00:20:16] I don't really have it too much.
[00:20:20] Just like what I said before, doing random crafts and just like singing.
[00:20:26] Those are my only two.
[00:20:28] And swimming, I learned when I was like, like in third grade or fourth grade.
[00:20:34] I don't know.
[00:20:37] My hobbies are, I crochet and I also dance.
[00:20:43] Like I dance, I think three, four times a week.
[00:20:48] And our company has like a tap company where it's like 10 years old to like 18.
[00:20:55] So like there's lots of girls and boys in that like tap company.
[00:21:00] And so like it's really fun.
[00:21:01] We get to go to New Hampshire for like not really competitions, but just for shows.
[00:21:07] And we get to like travel and it's really fun.
[00:21:09] So yeah.
[00:21:11] So you dance competitively like for competitions?
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