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every once in a while a story Finds Its
way to me that puts everything into
perspective and this is a letter that I
want to share with you dear Ellen my
name is ekas Amed I am a refugee from
Sudan when I came to America 10 years
ago I didn't speak a word of English on
my first day of school I got off at the
wrong bus stop and I was lost for eight
hours from that day on I made it my
mission to learn English I stayed after
school every day with my English teacher
and I would watch your show and memorize
what you said write it down and try to
learn from it with so much negativity in
the world all I had to do was turn on
your show and be happy for an hour today
I'm happy to say I graduated high school
and college thank you Ellen for being
ekas [Applause]
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[Music] [Applause]
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oh my
God hi alas hey hi hi I it's you hi it's
me how are
you okay hi hi oh my God you're going to
have to hold this I'm too tired okay
okay
uh thanks for your letter it was a
beautiful letter thank you so much yeah
so why did you write it why did you want
to get that to me I wanted to write it
because I wanted to let you know how I
felt I was I was a senior in college and
I was thinking beside my parents who was
the person that helped me get get here
who was that person and I couldn't think
of anybody except for you wow so I
decided to write you a letter see well I got
got
it so
your story is is so inspiring I mean you
live in Maine right I do okay but you
grew up how long were you in Sudan I was
in Sudan until the age of 12 until 12
yes okay and what was it like growing up
there um oh my God my country is
beautiful my homeland I lived in Kum
Sudan growing up I had the most
beautiful childhood with my friends
walking to school every morning and just
being a regular kid that's what I
remember and then what happened why did
you leave oh my family had to leave we
have an issue happening in my country
maybe you know about the genocide that
is in their four and it's still
happening as we speak so my my parents
wanted a better life for us and they had
to take us out of there that must have
been very confusing for you to you
probably weren't aware of the genocide
that was going on they just took you out
to save you exactly my parents didn't
know what to do but I know every parent
want safety and they want the best for
their kids so we had to leave and now
that I'm older I had to do more of my
own research to find out why we had to
go so you watched my show and and you
just I mean there's other shows on
television why my show why did I help
you learn English oh my God because your
show is the like the funnest show on TV
and also because we didn't have cable
actually to be honest we we didn't we
didn't have cable so we had local
channels which was great and the Ellen
show was right at 4:00 and I come from
school at 3:30 so I had enough time from
the bus to get home and watch the show I
think back then I don't know what year
you started watching me but for a while
I would walk out and
go that did you think that was something
that all Americans
did no okay my neighbors didn't do that
yeah yes so I don't know why I went
through a phase of just doing that for a
while Shaking All right so now you're uh
an English teacher yes and you're in
college getting your master's degree yes
I I work as a make it happen mentor and
educator at kesco Bay High School which
is very beautiful I love my students to
death I love all of them and I wake up
every morning with the biggest smile on
my face because of them yeah that's
amazing so you love teaching because you
realize how important it is it is it is
so important for me to be there for the
students and for me to be a role model
for them because when I was their age I
didn't have someone that was an
immigrant from African immigrant who
went through college and graduated and
didn't speak English but now is in a
classroom in front of them so I wanted
to give them that good for you I think
it's important for everybody to have an
example you know so all right so you
made this calendar yes we did and the
calendar and all the proceeds uh explain
what the calendar is the calendar is
called celebrating Africa and my
students wanted to do something special
and unique and different to celebrate
about their culture their beauty where
they grew up and and I we had pictures
yeah it's great you get to learn about
all these different uh places that
nobody would would really know anything
about especially beautiful things you
learn about the beauty of their homes
yeah so you uh we're going to help you
we're going to sell this in the Ellen
shop uh there's your story is amazing
and there's going to be uh go to our
website to find out more because there's
more to her story that I would love you
to know about um but we're going to sell
uh these calendars for you to help raise
money and you're doing you have two jobs
right now to try to pay off your student
debt yes so this week Shutterfly has
been helping us pay off people's debt
they heard about your inspiring story
they want to pay off all of your student
loans with a check for $22,000 oh my [Applause]
[Applause] God
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