Why lunch ladies are heroes
很溫馨的分享。
作家及插畫家Jarrett Krosoczka
分享他創作Lunch Lady漫畫系列的動人故事
及該系列的書所引發的許多正向效應。
在美國,
a lunch lady=an American slang term for a woman who cooks and serves food in a school cafeteria
她們的工作並未常受到肯定或重視。
但是隨著Jarrett Krosoczka和以前他讀小學時的lunch lady,Jeannie重遇,
她仍堅守在崗位上,
服務許許多多學生,
也認識了許多家庭裡的份子。
這樣的奉獻,
激發了Jarrett Krosoczka創作的靈感。
他在出書後,
邀請了Jeannie參加新書發表會,
Jeannie倍受感動,
因為她多年來的付出和努力終於受到肯定。
隨著這一系列的書熱銷,
學童們更能感謝校園中的lunch ladies,
也鼓舞了她們,
許多lunch ladies 感謝作者:
"Thank you for making a superhero in our likeness."
Because the lunch lady has not been treated very kindly in popular culture over time.
作者也發起了School Lunch Hero Day,
希望校園中能更有感恩心,
並多給予lunch ladies回饋,
因為她們的工作著實重要:
...before a child can learn, their belly needs to be full, and these women and men are working on the front lines to create an educated society.
在演說的最後,
Jarrett Krosoczka感性地表達,
要多說謝謝,
道謝也能影響別人,
也能改變自己的生命。
I hope that you remember how powerful a thank you can be. A thank you can change a life. It changes the life of the person who receives it, and it changes the life of the person who expresses it.
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