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  • There's someone in my audience right now that I want to meet.

  • Emily Francis came to the United States

  • from Guatemala when she was 15 years old.

  • It's really you!

  • Hi!

  • Have a seat!

  • Let me finish the introduction.

  • Emily came to the United States from Guatemala

  • when she was 15 years old with only a sixth grade education,

  • and now she teaches English and is changing the lives

  • of her students every day.

  • Come on down, Emily.

  • And here she is.

  • Hi!

  • I heard you were in the audience.

  • Yeah, that's a microphone.

  • You can talk right into that.

  • That's what it is?

  • OK.

  • You did not expect to be here, so big surprise.

  • No.

  • I was over there dancing.

  • I'm just out of breath.

  • Yeah.

  • All right.

  • So your story is amazing.

  • Tell everyone how you immigrated, how you got here.

  • Yeah.

  • I was 15 years old when my mother decided

  • to bring us to Guatemala.

  • She was already here.

  • So I was 13 when she left us in Guatemala.

  • So she left, you're 13, and then how many siblings?

  • I was 13 and I have four siblings.

  • How old were they?

  • I was 13, there were 11, 9, 5, and 3.

  • OK.

  • So you're 13 years old, and for two years

  • you're raising them by yourself.

  • Yes.

  • We built a little shack in my neighbor's backyard,

  • and that's where we lived.

  • From 13 to 15 years old.

  • OK.

  • So at 15, then she says, I have enough money and you can come.

  • Yeah.

  • She sent a smuggler to bring us here.

  • And then we got busted at the airport.

  • Because the passports weren't--

  • Yeah, undocumented.

  • So then how did you get in?

  • My grandmother was here.

  • She was an American citizen.

  • She went to the airport and claimed us

  • as her grandchildren.

  • So we were able to stay here.

  • OK.

  • I hear that you learned English watching my show and friends.

  • Yes!

  • Yes!

  • So were you just walking up to people saying,

  • we'll be right back?

  • I mean like--

  • No, it was just fun.

  • When you're learning a second language,

  • and when you have so much energy,

  • and you're watching somebody just talking, and interacting

  • with other people--

  • you just get that.

  • And you learn from it.

  • Right.

  • And I think that probably-- now that you're teaching kids,

  • English is a second language, right?

  • Yes.

  • And your whole background probably

  • influences how you teach.

  • Yes I do.

  • Yeah.

  • When I came here, it was like they

  • forced for me to learn English.

  • Which there's nothing wrong with that.

  • I think this is the language we speak in America.

  • But they kind of forgot to work on my native language,

  • and work on my culture.

  • So that's what I do at my school.

  • I bring literature where my students can

  • read in their native language.

  • I make sure that they value their culture

  • as much as I do mine.

  • And where is the school?

  • It's Irvin Elementary School in Concord, North Carolina.

  • North Carolina.

  • OK.

  • The students sound amazing.

  • Yes, I love them.

  • You want to say hi to them right now?

  • Because Jeannie is there.

  • What?

  • Let's see how Jeannie is doing with everybody.

  • Oh my God!

  • Hi Ellen!

  • Hi Mrs. Francis!

  • Look, I see my little ones!

  • How's everybody doing there, Jeannie?

  • Oh my gosh, Ellen, we are so excited!

  • These kids have been so thrilled all day

  • to do this for you, Mrs. Francis.

  • And I actually have one of your students, David, here.

  • And he wanted to say something to you.

  • What did want to tell your teacher?

  • Thank you for teaching me to speak English

  • and showing me the right path and be with me all along.

  • All right.

  • We have one more surprise after this.

  • Emily, there's somebody who wanted to meet you.

  • He's the CEO and founder of Chobani.

  • Hamdi, come on out here.

  • So Hamdi, you came here-- you have a similar story.

  • You came here in the same year, 1994.

  • - '94, yes.

  • And the only English you spoke was, I am Hamdi,

  • I am from Turkey.

  • And I love football.

  • Soccer.

  • Soccer, that's what football is really, for you.

  • Yes.

  • I watched the wrong the show.

  • So her English is much better than mine.

  • I see.

  • Had you watched my show--

  • I watched Seinfeld.

  • Is that how you learned English?

  • Yeah.

  • You watch TV, watch movies.

  • And of course, what you've done is amazing.

  • And I want to remember my teachers.

  • I took ESL classes at SUNY Albany.

  • That's where teachers like yourself taught me

  • how to speak.

  • So if I am speaking well, it's their work.

  • If I'm not, it's my fault.

  • It's amazing.

  • So you come to America, you speak

  • you know basically no English.

  • And now you have one of the most successful companies

  • in the United States, if not the world, I would say.

  • Tell everybody how that happened.

  • You know, this is an amazing country.

  • And I found my home in upstate New York.

  • So I end up in the city, New York City in 1994.

  • And I said, I'm going to go crazy in this place.

  • This is too much.

  • And then I made it to upstate, and started working on a farm.

  • And I felt like home.

  • It reminded me where I came from.

  • And then I started making cheese a little bit.

  • You know, because that's what we did back home.

  • Farming and cheese making.

  • And one day I saw an ad that said,

  • "Fully equipped yogurt plant for sale."

  • And I throw it to the garbage can, and later on I

  • picked it up.

  • And I called the number.

  • It turns out this large company was closing this factory

  • and they were selling it as junk.

  • And I went there and I said, well maybe I should buy this.

  • And everybody said I was crazy.

  • My attorney said they were looking for a crazy [INAUDIBLE]

  • to unload this.

  • I mean, one of the largest companies

  • is getting out of the yogurt business.

  • Why would you go in?

  • What do you think you would do with it?

  • I just thought I should.

  • I bought it in 2005 with five factory workers.

  • And we started making the yogurt that my mother used to make.

  • And now?

  • How many employees do you have now?

  • We have 2000 employees.

  • Wow.

  • The Chobani Foundation wants to support their school's backpack

  • program.

  • Chobani wants to give you $100,000.

  • $100,000.

  • Chobani is celebrating their 10-year anniversary

  • by giving away a free cup of yogurt to everyone in America.

  • Go to our website to find out more.

There's someone in my audience right now that I want to meet.

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