
Girl in Progress
Okay, class.
Class, it's time for the presentations
on personal heroes.
So, you're up, George.
- Class, quiet.
- My inspiration is basketball.
I went to a basketball camp and they
made us practice for six hours a day.
This is a picture of Kobe,
because I wanna be like him.
Thank you, George.
Okay.
Ansiedad Gutierrez?
Everyone, please reach under your seats
and locate your 3D glasses.
Jenna, lights.
And now,
a few words about
someone truly inspirational.
My mother.
My mother's Christian name is Altagracia.
The white man can't pronounce that,
so she goes by Grace,
which her parents can't pronounce.
This is the menu at her second job.
- She met her last boyfriend there.
- Emile's.
Grace has dated firemen, auto mechanics,
bakers, barbers, professional chess players,
and the kind of astronauts
that never go into space.
Eventually, they break up.
And when they do,
we move to another town.
You know, I think that's enough.
Here are some of
the iconic places we didn't visit
while living in these respective cities.
We've been in Seattle almost a year
- and I still haven't seen this place.
- Overrated.
Why? 'Cause she's now
dating a gynecologist,
who, by the way, is married.
Bottom line, she inspires me
to be nothing like her.
Oh, yeah, and this question mark right here
represents my father.
Jenna, lights.
Thank you all for coming.
It's not the first time she's been in here.
I'm thinking about
putting her on suspension.
Suspension?
Which could put your
daughter's scholarship at risk.
No, no, no. I will talk to her.
I got this, Mr. Principal.
- Guaterrier.
- Gualtiery.
Gualiterry.
Gualtiery.
- She's threatening to beat me.
- Is that true?
She likes to embellish.
She swore on her mother.
See? Embellish.
She just learned that word on TV.
So help me, I will set you on fire, girl.
Please do.
Why?
Why now?
- Why now what?
- Why now are you being so impossible?
I'm a teen named Anxiety.
How many times do
we have to go through this?
That was my grandmother's name.
That's a beautiful name.
That woman was a saint.
- Whose car is this anyways?
- Becky's. And listen.
I'm not going to take
anymore crap from you, okay?
Just so we're clear, for the next two days,
you bus tables at the Shack.
- Don't give me that face.
- Why?
Why? Because I'm an adult.
And you're a kid,
and you do as I say, that's why.
Can we give Tavita a ride?
Hello, how's my daughter's only friend?
- Mom.
- I'm good.
- I loved our presentation.
- Can you not smoke?
It's cancerous.
I'm sorry your child has no father,
Mrs. Gutierrez.
And I'm sorry that you have to
work two jobs to support her.
I'm sure if you would have married that chef,
you guys would have had
wonderful dinners every night.
- Thanks for the ride.
- This is your house?
It's like a coliseum.
Go, Tavita. Enjoy your nuclear family.
- Bye.
- Bye.
Now she's adorable, but she
needs to work on her fashion sense.
Maybe you can help her with that,
because that hair band thing...
Please don't make fun of her. Thank you.
Lower that, please!
Some of us are trying
not to be such immigrants!
Are some of us trying to do our chores?
Some of us have homework.
Excuses, excuses.
This side or this side?
I got suspended, Brad.
How do you feel about that?
I think that's terrible.
you're a boy gynecologist.
You can think that.
How's the wife?
How's your father?
Water the plant, go to bed at some point,
and don't call me,
if I am running late, I will call you.
They're beautiful.
You hate tulips.
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