Mary and Martha Page #4

raise your hand.

Just... just Paul?

Ah. Right. OK.

And all those

for Didier Drogba,

ill-tempered striker

for some team in China

and the Ivory Coast?

All of you.

Do... do you know what...

do you know what, though?

It's almost equal,

and as luck would have it,

I have the casting vote,

so I vote for Nelson Mandela.

So Nelson Mandela it is...

No!

The greatest

African of all time

in this classroom today.

Yes, he does.

Wait, wait.

[CHANTING, "DIDIER DROGBA!"]

Nelson Mandela. No?

[DEEP VOICE] 10.

One day when I was

about your age,

very early in the morning,

my father wakes me up,

and he tells me,

"We're going for a ride,"

and after ten hours

stops at a village

and turns to me and says,

"Son, today you

become a man."

So we went into a corral,

you know, where

they keep the cows.

I was snipped down there, brah.

Covered head to toe in clay,

wrapped in a blanket,

and put in a hut

with other initiates

for one month.

Yeah.

I left the boy I was behind,

the day my father picked me up,

and I realized since then

that actually becoming a man

is a lifelong journey.

BEN:
Keep going,

keep hustling.

That's it. Tackle. Ohh!

Oh! Great play!

Pass, pass!

Ehhh!

Pass the ball!

Paul's got the ball!

He's got it, he's got it!

Here you go.

Who's gonna...

No, Ben! No, no, no!

This is rugby,

this is not football!

Get it! Ohh!

No! I don't believe it!

Ohh! Ohh! Help,

Micaela, help!

No! You cheat

you get punished!

Go! Whoo!

[CHEERING]

[SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

We have a big day tomorrow.

Because it goes

all the way from dawn

right through to sunset.

[SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Hey, Mr. Ben.

Are you and Mrs. Micaela

going to do putla-putla?

Ha ha ha!

You're in big trouble.

[KIDS LAUGHING]

So what's the most

dangerous animal in Africa?

Got to it be a lion.

No, no.

Hippo, man, hippo!

Yeah. It's the hippo.

What about humans?

They got to be pretty

high on the list, right?

OK, number one, human.

Number two, hippo.

Number 3, black mamba snake.

[SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Let's go find the snake!

Let's go!

Yay!

Let's run again.

Let's run!

Let's run again!

[SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

OK, dinner.

Can we just finish?

I beg your pardon.

Did you just say,

"Can I just finish?"

You want to extend the class?

Maybe.

Yes! Ha ha ha!

Yay!

GEORGE:
So, Mom.

Yes?

Where are we going?

We are going out

there on a fieldtrip.

One schoolroom, not enough.

A whole continent...

that's more like it!

Yes. Today we go out

into the great unknown,

accompanied by our

fearless guide...

Hey.

And of course inevitably...

Country and western, bub.

You're lying to me.

There's not a thing out there.

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