🛵👨‍👧 MY PAPI HAS A MOTORCYCLE | Read Along with the Author | Brightly Storytime — Transcript

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1. 0:03[music]
2. 0:05I iso, writer of books for young people.
3. 0:08I'll be sharing with you My puppy has a
4. 0:10motorcycle, illustrated [music] by Zeke,
5. 0:13and written by myself. My puppy has a
6. 0:16motorcycle from him. I've learned words
7. 0:18like carburetor and [music] ginho, drill
8. 0:20and dedication. When I hear his great
9. 0:23truck pull into our driveway, I run
10. 0:24[music] outside with both of our
11. 0:26helmets.
12. 0:28My puppy the carpenter is covered in
13. 0:30sawdust and smells like a hard day at
14. 0:32work. His hands are rough from building
15. 0:34homes every day. His job since he first
16. 0:36arrived in this country. But even though
17. 0:38he comes home tired, he always has time
18. 0:40for me. When our city is winding down,
19. 0:43he [music] takes me for a ride. Today,
20. 0:45he's going to show me the new houses
21. 0:47he's working on. [music] Papy is careful
22. 0:49with my ponytail as he pulls my helmet
23. 0:51tight. When he lifts [music] me onto the
24. 0:53smooth black sheet, his hands don't feel
25. 0:56rough. They don't feel [music] tired.
26. 0:58They feel like all the love he has
27. 1:00trouble saying. Lista, see. Papy revs
28. 1:04the engine.
29. 1:06And the smell of gasoline hits me as he
30. 1:08squeezes the accelerator. Vroom.
31. 1:13Be careful, says mommy. The motor
32. 1:15rumbles and growls. Aar. Hold on, says
33. 1:18puppy. And then we take off. The shiny
34. 1:22blue metal of the motorcycle glows in
35. 1:24the sun. The sun. The sun. The bright
36. 1:26orange sun is on its way down. [music]
37. 1:29Turning our sky blue and purple and
38. 1:31gold. We become a spectacular [music]
39. 1:34celestial thing soaring on asphalt. A
40. 1:37comet. The sawdust falling from BY's
41. 1:39hair and clothes becomes a tail
42. 1:41following us.
43. 1:44By zigzags through the streets. We pass
44. 1:46Aita's [music]
45. 1:47church and Ariel Estraa and stop for
46. 1:50stray cats crossing in front of us.
47. 1:53Mommy thinks there's too many of them,
48. 1:54but I think there's just enough.
49. 1:58We pass [music] Joyy's Market where
50. 1:59mommy buys my gummy bears. Mr. Garcia,
51. 2:02our librarian, is walking out the door
52. 2:04and [music] nods at us. We nod back.
53. 2:06This is how we always greet each other.
54. 2:09Daisy, we wore past murals that tell our
55. 2:12history of citrus groves and immigrants
56. 2:15who worked them and of the famous road
57. 2:17race that took place on Grand Boulevard
58. 2:19100 years ago. Now I know that we're
59. 2:21stopping at Vancouver's restaurant.
60. 2:25But as we near the shop, we see that
61. 2:27it's empty and out of business. I can
62. 2:29tell Poppy is disappointed. I imagine
63. 2:32the smell of the sweet syrups used to
64. 2:34flavor our shaved [music] ice. I won't
65. 2:36be the only one who misses him.
66. 2:39As we ride on, I feel and hear everyone
67. 2:41and everything we pass by. Each sound
68. 2:44landing in my ears rebuilds whole
69. 2:46neighborhoods inside me. No matter how
70. 2:48far I go from this place or how much it
71. 2:51changes, this city will always be with
72. 2:53me.
73. 2:55Miha, we cruise by Aalito and Aolita's
74. 2:58old yellow house. The [music] one with
75. 3:00the lemon tree that grew from the seeds
76. 3:02of the lemons Aito used to pick not far
77. 3:04from here. Mommy says that we're going
78. 3:06to visit them tomorrow to get nales from
79. 3:08their garden and eat herby along and
80. 3:10abolita's kitchen where the food always
81. 3:13tastes better. Adiosa. Adios. We turn
82. 3:17the corner and then
83. 3:20the dogs behind the fences go wild.
84. 3:23Frankie the Lopez's Labradoodle escapes
85. 3:25from her yard and runs after us. Mercses
86. 3:28Lopez, the fastest runner in our class,
87. 3:30races after her. They're right behind
88. 3:33us. Then just as fast, the dogs [music]
89. 3:35barking and Mercedes and Frankie become
90. 3:38a soft hush in the distance.
91. 3:41We arrive towards the new homes,
92. 3:43replacing the last of the citrus groves.
93. 3:45The painters, drywallers, and floral
94. 3:48layers all greet us, but we can barely
95. 3:49hear their words amid the sounds of
96. 3:51hammers and air compressors.
97. 3:55A little bit, not too much. Even in all
98. 3:58that [music] noise, my puppy's voice
99. 3:59catches everything.
100. 4:02Around the circle, this is my favorite
101. 4:04part. On Grand Boulevard, we lean into
102. 4:07the curb of the street. I make [music]
103. 4:09believe that we're in one of the races
104. 4:10that took place here so long ago. It's
105. 4:13our last lap, and we have to win. The
106. 4:15crowd cheers us on. Daisy, Daisy, Daisy.
107. 4:20I feel puppy smile as I squeeze my arms
108. 4:22tighter [music] around him. Mama's
109. 4:24puppy, faster, faster. We fly around the
110. 4:27circle. There's a school where we
111. 4:28practice soccer. There's a post office
112. 4:30where Mr. Charlie takes the letters and
113. 4:32laadia where puppy buys on Sunday
114. 4:35mornings.
115. 4:37Here it is. All of our beautiful city.
116. 4:40My eyes try to catch everything but the
117. 4:42colors of houses blend into one another.
118. 4:44Red, blue, green, orange, pink. Vroom.
119. 4:48We ride, ride, ride until the blue glow
120. 4:51from the motorcycle begins to dim and
121. 4:53[music] our comet tail has been left
122. 4:55behind on the streets we've traveled. We
123. 4:57head home and slowly the engine echoes
124. 5:00us back onto our street and then our
125. 5:03driveway, our [music] finish line. Mommy
126. 5:05and little brother hear the motorcycle
127. 5:07and run out to greet us. Mommy waves us
128. 5:10in just like a referee. Poppy and I
129. 5:12can't stop laughing. We had a good ride.
130. 5:15Through our laughter, I hear a familiar
131. 5:18sound. Hong Kong.
132. 5:22I think about my [music] city and all
133. 5:24the changes it's been through and all
134. 5:25the changes that will come.
135. 5:30But I know [music] that here in our
136. 5:32little house, there are things that will
137. 5:34always stay the same. Mñana, we [music]
138. 5:37fly again.