ZOOM, Series I; 602

TV Boston. Major funding for Zoom is provided by a grant from General Foods Corporation. Additional funding is provided by this station and by other public television stations, and by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped. We'll be right back. So why don't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom?

Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom. I'm Amy. I'm John. I'm Carolyn. I'm Nicholas. I'm Shana. I'm Che. Hi, I'm Susan. You can't help us to fly. Hey! Hi, Friends!

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One rainy night, when I was lying in bed, I thought I heard a strange noise. I quietly crawled out of bed and tiptoed to my bedroom door. I opened the door. There I saw a thief filling her sack with everything in sight. I hid behind the chair and waited until the thief came closer. Then I jumped out and we got into a fight. i grabbed the thief's shirt but the shirt ripped and she got away but what the thief didn't know

was she stole more than she knew immediately i called the police and told them what the thief looked like the police called me a couple of days later to come down to the station to try to pick out a suspect but they all looked alike to me I told the police my secret the thief stole more than she knew they agreed to call the suspects back in two weeks the weeks went by so slow finally the day came Again, they all looked alike, with one exception. The thief was sent to jail. Police returned everything she stole.

How could I tell? The thief stole more than she knew. The thief was just beginning to break out with my chicken pox. We got a power, we got a play. Hey, you got to send them to Zoom right away. We got a barrel, we got to do. Ooh, you got to send them to Zoom. We need you. Something to tell us, something to ask. Got a good goodie, got a good mask. We looked in our mailbag for something to do. But something was missing, something from you. So go get some paper and something to write with The mailman will travel all through the night with your letter And then she'll deliver it here And we will meet it, and we will greet it, and we will read it with cheer Oh, one thing more, as if you can't guess That's send your new letter to the same old address

That's Zoom, T-O-M, Box, T-5-O, Boston, Mass, O-2-1-3-4 Send it to Zoom! this is the challenge of the century i can live this book without touching it what you do is you take a plastic bag and you lay it on a tabletop the opening bag should be hanging out over the edge you take your book and you lay it on then you squeeze the bag and you leave a little opening for the air to go with. Then inflate it with puff power. See? The more bags you have, the more you can lift, like a person. Now watch this. The zoomers are now going to lift me up. What you do is you take your bags and place them evenly under the board. Now when I say three, I want you all to blow.

Ready? One, two, three, puff! Oh, what's going on? Pop! Pop! It's up. It's up. It's up. It's up. It's up. It's up. See? Sue Small told us that 17 of her classmates lifted 1,100 pounds. Imagine that. 1,100 pounds. Well, that's both pounds for you. I'm just a person that goes out for everything, I don't care if I make it or not, I just do anyways and I love you know playing sports and being around a lot of people

and having good times and I'd have an illness and it's called epilepsy a major problem is when people hear the word epilepsy they just think of the very worst thing that could possibly happen that's all my friends do they count the letters and the word and then they say how bad it is it's like the longer the word it's yeah the worst it's gonna be you know the harder the name it's the worst nobody's really sure exactly how people get it but sometimes you can get it by having an accident or an illness in my case I was born with epilepsy but it didn't show up until ten years later when I started having my seizures I can have a seizure anytime, anywhere, and not even know it's coming on. A seizure means that it is too much electricity in the cells of your brain. It's like a lightning storm in your brain. Everyone's epilepsy is different. Sometimes your mind goes blank for a few seconds. Sometimes your

mind goes foggy and you can act funny sometimes you can fall down and your whole body shakes but you've heard stories about people saying you were crazy and stuff like that i mean one of the guys who i go to school with every day who's in a lot of my classes happened to hear me say epilepsy he goes are you an epileptic i thought you were normal when i was in the fifth and sixth grade people was talking about that I said I I do have epilepsy but I am still me I used to not talk to anybody and I used to want to stay home from school I didn't want to associate with anybody because I felt like it was bad myself so I didn't want anybody else to catch it that's what I thought they could catch it from me people don't realize that it's nothing to worry about because for the most part um seizures are under control with medicine so when people say you better not do that because you have epilepsy that's just making um school life and social life

all that much harder why do you think your friends who know you have seizures but have never seen you have one think that they're like just flipping out and just breaking everything around you that you can break. I was in sixth grade and my girlfriend and I were walking home and she knew I had epilepsy but she'd never seen me had a seizure and so I was walking home and all of a sudden I had a seizure and next thing I know I hear her running and screaming running down the street. My friends they're not afraid to be around me if I'm going to have one more or less they want to be there just in case I need someone or some help. Ready? The thing that's hard is running into people that really don't understand it. They tease me a lot. It really bothers me sometimes. I wish some of the kids that really bother her could take a day and be in her position, that, you know, she's not contagious or anything,

that she's thinking that if they could just get to know what it is and understand it and, you know, get to know the person. hard as you can very tightly have you had any special trouble lately lately the ones this year had spread to my left leg and how would that happen how come that would happen it depends Martha on how much of your brain tissue is affected during the seizure and how many of the cells aren't firing in the normal way when you have a seizure that starts in your right arm and moves to your right leg it can jump very closely across and involve the left leg it means all these little cells have short circuits and there's a blackout and they're not responding the way they normally should what you hope is that the medicine in your system will protect it from going any further it would be easy to spend all my time worrying about when I was gonna have a seizure. I'm not like that. I just take it as it comes, you know, one day at a time, sort of, you know, if it happens, it happens. My sisters, Joanne and Mary, they don't bug

me. They understand. The first time you see it, you're really scared. Like the first time I started, I didn't know what it was. And, you know, my imagination sort of ran away with me, and I couldn't think of what was happening to my sister. And, you know, Martha has seizures and that's part of motha that's only a small part of her and she's still just a regular old kid i mean she gets on our nerves all the time she wears my clothes when she's not supposed to and i get angry at her and i yell at her i mean i don't handle her you know with tender loving care just because she has seizures she's just a regular person to me and some people treat her like she's not and that she has something really bad wrong with her but there's nothing bad wrong with her. I wouldn't want you to care. Hi, Kim. Hi. Did anyone give you this? Yeah, my aunt and cousin. I work at a hospital, so right now I'm junior volunteering. And I really love it, because I want to become a nurse.

throughout my life I know it's gonna be people that understand what I have and not back off because they have epilepsy no way am I gonna let it hold me back So, what have you been watching on TV? Oh, lots of stuff. Any soap operas? What? Any soap operas? No. Oh, Tommy, you gotta watch those for me. See, here I am. Look at me. Except me as who I am, not as what I have. What do you get when you cross two elephants with a fish? I don't know. What? Swimming trunks. Go!

Come on, Carolyn! Come on, Carolyn! Come on, Carolyn! Go! Go! Come on, Carolyn! Go! Run! Come on, Carolyn! Come on, Carolyn! Go, Nicholas! Go, Nicholas! Quick, Nicholas! Amy, go! Amy, go! Amy! Amy, hurry up! Amy! Come on, Amy! Come on, Amy! Oh, my God! Amy, go! Come on, Amy! Come on, Amy! Amy! Amy! Come on! Come on! Hurry up, Nicholas! We can get him easy! Amy, come on!

Go! Oh, I hate it. Take it off! Sean, get it off! Sean, get it off the platform! Go! Yeah, we won! The winner! Chief! Nicholas! And Callie! Yeah! Dear Zoom, I'm Nicky Zagrod, Nick, and I've got a riddle for you. What did one grape say to the other grape? Tis the season to be jelly. That's right. Tis the season to be jelly. To be jelly. Dear Zoom, here is a poem I wrote. When I look into the sky, I often wish that I could fly. i know i can't but i could try oh how i wish i could fly that's nice that was from laney wheeler of tucson arizona here's a poem from kim wright from brooklyn new york when i feel sad when i feel

sad i sometimes cry sometimes i feel like i could die when i'm crying i sometimes say Why am I crying? It's such a nice day. After that, I go out and play. Then I realize it was a nice day. Oh, that's good. That's a good... That's as good as the hippocon. Dear Zoomers, I'm Stephanie Feist, and I have a really great tongue twister for you. Try to say it ten times. Cats can catch kids cold. Kids can catch cats cold. Cats can catch kids cold. Kids can catch. Can I say it up? Cats can catch kids colds, kids can't catch cats colds, kids can't catch kids colds, kids can't catch kids colds. Cats can't catch

Cats can't Cats can't catch Kids colds Kids can't catch cats colds Cats can't watch kids Kids can't catch cats colds Cats can't catch kids colds Kids can catch cat cold Cold Cats can't catch kids colds Cats can't catch kids colds It's cold. Shauna, uh, Shauna, are you holding on to that brush tight? I sure am. Good, because I'd like to borrow the ladder for a few minutes. We're going to roll out the barrel and to find out what's inside too late. Dear Zoom, stand straight. Then sit down as if you were using a chair. Do not use a chair. then cross your arms last cross your legs put your right leg over your left Like, crossing them like a man-thus.

No, she did it. No, she did it. No, she did it. Oh, she did it. Uh, okay, you can stop now. She did it. Okay. Now, are you ready? You're very good, Nicholas. Dear Zoom, I suppose everybody has this kind of problem. I have a friend, and everybody in our school either doesn't know her or hates her. She's okay sometimes, but when I try to be her friend, my other friends get mad at me and call me names. What is a real friend anyway? Sincerely, Diana Tanner from Laramie, Wyoming.

I don't think it's right for somebody to say, like, you shouldn't be this person's friends. I mean, it's really none of their business who you want to be friends with. I agree with you. A real friend is someone who trusts you. Will always be your friend. No matter who you're with. I think a friend would be, you know, just someone you play with and someone you can get along with. sometimes it could be your friends even if you can't get along with them but you know i think a friend is just a person to lean on like the girl in the letter i think she should have her own choice if the kids don't like her playing with that certain person she plays with them anyways and just go find some other friends if they just won't treat her right because groups i don't like groups at all because you always end up losing your other friends and you you lose them just trying to be like other people you know somebody's always left out oh i feel sad because uh because when new people come to you know school they have no friends right so you know i feel sorry for them

because so i try to be friends with them because you know they're just like because they're just all alone doing nothing i have a friend and we're from like two different worlds she's from another country. No, really. We're so different, but yet we're so close. And it's the kind of friend that if you be with, people will say, you know, all that stuff. But that doesn't really matter because we have so much to your comment. I think a real friend is somebody who will listen to you. Yeah, won't ignore you. Yeah, won't ignore you and that, you know, like, won't say, you know, if you play with this certain person, I won't play with you. And, you know, who trusts you and everything. There's this poem I read. It's neat. It goes, don't walk behind me, I may not follow.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not... No, don't walk in... Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Walk beside me and be my friend. Good day. Good day. Good day. Good day. Good day. Good day. Good day. Good day. Hi. Good day, hi. Good day, hi. Long time no see. Long time no see. Long time no see. Come no see. How are you?

How are you? How are you? Hi there. How are you? You wanna be friends? We want to be friends. We want to be friends. Consider yourself at home.

Consider yourself one of the family. I've taken to you so strong. It's clear. We're going to get along. Consider yourself well in. Consider yourself part of the furniture. There isn't a lot to spare Who cares what ever we got we share If it's your chance to be We should see some rougher days Suffer tougher days Indeed Always a chance to meet somebody To cheer you up Cause a friend is all you need Consider yourselves a bit late We don't want to make a fuss Well, if there's some consideration we can stay Consider yourself one of us That's a plus Consider yourself at home Consider yourself one of the family

We've taken you so strong It's clear we're going to get along Consider yourself well in Consider yourself padded furniture There isn't a lot to spare Who cares? Come, fill yourself a chair Nobody tries to be la-di-da and uppity There's a cup of tea for all Everyone tries to be down to earth and on their toes So we all can have a ball Consider yourself A+. We wish you all were here Now using your imagination, join with us And sing right out loud and clear Come on, everybody, sing along with us Consider yourself at home Consider yourself one of the family We've taken to you so strong

It's clear, we're going to get along Consider yourself well here Consider yourself part of the furniture There isn't a lot to spare Who cares what ever we got we share If it's a chance to be, we should see some rougher days Suffer tougher days, indeed Always a chance to meet somebody to cheer us up Because a friend is all we need Consider yourself first rate We don't want to make a fuss But after some consideration we can stay Consider yourself one of us We need you

Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, a-zoom Come on and zoom, a-zoom, a-zoom Come on, give it a try We're gonna reach for the sky You can help us to fly high Come on and zoom, come on and zoom, zoom Come on and zoom, come on and zoom, zoom Major funding for Zoom has been provided by a grant from General Foods Corporation. Additional funding has been provided by this station and by other public television stations, and by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped.