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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KSEE) – This pupil took bonzer enactment successful a precise mean spot - each portion thousands of miles distant from home.
It started arsenic a mean travel to Target for Alex Basilaia, a overseas speech pupil astatine Dinuba High School.
"I was with my big family, with my big brother, and besides different speech student, Baturbek, from Kyrgyzstan. He's 1 of my closest friends," Alex said.
Alex's parent sent him connected this travel to larn what helium tin from America, but besides equipped with lessons from home.
"If you can, conscionable spell and bash it. This was however my parent raised me, this was however I was taught successful my family," Alex said.
As they were checking out, a pistillate down Alex started having a seizure and without hesitation helium jumped into action.
“He didn't think, 'uh, what I'm gonna get from this?' He conscionable went instantly and helped,” said Omar Youssef, different overseas speech pupil astatine Dinuba High School. “My big begetter called 911. So it was truly bully benignant of teamwork together. But I would accidental Alex took the biggest portion successful going successful and helping her. Yeah, it's amazing.”
It is that aforesaid instinct to assistance that shows connected campus, too. If determination is simply a occupation betwixt students, Alex is not a bystander.
“Having a pupil similar Alex connected campus, erstwhile we person scuffles betwixt students, galore times
students volition propulsion retired phones - Alex jumps into action," said Evan Halstead, an world counsellor astatine Dinuba High School.
Alex is 1 of 7 overseas speech students astatine Dinuba High School. His counsellor says these students bring diverseness and beingness lessons to campus.
“It's an astonishing programme to bring antithetic cultures onto field truthful that our Dinuba family, our Dinuba communities tin larn much astir the antithetic cultures and antithetic characteristics that truly link humans. I mean, conscionable basic, basal things similar redeeming somebody's beingness is applicable astir the world,” Halstead said.
Alex whitethorn lone beryllium present for a abbreviated time, but his interaction connected the Dinuba assemblage volition past a lifetime.
"So each time I'm trying to conscionable stock the bully feelings, smile, and besides the proposal I had from my mother, from my older radical successful Georgia. I'm trying to marque them amended too, due to the fact that again, we request each other," Alex said.
A existent illustration of enactment and leadership, Alex is teaching his classmates the worth of stepping up erstwhile it matters most.
