Ellie Dempster
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But there were some kids that were so poor.
Yeah.
so poor they couldn't even bring rice home.
And rice, that's their only job.
The only thing is they just need to farm rice.
And they were so poor they couldn't even do that.
So it was very eye-opening seeing all of that, how privileged we are to have education too.
Yeah, yeah.
So it's been tough coming back into America and kind of having to go,
Okay, there's a little bit of a shift.
A little bit of a shift.
For sure, yeah.
Yeah, but I got thrown into Vegas instantly.
Yeah.
I went 10 years, almost 10 years in Thailand, living that lifestyle of collecting foods from monks and living and having monks train me for fighting, which is a weird sentence.
No, actually, I didn't phrase that right.
I went to the temple for my very first fight to learn mindfulness and how to ground myself, meditation, and I wanted to get my head in the right spot.
And, you know, they taught me everything.
Oh, my God.
It was like Mr. Mayock.