Rhonda Tu Mama Lyrics

This is the best time in your life

Your brain is still really good

You'll come up with some fantastic ideas, okay?

You still have, How old are you, 25?

Yeah, this is one of the best times of your life

What were you doing?

When I was 25 I went bankrupt

So I was supposed to have lost my job

So to save my job, Bank

In order to save it

I had to go the university of Illinois in Chicago

Tell your mother

Give her some hugs and kisses

Tell her this is from Rhonda

Tell her this is from Rhonda

That's what happens you know

Put someone in a situation

Teach them negative things

Say bad things

That's how they come up

Give them the opposite

Put them in a situation and say

She can't see

She can't hear

She doesn't have a left arm

But she is the same as you

We are

That's how you come up

That's what you exposed to

Then that's what you become

At a very young age

There's no difference

You're just a kid

Just like me

We can tell jokes and make funny faces

You know and do all the silly things that children do

And have fun

You're taught at a very young age

Positive things like that

You will be like that for the rest of your life

Advice too

This trip has been difficult

I sold a lot of my stuff to get out here

And as soon as I moved out here

My debit card was stolen

And all the money from my bank was drained

And I'm like

"I have no money and a very limited support network around here"

They would have found the person that did it

Exactly

And put them in jail

And you would have had your money

Winning

I went through identity theft

They had some information from me and bought some brand new men's suits

Best time of your life

What were you doing at my age?

I'm a retired teacher

So when I was 25 I was filling out my application for work

What did you study?

I was a high school English teacher at the time when I first started

The school went bankrupt

So I was supposed to have lost my job

but the principal of the school remembered me

Because I was a student of theirs

So he saved my job

So In order to save it

I had to go the university of Illinois in Chicago

Applied to a graduate program and got in

You did special ed?

Yes

That's what my mom did

It was a gift

But that's what I did

I took to the hard of hearing and the deaf

So when I was 25

Going into 25

That's when i started at the school

Love it

I had to borrow money from her to get by

That's why i haven't jumped into graduate school

I don't feel financially stable enough to do it

See I didn't have a choice

That was my career

Not just a job but a career

You know

I had to do it you know

So were you still working while you were studying?

Yeah

I had to do all of that

Teacher during the day

Going to school during the evening

Love it

Yeah my mom has driven

Almost my entire childhood

She left her like corporate job at apple

Oh wow

And she started driving a special needs bus

My parents are divorced so she raised me herself

Okay

So she needed to be around the house as much as possible

And having a school bus route

That had some breaks during the day

Was the best that they could come up with so

Yeah so I drove on short buses with her all the time

Sitting with the children

Making the best of friends with them

I just know

I know special needs kids

I know blind deaf and ahh

I love it

I feel privileged to have gotten that experience so young

Right, and you know what?

That makes you a better person

By your mother exposing you to those people

Certainly

And learning how to be just as nice to them as you are to anybody

That's what makes you a good person

Empathy

That's it

And I didn't see the difference between people

It wasn't like this category of people

It wasn't like special needs

If you teach a person at a very young age

It builds character then

They don't have the meanest in them

It's an attitude

You know

That's a learned thing to look down at people

And have those kind of negative attitudes

A child doesn't come into this world like that

So if your mother put you on that bus with those kids

At a very young age and you learn how to treat those kids

You know they're just like anybody else

That's, It builds character

That brings out the best in you know

Definitely, I appreciate it a lot

And you are for all intents and purposes a good person

Well thanks Rhonda, You're not so bad yourself

Thank you Darling

That's what happens you know

Put someone in a situation

Teach them negative things

Say bad things

That's how they come up

Give them the opposite

Put them in a situation and say

She can't see

She can't hear

She doesn't have a left arm

But she is the same as you

We are

That's how you come up

That's what you exposed to

Then that's what you become

At a very young age

There's no difference

You're just a kid

Just like me

We can tell jokes and you know

Make funny faces

You know and do all the silly things that children do

And have fun

Totally and like you were saying too

The older you get, your brain is a little bit different

It's harder to change those habits that you were taught

Right, So if you're taught at a very very young age

Types of things like that

You'll be that way for the rest of your life

Forever

I don't have to unlearn any bad shit

This is it because you know

It is the truth

You know how I feel about a lie and the truth

You have to remember a lie but you don't have to remember the truth

Honesty

You don't have to remember goodness

When you see your mother

Just give her some hugs and kisses and tell her this is from Rhonda

Tell her this is from Rhonda

A retired special needs teacher

I totally will

Tell her that I turned out to be a wonderful person

All I needed was some money

Hahaha

She's certainly helped me with her meager funds

To like...

This trip has been difficult

I sold a lot of my stuff to get out here

And as soon as I moved out here

My debit card was stolen

And all the money from my bank was drained

And I'm like

"I have no money and a very limited support network around here"

It got fixed so I'm okay

But it was a month of hassle and just sending in this and that

Baby, they would have found the person that did that

Put them in jail

You would have gotten your money

Yeah

Yes