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>> We decided to join the GAP Club because...
>> Well actually, I'm going to tell you the truth,
at first, I didn't want to join, because I didn't understand what it was about.
>> My friend, she used to be a senior, and then she recommended GAP Club for me,
because I love animals, and...yeah.
I came and joined the GAP just through friends,
and I just loved animals and wanted to help them.
>> It's really good to make new friends; easy way to make new friends;
learn about dogs and cats;
and just get, like, a lot of experiences.
>> I joined GAP about two years ago.
One of my friends had told me about it, and I was like "hmm, that sounds like me"
because I love helping animals, I love being around animals.
I think it's really cool.
It's changed me to where I can trust more people now.
I used to have really bad trust issues with people,
because I'd met people who weren't very nice to me
and they weren't very honest with me.
But I found people that I can actually trust and I can talk to about anything.
>> You know, you can kind of let yourself go,
and you can help other people while you're doing it
and you don't have to be all...
you know you don't have to dress nice.
Girls today, they always want to be, like, nice and pretty and everything.
You know, sometimes you don't have to be like that.
>> I think it helps with girls who have low self confidence.
They can come here and boost it up.
Because we've had some speaker people come in
and some of their talks actually kind of helped.
>> It's changed that I can be more open with more people,
because I'm usually really shy.
It's made me to where I can go to teachers and my friends more.
All the girls in junior high and elementary called me "fatso" or "preggo",
and when I entered high school I wanted to lose the weight,
so I stopped eating,
and when I went to the GAP club I just felt happy and I started eating again. 0:01:54.939, 0:01:59.860 I lost some weight since then. I'm still getting there.
>> It helped us, like, get closer to other people
that we wouldn't normally have gotten close to.
>> We all share the same interests.
>> Interviewer: So, what kind of issues do you think girls are faced with today,
like teenage girls? What kinds of things are you seeing around that you think are problems,
for today's girl or just girls in general? What do you think?
>> They're getting pregnant.
>> I think people are not getting educated that much,
so they're getting pregnant in an early age, like when they're fifteen or sixteen.
>> Teen abuse, and pregnancy, I guess? And sexually transmitted diseases.
Cancer.
>> Peer pressure, the rise of teen pregnancy, "Teen Mom" or "Sixteen and Pregnant",
the pressure to lose weight,
the cyberbullying that's increased since Facebook.
So, those are a lot of things that the girls have to face
in today's society.
>> Because of the talks we got in GAP club about sex and all that,
I really don't want to have kids until like, after a while.
I just want to focus on education right now.
>> Yeah...I'm kind of scared of those numbers.
>> Well, I want to be in some kind of medical field,
so I'm just thinking of like, being a vet or maybe a nurse.
I'm still trying to decide.
>> As to kind of narrowing it down, I might do something in like,
the forensic field, or linguistics.
>> I was planning on being like, an ITT tech or an architect,
but in my free time I can go
and volunteer at the shelters or stuff like that. 0:03:39.980, >> I want to be an air traffic controller.
>> I'm planning on being a physical therapist,
because whenever I see some of the people from nursing homes,
I see how some of them need help with certain things,
and I love helping people out.
>> Mom wants me to be a lawyer, though... 0:03:55.509,0:03:58:070 >> I told her I'm going to med school, she's like "oh alright, 0:03:58:070,0:04:00:299 as long as you're going to med school that's OK." 0:04:00:299,0:04:03.909 >> She says "anything with Ph.D ..." what else?
>> M.D.