I might be calling this "My life..." but the fact is that this is a collective story of how a rag-tag group of kids no one expected to succeed, rose to a challenge given by a young, idealistic teacher. Our journey has taken us from hopelessness to inspired and determined. For me, the everyday can get in the way of the vision, so I try hard to stay close; close to the foundation, the Freedom Writers, and our mission to change the world - starting first with ourselves.
Now it seems the saga of the Freedom Writers has grown beyond anything we had ever hoped and taken on a life of its own. Curricula is being developed, teachers trained and battles won to allow the use of The Freedom Writer's Diary in classrooms across the continent.
Something else wonderfully surreal is in the very near future; Paramount Pictures has created a movie based on the stories the Freedom Writers told in our diary entries. I say surreal because we started out writing our stories to relieve the pain, fear and struggle we experienced daily. There is also incrediby strange to see your "ordinary" life replayed as a motion picture.
Now it seems the saga of the Freedom Writers has grown beyond anything we had ever hoped and taken on a life of its own. Curricula is being developed, teachers trained and battles won to allow the use of The Freedom Writer's Diary in classrooms across the continent.
Something else wonderfully surreal is in the very near future; Paramount Pictures has created a movie based on the stories the Freedom Writers told in our diary entries. I say surreal because we started out writing our stories to relieve the pain, fear and struggle we experienced daily. There is also incrediby strange to see your "ordinary" life replayed as a motion picture.
