Diversity day is a day that Fossil Ridge High School recognizes that everyone different problems and triumphs in their lives. This year, DLA, (Diversity Leadership and Awareness) and Ridge TV have paired up to create a video.  The video aims to capture what life is like for a variety of Fossil students.

Fossil Ridge Junior Ben Visee followed Sophomore Jamie Soto for his first two classes, Spanish 5 and advisory, to see what his life is like. Afterward, Soto accompanied Visee to marketing, and pottery.

“I think they [other students] will realize diversity is not an old wooden ship,” Visee said, referencing Anchorman’s Ron Burgundy who said diversity was an old wooden civil war ship.

Visee thought that Soto’s first class, Spanish 5 was extremely hard but it did not keep him from trying. He also said that Spanish went over his head because he had no idea what anyone was saying. According to him, advisory was not different from his own.

Soto said that he really enjoyed both of Visees’ classes. “DECA [marketing] was interesting because of they are role modeling [playing].” During their last class together, they were sharing random facts with one another. A couple are these, one was that Soto shared that he grew up without a dad and Visee said his parents got a divorce when he was younger. Then Ben shared two more facts because they were on the top of his head. He said “I have had my thumb cut off by a door,” and “I’m an pacific islander.”

Before this the two students did not know each other at all. But by the end of the day they knew each other pretty well. By that time they were finishing each other’s sentences. An example of that is when Visee said “It [filming of them] is an experience” and Soto finished with “of a life time.”