Hello, fellow movie fans. I'm Lily Percy and I'll be your guide this week as I talk with Virgie Tovar teacher, Mrs. Chos, changed my life forever.

We were working on a scholarship application after class one day.

She wanted to get me into this very exclusive writing program at Columbia University for the summer.

And I was trying to explain to her that this was such a foreign thing to me, not just because of the money, which would be a definite issue, hence the scholarship, but because my parents would never agree to it.

To them, the idea of me going away for a whole summer, to be with a bunch of

strangers, Americans, was something that they wouldn't even consider. And it was then that

Mrs. Chios turned to me and said, you're always going to be walking between two worlds.

You're always going to be an immigrant and you're always going to be an American.

And you have to make a decision about what that means for you. And when I think about the movie

Real Women Have Curves, when I think of Anna and her own struggle walking between two worlds

as a Mexican-American living in L.A., trying to please her family and herself, I can't help but think of

that classroom with Mrs. Chos.

Anna, it's an excellent student.

I'd like to see her continue her education, go to college.

Mr. Grubisman, of course we want Anna to get educated.

We have already discussed that amongst our family.

But we need her to work now.

She can go to college later.

Senor Garcia, Anna's a very special young woman.

She got herself into Beverly Hills High School, which is not easy to do,

and now she can go even further. There are all kinds of scholarships.

I'm sorry, Mr. Guzman, but tomorrow morning she goes to the fact to get to sew with us.

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