# Transcript

ZAMURD BUTT: For long, the delicious smell of gingerbread filled the kitchen. But as soon as the man and the woman opened the oven door, the Gingerbread Man jumped out and ran away.

[SPEAKING HINDI]

STUDENT: Gingerbread.

ZAMURD BUTT: Gingerbread Man [SPEAKING HINDI]. [GASPS] [SPEAKING HINDI]

STUDENT: Stop. Stop.

ZAMURD BUTT: Stop! Stop! [SPEAKING HINDI] Stop!

I work as a teaching assistant. I started as a volunteer. But I liked so much working with the children that I decided to stay on. And I’m still here. I work as a lunchtime supervisor and with my team members. And every day, if the weather is good, I’ll take the children out onto the field.

[SPEAKING HINDI] run.

ALL: Run as fast as you can.

ZAMURD BUTT: I can speak English, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, and African language as well, Swahili, because I was born in Kenya.

[SPEAKING HINDI]

STUDENT: Stop.

ZAMURD BUTT: Stop! Stop, shouted the girl. We love ginger--

Sometimes when I ask a child a question and he doesn’t say anything, that means he’s not understanding what I’m saying. And if I decide to talk in Urdu or Punjabi and then I ask them a question, they are able to answer it because they understand what’s happening in the story.

ALL: You can’t catch me. I’m the Gingerbread Man. Yes.