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Overview of Docent Training Program

all right welcome to docent training um for those who can join us live in person on tuesday afternoons from two to about 4 30 as well as those who are watching the recording afterwards um those who are on the call will certainly have the opportunity to ask and have questions answered those who are not on the call um you do too because you myself and laura would be happy to address any questions that you might have i am megan mcguire i'm the uh director of education at the rancho for those who don't know me wait so i should listen to this right now i am the director of education for those who don't know me and uh i also on the call is our executive director allison bruzohoff who will be um speaking in just a little bit alana reese a member of our education team um who primarily uh helps with youth and family programs as well as outreach and laura wilbanks all of you know her our volunteer coordinator plus other docents who have been volunteering during public hours uh docents who have been doing our school program um and new folks who would like to become docents so we're thrilled to have one and all the very first topic today is the rancho yesterday today and tomorrow what is this institution that we're all associated with um after that i'm gonna have allison talk about the new um newly approved just last week uh rancho strategic plan and then we're gonna um go over what people love about being a docent i'm gonna provide an overview of how the training program works uh and that'll be the end of the first recording after a short break we will uh go into the general history of the rancho and have a chance for questions another really short break at which point um we're going to talk about the tour as it looks today okay ready to get started the rancho yesterday today and tomorrow rancho los cerritos is located on native american land of course the tongva for those of you who are familiar with that name some know them as the gabrielle they are they have been living on the land since time immemorial a variety of folks have settled on the land including the spanish by the 1770s by the 1780s uh one of the first three land grants in alta california was given to a man named manuel nieto he was a spanish soldier he was looking towards settling in alta california when he retired by the 1790s he got a very very large land grant about 300 000 acres it was reduced a little more than half of that but he had a large area for cattle ranching he was a cattle rancher after his death in 1804 his daughter manuela and her husband guillermo kota inherited the land had a lot of children but they only inherited a portion and that's where the title rancho los cerritos comes in because she inherited about 27 000 acres her descendants after her death sold it to a yankee a fellow named john temple who had come to um california all to california when mexico was a brand new country about five years old in the 1870s i'm sorry in the 1820s uh john temple came to california by the 1840s he wanted to get involved in cattle ranching and so he purchased rancho los cerritos from manuel nie manuel and nieto's descendants um he had a cattle ranch at los cerritos for about 20 years and then when he was ready to retire uh he sold it to a new outfit sheep ranchers men who had come to california for the gold rush but got involved instead in sheep ranching and that's flint bixby and company by 1866 this cattle ranch had become a sheep ranch the bixby's ran sheep there for more than 15 years but that's how long they lived in the adobe house um they continued to have a sheep ranch for maybe five years after they moved out of the adobe house that we all know today as rancho los cerritos they moved first to los angeles and eventually settled in the brand new town of long beach when it was just just emerging as a town um they continued to own the rancho but didn't live there by the 1880s going into the 1890s they were renting out portions of their remaining property as well as the house itself for a variety of different uses somebody ran a boarding house somebody ran a dairy a lot of the pasture land was planted for beans and alfalfa and other agricultural products to sustain the growing population in the region especially the town of long beach um so the rancho itself continued to be a home where uh people lived but in this case they were primarily tenants um of the rancho from the 1890s through the 1920s by the 1930s after years of deferred maintenance the house continued to serve as a home but it was substantially renovated and restored 1929 1930 1931. the adobe was uh restored for uh llewellyn bixby the nephew of the sheep rancher the son of one of the original ranch owners from the 1860s one of the named partners in flint bixby and company was llewellyn bixby it's his son who remodels um the house by the 1930s he and his wife move in they change a fair number of the uses of the room since it's no longer a rental unit it's no longer a ranching headquarters it is a private very grand newly refurbished estate for the llewellyn and avis bixby couple really they didn't even live there because their children were adults by them but certainly they had some live-in help as well as kids and grandkids who came by 1942 llewellyn bixby died 19 a little bit a few years later his wife avis moves out to the town of long beach which was encroaching on the rancho but not yet really subsuming it what happens then well a gardener still lived on site and eventually avis bixby decided and the local community of long beach decided that this was an old house worthy of preservation worthy of city ownership by 1955 rancho los cerritos a home a ranch land a cattle and sheep ranching headquarters by 1955 this became a historic house museum owned and operated by the city of long beach so that's the long history i'm going to talk about the organizational history now from 1955. purchased um and initially run under the department of the library um so we have a branch a reference library um owned by the city a lot of those books are owned by the city but it's part of the rancho today we were managed under city tenure for under the library's department's tenure for a lot of years but by the 1980s it was a switch was made and rancho los cerritos became part of the department of parks recreation and marine as we see more and more leisure time activities under parks and recreation recreation type activities we were managed under parks and rec for um [Music] more than two decades at which point the city came up with a new solution to what do we do with the rancho uh especially as budgets tightened um the city asked our foundation which was established in the 1990s as a fundraising organization the city asked the foundation hey you're doing a bang-up job raising funds do you ever consider a managing the site and that was i think a huge leap of faith that the foundation undertook some introspection some additions to make sure that it had members who could help sustain and support a brand new um non-profit to oversee a brand new nonprofit and by 2014 we were not just we were still owned by the city of long beach but we're now independently run under the rancho los cerritos foundation what did that mean we have a staff we've had a staff for a long time really since 1955 we had one curator who lived in a few years later we had a curator um and an assistant and a few years after that we had a historic sites director and an assistant and a curator and our staff kept expanding uh to take on a volunteer coordinator to take on a horticulturalist to take on some pr and marketing folks to take on an education person me uh we kept expanding under the rancho los cerritos foundation we have been really unfettered to expand and continue to grow the operation in the ways that really support and sustain it the staff today includes our executive director who will be speaking in just a minute uh the education team of whom you have just met all of its members laura and alana and myself we have a development team that is our fundraising group and that includes a development director um a grant writer a prn marketing person a site rental person um and an administrative person all sorts of uh important people under development or fundraising we have a horticulturalist she's actually been on staff for almost 30 years and she'll be the featured presenter tonight at our um [Music] at our volunteer virtual gathering i think you all know her marie varnidge mcintyre we also have folks who lift look after the facility itself including a custodian and a facilities director and finally finally we have a brand new curator who i hope you get to meet very very soon his name is carlos ortega um so we have a vibrant staff we uh professional staff but we have a huge team because not only do we have the foundation that oversees operations not only do we have our 14 member staff i think it's 14 at present we also have about 150 more members of our education or rancho team and that is who you represent are volunteers that's whose staffs are public programs who guides our tours who helps with gardening who works behind the scene to make sure that all of our collections and exhibits are um wonderful the volunteers are an integral part of our team our organization as well what do we do i just mentioned some of the folks who own or who populate the rancho we have a lot of public offerings our traditional offerings include house tours garden tours and school tours beyond that we've had a variety of public programs whether those are big festivals for the holiday season or mud mania in the summer we've also had concerts and we've had a lot of workshops and lectures um of course we have education curriculum for elementary school teachers who bring their students on site or who go off-site during covid everyone is pivoted right we have added to the mix um coveted response including far more outdoor experiences with more content for outdoor experiences we've added virtual activities and app-based content as well we can do all this because of who we are of how we're committed and because of the funds that are raised quite frankly and the long-term thought that has gone into what is the rancho and what could the rancho be i mentioned that in the 1990s the foundation started that was dedicated to fundraising for capital improvements like the new visitor center and for education curriculum but when they took over um overs began to oversee daily operations by employing our executive director well things got really interesting and so i want to bring allison now into the conversation i've talked about the rancho historically as a place organizationally which is basically the contemporary rancho and where are we going that long-term master plan has been updated allison can you talk about the rancho strategic plan and the rancho tomorrow as well of course of course can you guys hear me okay okay great um so as megan said is back in 1999 a master plan was created for the rancho it involved at that time the staff board and also community stakeholders and it outlaid a plan that was sunset in 2024 and when i was hired six years ago my main mandate was to make sure that that master plan moved forward and got done and to update it um because again it was written in 1999 we're now in 2021 so some things have changed so we took the elements of that master plan and over the course of the past few years since 2019 our then board chair myself and a consultant went to a sustainability program which was four months four classes about how do we make a sustainable organization not only in terms of programming but also fundraising since everything we want to do we need to fund and also when we're talking about sustainability is you know been there for over 175 years want to make sure we're there for an additional 175 years plus so that led us to a whole strategic plan process that we continued throughout covid and we just last thursday approved the new strategic master plan and it incorporates everything that we talked about in 1999 updating it and also new projects such as the deia initiative work we're doing that's diversity equity accessibility as well as our new water project looking back to advance forward which kicks off construction in the next couple of months and we have a new vision statement and a new mission statement the idea was to streamline those a little bit and so the new vision statement which i believe is in your docent manual is to cultivate an inclusive and sustainable world by exploring the historic connections between people and place so clearly you know that is visionary it's noble that's what we want and hope to achieve to do then we have our new mission statement which is to honor diverse perspectives enrich collaborative conversations and inspire broader understanding through stewardship of rancho los rios's natural and cultural history probably the newest word in there is natural we have focused so much on the historic house the history but really we haven't taken advantage of the full all the acreage that we do have another thing that went into the strategic master plan was to talk about the entire rancho and not just our five acres that we all are so familiar with and love but the broader 27 000 acres which incorporates a lot of most of long beach some la county so we can tell the stories of the diverse populations that helped create rancho los cerritos long beach and then california it also incorporates our values which are to be we need to have relevance we need to be responsive and we need to be resourceful then the plan itself consists of four intertwined pillars one is preservation innovation education and stewardship and then within each of those pillars we have objectives and then action steps which really projects that were from the 1999 plan plus new projects and all these pillars can't stand on their own they have to be woven together we need to show innovation in preservation innovation and education stewardship you know fiscal responsibility needs to run through all the pillars so it's a very comprehensive plan and we do have an executive summary that i can share with everyone i would also send you the 42 page plan if you would like to see it um depends on what your bedtime reading i suppose perhaps looks like sometimes but so we have that um so it's super exciting and really you know diversity equity inclusion and accessibility is woven throughout the entire plan and some of the upcoming projects that we have really speak to that as i mentioned we are doing the looking back to advanced forward project which is a stormwater reclamation and reuse project that involves the entire site making it more eco-friendly instead of only collecting 40 of each first rainfall will collect 95 and then we can reuse that stormwater for our irrigation we also capture the runoff from the virginia country club virginia road our lower parking lot will become an eco-friendly parking lot we have yet to design that phase so we have that and we're also creating steam um curriculum around that environmental conservation climate change so we can be a larger player in that conversation our next exhibit that opens up in march is roots of southern california and it talks about the mexican and the mexican immigrant story in long beach and then broader southern california that's an exciting project as you guys will find out coming into november we'll be closing the visitor's center yet again but not because of covid but for construction so the upper level will become a temporary exhibit space and where miss laura wilbanks is will become a museum shop so we'll have a much more formal museum shop the idea is if you look at the visitor center you enter the left door we have an orientation video about the site where you are why it's important art history the exhibit you see the exhibit and then you exit the right door going past what museum shop so hopefully take some museum shop product and leave and then take a tour of the house in the gardens but really it kicks off our exhibits and talking about different cultures um within long beach so that is some of the exciting work we have going on and i will say in terms of the eia is we do value all of our volunteers all of our docents and so as we add diversity into our ranks we're not taking anything away for those that saw anything about the art institute in chicago we're not that um we have an amazing group of volunteers so we'll just add to our group of volunteers and add in diversity to that so i just wanted to i know that's been a hot topic of late so just to add that into the mix that we're adding to we're not taking we're not taking anything away we're not taking away the stories we tell now we're adding to we're not taking away staff or volunteers we're just adding to it's all about adding to um so it's a super exciting time at the rancho and for this looking back to advanced forward project we did just sign off on the largest grant the site has ever received 2.1 million dollars so who says we're not relevant when you can get 2.1 million dollars and we thought just two years ago getting one million dollars was a huge deal which it was trust me that was a gigantic deal so it's an exciting time i am so excited you all are going to be houston's learning more about the house i had the privilege to go on a couple checkout tours and i've said this more than once i learned more in those two tours than i recall from my docent training way back in the day of 2016. so um it's exciting i'm glad you all are here i'm going to turn it over to megan unless there's questions and i'll be giving this same talk this evening to you at our volunteer virtual gathering so i look forward to seeing you all there too so thank you for my time if there are any questions for allison please signal that now because she will need to sign off shortly no questions mean i did an amazing job so thank you all well i'm curious are we doing the barn that we had in the original plan or no we are that is part of the campaign marcia is we are raising funds right now to design it we have a conceptual design and the idea is is to start construction of that by 2030. okay thanks all right well thank you all i'm off for the eia meeting it's a pleasure to see everyone and you get to see some new faces too so thank you thank you alison for being all here the next thing i'd like to introduce three of our ranks um who are on this phone call i'm just double checking yes they all are still here and i've asked is it so let me say that our volunteers who are already docents often like to sit in on a docent class and sort of refresh um and uh just you know check in you know you always hear new things um the next time but we appreciate their enthusiasm for sitting in a class and i thought i would let them speak for themselves and i asked them to tell us what do you really love about giving public tours i have right now martin raul and tom i can't see martin or raul so i'm gonna pick on tom and ask him to tell us two or three things that you really enjoy about public tours and then uh martin and raul i think i'll go after you okay i think the best thing is is giving the history of long beach and then go beyond that going to the indigenous people uh you get a whole group of people that have never been to the rancho and they might have lived in the neighborhood and never experienced it and they think it's just a you know house or whatever and it turns out you know you you get them there and you say okay now just think that there was nothing here and it was just you could see the ocean from there and so you just start teaching them the history of california and i love the history and also the people that come to visit you know you get all walks of life you get uh it just it just energizes you and then they ask questions and they just it just gets better all the time and you get the children out there and that's another thing it's just uh um they're so fascinated with different things then you tell them well there's no electricity you know and they like what you know so it's it's interesting to see their their uh attitude on it and also the um there's people that come by more often you know like this one lady and her daughter uh and she goes fishing in the pond so you get little relationships of of that so uh it's just a win-win when giving back to california or to long beach and it is the heart of long beach and uh born and raised here in third generation uh it's very dear to my heart and i expect to be here for a long time thanks tom and tom is one of our newer docents he's been doing this for about a year now uh but actual public tour since just since june right when we reopened since we trained you during covet raul has um well we say medium tenure i think he's four four or five years maybe more than that um and then martin bell so i'm muting you so that we don't get the reverb um so raul has been here for i'll have him speak for himself four five maybe six years martin bell uh has been here for more than ten because he was recognized this year as our sarah bixby award winner um actually raul's not on camera so martin it's your turn oh there he was back one of you can go hey martin sorry about that it's not a problem um i guess really the um the issue for me is one of the opportunity to talk to people about uh and people in this case refers to the general public who comes to the rancho the opportunity to talk to them about the scale of the rancho and the property and how it interacts with the history for all of us um i don't think a lot of people recognize the um the international national state and local uh involvement that the rancho has from going back to even uh after the tonga talking about how the um uh spain and russia were trying to duke it out for alta california uh and the rancho's presence really has some ties to that period so yes i enjoy the historical part the opportunity to meet with people in the community and and internationally to explain these stories to them so that's really what i i see is the prime benefit of being at rancho as his as a house it's all yours thanks martin um so for me one of the most uh um enjoyable things for being a docent is actually just the interaction with the people that come in and are interested in learning the history and you get to educate them um as far as it's not just on one particular topic but just pretty much the difference generation and culture that you know there's a melting pot here uh in branches freedom so that's that's my biggest uh fulfillment when you know about being a doctor just giving the uh guests good knowledge of uh the issue so that thank you raul and thank you martin and thank you tom um we like to talk we like to read we like to share uh but because a docent draws people in as i think martin said is if you wander into the rancho you may or may not know what it is and yet you may have these relevant and important connections that you start to see you the visitor you the docent i appreciate all of you sharing um a few housekeeping details and then i'm gonna provide an overview of docent training and what it entails um before we take a break so i uh bill do you want me to put your second device out sorry i know you're having on your second device what we get is reverb so we um if i have both of you logged in we can't hear you i'll leave it as it is but that's why i've been putting it on mute so we're not hearing the the voice coming back through the other device so one thing is if everyone will please keep themselves muted while um presentations are going on um but we will periodically break for questions and i know that you all know where that chat button is but for some of us it's more accessible than others and but if you have uh any questions or comments whether we address them right then or just use it as a log to go back to when we have a break for questions uh we definitely want to answer your questions but we also want to make sure that we keep um the uh over talking to a minimum and especially the reverb and so forth so we will keep muting you um we appreciate if you can do it yourself uh secondly um the meetings will be recorded so if you want to be anonymous um then i encourage you to just put your first name on there as a couple people have they can still unmute and talk ask questions and so forth um but if you don't want to show your beautiful face or you don't want your entire name to be on the um recorded video then please make sure that you make yourself a little bit anonymous but not so much that laura and i don't know who we're calling on um and these meetings as i said are being recorded i will record them in chunks so that they're all digestible should we say but also editable so they're about 45 minutes to an hour each even though our entire session is two and a half hours i will record them in chunks that make sense and then uh put them up on a private youtube link that means you can't you can't go to our website our youtube page to find them that we will send out the link once the first day's videos are available and you can go back to that link every week and either see the recordings that you missed or see the recordings that you want to review they'll all be individually named part one part two part three by day and i put a little blurb about the con the content for that um bill i see you have a question and i know that you are trying to get your speaker to mute i think maybe bill is just indicating that he understood he needed to mute himself hello can you hear me hello can you hear me ken but we're getting reverb so it's hard to know do you have a short question and then we commute it again well i'm having difficulty understanding you because of the uh okay so i just muted you again because otherwise it's becoming very loud it may be that you'll watch the video bill if you can't hear us now because i it could be that your sound's not turned up enough or there could be another issue that i don't know what it is yeah do you need both devices bill i think that's the problem is that you're logged in on two devices can you hear me now can you hear me we hear you bill but there's lots of rebirth yes i'm getting a strong reverb also right can you log off of one of the devices that you're logged in on that's why you're getting the reverb so you're in this meeting on two different computers can you lot can you sign out on one of them bill we're about to take a break so i would like to meet you and try and figure it out when we're not live okay we will try and figure it out on the break okay thank you all right so um one thing is that we're being recorded another thing is that we will have those videos available um within 48 hours probably a little sooner than that on the link that we send you they'll all go on the same playlist so if you miss it or want to see it again you'll just check that same link um and the third thing i've sort of alluded to volunteers at the rancho who would like to learn more about the rancho are certainly welcome to audit any class but docent trainees that's a different thing and so we are asking just for your intentions once you sit through today's um entirety but also especially after you hear about the overview of training and what the commitment is if you want to train to become a house docent um or expect to be able to train to become a house docent we just want to know what your general commitment is um if you're sitting in on this because you are a volunteer which all of you are and you just want to learn more about the rancho but really don't expect to become a house docent that's fine we just want to know one way or the other okay so those are my housekeeping let me now pull up my house docent training schedule which laura sent to you um yesterday and talk you talk you through it can you can you see it yes awesome uh oh perfect bill now we're not getting the reverb okay so welcome to houston training um your staff includes myself and laura and uh other house docents um as well as sometimes other staff and that's why i wanted you to meet alana today as well even though she's not part of today's training um i put the zoom link on there it's the same each week if you're able to tune in at two if you don't turn in write it to uh we will get you into the meeting but um and then you can just go back through um any portions that you missed later on if you can't make it that day and want to attend asynchronously a word i learned from my college student that's absolutely fine as well um in addition to attending or watching the videos attending the training or watching the videos there will be outside reading from our docent manual laura has sent you two sections of it section one and section nine i think that is your homework for this week um by the end of the week she'll also send you your homework for next week people either do their reading in advance or they do it afterwards i don't have a big stake in when you do it obviously you're going to manage your own time there will not be pop quizzes but a lot of people find that previewing the information listening in class and then really digging into it afterwards works well for them other people do it very differently but the docent manual will be sent to you in parts so that it's manageable um as a pdf uh and i hope i hope that way works for you but there will be outside readings from primarily the docent manual there is this wonderful little book that many of you already know about but some of you might not it's called adobe days it's written by sarah bixby smith and published in 1925 and she as a young girl in the 1870s visited rancho los cerritos rancho los alamitos lived at rancho san justo in other words she is part of this story and so there is a week i think it's in the middle of november um early november that'll ask you to read her book it's about 100 pages long and just really wonderful um so that as well as the docent manual will be your reading that we ask you to do um beyond that there's so much more reading you could do all right what else is part of docent training we ask you if you haven't recently taken a tour of the rancho a standard public tour i would like you to take a tour within the first three weeks of training just to see what you're training for beyond that i ask you to take a house tour and a garden tour that you're gonna do something with okay we have something uh a worksheet that you'll fill out um this is not do i want to do become a docent or do i not this is uh as a docent in training what can i glean from a public tour of the ranch house of the ranch gardens and we'll ask you to think about what themes what interpretive devices what portions of history you're hearing if you hear anything that just doesn't quite ring true all of that good stuff all of our other house docents have done this in the past um so they will know why you're doing it but we would ask you to do that separate from just a once a one-time tour of the rancho uh we're also going to take a field trip and somebody mentioned that they wanted to go to the bembridge house right i don't remember was that maybe laura breen i don't okay it was um you can go with your friend absolutely but we're also gonna go um either individually or as a group so you can figure out how yours counts laura um either to the bembridge uh house the banning residence rancho los alamitos or one two or all three of them i'll show you how that might work okay and give you lots of room for uh your own schedule to fit that in the final thing is we will have various activities either in class or outside of class room interpretations that tour observation report the formal name of the activity i was describing in a minute ago a sample tour with a partner and then a checkout tour these constitute the basic um activities that you'll engage in attending class doing the reading taking guided tours of our site going on a field trip to take a guided or self-paced tour of another site and then participating in the activities um that we have as part of training all right how are we gonna train you what is the outline look like today i'm sorry let me move it all so it doesn't make you or me nauseous as i scroll down uh today october 19th we have already covered yesterday today and tomorrow as well as the strategic plan um i am currently explaining docent training um and then after the break uh i will be doing the history of rancho los cerritos and after another short break we'll be showing you what a current house tour looks like aren't we amazingly magic um but that's all what's going on today next week we're going to break these things down um we're going to look if you see historical topics each week we're going to look at the first people in this region the tongva as well as the spanish colonists who came their settlement their institutions uh we're gonna look at the adobes uh that were built either in their time or a little bit more recently and we're gonna start a discussion of interpretation those three things will sustain us those three kinds of topics as we go through doesn't training so let's just look under weeks two three five and six under historical topics today i'm gonna do in 45 or 50 minutes maybe a little longer the whole history of the rancho but next week i'm breaking it down as i said to the natives who lived in this region before any european settlers and then those first european settlers the week after that i will be talking about this second group of settlers really what it was is the mexicans who seceded from new spain um and what they did with hyde and tallow uh the land grants and then the war that um brought their um time period to an end on november 5th we'll be looking at early american california so gold rush and statehood the civil war sheep ranching rather than cattle ranching and what that meant for daily life the final week we'll be looking at or emerging long beach california so wilmore city and the increasing population development as well as pushing further into the 20th century great depression and the rancho becomes a historic site so today i'm going to do all of that and then i'm going to break it down in in considerably more detail in context in terms of interpretation or room studies let's look first at room studies the adobe in general and its architecture on november 2nd i'll be looking more specifically at a couple of the exhibit rooms especially those that reflect that rancho's earliest period of the 1840s so we'll be looking closely at the foreman's room in the blacksmith shop go down to november 16th or session five we'll be looking at the laundry room furniture store room food store room uh and so more closely at those areas and then on november 23rd we will be looking at uh late 19th century early 20th century rooms the library the sun porch the living room and then the dining room is arguably all periods because there's always been a dining room and people dining in that particular location of the rancho interpretation that's how you share what you know right so i can teach you a lot of history you can read a lot about it it'll be in our powerpoints but how do you make that meaningful to the people who come there are different interpretive devices uh that we will introduce you to the concept of interpretation the room guides that we have for you the key themes of the rancho going down in november 2nd how you hang a tour together through verbal communication nonverbal communication transitions even questions um and then november 16th i'm going to show you um storyboarding and talk about i'm sorry if you lost me storyboarding and talk about storytelling how you actually uh share a narrative develop and share narrative um and uh the very last week instead of interpretation i will talk about visitor safety house security accessibility of the different routes um how you open and close the tour so we we start with the big picture we break it down in a lot of different ways and then we break bring it back up to the big picture and then of course i turn the tables late november early december depending on how many people there are and what schedules work out but we'll be doing a sample tour of the rancho with a partner lots of feedback um and then we'll be doing individual checkout tours where you might bring your family and friends to see you now leading a tour of the rancho and ta-da you will be a newly trained house docent are there any questions about this i don't see any questions so what i'm going to do for our break it is 3 10 i'm going to give you uh about okay there i'm back i'm going to give you about five minutes at the most but what i'm gonna do is simply stop the recording and people can stay on or they can go off you can you know stop your video share and put yourself on mute and you know go get a glass of water or you can hang out here and maybe make conversation with others in your training class it's really your call but i will pause the recording