Extra Credit from Kirby’s Interview

• Watch Kirby’s YouTube Channel (over 50,000 subscribers!)

• Visit Kirby's website, kirbyaraullo.com

• Read about Kirby’s hometown, Angeles City, Philippines

• Learn about the health benefits of moringa leaves (malunggay)

• Read about the indigenous Aeta people of the Philippines

• Learn about Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr., one more the most controversial leaders of the 20th century

• Read about the Mount Pinatubo volcano eruption that Kirby and Ally lived through

• Learn about Pilipino Cultural Night (PCN)

• Learn about Balikbayan boxes via the Los Angeles Times: These boxes are a billion-dollar industry of homesickness for Filipinos overseas

• Listen to Otso-Otso, a popular Filipino novelty song

• Review theories on why Filipinos start celebrating Christmas in September

• Learn more about Mindanao and the Moro Rebellion, an armed conflict between the Moro people and the United States military during the Philippine–American War

• Learn about Pampanga, the half-buried church from by the historic Mt. Pinatubo volcanic eruption

• Watch the Disney short film, From Our Family to Yours and learn about the infamous Christmas parol lanterns

• Read about the First Asian American Settlement in the US on History.com by Kirby Pábalan-Táyag Aráullo

• Learn about the Filipino Farm Worker Movement from the National Parks Conservation Association and the New York Times

• Read Black Lives & Brown Freedom: Untold Histories of War, Solidarity, & Genocide by Kirby Pábalan-Táyag Aráullo