curiosity in Jakarta back then the chubby black boy with a white mother and
an Indonesian stepfather the second place Obama lived in Jakarta a colonial
era house in the garden of a villa still looks much as he left it
so today I'm gonna be exploring something really cool
so President Obama
actually lived here in Indonesia and I'm gonna be heading to his house right now
his former childhood home in Jakarta Indonesia
and in fact he lived in
Indonesia for four years here and he went to elementary school here from when
he was six years old to ten years old
and a lot of people knew him as Barry
when he lived here in Indonesia and he moved here to Indonesia with his mom and
then he lived here with his stepfather which was Indonesian and also he had a
half-sister and he lived here in the late 1960s
oh and actually in fact I am
right here standing in front of his childhood home
this is it
this is childhood home
this is so cool
this is so surreal
I am in front of former President Obama's former childhood home that is so cool
wow this is super cool
Wow this kind of like gives me chills that
I'm standing right in front of here to see his childhood home
this is like so
surreal and so cool
Wow
and it's 22 that's where he lived right here and one thing about President Obama
he loves his bakso and satay
so I'm sure like a lot of different street
vendors would come over here and then he would order satay and bakso
and just hear the vendor sell satay
bakso
buying satay
bakso
from the street vendors
I still remember the call of the vendors
satay
bakso
now I'm gonna go to go see his school so I want to check
it out and I believe it's close by here
and I'm in the area where it is menteng area
so I'm just going to cross the street and then I'm gonna go look for his school
he did attend school in Indonesia for four years
his mom moved here with her husband and Obama's stepfather was Indonesian
and he also had a half-sister here
and yeah let's go check it out I'm excited
I'm excited to see where he went to school just to see his house was really cool
it was so surreal and honestly he gave me like chills and goosebumps
like just to stand right there in front of it
Wow let's go
fans yelling (Obama's name)
so this is it
this was Obama's childhood school his
elementary school right here
wow this is so neat and then right here
they have a little plaque right here Barack Hussein Obama II the 44th
President of the United States of America
attended this school from 1969 to 1971
Wow that is so cool
oh and over here
there's like a little statue right here and I believe that is Obama when he was little
I'm interested if I can go inside so I'm gonna walk around this
building and see if I can go inside
I'm so curious like to find out and just to see
hello
can I come in
you can
ok we can go inside we can go look
okay let's go inside
really cool
hello.... hi
this obama's school right
that one over there
ooo this is not the same one
can I not enter from there too
wow
okay so they just opened the gate for me so I get to go inside
thank you
Wow
thank you
wow this is it
okay so this is what I was showing you guys this is the statue
of President Obama right here and he's holding that butterfly this is him this
is when he was a little child
so they told me I can go inside so I'm gonna walk inside right here
this is cool
Wow
okay so right here this is like
the courtyard area and then it looks like a play area so they have a
basketball court here and then there's the soccer area here
so they have the
the goalposts right here and up there those are like the
I believe the
classrooms and then down here
and I also heard
I was reading up a little bit about him
everybody said that he was really nice in school and also he would
stand up for like his classmates when they would get picked on as a little boy
and he was also a little naughty
which one was Obama's classroom
there
oh yeah okay
so she's gonna take me to it
this is it
okay cool
wow
wow this is his classroom
wow!!!!
this is so cool!!!!
oh my god......
this is so cool
omg his picture is right here
right here
this is a drawing it has President Obama's face it says my inspiration
so I'm sure that
for the future generation of this school they are probably just so inspired I
mean they have a statue outside by him
it's just an inspiration that you can be
anything that you want to be
there's just no limits of what you want to be
what you dream of
also I read online he used to be like a little thick
a little like ugh
they would say a fat boy
so actually they said he should sit in the back of the room because he
was a bigger boy and then the more smaller kids would sit in the front
wow
wow I have to sit down
I have to sit down
and just imagine like where he sat down
okay
so
this is cool
hello guys
this where he sat down
his childhood classroom
wow
this is so cool
I can't even tell you how I feel like I feel amazing just experiencing this
like ahhh.....
wow!!!!
he dreamed of also being the president
I mean
I believe
I also read online that he wrote
they asked him what he wants to be when he grows up and
he said the the president
so he already knew
ok so I'm leaving and she was super nice to let me in
yes super nice I'm so thankful I got to experience it
thank you so much
I am so happy
I get to share with you guys
this experience I got to see where he went to school
his classroom
I got to go to house earlier
this is such a nice experience
Wow
I got to experience that really nice experience
seeing Obama's childhood school I got to see his house
earlier that was so surreal
I'm just so happy I felt like I was really
just in that moment where he went to school where he lived here in Indonesia
I'm just so happy I got to experience that
and that was so neat
that made my day I can't tell you how happy I am and to
know that he had a piece of his life here in Indonesia in Jakarta actually
that does is just neat
that is really neat
today I'm leaving super inspired from a
little boy named Barry that went to school right here in Jakarta and just
like the words that were written here " the future belongs to those who believe
in the power of their dreams ''
and I learned to love Indonesian while flying kites and running along the paddy fields
and catching dragonflies