What's up beautiful people? We are back
for another episode of Maya's World.
And I am all up in my living room floor.
My bucket list items,
if you guys watched my previous video a month ago
I listed the four bucket list items
I was going to attempt to do over the next four weeks.
And the first one was learning to speak a different language,
which is Tagalog, the second one singing,
third was traveling to Africa, I've never been,
and that has always been a bucket list item of mine.
And the fourth one: swimming with sharks.
I documented my bucket list item experiences on Dayre,
the app is more blog, journal inspired,
and you write about your experiences.
You guys can find out all about that
in the description box below.
But let's get into these adventures, now shall we?
First up, learning a different language.
[phone speaking] MAYA: I'm learning through AudibleBooks.com.
And I practiced in the car or in the plane,
and I don't really film it when I'm practicing,
because I'm focused on learning, but --
PHONE: ... like his. Be sure you repeat aloud.
I'm showing you what I'm learning.
[Phone speaking Tagalog & Maya repeats it back]
PHONE: Say good day.
[Maya speaks back in Tagalog]
PHONE: Now he's going to ask, can you understand?
Here's how to say understand, just listen.
[Phone speaking Tagalog & Maya repeats it back]
You guys learning a different language is never ending.
That's non-stop, so this is just the beginning.
Next up, singing.
So I'm about to head into my first singing class,
which is going to be very interesting.
First I was like, this is a breeze, whatever,
and then I was like, wait a minute,
what song am I going to sing?
And it can't be a character, funny, ha-ha girl.
So, with the help of my friend Josh we picked
"At Last" by Etta James.
I feel like I don't know what I'm doing,
but whatever, I'm going to learn,
and I'm going to peel the layers,
the onions layers to reveal
the inner core of the Shameless one.
So, I'm just going to say this is Bob,
he's the man, he's going to help me,
at least support my instrument.
The other thing we're going to talk about is
feeling the courage, trying to find the courage
to be comfortable singing,
and we talked a little about that before,
and there's two ways to go,
and we'll just get started technically,
and then we'll let you psychologically
decide whether you're willing to reveal yourself,
which is what singing is.
And that's the part that terrifies me.
BOB: Go, "nu-nu-nu-nu-nu,"
and then take a breath and do the next scale.
[piano playing] MAYA: Nu-nu-nu-nu-nu.
BOB: Fill it up.
[piano playing] MAYA: Nu-nu-nu-nu-nu
BOB: Everything right, but what you're not doing
is you're not listening to the piano.
[piano playing] MAYA: Nu-nu-nu-nu-nu.
BOB: Yeah, what you did. If you were a guitar
you just tighten the string a little bit so it would go up.
Have you done a lot of singing?
- No. - Do you know a song?
I was practicing "At Last."
♪ At last my love has come along ♪
BOB: ♪ Has come alooooong ♪
♪ At last my love has come along ♪
♪ My lonely days are over ♪
BOB: I'm just going to give you a performance note,
that's important to know, and that is
unless it's something good,
you are not obligated to let us know
all the crap that's going on in your head.
MAYA: OK.
You know, the secret of being good at anything
is discipline and consistency.
So, the way you get good at something
is decide I want to be good at this,
and you do it every day.
MAYA: Right.
OK, so, just left class with Bob Croft, so good!
It really boils down to technique
and breathing, and all that stuff,
but the bigger issue is this voice in here,
and even if I am off, even if I do make a mistake, own it,
just own it, and don't apologize for it.
And I know that, for the most part in my life,
but yeah. That was a successful first class.
I'll be doing another "sessions"
when I get back from the holidays.
Do you want chips Tiffany?
Gas station life, and I'm getting Sour Patch...
Just pumping gas at the gas station, woo-hoo.
Because we're driving down to San Diego to swim with sharks,
first thing in the morning,
because that's what you do on a Wednesday, swim with sharks.
Ready for sharks?
- So ready -- [crosstalk]
- Ready as one could ever be. [laughter]
We're swimming with sharks and we --
Have you told them your checklist Maya,
of what you're supposed to do today?
You have to push them by the nose,
just push them away when they come at you.
Don't be finning around in the water, just a slight push.
A push, a redirect is what they say.
- A love tap. - A love tap.
Who's going to touch a shark?
That's the boat, that's Shannon.
[nervous laughter]
- Hi. - My name is Mark.
- Maya. - Good to meet you, Maya.
- Nice to meet you, Mark? - Yeah.
MAYA: Mark, OK.
MALE: Heck yeah, Mark's coming. MAYA: Maya!
NICK: Hey Maya, I'm Nick. MAYA: Nice to meet you.
NICK: Nice to meet you, come on down.
If the boat were to sink,
we have an emergency positioning device,
and it gets deployed as the boat sinks,
and the satellite signal goes out,
and the Coast Guard will come and picks us up.
I like it though. [laughter]
♪ ♪
Jessica, chilling.
[♪ pop music playing ♪]
MAYA: Turn up. I don't know why you're giving all this
to Justin Bieber, sorry.
[laughter] You going the mile.
- This right here is a chumsicle. - Chumsicle.
NICK: Chopped up sardines, mackerel, [inaudible].
There's holes in the bucket.
So as this defrosts,
it's going to come out the holes in the bucket,
it flakes out kind of like breadcrumbs for Hansel & Gretel.
And the sharks will come, they'll be sniffing the bucket,
that's when you get in the water and have a blast.
We waited and waited and waited,
there was a lot of sea sickness involved.
Poor Jessica wasn't feeling well at all.
We waited for hours for these damn sharks to show up.
Y'all are late.
And we've been waiting all day.
So we're just going to go inside. We're going to go in!
- How are you feeling? - Feeling better.
I want to go in.
After all this waiting we decided to just get into the ocean,
hopefully they would show up
with moving bodies swimming around.
[♪ scary music ♪] Now this ish was so terrifying you guys.
We're swimming around in open ocean with wild sharks
that could show up at any moment.
There is bait, so my face was frantically looking around
to see if I could see a shark,
because the first thing that we learned with sharks
is you have to pay attention to them and not run away from them.
It took us a while to even get used to breathing.
After about four hours of waiting,
we had to make the call.
They just didn't decide to show up,
which is the reality of going shark diving.
You have zero control of the wilderness.
I am going to go back to SD Expeditions
and give it one more again,
because I really want to see sharks,
and it was such a fun experience.
They have some amazing footage,
go check out their YouTube channel.
We did not see a shark.
You conquered your fear! [cheering]
- But I did want to see a shark. - That's good fortunes.
Because towards the end we were like, "Oh where are they?"
But I couldn't breathe in the first --
Maya put the mask on and she was freaking out.
On land. What about you? You were freaking out.
- I did freak out, for sure. - She was the last one in.
I was the last one in and I wasn't going to go,
it was pure peer pressure, but you looked so comfortable.
Maya got her wet. You got your hair wet Tiffany!
- That was shocking. - Absolutely.
That's why it's covered right now.
How do you feel Jessica? Jessica threw up twice.
[girls yell together]
- Sorry, it was gross. - Don't apologize.
Maya what did you learn?
I learned that don't swim away from a shark,
don't let it bump you with its nose,
then if its bumped you you're already --
- It's bitch. - Yeah, you're it's bitch.
If it comes towards you,
you're supposed to gently push its nose away.
What did you learn about facing your fears though?
Knowing. It's the fear of the unknown,
because I honestly just thought sharks were just pieces of shit.
[laughter]
What did you guys learn today?!
You guys are awesome, that's what we learned.
GIRLS: Yay!
And then how to back it up.
Oh, low-key, we also learned that
our instructor has a fire body.
Fire. [laughter]
Then I left the shores of Los Angeles,
and headed out to West Africa, you guys, you guys,
you have no idea how long this has been on my list,
my bucket list forever.
Now I was so fortunate to have been flown out there
with Alaffia, which is a fair trade company,
and they sell their products in Whole Foods.
I traveled with HeyFranHey, Jouelzy, GangStarGirl.
This was a life changing experience.
We started the Alaffia journey in Ghana.
Hey Fran Hey with all the hair.
Good morning.
We're going to go to the market,
no cash first, market, then what else?
We're 8 hours ahead --
Well, 8 hours ahead of LA, 5 hours of New York, Toronto.
Say hi Jouelzy.
Ooh, OK, so, we're here,
and I got all this fabric.
I'll show you.
We're about to take a group photo.
That's Trudy. She's the one who is organizing.
That's Francesca.
This is the Kente cloth, so pretty,
but it's so -- not expensive, it's just out of my budget.
I got this.
♪ ♪
Wait, I got to shoot this.
Eeeee! [laughter]
This is our tour guide from Taste Maker? Taste Maker.
- Africa. - Taste Marker Africa.
If you're going to do Africa, go right.
[♪ traditional African drum music ♪]
Me first.
[drumming] Let's go.
[drumming]
OK, so it's going to sound like this.
[drumming]
- What? Rewind. - Rewind. Rewind!
All right, OK.
So, you play after me, OK?
You get set, you play after me, you ready?
Me first. [drumming] Let's go.
You wasn't ready.
[drumming]
That's right. [drumming] Uh-huh.
[drumming] That's it.
[drumming]
Yes! [clapping]
Traveling to Africa, West Africa to be specific,
there is so much in that video,
that experience, rather, that I have to break that up,
and I'm going to make a standalone video for that.
So read the description box
or click the "I" button to see a video
specifically on that experience.
Check out the app, description box.
I will see you guys in the next video.
Remember to do you, be you, and stay true.
Be shaaaaaameless.
Live your life, seriously, live your life.
You only have one life to live, so make it count.
Be shameless, be fearless, be bold.
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