Toomelah

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Two dollars, Nana.

You going to school?

You gotta give me a sentence

four up upon a board.

I rode a skateboard.

I rode a skateboard.

That's right.

I rode...

Let's make... Let's take the

skateboard somewhere interesting.

Where did you see most

of the skateboards?

At the skate park.

A skateboard at...

Daniel, do what Sarah said or you

might have to do it at lunch time.

But I'm not gonna know it.

Then why work then?

Why choose not to do your work like

everyone else you leave behind?

That's what happens.

All right, so why don't

you just give the ball?

The guys are coming in

soon, we can start Lingo.

So can I just have the ball?

Burbank. Burbank.

Bahrain.

Bahrain.

Can I get it back?

Why?

Because it's mine.

No, it's not, it's the school's.

Pass it back here, Tupac.

What?

Pass it back here.

Who wants, anyone?

Pass it back here.

Why?

I'm gonna stab you with

these f***ing pencils.

Hey, Daniel.

He won't give me my pencil back.

Your pencil? Yeah.

Can he just borrow it?

No.

All right, that's the fourth

time I've spoken to you today.

Let's go to the library, wait for us.

We're going there in five minutes.

Hurry up, Daniel.

Come, do you want some?

Come here.

It's driving me mad.

Dan, do you remember

shooting me in the face?

Get out of my way. Get out of my way.

Get out of my way.

Get out of my way.

I don't getting ammo.

Daniel! I don't

getting ammo.

I don't getting ammo.

Daniel!

Daniel!

What?

Come watch us.

What?

Where have you been?

Nowhere.

Your teacher came here today,

said you wasn't at school.

How many times I

got to tell you?

Okay.

Yeah, well, I'm gonna

tell your father on you.

You gotta get a stick

off Linden for me.

You okay, boy? Look, here

come a real bad boy.

Want anything?

Nothing.

What, you can't come?

I just stand and paint here, try

to make me money for ourselves.

What you want?

My mama want a stick.

Well, she's lucky, I

only got one left.

Only one left.

Yeah.

Someone said you're

f***ing up at school.

Said you stabbed Tupac with

a pencil or something.

Yeah, don't f*** around me, boy.

He's trying to be bad, all boxing

like his old father would.

Hey, yeah, that's right,

until we met them boys.

Yeah.

Boxing matches?

It must have been.

Hey, hey, Daniel. Daniel.

Who you mad on?

No one.

Tanitia, eh?

Tanitia, eh?

Yeah.

Tanitia? What, you

scooping her yet or what?

Say hello to your

Aunt Cindy there.

Where's Nana?

She's in the room in

there, laying down.

Come tell her to come out

here and see her sister.

Nana.

Aunt want you out there.

Well, she won't come out.

Well, take Aunt Cindy for a

walk around the mission.

Show her where she used to walk

around when she was little.

Go on, take her.

Daniel, what's her name?

Aunt Cindy.

Where she's been?

Sydney.

Who took you away?

It was a long time ago that they

took people away from here.

How come they took you away?

So...

Where the f*** you going?

Well, we going out of here, boy,

we going fishing. What you doing?

What do you want to do?

Come fishing or what?

Are you coming, you come for a ride?

Go on, jump in.

Daniel, you little f***ing sh*t.

See, I'm trying to

catch a fish here.

Daniel, please go back that way.

F*** off, now, man.

I mean it, c*nt. I f***ing...

Jesus, man.

No f***ing fishing

out here, mate.

I ain't f***ing

catching anything.

I said move now!

No, please, Daniel.

Jesus, f***ing

stubborn mate, look.

And then...

What, your Aunt Cindy just

came home last night, did she?

What, she's been gone

a long time, too, eh?

My old aunt got taken

away when she was little.

Some fellas came about and

took her away in a bus,

said they was taking

her to a dentist.

She's been gone for 50 years.

That's a long trip to the

dentist, don't you reckon?

You know what?

You know what, Daniel? I always

dance around down here, boy.

I always did,

probably down here.

Dance round here all night

around the fire and...

I used to have a good

time down here, you know.

Then we just dropped

our lingo home.

Until our old managers come down, try

to stop him and put him in jail.

Used to tell them to stop

doing it all the time.

But then, they... Do

you know the lingo?

They teach you the

lingo at school?

Yeah, but I don't want it.

Forget it, man.

The lingo that I know is the

only one mom and dad learned me.

You know what a kangaroo is? You

know what they call a kangaroo?

They call it banda.

What about a fish? You know

what a fish is? A guya.

Bushtracker, see?

I don't know much about

bushtracker in lingo words.

That's about it.

Fourth way down.

All right, Dan, hey, boy. You

back on to something, huh?

Hey, f***ing heavy

sh*t this time, eh?

I'm trying to see...

Hey, you now look more

f***ing sh*t to me.

Bring it around here,

give me a round.

I'm not used to this

sh*t, it's that one rap.

You're always wasting it.

This costs money, you know.

It's f***ed up.

I'm not used to that sh*t, see?

You wasting it.

Oh, that's f***ing heavy sh*t.

Who done this painting?

That's my painting there.

Done it when I was in jail.

What the f***, man?

That's my painting. I

done that in jail.

What do you call it?

That's "Porcupine

Dream," my brother.

That's my totem.

That's my totem, bro.

Who the f*** just said

that's your totem?

I just know it here. I

just know it in me.

Hey, you don't f***ing know.

Yeah. What's your

f***ing totem, bro?

F***ing emu, bro.

Emu?

Who the f*** taught you that?

My nana.

What would Nana know?

Now, what would she know?

Everything, cuz.

How would she know more than me?

Who told her that, then?

Jesus.

Jesus? What the...?

Who the f***...? Jesus who?

No, Jesus, everybody

knows Jesus.

Your f***ing totem cheap, man.

Sh*t. It's f***ing

Jesus, he reckons.

How the f*** can

Jesus know this?

Who talks to Jesus?

F*** Jesus.

Yeah, f*** Jesus,

that's what I said.

F*** Jesus.

Daniel, what's your

f***ing totem?

Daniel, what's your totem?

Yeah, f*** them. Now, say,

what's your f***ing totem?

Your f***ing ancestors never

told you that sh*t before.

F***, dead.

Daniel, you raising

the bong or what?

Daniel, you raising

the bong or what?

Nah.

Boys, Daniel tough as sh*t.

Yeah.

Yeah, he... Nah.

You have a f***ing problem

there or something?

Heard you've been

f***ing up at school.

How come you been

messing up, boy?

F*** around that school

bus or f***ing live here.

Don't laugh at me, man.

I'll f***ing drill you.

You know I'll do it, eh?

Be at school, mate, look like...

Learn.

Nothing like your old man,

good for nothing now.

It's the worst, I tell you.

Where you been?

Down there with the boys.

Come here.

Was you in the room smoking

yarndi with the boys?

Yeah.

You don't wanna be.

Don't look like that, you

look like your father.

Go inside and have some

soup on the stove.

I made it for aunt but

she went walkabout.

Little Daniel, where

are you going?

Nowhere.

Tanitia been looking for you.

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