I started doing triathlons（トライアスロンを始めた） to raise money（資金調達のため） for Practice Makes Perfect（プロジェクト名）. Practice Makes Perfect is an educational organization（教育団体） that partners with K-12 schools（小中高と協力して） to help students close that achievement（生徒の学力差を縮める） or opportunity gap（教育の機会を平等に）. One of the startling statistics（驚くべきデータ） I ran across（私が出会った） says that only 10%（わずか10％） of first-generation college students（家族初の大学進学ケース） graduated over six years（6年かけて卒業）. It was the kids I grew up with（ともに育った友達の話）, it was my siblings（兄弟の話） and it was my story.（私自身の話） That lack of justice（不公平さ） really fueled my desire（思いを熱くさせた） to want to give back（恩返し） and do something for my own community（私を育ててくれた地域への貢献）.
I started doing triathlons
/ai star dud doo ing trai ath lahnz/
to raise money
/tu reiz muh ni/
for Practice Makes Perfect.
/for prak tis meiks per fekt/
Practice Makes Perfect
/prak tis meiks per fekt/
is an educational organization
/iz-an-e-ju-kei-shuh-nul or ga ni zsei shun/
that partners with K-12 schools
/that part nerz with kei twelv skoolz/
to help students close
/tu help stoo dents klouz/
that achievement
/that-uh cheev munt/
or opportunity gap.
/or ah per tu nuh ti gap/
One of the startling statistics I ran across
/wun-ahv the start ling sta tis tiks ai ran-uk-rahs/
says that only 10%
/sez that oun li ten per sunt/
of first-generation college students
/ahv ferst je nuh rei shun kuh lij stoo dents/
graduated over six years.
/gra jwei ted ou ver siks yeerz/
It was the kids I grew up with,
/it wuz the kidz ai groo up with/
it was my siblings and it was my story.
/it wuz mai sib lings and-it wuz mai stor-i/
That lack of justice
/that lak ahv jus tis/
really fueled my desire
/ree li fyool mai di zai yer/
to want to give back
/tu wuh nuh giv bak/
and do something
/and doo sum thing/
for my own community.
/for mai oun kuh myoo nuh ti/
