animal alpaca otherwise known by the
name all Picasso they were created by
the Japanese company amuse for arcade
crane games and they’ve gained
popularity worldwide and they’re usually
found in conventions they come in a
variety of sizes from one second fit in
the palm of your hand to ones that are
the size of small children this is my
goal after I graduate to get one of
these my name is Emily neuen and I bring
small al-qasas to school this basically
means I am an overgrown child now let’s
get into the whole thing with alpacas
sure I love stuffed animals but wild
pakka’s before this entire thing I did
with bringing our pockets to school I
knew absolutely nothing about alpacas
and somehow we’ve gone from that point
to deciding prematurely that my
retirement plan will be running an
alpaca farm well people are always
asking me what’s up with alpacas why do
you do this I’ve always avoided a direct
answer until now because I think it’s a
bit of a long story when I was in third
grade we had an assignment what do you
like to collect well for me collecting
implies an interest or a passion the
commitment to something that you love
and being eight years old I didn’t
really like to collect well anything I
just read a lot and collecting words in
your head unfortunately does not count
but what I did have were all these
stuffed animals just scattered around my
room hiding under
blankets and in the bookshelf and
sleeping with dust bunnies under the bed
so I hunted and scavenged them out
brought them to school and thought that
would be it and then high school
happened high school was very stressful
and tiring time and during the stressful
period of my life I decide to bring
alpacas to school with me for emotional
support but I quickly found out that not
only were these alpacas helping me cope
with the stresses of high school but
they were also helping my friends my
friends would come up to me and ask to
pet the alpaca or hug them before a test
and before long even strangers who I
didn’t even know are coming up to me
asking me if they could pet my alpacas
and we can laugh and joke about it but
even if it’s for a moment we’re just
being happy the role of all pack is in
my life is whatever the role little pack
is in my life there a little bit of good
luck and there a little bit of courage
to step outside of my comfort zone they
empower me to be a little silly and be
myself
and I believe that if I help someone
just laugh and enjoy and be happy for
even just once then it will have been
enough my collection is all pakka’s has
started initially from just a couple my
brother likes to stack them up because
he’s weird like that sometimes I get up
bootlegs and they’re a bit dirty
unfortunately the smaller that alpacas
are the more clearly you can tell that
they’re bootlegs and the most often
asked question I get is how many alpacas
do you have well this many but plus one
because I went to Little Tokyo today and
I bought another one so I’m happy that I
get to spread the love and awareness of
alpacas and
so I get to warn against
misidentification of alpacas llamas
because that’s a serious crime in my
book but the one thing I’ve learned from
alpacas are that you should keep things
that allow you to create opportunities
for happiness and that it’s never too
late to find something to love thank you