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8.15.26 - Part 2 · Children's Hour

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Radioized Children's Story Hour. As a reminder,
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  Speaker 1: RADIOI is a reading service intended for people who are
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  Speaker 1: blind or have other disabilities that make it difficult to
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  Speaker 1: read printed material. Today, we're going to be reading from
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  Speaker 1: a book about back to school times. Your reader today
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  Speaker 1: is Patty. We're going to read the book that the
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  Speaker 1: title is, It's Back to School We Go. First day
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  Speaker 1: stories from around the world. The author of the book
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  Speaker 1: is Ellen Jackson and the illustrator is Jan davey Ellis.
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  Speaker 1: It was published by Millbook mill Brook Press in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and three. From the inside front cover, the first
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  Speaker 1: day of school is an event that brings mixed emotions
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  Speaker 1: to children everywhere. There's exciting in seeing old friends, and
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  Speaker 1: it's nice to begin a new year with a new
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  Speaker 1: teacher and good intentions. But first day feelings are mixed.
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  Speaker 1: Will last year's friends still be friends? What if the
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  Speaker 1: new teacher doesn't like me? Or what if the work
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  Speaker 1: is too hard? Ellen Jackson and Jan Davey Ellis portray
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  Speaker 1: children from eleven different countries experiencing their first days back
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  Speaker 1: at school. Each child's first person account is enhanced by
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  Speaker 1: a fact box that tells us something about the culture
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  Speaker 1: from which the child speaks, so that the reader is
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  Speaker 1: able to compare and contrast the experiences of children from
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  Speaker 1: different parts of the world. In words and pictures, the
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  Speaker 1: author and artists have captured the diversity of children's school experiences,
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  Speaker 1: while at the same time time capturing how much the
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  Speaker 1: world's children have in common. So now let's begin. Hi
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  Speaker 1: ching an eight year old girl from Kenya. Jumbo Hello.
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  Speaker 1: I aiching Am a Luo girl from Kenya. My parents
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  Speaker 1: gave me a name that means son because I was born.
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  Speaker 1: At midday today, I walked to school and met my
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  Speaker 1: teacher and classmates for the first time. Everyone was busy
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  Speaker 1: with chores. The girls swept the floor while the boys
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  Speaker 1: cut the grass with pongas or machetes. Afterward, we sat
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  Speaker 1: on a straw mat and began our lessons. I will
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  Speaker 1: learn health, arithmetic, and to read and write in Kisqually noon,
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  Speaker 1: it began to rain. The noise of drops hitting the
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  Speaker 1: tin roof was so loud that we began to giggle.
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  Speaker 1: The teacher stopped talking. When the storm was over, we
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  Speaker 1: went outside and I ate mandazi or fried bread for lunch.
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  Speaker 1: I love sports, so I played soccer with some of
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  Speaker 1: the other children. After school, we used two termite nests
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  Speaker 1: for goalpost. When I got home, I helped my mother
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  Speaker 1: tend the shamba or garden. We are growing cassava, potatoes
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  Speaker 1: and beans. Tonight we will eat red bean stew for dinner.
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  Speaker 1: Then grandmother will tell us stories about lion, hyena and
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  Speaker 1: other African animals. Now here's the fact fox about children
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  Speaker 1: in Kenya. Some Kenyans live in hut on small plots
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  Speaker 1: of land where they grow corn, potatoes, cassava, pineapples and mangoes.
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  Speaker 1: Others live in modern cities. Children go to school six
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  Speaker 1: days a week from January to November. The students help
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  Speaker 1: keep the school clean. In the classroom, they sit on
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  Speaker 1: a straw mat or share a desk. Books and paper
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  Speaker 1: are scarce. Kenyans love to play soccer. They sometimes use
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  Speaker 1: a bundle of rags for a ball and a termite
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  Speaker 1: nest or a goalpost. They also enjoy basketball, volleyball and
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  Speaker 1: a board game called Mancola that is played with seeds
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  Speaker 1: or shells. Elephants, leopards, cheetahs, monkeys, lions and zebra all
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  Speaker 1: make their home in Kenya. Kenyans enjoy telling stories about
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  Speaker 1: these animals and toon a seven year old boy from Kazatstan.
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  Speaker 1: Salam Alikum, I send you greetings from Almati, Kazhatstan, where
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  Speaker 1: I live with my mother, father, sister Marina, and Grahm
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  Speaker 1: the dog. Today September one was my first day of school.
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  Speaker 1: How excited I was. After a breakfast of yogurt, cakes
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  Speaker 1: and tea, I got dressed, putting on my good jacket
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  Speaker 1: and my boots. My father presented me with a bag
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  Speaker 1: of candles, pencils, and sweets in honor of this important
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  Speaker 1: day at school. I will learn to read and write
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  Speaker 1: in Kazakh and Russian, the main languages spoken in that'stan.
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  Speaker 1: I will also learn to use a computer. When it
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  Speaker 1: was time to go, the whole family walked to my
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  Speaker 1: new school, number one fifteen. On the way, my mother
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  Speaker 1: gave me a coin to buy a bouquet of flowers
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  Speaker 1: at the bazaar for my new teacher. After we arrived,
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  Speaker 1: the opening celebrations began. The older children performed a dance
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  Speaker 1: and one of the teachers gave a speech. Then a
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  Speaker 1: girl rang a bell. She had been chosen to carry
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  Speaker 1: a new child around the room for all the students
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  Speaker 1: to see she picked me. Everyone laughed and applauded, and
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  Speaker 1: I was very happy. The fact box about children in Kazatstan.
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  Speaker 1: In Kazatstan, the first day of school is a time
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  Speaker 1: of celebration. Each child brings flowers for the teacher. One
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  Speaker 1: new student is chosen to be carried around the room
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  Speaker 1: and introduced to the others. Children play a racing game
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  Speaker 1: called Baga. They also play jibshkik bukender or sticky tree stump.
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  Speaker 1: A few children pretend to be trees. They squat down
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  Speaker 1: and try to touch others who run by. Boys enjoy wrestling,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone likes table tennis. A meal might include noodle, soup, mutton, cabbage,
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  Speaker 1: and plow which is made from raisin, sprunes or apples. Koiba,
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  Speaker 1: a boiled sheepshead, is often served on New Year's Day.
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  Speaker 1: Kajak music is played on a dombra, a two stringed instrument,
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  Speaker 1: but many young people also like rock and roll and
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  Speaker 1: alternative music. Now we'll read about Kendy, a six year
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  Speaker 1: old Inuwit boy from Nunavut, Canada, Isada Tuli. My name
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  Speaker 1: is Kendy and I live in the territory of Nunavut, Canada.
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  Speaker 1: A land of ice and snow. My mother made me
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  Speaker 1: a parker and cariboo mits for the cold weather. But
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  Speaker 1: today was sunny, so I wore jeans, a jacket and
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  Speaker 1: a baseball cap. I went to my classroom and met
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  Speaker 1: mister Anawok, my new teacher. Then all the students gathered
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  Speaker 1: on the tundra for a special outdoor picnic. The teachers
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  Speaker 1: built a fire and we roasted hot dogs, fish, and
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  Speaker 1: caribou meat. I like cariboo the bets, except when it
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  Speaker 1: sticks in my teeth. Some of the children picked blueberries
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  Speaker 1: and blackberries and shared them with the rest of us. Later,
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  Speaker 1: we played an Inuit blanket game. A group of older
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  Speaker 1: children held a blanket and bounced the smaller ones by
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  Speaker 1: pulling the blanket tight. Each child tried to bounce the highest.
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  Speaker 1: My show off sister won the game. I will be
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  Speaker 1: in the first grade tomorrow when the classes begin, I
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  Speaker 1: will learn Inuit took and English storytelling, science and math.
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  Speaker 1: After school, my brother Stephen and I will hunt rabbits
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  Speaker 1: down by the river. Now the fact box about children
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  Speaker 1: in none of It Canada. Inuit mothers make down filled parkas,
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  Speaker 1: caribou mitts, and crocheted hats called nassas to keep their
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  Speaker 1: families warm in the winter. In the classroom and in
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  Speaker 1: warmer weather, children wear t shirts and jeans. The school
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  Speaker 1: You'll year starts in the middle of August and ends
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  Speaker 1: in May. Students study English and intiquette, this native language, science, math,
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  Speaker 1: and computers. Schools invite Intuit leaders into the classroom to
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  Speaker 1: share their knowledge. Children hunt for duck eggs in the
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  Speaker 1: spring and pick berries in the summer. They enjoy skiing, skating,
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  Speaker 1: and dog sledding in the winter. Inuit love to hunt fish, caribou, seal,
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  Speaker 1: arc char, and mike wak our raw flubber our favorite dishes.
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  Speaker 1: But Inuit children also watch television and snack on chips,
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  Speaker 1: chocolate and soda. Now we'll read about Jessica, a nine
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  Speaker 1: year old girl from Australia. Gooday, my name is Jessica
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  Speaker 1: and I live in Sydney, Australia with my mom and dad.
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  Speaker 1: It's the first day of the new term and I'm
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  Speaker 1: in year four. That means I'm old enough to join
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  Speaker 1: the debating team and sing in the choir. After breakfast,
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  Speaker 1: I put on my school uniform, including a hat for
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  Speaker 1: the sun. Then I walked to school our class lined
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  Speaker 1: up in the yard. My new teacher, mister Elton, had
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  Speaker 1: us sit outside and make up some classroom rules. Brianna
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  Speaker 1: said she thought chewing gum shouldn't be allowed in the classroom,
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  Speaker 1: just as I blew a big bubble. The teacher read
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  Speaker 1: us a funny story about Kyle dun Custard by a
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  Speaker 1: famous Australian writer. Then we worked in the school bushland
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  Speaker 1: doing some serious weeds. I especially love the blue flax
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  Speaker 1: lilies and the mickey mouse plants that grow here. I
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  Speaker 1: bought a popper at the canteen for snack. In the afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: we were assigned to computer keypads in Germany. I emailed
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  Speaker 1: my key pal and told her about Kukabarras, hualas and
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  Speaker 1: other Australian animals. Some people call Australia the lucky country.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I'm lucky to live here children In Australia,
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  Speaker 1: the school term begins at the end of January and
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  Speaker 1: ends in mid December. School hours are from nine to three.
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  Speaker 1: Many Australian children wear uniforms, including hats to protect them
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  Speaker 1: from the sun's strong rays. Lunch might include a meat
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  Speaker 1: pie or a sandwich and a drink. In a box
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  Speaker 1: called a pauper. For dinner, Australians like fast food, steaks
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  Speaker 1: and salads. Some people eat kangaroo tail soup or smoked crocodile.
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  Speaker 1: Children play tea ball, rugby soccer, and cricket, a game
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  Speaker 1: played with a bat and a ball. The Australian wilderness
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  Speaker 1: called the bush or bushland, is home to kukaburras, kangaroos, koalas,
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  Speaker 1: duck billed platypuses and other unusual animals. Now we'll read
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  Speaker 1: about Misaki, a six year old girl from Japan Kunichiwa.
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  Speaker 1: I am Misaki from Japan, and today was my first
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  Speaker 1: day of school. I was both afraid and excited as
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  Speaker 1: I walked to school with my friends Naoki and Rina.
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  Speaker 1: I wondered if my classmates would like me and if
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  Speaker 1: the homework would be too hard. We first graders will
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  Speaker 1: learn Japanese arithmetic, social studies, sewing, music and art. At school,
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  Speaker 1: the principal greeted everyone and gave a speech about safety.
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  Speaker 1: He reminded us to come early tomorrow to help weed
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  Speaker 1: the schoolyard and scrub the floors. Before going into my classroom,
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  Speaker 1: I took off my shoes and put on a pair
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  Speaker 1: of slippers. Everyone bowed to the teacher, Miss Tanaka. She
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  Speaker 1: showed us how to make an origami bird by folding paper.
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  Speaker 1: Then she let me feed the poisonous snake that lives
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  Speaker 1: in a tank in our classroom. At noon, two children
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  Speaker 1: served us rice with seaweed sauce and quail eggs. They
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  Speaker 1: had prepared it themselves in the cafeteria. I will have
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  Speaker 1: a turn to help with lunch. On Friday, I played
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  Speaker 1: dodgeball at recess. Then our class had a tug of
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  Speaker 1: war with another class. School wasn't scary at all. I
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  Speaker 1: think I will like it. Children in Japan. The Japanese
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  Speaker 1: school year begins in April. Children attend classes five days
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  Speaker 1: a week and two Saturday mornings each month. Once a week,
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  Speaker 1: children come an hour early to shovel snow, weave the
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  Speaker 1: grass or dust, and sweep the floors. Each child carries
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  Speaker 1: a rando seru, a backpack that contains pencil cases, notebooks,
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  Speaker 1: and other items. Boys usually carry black bags and girls
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  Speaker 1: carry red ones. The children study Japanese characters or word
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  Speaker 1: pictures called kanji. Children learn to write more than one
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  Speaker 1: thousand kanji while they are in primary school. Japanese children
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  Speaker 1: play on jungle gyms and swing. They play tag, soccer
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  Speaker 1: and dodgeball. Kendo or fencing is another favorite Japanese sport.
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  Speaker 1: Children also read, draw and fold animals, fold paper to
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  Speaker 1: make origami animals. Gen Song an eight year old boy
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  Speaker 1: from China Nihow Hello from Shanghai, China. I Ginsong AM
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  Speaker 1: happy to be in the third grade at last. But
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  Speaker 1: I slept too long this morning and was almost late.
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  Speaker 1: I knotted my red neckerchief quickly while my grandmother put
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  Speaker 1: my bowl and chopsticks into my school bag. I must
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  Speaker 1: do better so I will not shame my family. At school,
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  Speaker 1: the children gathered in the playground to sing the national anthem.
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  Speaker 1: The flag was raised. We did some exercises, then marched
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  Speaker 1: to our classroom. When the teacher entered, the children stood
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  Speaker 1: up together and said, hello teacher. I am learning Mandarin, Chinese, math, geography,
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  Speaker 1: English and calligraphy or writing. But my favorite subject is
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  Speaker 1: brush painting. Wonderful pictures come out of my brush when
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  Speaker 1: it touches the paper. Today, a large green dragon popped
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  Speaker 1: out as if by magic. After lunch, I beat Wu
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  Speaker 1: haw at Ping pong. Then we returned to the classroom
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  Speaker 1: and studied until four thirty twice. We rested our eyes
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  Speaker 1: to keep from straining them. Some of my classmates go
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  Speaker 1: to the Children's Palace for music and art lessons after school.
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  Speaker 1: My family cannot afford to send me, so I will
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  Speaker 1: go home and play a video game. Children in China
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  Speaker 1: school starts in September, and children attend six days a week.
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  Speaker 1: Some children also enroll in special classes at the Children's
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  Speaker 1: Palace where they learn piano, painting, dancing, science and sports.
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  Speaker 1: Some children go home for lunch, Others bring their own
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  Speaker 1: bowls and chopsticks so they can eat at school. Lunch
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  Speaker 1: often consists of soup and manto, a Chinese bread, and
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  Speaker 1: is served by the teacher. Schools award red Neckerchiefs for
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  Speaker 1: good behavior. Almost everyone has earned one by the third grade.
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  Speaker 1: Chinese children enjoy sports such as gymnastics, soccer, and ping pong.
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  Speaker 1: They play with tops, fly heights, jump rope, watch television,
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  Speaker 1: and play video games. Now we'll read about Thomas, a
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  Speaker 1: seven year old boy from peru Ola. I am Thomas
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  Speaker 1: from the Amazon Rainforest. I live with my family and
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  Speaker 1: a house on stilts beside the river. My father taught
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  Speaker 1: me to weave a she grow or fishnet from palm fimers,
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  Speaker 1: fibers and to make jewelry from taigua nuts. He was
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  Speaker 1: my first teacher, but now I have another. This morning,
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  Speaker 1: my sister Katya and I paddled our canoe to school.
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  Speaker 1: My job was to boil water. We must fix that leak.
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  Speaker 1: Rose colored dolphins swam beside us, and a big snake
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  Speaker 1: slithered by. Kadia whacked the papaya with her paddle and
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  Speaker 1: gave me a piece for breakfast. When we arrived at school,
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  Speaker 1: I met my new teacher. Her name is Isabelle and
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  Speaker 1: she is fourteen. The school is a hut with a
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  Speaker 1: dirt floor. We had a few desks, a chalkboard, and
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  Speaker 1: a map of Peru, but no books. We will learn counting,
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  Speaker 1: reading and writing. A boy had brought his pet monkey
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  Speaker 1: to school. When the monkey ran outside and climbed a tree,
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  Speaker 1: isabel made a rule, no pets at school. Then she
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  Speaker 1: taught us the national anthem of Peru. Katia and I
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  Speaker 1: sang it over and over as we paddled home. Children
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  Speaker 1: of the Amazon in Peru. The rever Naros of Peru
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  Speaker 1: live alongside the Amazon River and huts built on stilts
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  Speaker 1: for protection from floods. Children learn how to hunt and
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  Speaker 1: fish from their parents. They also learned how to grow bananas,
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  Speaker 1: rice manioc, a plant that can be mashed into flower.
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  Speaker 1: The river is like a highway and even children have
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  Speaker 1: their own canoes. Children like to race their canoes, sing
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  Speaker 1: and play tag and hopscotch. Canoes transport many children to school.
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  Speaker 1: School is often held in a one room hut with
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  Speaker 1: a dirt floor. Teenagers teach the younger children counting, reading, writing,
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  Speaker 1: and geography. Two cans, tanagers and puffbirds flit through the rainforest.
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  Speaker 1: Some raberneros monkeys. Ravenero's people keep monkeys, parrots or cafe
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  Speaker 1: beras large rodents for pets. Gunther, a six year old
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  Speaker 1: boy from Germany, gud dog good day. My name is
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  Speaker 1: Gunther and I live in Berlin, Germany. Yesterday my parents
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  Speaker 1: took me shopping or a sholl a large paper cone
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  Speaker 1: filled with candy, pencils, candles, crayons and toys. I decorated
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  Speaker 1: it with stickers of lions and tigers and father took
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  Speaker 1: my picture standing next to it. Father says, the schulten
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  Speaker 1: will sweeten my first day of school. Today, I went
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  Speaker 1: to school on the tram with my parents and aunt Munty.
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  Speaker 1: Another boy on the tram carried much, but mine was
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  Speaker 1: much bigger. First we went to assembly, where the older
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  Speaker 1: children sang a song for us. Then the new children
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  Speaker 1: and their relatives went to class. My teacher, missus Bader,
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  Speaker 1: showed us a letter that some first graders had written
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  Speaker 1: to a mouse in America one day. The mouse wrote back,
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  Speaker 1: mice cannot write, so perhaps it was all make believe.
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  Speaker 1: We too will learn to write, read, and study math, science, religion, geography,
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  Speaker 1: and local history. Tonight, my family will celebrate my first
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  Speaker 1: day with balloons, pastries, cheese, and lemonade. I will get
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  Speaker 1: to eat the candy in my childed because I was
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  Speaker 1: good and obeyed the teacher. Children in Germany the school
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  Speaker 1: year begins in late August or early September and ends
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  Speaker 1: in July. Children have several short holidays instead of one
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  Speaker 1: long one. Class begins at seven thirty or eight and
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  Speaker 1: is over at noon. Children study reading, writing, geography, religion
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  Speaker 1: or good behavior, science mathematics. Before beginning, school children shop
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  Speaker 1: with their parents for a shilded, a large paper cone
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  Speaker 1: filled with school supplies, presents, and candy. The cones vary
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  Speaker 1: in size from a few inches to a few feet tall.
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  Speaker 1: Children have their photographs taken with their chiltenden and bring
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  Speaker 1: them to school. Most schools celebrate the first day with
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  Speaker 1: a party for the new students and their relatives. Rujani
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  Speaker 1: an eight year old girl from India now m stay
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  Speaker 1: in Hindi. That means hello. I am Rujani from a
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  Speaker 1: village near Bangalore, India. It is July and our school
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  Speaker 1: holiday is over. I am excited to be starting grade
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  Speaker 1: three today. I took the bus to school and found
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  Speaker 1: my new classroom. Our class sang a hymn in Sanskrit.
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  Speaker 1: We prayed that the school year would be happy for
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  Speaker 1: both teachers and students. Our first lesson was geography, followed
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  Speaker 1: by English, Hindi and science. In the afternoon, we had matts,
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  Speaker 1: my favorite Chubjick. I hope to become an accountant if
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  Speaker 1: my parents allow me to stay in school. My uncle
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  Speaker 1: says that boys need school more than girls. I think
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  Speaker 1: he is wrong, but Indian children must respect their elders,
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  Speaker 1: so I do not argue. After school, I cared for
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  Speaker 1: the baby while my mother made dog and chapati. Then
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  Speaker 1: I fed Kapila, the cow whom we keep for milk
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  Speaker 1: and butter. I have heard that American children eat cows.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how they could do that such a thing.
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  Speaker 1: The electricity was on, so my parents watched a Hindi
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  Speaker 1: movie on television. I tried to do my homework, but
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  Speaker 1: I was tired and soon fell asleep. Children in India
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  Speaker 1: the school term begins in July and ends in March
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  Speaker 1: or April. Children go to school six days a week,
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  Speaker 1: including Saturdays. Some families believe school is more important for
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  Speaker 1: boys than for girls. In school, children study Hindi English
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  Speaker 1: and Sanscript, a language used in Hindu religious books. Boys
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  Speaker 1: and girls sit on separate sides of the room. Indians
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  Speaker 1: eat many different kinds of food, including dial or lentil,
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  Speaker 1: school stew, and chapati, a flatbread. They also enjoyed pizza.
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  Speaker 1: People who practice the Hindu religion consider cows sacred and
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  Speaker 1: do not eat beef. Indian children like movies and Hindi
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  Speaker 1: pop music. Everyone enjoys cricket and chocho, a chasing game
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  Speaker 1: played by men, women and children. Now we'll read part
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  Speaker 1: of a story about Nadia, a seven year old girl
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  Speaker 1: from Russia Briviet Greetings from Moscow. Rosha to day was
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  Speaker 1: the first day of school, a time of fun and
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  Speaker 1: excitement in my country. For breakfast, I ate a bowl
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  Speaker 1: of buckwheat porridge. Then I put on my white penafore
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  Speaker 1: Mama tied a ribbon in my hair and gave me
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  Speaker 1: a bouquet of flowers for my new teacher. I was proud.
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  Speaker 1: A band played music as the children, including my brother Victor,
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  Speaker 1: and I, gathered at the school gate under a banner.
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  Speaker 1: Our teachers welcomed us and showed us our classroom. Then
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  Speaker 1: school was over and the fun began. Our family took
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  Speaker 1: the Metro to a park. We saw the Russian space
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  Speaker 1: shuttle and rode on a ferris wheel. We ate blennies,
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  Speaker 1: and I watched a show with puppets that looked like
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  Speaker 1: huge dolls. Everything was free in honor of the day
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  Speaker 1: of knowledge. When we got home, Papa and Victor played chess.
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  Speaker 1: Mama made borshed, and I listened to a CD. Tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: at school, the hard work will begin. Victor talks of
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  Speaker 1: piles of homework taller than a mountain. Papa says he
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  Speaker 1: is teasing that I will learn to read and write,
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  Speaker 1: but first I must learn the alphabet. This concludes the
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  Speaker 1: story hour for today. Please join us next time as
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  Speaker 1: we'll read more stories fables or fairy tale and thank
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  Speaker 1: you for listening and please stay tuned for continued programming
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