Funny in Farsi ZW

Leffingwell Elementary School
(Pg. 7)

After spending an entire day in America, surrounded by Americans, I realized that my father's description had been correct. The bathrooms were clean and the people were very, very nice.

I think that she is right our country is filled with nice people and clean bathrooms, we lack to WOW factor that makes our standards higher than other countries like Paris, with the Eiffel Tower, their amazing food and, their wine. What we have is nice and clean but, we need our own WOW factor not something that we can buy or fry.This is like going to an amusement park. You don't know what it's going to be like until you get there, and when you get there you realize that the bathrooms are clean and the people are very, very nice.Sundara had experienced the same thing with her friend Kelly. Kelly had been nice to Sundara since day one and have been friends since. I am a bit surprised that Kelly had been with Sundara for this long and not given up.





(Pg. 4

)After a few awkward attempts by my mother to find Iran on the map, Mrs. Sandberg finally understood that it wasn't my mothers lack of English that was causing the problem, but rather her lack of world geography. Smiling graciously, she pointed my mother back to her seat. Mrs. Sandberg then showed everyone, including my mother and me, where Iran was on the map.

I think that when she couldn't point it out because she was not educated as a child and it is effecting her as an adult outside of Iran. Where as Sundara had been taught where Iran was in preschool. I was volunteering in Maine Medical Center when I need to call a taxi for this one women that had trouble speaking English, she was trying to give me her address and I couldn't understand her at all. I had eventually had her call home and have some one I can talk to so that I can get an address. It took a while but in the end it worked. Sundara's aunt Soka had received a letter saying that not to hesitate to respond, but since she could not read English her friend translated it and didn't see the word "hesitate" and Soka was in a fuss about it because she thought that she was not allowed to send letters anymore to find her sister.I was confused that she couldn't find her own country where she was born and raised form.