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October 15, 2010

Hi Noe,

My typical day is waking up and eating breakfast and then getting dressed and going to class. Afterwards in the afternoon I play soccer. After playing soccer I do my chores and then go to sleep. The next day is the same. The classes I take are Spanish, math, geography and English, and I really like to study because I learn a lot more than I know. I hope that you do too, and that you keep studying and become the best student out of all of your friends.

On Sundays I come to church to listen to the word of God. After that I go back to the house to finish what I didn´t get done while I was there. It´s my responsibility to grind the corn, carry water to the house, sweep, and do everything that one does around the house. To get out of poverty, you have to study so that you can get a good job. That way you won´t get in trouble if you do things wrong, and if you do everything right, they´ll compliment you. That way you can get everything you need for your house.

Good bye, that´s it for now,

Sincerely, Irenia Zuniga Amador

October 15th (I am 15 years old) From Nicaragua For Michael from Juan Ramon,

Michael, I hope you´re in good health, surrounded by your loved ones. My biggest wish is that one day we can get to meet in person. Michael, my parents have always supported me, for example, they have given me love, and I give thanks to God also for this.

Michael, my wish is to get to know your family, and I hope we can be best friends. If you come to my country, you would have fun with me, and with my friends. My parents´ biggest wish is also to get to know you, and to have you here for several days.

Michael, I am studying. I think that by studying I am going to go places in life. I also want you to get to see my house, my school and my teacher. I am in my third year of high school. I pray that God keeps helping me, and helping you too.

Until soon, with much love.

Date= October 15, 2010 For= Holden From= Bianca Daniesca Anduray Zuniga

Greetings from La Flor (the town next to La Danta). Holden, I hope you're in good health, surrounded by your close friends. I read your letter. That's great that you have fun with your friends. I hope that you've read my letter and that you think it's cool just like I think yours is cool. My school is called Christ the King and there are a lot of students there, like 350 and my teacher and them are really nice. We get along really well with one another and I hope that it's like that at your school. I love to play soccer. Before going to school, I bathe, I brush my hair, and I put on my uniform, and then I go with my friends to the school. I am in fifth grade and am 12 years old. At my school there are a lot of animals and people.

Date: October 16, 2010 Hi Robert,

It's Jorlenis. I read the letter you sent me and I really liked hearing the schedule for your classes. Well, I get up at 6 in the morning. I bathe and then I go to school at 7:30 in the morning. The first thing I do at school is sing the National Hymn. Then I have my first class, which is Spanish. After that I have a Morals and Civics class, and then recess, where we play different games like soccer and a lot more. Then I go back to the classroom to finish out my day with writing and Social Studies. At 1:10 pm, I go back to my house to do my homework and other things. I like you a lot and I would love it if you would write again. I hope you like my letter.

Until soon, Jorlenis

Friday, October 15, 2010 For my friend Jose,

I hope you're in good health, surrounded by loved ones. After that short greeting, I'm moving on to the rest of the letter. My friend Jose, I want to tell you that I also really like soccer. I also like to have many girl and guy friends, but this is the first time that I have a long-distance friend. I also like to study and hang out.

That's it. I hope we keep in touch and that one day we can see each other in person.

Sincerely, Your friend Elizabeth

Date: October 15, 2010 For= Bryan From= Yorlenis Karina Rodriguez Amador

Hi, I hope you are in good health and surrounded by people that are close to you. I also received your letter. I like what you wrote. I also go to school at 6 in the morning for high school that meets on Saturdays. I also like math, it's like almost the only thing we study at my school. I also take English classes, Spanish and Science.

I also read books and draw. I draw pictures of nature and the environment. My parents want to get to meet you and I also would like to have you come stay for a couple days in my house, to come hang out with my brothers and me, and do other things. I also play soccer with my friends in the park, and we hang out there and talk about classes.

Sincerely, Yorlenis Karina Rodriguez Amador

October 15, 2010 For Marian,

Hi Marian, I'm going to tell you what a typical day is like for me. I get up, take a shower, get dressed, and eat breakfast with my mom and my 3 brothers. After breakfast I finish getting ready and go hang out with my friends. Then I go to my uncle's house to hang out and sometimes I sleep there. On the weekends, I go to a high school that meets on Saturdays. I get up at 4 am to bathe and get ready to go to Saturday school. When I get back from classes, I get home in time to eat dinner with my mom and my brothers.

On Sundays, I go to church to listen to the word of God, and then afterwards I hang out with my brothers and my friends. On weekdays I have to help my mom get my 3 brothers ready to go to school at Maura Ramirez Elementary School. I also help clean, cook, wash dishes, and do a lot of other things. I'm very impressed with your typical day, and I hope you liked hearing about my typical day.

Sincerely, Sobeyda

October 17, 2010 Hi Karen, It's Karina.

Greetings to my friend Karen. I hope that when you get this letter, you are in good health, surrounded by your classmates and family. Karen, I felt really happy to get your letter, and I loved hearing your class schedule. Mine is almost the same, but the classes I take are different, like I take Physics Mondays and Fridays. After that, every day of the week I take Science, Math, and Spanish. But after class we have recess and lunch, kind of like your schedule. In the afternoon I do my homework and then help my mom with chores like washing dishes, carry water to the house, sweep the front yard, and weed the garden. When I finish all my chores, I have fun drawing or playing with my younger brother and sister, Daver and Nancy. Also on Saturdays I visit my grandparents and on Sundays I go to church.

Hi my name is Dariana M.R. This letter is to send greetings to the students in the U.S., especially to the kids in the city of Aurora in Colorado. Well, pen pal, I am writing from the country of Nicaragua, from Somotillo County, in the community of La Danta. Well, my school is called Maura Juarez Ramirez. Here kids start going to preschool when they are 3 years old, and then they go to first grade when they are 5. In first grade, we study Spanish and Math, and then we go to every grade after that until sixth grade. Right now I am in 5th grade. In fifth grade, we take Spanish, Math, Civics and Morals, Art, Science, PE, and Social Studies. At 9 in the morning we have half an hour for recess where we play hopscotch, soccer, baseball and jump rope. Then we go back inside to take classes and we get out of school a 1 pm. The school is far away from my house, almost a kilometer, and here there is no form of transportation, we have to walk to our houses. Well, I want to tell you that at our school there are 60 kids studying, not just in my grade, but in all of the grades, like first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grade. Here in La Danta there are a lot of kids who don't go to school because of the poverty that exists in our country, because our parents can't buy school supplies that we need to study because they are very poor. This is all I have to say right now to our pen pals in the city of Aurora in Colorado. Until Soon, Dariana Moreno Rodriguez