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International Week - Colombia & Taiwan
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okay I think we have everybody here with us we are so incredibly excited actually let me just make sure everybody is paying attention Silver Spur elementary school if you could hear me clap once if you hear me clap twice wonderful thank you so much again for joining us we had an outstanding time yesterday the parents took us to Europe we had a great time in Europe learning all about England United Kingdom and Bowl areas such fascinating information and today the parents are going to take us to two different confident they're going to take us to South America and they're also going to take us to Asia so they'll be taking that and they'll be taking us East I'd like to thank once again miss Westmont who really set up this entire week with the presentation getting the getting the parents together making sure that we would have excellent presentation from all over the world of thanks thank you to mrs. wise men and I would also dysport AMS POC for being with us here today to talk about their native country so just like yesterday you know the excitement comes from the fact that we all have different customs and traditions and Heritage ancestry all of our ancestors with the exception of the Native Americans come from somewhere else a different country so this is an opportunity not only to learn about it but to share an Embrace and just love the fact that we all have these different customs tradition that we bring to one place in the United States so thank you again to the parents are being here and with that I'm going to pass it over to you Miss Forte good morning everyone name of Louis XIV and I talked about the Republic of Colombia our flag our flag has three colors is a very bright flat the yellow is that the symbol of goals that we have an hour man who is very reach Uncle the blue symbolize the two oceans that Pacific and they are plant a quarter even in the red is a symbol of all the heroes who fought for our freedom okay so we are located in South America but you can see on the left where we are in car cornea and where we are the Columbia country is based on the distance from California so we are in the north part of South America hours lemon country song Venezuela Peru Brazil Ecuador and Panama become chair was called after Christopher Columbus who was Explorer from Italy and he travels four times around the ocean and it was named after who last name Columbus the population is 49 million and the us we have a 330 million people so it's a very small compared to the United States are capital is Bogota we speak in Spanish but also we have an island whose only speak English and the name of the island is San Andreas and we have 32 states three smallest states compared to the u.s. and the u.s. is the 50 states Mars Attacks if you want to travel to Colombia you will have to speed on the airplane for 8 hours now to Pond we are about two times the state of Texas Everybody Plays soccer over there we're very popular for soccer our money is pic Colombian Peso and I were Independents day is July 20th the cats alright so have you can tell the school's over there where the classes are much bigger we are our closets are about 30 to 35 kids for class everybody wears uniform so it doesn't matter what type of a school you go everybody is in you and if our school calendar goes from February to November in our break our summer break in between July and August and then I work as long as break is in November November to February so we finish the school on the calendar year school goes from Pretender to 11 grade so we already weighed one year younger than the kids from here and we go to one of school from kindergarten to 11 no like here that we change 3D printer schools are for we are in one location for all our education all right so we won't do that Colombians love today they lost two parties and I'm going to show you a little bit of our dances our native dances who which we learn how to dance this dance is when I already in a school so through Elementary we learn every culture from Colombia and we learn how to dance and they typical dresses and everything about it okay still 70% of the country is Catholic and the world's only Underground located in a working salt mine the cathedrals actually three levels down with small passages leading to cavernous nerves go to make the enormity of the state and get lost for hours before emerging above ground so what you just sell was at South Cathedral this all Cathedral is built or it was car 660 feet underground so they miners were going to work but they also wanted to pray for their safety still be carved a beautiful Church give me underground and it got really popular very visited by foreign people and they made some adjustments build a new one in 1991 and we can go there to celebrate mass and it's a beautiful place it's a very unique on the world's they only sell the mine in the world salt mine church start alright hours foot very yummy food we have a we have a lot of each state have their own typical food the old Essence from the coffee region the next one is from Bogota is that we are in a very cold down so a lot of suits to keep us warm round lifetime cakes are cheese and corn bread and plantain on the caramel we love sweets all right so why Columbia is famous or what what makes is really famous our coffee so we are one of the most coffee production is really really high we have a it's very soft is very flavorful because their land and the temperatures are really reach right so amazing perfect coffee and is one the most important products in Columbia sells to their world the emerald as the green Ross or stones that you see on the left and they are very very deep tones very shiny very resistant and we sell them to other worlds this is also because our minds have very unique terrain condition are orchids the flowers on the left on the right we have 25 thousand species of orchids we sell them to the us and we are the richest country in orcas in the world and if you play soccer Thomas very famous soccer player we have our fruits and a lot of handmade products and also Shakira is from Colombia alright important places in Columbia we have Bogota the capital which is the highest capital city in the world one of the highest 866 feet high we have carti Hannah the coast very tropical in the Caribbean San Andreas the island that I mentioned to you that it's all English speaking is where the pacificus so Colombia has the two oceans they have the two oceans at Pacific and Atlantic City around Columbia Mary Jane where the coffee is and Daniel Chris Salas so can you please tell Liz says Columbia is a mega-diverse countries that means he has a lot of flowers nature animals a lot of his thesis is the highest amount of a species by area in the world Columbia is it has a lot of butterflies many amphibians and can you please sell this is one of the places that if we roll it's known to the world for their unique let's see what's going on a dazzling array of colors illuminate the water creating a nowhere else on Earth it is as stunning as it is an acceptable this unique Kaleidoscope is overwhelming it combines prehistoric BlackRock Vivid yellow stands green monsters and Pure Blue Waters but it is the seasonal appearance of the river all right so we have the Amazon in the south of Colombia and of course have you here in about the Amazon river which is the longest river off the wall so its travels part of this River travels through Columbia and one of the fun facts about it is the width of this River in the Columbia section is about 29 MI like the distance from here all the way to Disneyland all the order a little bit farther than going to Disneyland so during rain season this river is very very region water and of course many amphibian in this beautiful River all right music and this is how we're very popular for me I'll take a lot of singer it's a lot on five riddims and here is a little bit of the music and I have I want to share a little bit real muqueca off all right you'll see me yes okay so there is a lot of money products in Columbia so this is a doll with the typical outfit from my town a lot of Handmade by God pencil wava Coast Carnival art supply and lots of jewelry and handmade brother thank you so much for letting me share my beautiful country with all of you thank you so much Miss Forte that way that was wonderful and beautiful just the colors in the culture and the dancing in the music and it's absolutely incredible thank you for that I'm going to ask you to take down the presentation and next up we have Miss Lynch and as I said before today the parents are taking us not only to one continent but you continent so we were just in South America with Miss port a and now we're heading over what you do with Miss chance I will be speaking with us about Taiwan is very excited so it missed and you can pull up a presentation if you have a good night if you're just speaking that's fine too but the the floor all yours okay I'm going to share my screen perfect we can all see it now no good welcome to International way my name is Lynn I am Lucas and Lynn are small shout out to miss our Gatsby and mr. Stefano you are the best I am so honored to be here today to introduce you about my hometown I want I was born and raised in Taiwan can anyone tell me what kind of Vacaville Taiwan look like does anybody know take a guy I guess everybody is muted how about a principal say that look maybe a little bit like a fish name that's five extra squash very cool skinny and it has a little tip on the bottom so it is a sweet potato and we love sweet potato okay so before we start I'm going to in Taiwan we speak Mandarin so I'm going to teach you how to say hello can you repeat after me Niihau the Taiwan and California are both in Pacific Ocean if you are a fast swimmer next time you're at Redondo Beach you can swim across the Pacific Ocean and all the way to I want just kidding but there is a direct flight is just 13 hours to get there so Taiwan is located in East Asia China and the China and 3rd Northwest Japan and the Northeast the Philippines and the South Taiwan is about 200 45 miles long 90 miles wide capital is Taipei Taiwan has 23.5 million people compared to California has Cornelius so Taiwan has a high density in population this is the size of I want appears to be Taiwan is 273 times smaller and us if we compared I want you to look for me I want is 11 times smaller than Calif just imagine you can drive around the island and just eight hours if you want to be even faster Taiwan has high-speed train that will only take little 2 hours amazing right do you have any Taiwan wear uniform all the way up to high school when I was at your age I was wearing my uniforms to school every single day I didn't need to think about what to wear and definitely make my morning super easy and fast what does my school which is about 124 years old and you can see I took Lucas and Leonard there to show them my school on the bottom corner thank you cited and asked me for a while with my father do you know there is enough time for lunch every day at school even in high school students are more productive getting around in Taiwan since I want is such a small country people really depend on Transportation besides sad the other one is scooter scooters are easy to get around in case you don't know what stores are you know our fantastic traffic to rap mr. Oh yes to our school at 7:15 with his trusty scooter looks how his room around the traffic and easy to park that is why we love. in stata here's another phone when I was as small as you are at this age me and my parents alone with my cue siblings were hop on oh my dad Stewart like this in the photo and you invited the whole family on a scooter pretty fun right that is super super fun Tampa this is longshan Temple can anyone guess how old is Temple is take a guess it is 282 years out older than you ask by 38 years isn't that amazing work on tree that small but has such a long history Taiwan is the richest country people go to Temple to pray for good health with Ray and career they also Burn fake money for the death because they believe there is life bounce it on the other side of the world Lantern Festival Disney it's a small Hillside Village outside of the capital Taipei is no-one Forest historic Lantern Rachel's this tradition can trace back to the sixteenth century when does Skyland Terrace used to deliver messages during a war or an attack the letters are a popular form of art we write the messages on the paper lantern watch them fly away okay does anyone still remember what vegetable Taiwan look like I remember this time is a sweet potato sweet potato so Taiwan is long and skinny but we have high mountains on the east go all the way up up up up the center and then dive down flat to the West in 1517 at Discovery ship of Portuguese saw this and names beautiful island has also been called remote since when I want is all flat land we grow a lot of rice because we love rice we eat rice for breakfast lunch and dinner I'm going to share with you the Chinese character feel if you look at the image in the center it is a box with the frost in it if you look at the character of Bob it looks exactly the same so there you go you just learned your very first Chinese character does anyone know our computer has a tiny little chat to make the computer smarter well Apple computer chips are all made in Taiwan pretty cool huh I want these people love food we love who we talk about food all the time while we travel we always ask famous dish I located in every corner that's how we that's how much does anyone here ever. I go back before racing again if you have so Boba is made of tapioca flour that is why it gets that chewy texture I remember I use Boba after school you can get all my weight it was so delicious do you know boba tea was originally created and Taiwan and got so popular and there are Boba stores all over the world so the first stint I fell as in my hometown Taiwan if you ever have Dent iPhone before if you never have think I found before please please please go to buy it I was so happy when they open at Del Amo mall that eases my craving for Taiwanese dishes make sure your older style long Bao beef noodle soup and garlic cucumber that is my favorite appetizer if you walk out of the entire football make sure you walk over to 85° Degree Bakery and get some traditional Hawaiian bread and pastry your . words to describe it. You just have to try them I am telling you we love food and we love to share with the world sharing is caring I'm saying goodbye and I'm going to teach you how to say goodbye in Mandarin size and before I leave on my brother-in-law what works for CNN and the last night when he was there he has short bit with him and was sharing a Sheeran. Beautiful and Taiwan so I am going to show you a short one minute Target Nokia 3220 all right that's it thank you very much thank you so much Miss Panama sport HSE I wish we could do this and I'm not even joking I wish we could do this at the beginning of every day you know students we learn from books we learn from video you do now you taking more of the evidence-based project-based approach to learning your learning and more collaborative ways and group ways than ever before but hearing directly from people who have lived in other countries that experienced the customs and traditions just had to come here and talk about it for me it just doesn't get any better than that so I missed him his Forte if it's okay I'd love to ask you to a couple of questions is that okay I'm going to start off with a new sport a you were talk I'm so much about the customs of Colombia with the music and I could just tell the color is always so bright and I'll be in the food and the dancing in the music I'm curious as you do in the United States there a certain event where people just I'm going to use the term all-out you do for a wedding in July 4th are just these huge massive parties are there events in Columbia where you would say that again because the dancing in the music in the food is so important popular with you there are certain events that are just massive on where everybody kind of goes all out and what what is that like people get dressed and very colorful outfit flowers and long skirts and beautiful colorful dresses and everybody create like oh my God you need them and you show that to the whole Community this this Carnival last a week so is it's amazing as itself Tammy that's very unique and then we have another bigger band which is still a lot of computers of salsa dancers, peed a games we are dancers and all over the world because we are the South SAC Capital off their world so and same thing as last a full week so Colombian like you have a lot of fun a lot of nothing when we have a birthday party sometimes we done all through the night or last one that's good exercise to so I'm glad to hear that you enjoy yourself so much that's wonderful the culture is so rich you miss Chennai I'm always so fascinated by other languages and especially other types of writing student you might know if you try to learn Spanish or Italian some different languages we we we have the same letters or at least similar letters in Taiwan this can you replay it until that is based on character is Stoneberry did the character is derived from anything or were they just created by a certain group or or do they have certain significant out of the characters even come about well I think it kind of goes all the way back to when we were riding I mean what time does, kind of changing along the way so in the beginning it's more like it's like a picture and then for example the river is literally just like three lines Ellen Page or like liver and then long days are just kind of making it more like the character but so I'm saying that some of the characters if you look at call it kind of transform its really face off the people in the past they just kind of do it at the picture so it's very fascinating and we have like pinging that's all like is face off ABC that's how we pronounce our character so I think it's very difficult to learn but you are if you can learn it at my path is such a beautiful language to speak thank you and I'm going to ask both of you to contribute on this one we can start with Miss and I would like you to tell us and there's no specific you paying please don't please don't think too much about it but one of your Fondest Memories of your country if you could do that in like if someone were to ask me what's one of your Fondest Memories of New York I would say you know I just I love the energy and electricity and you are going to love going there Central Park with my family anything like that but I would like you to say it in your native language and then translate it for us if that's possible okay hold on can you say what if it's asked you why would you say of your native country so like I'm from New York is the one that says we would have which one of the things that you miss most of that you love most about beayork I would say you know I love electricity of New York and I love and I used to love going to Central Park with my family anything like that night market would you like we love food so I locked is going out to eat but I'm sorry I missed you and I was I would like you to say to your native language and then translate it for us. Seattle. They're way I'm going to that's really fun okay I love night market so it's like the street vendors like street food you can eat in the beginning of the street all the way to the end if you do if you have a big appetite and that's how we usually do like we would we were like ghetto school around 5:30 and then we will meet up with my classmate and then we would try all different kind of smoothies and then we would talk and it's really fun I feel like my we need the memory cuz I just like I enjoy food and I feel like it's so nice to just when you get out of your house and beer is just food everywhere and people are just going out and having fun that is really really bad that's wonderful and it does sound like food is that is a big part of the culture and the traditions and it together a Time thank you so much for sharing that with us and I miss Forte if you could if you can share with us the same type of activity oh and by the way students if you ever complaining about being in school too long please remember that Miss Chad said that they get out of school at 5:30 okay so when you get out at 2:45 or should not be any complaints 730-3025 kitchen, thank you Miss Forte we go ahead Yahara Mecosta call me familia in Barcelona daddy transmitira Cynthia morsch okay so what I say this is one of the best memories I hide is going to the coast which is 3 hours away from Bogota and it's bending Caribbean time listening to the music and enjoying the warm weather and enjoying the food there one night of the people and feeling the love my country we are very affectionate people very love giving Tartine hugging kissing thank you thank you thank you thank you so much I miss Shannon Miss for it to a fantastic job we're so lucky that you were able to join us today thank you for helping us to travel even if it was virtual over at the South America and Asia I'm sure all the students will confirm that it was just an outstanding time with all of you so if you want you can use the microphones with a massive Round of Applause for our two. Panthers today we were absolutely phenomenal thank you so much all right everyone had yourselves an absolutely excellent day and I will see you outside. Thank you my friend
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