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I realized after my Standard Seven national exams that my dream is to become a doctor. The day I was selected to join the secondary school near our home, I was very happy. My difficulty is that I live in a country where there are rich resources but the application of these resources to real life is not yet done. Most people are poor, including my parents. Sometimes they cannot get me school items such as books, clothes, and food. One day in the future I want to be doing well in my life. This is possible if I put effort into my learning.

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Susan
Sun, December 9, 2018 at 9:45 pm GMT
Hi Students!

I just read all the journal entries I have received since October. Such wonderful letters! I am so impressed by how mature and articulate you have become. I’m realizing that I have now been reading some of your journals for 5 years. When I look at your photos, I don’t recognize the child I first knew. You are teenagers now.
I especially love the stories that some of you told in your journals. Moral tales, I call them.

So congratulations for working so hard. I’m hoping you will achieve your goals, go to a university if you want, and become productive members of your community, and able to help others as you have been helped.

I am enjoying retirement. My age of 76 is bringing on a bit of health problems, like arthritis, but I keep active physically and don’t let it stop me from doing what I love to do.

I read a lot. I travel. I go to jazz concerts in San Francisco. I would love to return to Kenya and Tanzania for a visit. I’d love to visit your school. Maybe it will happen. Who knows?

So keep up the great efforts. I know it can’t be easy, but this is such a wonderful opportunity.

Very fondly, Susan
Saumu
Tue, December 5, 2017 at 9:40 am GMT
hello Susan.earth is our planet we live in.it has several living things as explained below.
Earth’s Shape, Size, and Mass
As you walk, the ground usually looks pretty flat, even though the Earth is round. How do we know this? We have
pictures of Earth taken from space that show that Earth is round. Astronauts aboard the Apollo 17 shuttle took this
one, called "The Blue Marble"
Long before spacecraft took photos of Earth from space, people knew that Earth was round. How? One way was to
look at ships sailing off into the distance. What do you see when you watch a tall ship sail over the horizon of the
Earth? The bottom part of the ship disappears faster than the top part. What would that ship look like if Earth was
flat? No part of it would disappear before the other. It would all just get smaller as it moved further away.
In the solar system, the planets orbit around the Sun. The Sun and each of the planets of our solar system are round.
Earth is the third planet from the Sun. It is one of the inner planets. Jupiter is an outer planet. It is the largest planet

This is how the Earth looks like from
space - like a blue and white marble.
in the solar system at about 1,000 times the size of Earth. The Sun is about 1,000 times bigger than Jupiter.

Compare the Sun with the other planets
and see how the Sun is much bigger
than all the other planets.
The outer planets in the solar system are giant balls of swirling gas. Earth and the other inner planets are relatively
small, dense, and rocky. Most of Earth’s surface is covered with water. As far as we know, Earth is also the only
planet that has liquid water. Earth’s atmosphere has oxygen. The water and oxygen are crucial to life as we know it.
Earth appears to be the only planet in the solar system with living creatures. You can learn more about the planets in
the Our Solar System chapter.
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