First part

My name is Leticia Aquino. I live in São Paulo, Brazil.
My home is an apartament. I live with my brother and my parents.
My city is big. Like any other big city, there´s a lot of traffic, some places where the water and the air are polluted... but here, in my neighbourd, the place is very peaceful and I have a lot of good friends.
Like any other city in the world, there are drugs, alcohol and other bad things but it isn´t the worst place in the world to live.
There are some places where the violence is bigger, but here where I study and live is very good.

My name is Andre. I live in Brazil. I live in São Paulo and this city is the biggest one of Brazil.
And as all the big cities of the world. It has a lot of pollution, traffic and lots and lots of people.
The streets are not safety to walk, you are always afraid of being assaulted. There are so much violence here, a lot of drugs, that make you afraid of your own shadow when you are walking on the street.
Fortunatelly, these things don´t happen in my neighbourhood. Here I live in an apartment and I have a calm life.
The air in São Paulo is too polluited because of the great number of cars and busses that ride every day here.
We also have subways and trains too. The water of a river that we have is too polluted too, but it´s getting less polluted because the govern is doing his best to clean it.
Oh! I forgot to sag that I have a lot of good friends here. See you later, bye.

From Santo Estevam School

Cintia lives in a apartment in a big city called Sâo Paulo in Brazil.
Hers apartment are very big. There are three bedrooms, two living rooms and a kitchen.
She lives withher brother and her parents. She lives in a street that´s not very calm, but there´s not a lot of traffic.
Her school is near her apartment and so is her English school.
In front of her building there´s a German Club. The streets are very safe to walk.
The neighbourhood is peaceful. There are no drugs and alcohol. She has good friends living nearby.

Pictures from São Paulo, Brazil

Second part

I live in São Paulo a big city where i live is peaceful, and it´s near school, too.
So, I get to school by foot ( I walk to school). My neighbohood isn´t violent. I fell safe walking in the street.
The air is a little polluted, but where ins´t polluted?
We have polluted air here, cause there are a lot of cars and factories.
But it isn´t just the air that is polluted.
Even the rivers here are polluted, the water has a grecial treatment before it gets into the houses, and we can drink it with no big problems.
And our principal public transportation are trains and cars.

I live in a big Brazilian´s city.
My neigbourhood is peaceful, there aren´t drugs and alcohol.
The streets aren´t very calm but there is not a lot of traffic.
My school is very near my apartment and so is my english school..
I go to school on foot and when it´s raining my parents take me there.
The air is a little polluted because of the cars.
My apartment is very near na avenue and on this avenue yhere´s a lot of cars and buses passing every day.
Most people use cars, buses and sometimes they use bikes just to ride nearby.
The water is good, everybody can drink it but there are some people that buy water in bottles.
They want to buy but it´s not necessary.

I live in a city, in a big city, São Paulo. Here have many people, many cars and the traffic is very busy.
I go to school by car. Tha air is not very good because there are many cars and buses and factories it.
I have to buy water in bottles. Most people go to work or school by buses.

It´s Andre from Brazil again.
I live in a big city, with lots of great things to do and to visit.
The area where I live is a calm place, without too much violence, contrasting with the others part of the city.
I live near my school ( about 8 blocks), and I usually go there on foot.
In this part of the city it is safe to walk on the street.
We have near here many places to pratctice all kinds of sports. The most popular sport here is soccer.
The air is polluted by cars and busses, and most people use busses to go to work, but we have trains, subways.
Some people go to work or school riding their bicicles, but the majority, go work in their own car.

See you

Third part

Brazil, my country, has some big cities, and I live in one of them.
People here do all kind of jobs to support themselves and their families.
We have here masons, engineers, lawyers, robbers... all kind of occupations, and all of them, except for robbers, contribute to make my country go on.
Of course that living in a big city has its negative aspects.
Here there are too much violence, there are poor people, a lot of traffic, drugs and pollution not only in the air, but also visual and mental.
Everywhere you walk you can see a lot of advertisements, outdoors, etc.
The TV and films pollute your mind with trash (programs or movies that are good-for-nothing).
My country was covered by a vast forest, but the development destroyed a good part of it.
This week a great fire in the North of the country is destroying good part of the Amazon Forest that still survives from the deforestation of the men.
Fireman from all part of Brazil are there trying to extinguish the fire. Let's see what will happen.

My country as large as it is has a lot of big cities. And I live in the one of the biggest.
It's named São Paulo and concetrates most of the industries and the economy of the country.
For living, people do a lot of works here in brazil. And like in any other country we have 3 big groups of economy that includes basically all kinds of jobs.
We have the primary, the secondary and the third sectors. Most of the population work on the last one, that includes installment of services.
We're starting to be worried about the atmosphere and the environment. But like any other big city, the environment could be better.
We have a lot of industries here in São Paulo, and as all of you know, industry disturbs the environment too much.
The responses to the question about environment will vary.
Our brazilian atmosphere is good, and very well - known in all world thouught the Amazon rain forest. Everyone knows this forest but in the last 2 months it has been suffering a lot with this fire and deforestation.
I think, like any other part of the world, the environment could be better here in Brazil.
But nevertheless, we have a good one and if we take care about it, it can last for centuries.

There is one big city for each state but there are three bigest cities in Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and São Paulo, where I live.
The environment in my country is big. We have a big forest: the Amazon rainforest. And we have the Atlantic forest too.
The Amazon forest is in the Amazon's state. This forest is the biggest in the world and a lot of people are interested in it.; because in it there is a lot of different animals and plants.
The Atlantic forest is not a big as Amazon forest. I think that is very important to care about our environment.
It is very important to our health to have a place with lots of trees.
The world needs a place like the Amazon forest and if we destroy our nature, we are going to destroy ourselves and nobody wants to destroy its own life!

From Santo Estevam School

Maharaja Sawai Man Singh Vidyalaya, Jaipur India
sharadbirmiwal@usa.net

I am Sharad Birmiwal and I study in Maharaja Sawai Man Singh Vidyalaya , Jaipur(India).
My teacher (Mrs. Neeti Kaul) told me about Blue Print Earth.
I have asked my very good friend Mudit Jaju, to consider about the answers of your questions.
Mudit said - " My house is a bungalow in a suburb that is developing at a very high rate and is almost a part of the city.
I live in Jaipur, an important Indian city. My daily routine consists of school, studies and evening games.
My life is very routined and studies and sleeping take up most of my time. The environment in my neighbourhood is pretty as we aren't in the heart of the city. There are few trees, mainly in the gardens.
Our roads are the ideal cricket pitch type, which are fully exploited by the sports-minded. Parrots, mynas and occasional peacock are sighted.
There are mostly bungalows with gardens and seasonal flowers like dahlias, phlox, zenia, lilies, roses of vibrant colours which add splendour to our colony. I wish all of Jaipur had so many flowers as I am an anthomaniac."
This is what I have to say - "My house is a flat in the suburb. There is construction going on in my colony just because a new Legislative Assembly is being built near by.
I have everything in my life which I need. My School is 1-2kms away from my house. I go their mostly by bike with my elder brother, sometimes I go their by bicycle.
There is a small park just in front my house. I play their in the evening. There are 3-4 trees in the park but more are being planted. I have a very simple life and I try to enjoy it as much as I can."
I am sending few 3D photos of my house from different angles which I made my self in POV-ray (There is no roof in the picture but in the real one, I do have. In the place of doors and windows, blank rectangles are shown).

-Sharad Birmiwal

I am sending to you the last work. I loved this project. It was my first project with the Kidlink.

Thank you, Luciana

The world is becomming wearer
Every time I look around
The nature is getting smaller
And the solution, I don't know anyone that found

Please let the world
Breath with a litlle bit relief
It's like the environment is going
Like a robbery by a thief.

Why just can we have peace?
With no one stealing it from us
Why just ca we breath
And be think for our world just for what it give (to) us.

Fundacion Vida Nueva de Mexico
mfalcon@servidor.unam.mx

First part

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Me llamo Mario. Aqui' en Tla'huac, Mz 180 Lt 7 Colonia Ampliacio'n Selene, Calle Laguna del Ensue~o hay terrenos baldi'os con animales como vacas, caballos y perros. Hay mucha basura.
Esta' muy bonito aqui' en la casa hogar porque en el jardi'n hay pasto y flores. Hay mucho aire contaminado por el viento que hace y que se trae toda la basura en un remolino.
El agua es muy limpia, a veces sale un poco sucia y a veces sale muy sucia que ni se puede usar.
Hay a'guilas en el cerro, hay "calenturas" que son como chapulines pero tienen una cola larga, son como verdes, tienen ma's antenitas y ma's patas muy delgaditas, son chicos.
Cerca hay un volca'n, es un volca'n muy viejo que existio' antes; tiene un cra'ter hondo, alrededor del cra'ter se juntan ma's personas en donde hay un como pozo. Hay una cruz y una bandera y en la cima hay muchos animales como orugas, moscos y catarinas

El lugar en el que vivimos es bonito, hay pasto, columpios, sube y bajas, deportivos.
En los deportivos hay poquita basura, hay pasto, canchas de basquetbol y canchas para patinar. Hay cerros, carros, muchos a'rboles, carreteras, casas y camiones.
Hay un volca'n que se llama el Popocate'petl y la Mujer dormida. Hay mucho polvo y tierra, hay remolinos de tierra y remolinos de basura. Pasa un carro para tirar la basura todos los martes y le damos dinero para que se tome un refresco.
En las calles hay poquitos perros de varias razas porque hay una perrera. Hay algunos caballos. Las casas son de dos pisos, hay lavaderos, las casas tienen patios grandes, chiquitos, medianos. Tenemos agua, luz y drenaje.

En el lugar en el que vivio hay tiendas, deportivos, ni~os, pasto. Hay poquita contaminacio'n.
Hay a'rboles, y cuando hace aire se hacen remolinos de tierra. Hay plantas y cerros que tienen muchos a'rboles. Hay poca basura, casas bonitas. Hay un mercado que se pone en la calle los domingos. Hay nopales y pa'jaros.
Hay un deportivo grande que tiene canchas de basquetbol, de futbol, juegos como columpios, resbaladillas, sube y baja y escalera grande. Hay bancas para sentarse, tiene poquitos a'rboles, ahi' voy a jugar con mis patines.
Hay muchos perros que andan en la calle, algunos tienen due~o, otros estan adentro de su casa.
En la casa en la que vivo hay piedras, sillas, plantas, hay dos a'rboles grandes y ma'scaras de barro pegadas en la pared. Tenemos botes de basura, un patio en el que podemos jugar con una patineta, con bicicleta y patines.

En mi casa hay muchos a'rboles, bueno, es lo que ma's me gusta. Hay mucho pasto y un cerro, pero esta' un poco lejos.
Ya los subimos y nos tardamos como dos horas y media en llegar hasta la punta, en medio tiene un cra'ter.

Second part

Vivimos en el Distrito Federal, en la Ciudad de Me'xico. Estamos viviendo en la Ciudad de Me'xico, la ma's grande del mundo, y la ma's contaminada.
Aqui' hay mucha contaminacio'n porque hay muchas fa'bricas y carros.
Las fa'bricas son de productos qui'micos. Hay muchos carros, y la verdad, en vez de carros debieramos usar bicicletas para que no este' tan contaminada la ciudad.

Es bonito pero lo malo es la contaminacio'n. Luego, en vez de que la civilizacio'n haya cambiado, mejor se hubiera quedado como antes.
A parte, hay taxis, autobuses, metro, tren ligero, ruta 100, trolebuses, micros y bicitaxis (un bicitaxi es una bicicleta con una carroza atra'as).

Mi escuela esta' una calle atr'as de mi casa, al lado de mi escuela hay otra donde hay chavos grandes que ya van a terminar su carrera.

Nosotros somos "cholos", nos vestimos con pantalones holgados, con cinturones bien chidos (o bonitos), camisas holgadas, cadenitas y una gorra; nadie nos puede hacer nada porque nos tienen miedo.

El agua no esta' contaminada, pero por si las "moscas", es decir, por si las dudas, la ponemos a hervir, y despue's la tomamos.

Third part

En nuestro pais hay grandes ciudades como Guadalajara, Sinaloa y Toluca.
Para que la personas puedan vivir, trabajan en fabricas, hacen libros, cuadros de ceramica, trabajan de marineros o vendiendo frutas. Tambien hay personas que trabajan y estudian, otras hacen el aseo de su casa y la comida para que puedan comer.
El ambiente esta muy contaminado, hay personas que queman plastico, botellas, y todo el humo se va al cielo, tiran basura a los canales de agua. Es malo que haya contaminacion, quisieramos que no hubiera porque se enferma toda la humanidad y los animales, y se mueren los pajaros y los peces.
Esta muy mal que desaparezcan algunos animales, para que eso no pase hay que darles amor, hay que tirar las pistolas para que no los maten, hay que cuidarlos.
De la seguridad de las personas, hay policias con uniforme azul marino, son de seguridad privada y publica, los que vigilan el transito estan uniformados de cafe. Algunos son buenos y otros malos.
Los policias se llevan a la gente que toma bebidas alcoholicas afuera de las tiendas. Algunos policias andan en bicicletas, pero siguen habiendo asaltos. Tambien hay gente mala que se roba a los ni~os y roban cosas.

Part Four

Cuando hay mucho dio'xido de carbono (CO2), el calor no puede salir por la capa de ozono, pero el sol puede entrar por los hoyos que se le hacen provocados por la contaminacio'n.
Estos rayos afectan a los Polos, los calientan, el hielo se dehace y muere gran parte de la vida que hay ahi', puede haber inundaciones.

Ya no hay que contaminar para que no se rompa la capa de ozono, hay que cuidarla para que podamos seguir viviendo.
Para no contaminarla, ya no hay que prender tanta lumbre, no quemar a'rboles y cuando prendamos un cerillo, apagarlos y ponerlos en el bote de la basura, no quemar cohetes.
La contaminacio'n es mala porque se le hacen hoyos a la capa de ozono y los rayos del sol nos llegan ma's fuertes.
El mar se contamina cuando se hunde un barco y se le tira todo el petro'leo, se contaminan los peces y ya no los podemos comer.

En la tierra hay una capa de ozono que nos protege del sol, no debemos quemar madera, petro'leo, ni debe haber humo de carros y fa'bricas porque si lo seguimos haciendo vamos a contaminar poco a poco y los animales se van ir muriendo, adema's, esto provoca que aumente el dio'xido de carbono, que la capa de ozono se vaya deshaciendo y ella nos protege del sol.
Tambie'n las temperaturas van ir aumentando, se van ir deshaciendo los hielos del Polo Norte y todos los animales que ahi' viven se van ir muriendo.
Si los a'rboles dan oxi'geno y los queman, los hombres ya no van a poder vivir, porque nosotros respiramos oxi'geno.
La contaminacio'n viene de las fa'bricas, de la basura, cuando se queman los a'rboles y cuando explota una gasolineri'a.
Aqui' en M'exico la contaminacio'n es m'as grande en el Distrito Federal, porque hay muchos carros que contaminan. En Acapulco, por ejemplo, en el mar tiran cosas como basura y la gasolina de los barcos; en Chiapas hay menos contaminacio'n porque no queman tantas cosas como en la ciudad y no hay tantos carros.

Saludos, Javier, 14 años

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J: De que' se le acusa?
F: De tirar basura y contaminar el mundo
Pide la palabra Hector
J: Hable usted
F: Se le acusa de contaminar y tirar basura y se debe tirar en el bote
J: Tiene pruebas, fotos, testigos (pide que interroguen a la testigo) Porque tiro' basura?
T: Vi que iba en un camio'n, comio' chicle y lo tiro' por la ventana
D: Protesto, tiene razo'n porque a ese ni~o no se le educo' desde que era chico...no hay botes de basura en los camiones...no trai'a bolsas...si lo echaba en la bolsa de su pantalo'n se le iba a pegar.
F: Protesto, si no hay botes podi'a evitar comerlo en el pesero
J: Pruebas, que' dice el acusado?, se declara culpable o inocente
A: Inocente...porque no hay botes en el carro
Israel: Co'mo quieren que pongan botes?, si el carro frena los botes se caeran sobre la gente.
He'ctor: Pero podri'an poner bolsas
Juan Carlos: Tambie'n pueden poner bolsas, las pueden amarrar
Iva'n: Puede envolver el chicle en la envoltura y guardarlo.
Lalo: Pero porque' los autobuses de pasajeros si tienen ba~os y do'nde poner la basura?
Hctor: No es culpa de e'l sino de los que van manejando, ellos son los responsables de poner botes, no se preocupan
Ivan: Si el niño tira la basura, puede llenar todo el camino de basura
Lalo: No puede ser posible, a poco va a comer tanto?, e'l tira su basura no la de toda la gente
Juan Carlos: El no tiene la culpa porque no tiene la culpa de que no haya botes de basura en los camiones
D: Estamos hablando de e'l, pero si toda la gente tira basura entonces si se llenara' el camino
Araceli: Pues que esa misma persona recogiera su basura
He'ctor: Y si no quiere que lo bajen del camio'n y que lo traigan aqui' para que lo enjuicien
Iva'n: Que' pasa con los chicles que se deshacen con el sol?, si pasa un perro o un pa'jaro y luego ya no puede volar
He'ctor: Eso es culpa del perro o el pa'jaro que no se dan cuenta de que hay un chicle tirado.
Iva'n: Pero puede preguntar al señor del camio'n do'nde tirar la basura. Pueden poner unos anuncios que digan no tirar basura , tambie'n en las calles y poner unos botes para ahi' vasear la basura.
Araceli: En el camio'n que iba no teni'a letrero, se debe pegar arriba, como en la calle
Israel: Co'mo quieren que pongan los anuncios, corriendo que iban a hacer caso. Si es que ya no tienen basura, mejor que maten a todos
Arizbeth: Igual es mala idea porque se contaminara mucho ma's y se vera' mucho ma's feo
Juan Carlos: Se contaminara el aire, si no cuando llegara a su casa tiraba la basura
Los niños ya esta'n muy inquietos y les preguntamos si quieren que se de el veredicto, dicen que si' y el jurado sale fuera de la habitacio'n para discutir. Fuera esta' Pedro, le pedimos su opinio'n, nos dice que el acusado si es culpable pero sin saberlo, Dinorah le dice: entonces es culpable sin conocimiento de causa.

Le preguntamos que' castigo sugiere para el culpable y dice: pues que el niño recoja toda la basura de la casa hogar por una semana; le preguntamos que' pasari'a si el niño continua tirando basura, e'l dice que si lo vuelve a hacer tiene que recoger la basura durante tres meses. Entramos de nuevo al salo'n y comunicamos a los ni~os la decisio'n que Pedro sugirio'.

Personajes

Hector: Se acusa de contaminacio'n a la fa'brica de lea, porque hace ruido y saca humo para hacer el carbo'n que tambie'n se desperdicia, porque ya no se utiliza mucho y adema's contamina los bosques porque se utilizan a'rboles para hacer el carbo'n.
Pedro: Una fa'brica es la quinta parte de las causas de la contaminacio'n en Mexico porque casi no hay a'rboles en la ciudad. Unos compañeros esta'n en el hospital por culpa de la contaminacio'n de la fa'brica, porque el humo es la causa del ca'ncer en los pulmones.
Arizbeth: Adema's esta' ubicada en una zona habitacional y afecta a muchas familias.
Israel: Si', cuando abro la llave para bañarme el agua sale muy sucia. Mis hijos estn en el hospital, no tengo para pagar. Adema's la fa'brica hace ruido, no deja dormir, gasta mucha luz, en la colonia se va la luz muy seguido, la fa'brica tiene que buscar una manera de no hacer ruido y contaminacio'n.
He'ctor: Queremos que la fa'brica no contamine ma's porque contamina mucho y el carbo'n no se utiliza mucho.
Iva'n: Bueno, voy a hacer algo para no contaminar ma's, voy a hacer comida.
Arizbeth (que ahora forma parte de la defensa): Yo creo que es lo'gico lo que dicen, cuando hay una fa'brica cerca de las casas esos problemas siempre ocurren, pero en una fa'brica hay gente que trabaja ahi' y que mantiene a su familia y si se cierra la fa'brica se queda sin empleo.
Hector: No pedimos que se cierre la fa'brica, sino que busquen una manera de no contaminar y que tampoco corten muchos a'rboles.
Arizbeth: Para buscar una manera de no contaminar es necesario adema's de la buena voluntad otras cosas que son difi'ciles, por ejemplo a veces no hay dinero para poner filtros en la chimenea de la fa'brica, aunque a mi tambie'n me afecta porque vivo en la ciudad.
Pedro: Bueno pero podras cambiar de negocio, podras vender tu maquinaria para comprar estufas y vender comida.
Arizbeth: Pero de todas maneras una cocina tambie'n contamina porque hace basura.
He'ctor: Solamente si comieras tu solo y no te acabaras la comida habri'a desperdicios.
Pedro: Pero podras hacer solo la comida necesaria para no desperciciar.
Hctor: Pedimos que haga menos carbo'n y asi' no habra' tantas ma'quinas y si las vende podra comprar filtros para ponerlos en sus chimeneas y en su coladeras para no contaminar el agua.
Pide la palabra el acusado:
Iva'n: Puedo decirle a los gerentes que tapen las chimeneas y que ya no contaminen ma's porque asi' hay contaminacio'n en el universo.
Mario (un colado en el juicio): Que quiten la fa'brica y que vendan otra cosa.
Arizbeth: No es culpa de la fa'brica, sino de la gente que la maneja.
He'ctor: Por que nunca dijeron que van a cambiar la fa'brica por otra cosa? si ya hay varias peticiones de que se vayan a otro lado y no lo han hecho.
Arizbeth: Lo que pasa es que no esta' aqui' el dueño.
He'ctor: Es responsabilidad de los que trabajan ahi' llamar al due~o para que sepa lo que pasa. El dueño tiene que estar ahi' para solucionar los problemas de su fa'brica.

El acusado vuelve a pedir la palabra:
Iva'n: Pero podemos hacer algo de comida para que vayan todos.
Pedro: Soy residente de donde esta' la fa'brica, hemos hecho huelgas y huelgas y huelgas y el gobierno no nos hace caso, la cierra durante una o dos semanas y otra vez la abren y otra vez pedimos que la cierren entonces la cierran uno o dos das y la vuelven a abrir. La peticio'n es que la cierren ya.
He'ctor: Dicen que si' la van a cerrar pero la vuelven a abrir.
Pedro: Bueno, ahorita esta' cerrada porque est aqui'.
Rau'l: Yo soy trabajador de la fa'brica, pero no puedo dejar de trabajar porque mi familia se queda sin comer. Necesito hablar con el dueño para que la fa'brica cambie de lugar.
Arizbeth: Adema's no se puede cerrar porque se necesita lo que produce la fa'brica.
He'ctor: Pero contamina ms el carbo'n que el gas.
Arizbeth: No es culpa de la fa'brica ni de los trabajadores sino del dueño.
Pedro: Cua'ntos trabajadores hay en la fa'brica?
Arizbeth: Trabajan 1500 personas.
Pedro: Muchos! Bueno, que se vayan a trabajar a otro lado, por ejemplo a sembrar a'rboles. Les podemos pedir que por un a'rbol que talen se planten 10 hecta'reas.
He'ctor: Si' que se siembren 10 hecta'reas.
Iva'n: Ariz-chu qu es una hecta'rea?
Arizbeth: Entonces co'mo propusimos las 10 hecta'reas?
Iva'n: El dijo (señalando a Pedro).
Pedro: Si es cierto, que' es una hecta'rea?
Arizbeth: Una hecta'rea son mil metros cuadrados.
Pedro: Son muchos... Esta' bien, que se siembren 10 hecta'reas.
Hctor: Si' esta' bien que sean 10 hecta'reas, pero no es solucin para los trabajadores, que el due~o les busque trabajo sembrando a'rboles y que les pague para que no se queden sin trabajo y que se cierre la fa'brica, para poner una escuela, un parque, un museo o una biblioteca.
Arizbeth: Para garantizar que eso ocurra, debe haber un convenio entre el due~o y los trabajadores: que los trabajadores compren la fa'brica al due~o para que ellos busquen las medidas para no contaminar ma's.
Pedro: Si se cierra la fa'brica, que el due~o busque trabajo a todos los empleados.

Eydehavn School, Arendal Norway
rich@axp1.pmddata.no

First part

Hello friends...

Here is our answer to the first part of Blue Print.

We are 21 students in our class, 12 boys and 9 girls.
We live in Arendal, the hometown of Kidlink - at a place called Eydehavn.

What is your home like? - This is Synne's house...

Eydehavn is a small place built because there is a factory here. Look at our homepage and click at the English page...

Most of the kids in 5th grade live in a house with a garden. There is not much traffic at Eydehavn, some large trucks come from the factory every now and then... There are also some cars driving around.
When we want to go to town, we use the bus. It takes about 15-20 minutes to teh town center.
We all like it here, and would like to go on living here... The air is mostly fresh, but some times there is smoke from the factory, and it smells bad.
We live on the coast, and the water is clean in the sea... In summer we like to go to the beach here, and swim.
We think it is safe to walk on the streets even in the evenings, when it is dark. Our neighbourhood is peaceful.
In summer we can go out in our boats and have a good time....
We don't know if there are anyone using drugs here...
We have good friends here at school, but sometimes we fight....
We will bring some pictures and put them on the web later...

(our teacher helped us translate into English)

Second part

Eydehavn is a suburb to Arendal. The city has about 38.000 people. If you look at the map, you'll see that we live by the coast.
Our school is also at Eydehavn, and just a few of the 5th graders have to go to school by bus. From 5th grade we can use our bikes to go to school.
Our school is closer to a forest and a lake. We have a soccer field outside our classroom. Both girls and boys like to play soccer in the breaks.
If you visit our homepage, you'll see a picture of our school.
We feel safe on the street where we live... and we have some places to play in-door and a lot of places to play out-door.
In summertime, we can ride down to the beach in 10 minutes and jump in - if the water is warm enough...

How is the air where you live?
We have a chemical plant at Eydehavn, and 6-7 of the students in our class have got parents working there..
The plant is very important for Eydehavn. That's why we stil have the smell and dust from the plant...
The water is OK - in the sea. We can you drink it fresh water from the tap. Busses are the public transportation we use. There are busses going to the town center once every hour, but there are also a lot of people using cars. Most people use cars, but we use our bikes a lot in spring, summer and autumn..

We like it here at Eydehavn....
Perhaps you should come and visit us one day????

Røsjøskolan School, Täby Sweden
kidlink.redlake@rosjo.taby.se

This is a letter from class 4A in Røsjøskolan, Täby, Sweden.
We think it's very exiting to work with "Blue Print 98".
We hope that we can learn a lot of things about our environment around the world.

This letter is our answers to the first part in the project.

Our city/village, Täby, is a suburb to Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. There are 60000 inhabitants here. Some people say Täby is the city in the country. That's because we still have a lovely countryside round us and that you can find forests and lakes quite near. We don't have a lot of traffics in the neighbourhood and it's quite peaceful.

Now for our personal letters:

"My name is Erik Helin and I live in a terrace house. All the houses in our neighbourhood are terrace houses.
My house is built in wood and it's green. We have a small forest next to our house. There is no fighting in our school."

"My name is David Hedlund. I live in Sweden, Täby, in a part called Skarpäng. I live in a terrace house that is green. I have an appletree.
There is a forest next to my house."

"My name is Erik Nyberg. I live in Täby, in a terrace house. The house has two floors. I live close to a small forest. There are a lot of houses around my house. We have a lake, called Røsøn, nearby. It's peaceful here!"

"My name is Sophia Persson. I live in a house that's yellow. I have a big garden. I live in a city called Täby. There are a lot of houses around my house and there are a lot of children in the houses.. We live close to a lake called Røsøn. It's a very nice neighbourhood."

"My name is Alexander Eriksson. I live in a house. There are a lot of houses around us. My house is turquoise or lightblue, I don't know. The house has two floors. It's very quiet where I live. It's close to a lake. It's peaceful."

"My name is Johan Dählin. I live in a house close to school. I live in Sweden, twenty kilometres outside Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.
The house is built in wood, it is 21 years old. There are a lot of houses around us. We have a lake close to the school. I often swim there." There is no violence at all."

"My name is Niklas Alm. I live in a house in a small city, called Täby in Sweden.
I live in a yellow house made of wood.. There are a lot of houses around us. There is a lake and a small forest close to my house. I am not afraid to go to school."

"My name is Lousie Ekengård. I live in an orange house in Täby, Sweden. My house is built of wood and the roof is made of roofing-tile. We have a veranda and a step of stone. We have 8 windows. There lives a lot of people on my street and in my neighbourhood. We have some small forests around us. There is not a lake close to my house. I'm never afraid to play outside my home. There is seldom any fighting in our school."

"My name is Anna Johansson. I live in a city in Sweden. My house is made of wood. There are a lot of houses and friends where I live. We have a lake. I'm not afraid of anything."

"My name is Emma Loberg. I live in a block with houses. My house is pink and it's made of wood. .In front of our house there is a flower bed. We have a quite big garden. Close to the street there is a tree with pears and two trees with cherries. Down the street there is a forest but otherwise there is just houses. Nobody is harassed in the school."

"My name is Richard Nilsson. I live in a yellow house. It is a small forest close to the house. I live on a hill. I am not afraid."

" My name is Elsa Thorselius. I live in a house in Täby, Sweden. There live a lot of people in the neighbourhood. My street name is Tjædervegen. I live in a big house with a big garden. We don't have a lot of flowers in the garden. There is a lake just a few kilometres away from home. A forest surrounds the lake. I don't fight so often."

" My name is Denice Rosèn. I live in Täby. My house is green and it is built of wood. There are quit a lot of people around us. There is a forest 60 metres from our house. I am never afraid to go to school."

"My name is Sandra Løfberg. I live in a terrace house and in a house in Täby. My house is pink and it is made of wood. There is a small garden and a forest close to my house. There is a lake close to the house, the lake is called Røsøn. The neighbourhood is quit peacful."

" My name is Per Hagsten and I live in Sweden in a small city called Täby. I live in a house with my family and two cats. In our garden there is a small shed and a swing. You can also see some fruit trees. The house is made of wood and it's white. There are a lot of houses and shops around us. I live close to a lake and a forest. There is seldom violence or fighting."

"My name is Jessica. I live in a block of houses. The school is fun and nobody is harassed. There are about 300 pupils in the school. I live close to a forest and in the forest there is a lake. I don't know all my neighbours. In my garden there are a lot of trees and stones."

"My name is Erik Iggmark. I live in a house and in a terrace house because my parents are divorced. The house is yellow and it is big. The terrace house is red with a flat roof. There are a lot of houses round both houses. I live close to the forest and the lake. It is peaceful here!"

"My name is Sara Attermo and I'm 10 years old. I live in a terrace house on Ropgränd in Täby. I live in a green house. I'm not afraid to play play outside my home. I fight sometimes, but never with a knif or a gun. I'm quite messy."

"My name is Tobias. I live in a house that's yellow and it's made of wood. The house is rather big. We have a big garden with 3 appletrees, rubarbs and wild strawberries. I live close to my friends and very close to school."

"My name is Andrè Nordin. I live in a terrace house. Our countrys name is Sweden. My house has two floors and we have an altan, a lawn, a garage and a small shed. We have a Mercedes and an Opel. We have one plunetree and some bushes. We live in a neighbourhood with one big and one small forest. We don't have a lake. It's peaceful here."

"My name is Fredrik Livijn. I live in a terrace house. I live in Stockholm, Sweden. My house is green.
Behind my house there is a kindergarden that's quite big and pink. It's close to the forest. It's very peaceful."

"My name is Kim Skogby. I live in a house in Täby. It's a city rather close to Stockholm, the capital of Swden. My house is green and it's very light and big. It is many house in the neighbourhood and behind my house there is a marsh. I live close to two lakes, Røsøn. There are a lot of trees round my house. Almost everyone is nice. It's peaceful here."

"My name is Karl Oscar and I live in a yellow house in Täby, outside Stockholm in Sweden. There are a lot of houses surrunding my house. In my garden we have cherries and apples. It's close to a forest and a lake. There is seldom any fighting.

Second part

We live in Täby. Täby is a suburb north of Stockholm, the capitol of Sweden.
All pupils in the class live near a wood. In the neighbourhood where we live (and around the school) are no big roads.
Most of the children walk or uses the bike to school. All of us feel safe and think it's a safe place to live at.
We're playing both inside and outside at school and at home.
There are big spaces to play on at home. The air is fine.
There are no big factories in the area. A lot of cars are driving in the city.
We can drink our tapwater and it tastes good. We can swim in our lakes and in the Baltic Sea. But the water can get cleaner.
Almost everybody drives cars or uses the buses. There is also a train that goes to Stockholm.
Täby has a long history and thus a lot of relics of antiquity.

Third part

Sweden has a lot of woods and is very good at sports. We have a great national team in ice hockey, Tre kronor.
Here are some names of players in NHL and Tre kronor:

We have many handsome boys and girls in our country.
Our capitol Stockholm is "the culture capitol of the World 1998".
There are many good artists in Sweden, for example:

We have not so many big cities, but Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö are pretty big cities.
In Sweden we work with industry (Volvo cars), medicine, office work, forestry, computers, politics and farming.
We have fine security in Sweden. The Swedish police is very nice. We trust theme. But we have pretty much drugs and criminality also.
We have had one big poison accident recently in the south of Sweden (Hallandsåsen). Otherwise we are good at taking care of dangerous things.
The animals which are in endangeres spices in Sweden are for example Lynx, bear, alpfox, sea eagle.

The greenhouse effect is the substances that reflect the beams of the sun back to surface. We need the greenhouse effect to remain the warm temperature on earth. But the pollution from industries causes in balance- it gets warmer. That is not good.
50% of the greenhouse effect is caused by CO2. The gas has increased a lot since the industrial revolution began..
The most dangerous thing about the greenhouse effect is that the water level is getting higher.
Except CO2 there are gases like ozone, methane, CFC, N2O that causes the greenhouse effect.
Deforestation and aircraft among other things contributes to the greenhouse effect.
To prevent this we must be more aware of our environment.

Bye bye from your friends in class 4a, Røsjøskolan, Sweden.

Varboskolan, Arlov Sweden
len@varbo.burlov.se

First part

This is how it looks like where we live:

Most of us in our class live in flats in a village called Arlov wich is situated outside Malmo.
Some of us live in villas and some in rowhouses. Malmo is Sweden's third biggest city.

At home we recycle paper, glas, cans, batteries etc. In the neighbourhood we have an environmentalstation where you can leave dangerous products like paint and ligroin.

The air outside is also clean because here aren't too many heavy factories.
There are two mainstreets wich are heavily traficked during the rush hours, but we hav motorways too, just outside Arlov.

Public transports are buses and trains that are used diligently durint the rush hours.

The neighbourhood is calm and drugs aren't too common. The students in Junior High has gone through a project called the DARE-project. There you learn to say NO to drugs, alcohol and violence because it damages your body.

Here many families live with children. It's safe to walk on the streets even at nights, there are no streetgangs that beat up each other.

Second part

Last time we wrote to you we descrubed how it looks where we live.

And now we will tell you some more.

We live in a small village called Arlov. Here is quite calm but alot of traffic during the rushhours.
The schools are situated near redidential areas. Most of us walk to school but some take the bike.
The streets are safe at nights.

Here are many playgrounds for the small children and sparetimeclubs for older ones.
The air is very fresh and the water i clean so you can dring it from the tap.

The public transportation are buses and trains and they are used frequently. It takes 7 minutes by train and about 15 minutes by bus to the nearest town wich is Malmo with 250 000 inhabitants.

We go to Malmo once in a while to do shopping and to see a movie. But at friday and saturday nigths you are not safe in Malmo.
It happens that people get robbed or beaten up by youngsters who need money or something to hit.

Gobles School, MI USA
jboes@rocketmail.com
zalar@wmich.edu

Our local environment , by Becki(170k)

I live in a small town called Kendall. It is down the road and there is a post office.
There is little traffic. There are no trains that come by my house. There are buses and tractors and cars that come by my house.
My town is kind of not safe. Sometimes it is peaceful.
There is some alcohol in my town.
I have some good friends. Some people pollute the land.

Our local environment , by Justin(47k)

Its cold and cool sometimes. I live where there are no mountains and I live by a lake.
I live in a trailer. We have busses and tractors in the town.
Sometimes we have violence and there is alcohol. The town is a nice town and the place is pretty cool.
The school has pretty nice teachers.

Our local environment , by Matt M(104k)

I live in Kendall in the country. I live by farms. There are lots of lakes.
Some traffic like tractors. Its very safe. I have lots of neighbors.
They are all pretty friendly. We don't need to lock our cars.
There's no noise ordinance. There is a lot of good friends and fresh air.

Our local environment , by Matt R(156k)

I live in a small city. There are no lakes around us.
The traffic is busy. We don't have any buses or trains.
We have a lot of cars. It's not safe at night. Bikes get stolen all the time.

Our local environment , by Steph. M(171k)

I live in a house in the country. Theres little traffic. It's peaceful.
No there is not a lot of alcohol. There is a lot of trees and animals. It's safe and I feel safe enough to not lock the car doors when I'm in town.

St. Julie Billiart, Ohio USA
sjbkids6@tso.cin.ix.net

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