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Final Post- Dr.Rogers

After 24 hours of skyping people non-stop from around the world, we were tired! There was one last stop we needed to make though. FloMo9, Briar Hill, and our own team all summed up our journey with Dr.Rogers, our superintendent. As we listened to what the other teams had to say, we realized that they had a very similar experience to ours. We learned a lot of new facts, and talking to them made us feel like this was worth every second of this and more! We were amazed by the amount of people who applied to this Skypathon. We shared our favorite skypes such as Mexico, Indonesia, and South Korea. We really enjoyed talking to the other schools and people from around the world. We are looking forward to next year!

Mystery Skype #26 - Missouri

 Onto one of our last ones... so excited!!! The mystery skyper is in the Northern hemisphere and they are in the United States of America. They live in Missouri!!!! They were a fifth grade class. ( almost our age ) The mascot for their school is the tigers!!!  Missouri has a hockey team!!!!!! That's so cool!!!!!! The capital is Jefferson city!  We showed our skyper a slide show about Lamar and Texas.
The climate in Missouri is kind of like ours!!!  

Skype#25- Poland

 About to start the 25th skype!! We are in a call with Zuzanna Komorowska in Poland. We have found out that she is in the Northern part of Poland & is 5 minutes away from the Baltic Sea. Zuza especially likes the people in Poland for their welcoming and acceptive ways. The most popular food in Poland is Italian and Mexican food, but mostly pasta and meat. Coffee and ice cream are very popular and is a major profit for Poland. There are some salt mines in Poland and is attractive to many tourists. Zuza came to Flower Mound two years ago and she loved Fish City Grill and Buffalo Wild Wings. Now she is telling a story about Buffalo Wild Wings and her '' amazing '' experience. :) The main holidays are during the last days of June through August. During the school year they get one week off for Easter or Christmas. The weather over in Poland is always unpredictable and all over the place!! Some of Zuza's favorite hobbies are speaking different languages, all kinds of sports, guitar, hanging out with her friends, and so much more.

Skype #24 - Mexico City, Mexico

We are about to start the 24th Skype. The teacher's name is Kalinka. They are in Mexico City, Mexico. They are telling us about the Day of The Dead. They are now showing us all the types of tacos and how to make them. Can't wait for the next skype!

Skype #23 - Sicily, Italy

We are on skype number twenty three, in Sicily, Italy. The climate in Italy is more on the hot side. It rains some what often. There seasons are the same as us. There currency is called Euro. One Euro is a little bit more than a dollar. The main mode of transportation are buses, cars, and trains. Their government is Republican.

Skype #22- Elephant Sanctuary

  It's our twenty-second Skype visiting an elephant sanctuary in Tennessee.  A twenty year old elephant is a pretty young elephant. There are three spices of elephants. Back then anything that had a tusks, and were abnormally large. With all elephants they might all look alike, but they all act different. One of the tallest Savanna African elephant is thirteen feet tall.  If an elephant is getting to hot the blood gets moved around and they would allow their body to release blood from the ears to cool down their body temperature. A difference between the Asian and African elephants, is that the female asian elephants don't have tusks. All three elephants are very distinct, the third elephant is the African Forest elephants.  The human and  elephants life are pretty similar. When a fifteen year old male elephants turn fifteen supposed to leave the pact.
 About fifteen years ago it rained and rained, and soon many elephants moved to this sanctuary, where abused by their owner and moved to this sanctuary for a better life. In these sanctuaries many of the elephants have lot of room to roam around. In the sanctuary they have eleven elephants. The average life span of an average elephant is about seventy years.

Mystery Skype #21- Vaughan, Canada

Once again Lamar is off to another mystery challenge! By the looks of it, we are in a classroom. The children look about our age.  One student just stated they are in the northern hemisphere. Another student just exclaimed they are in western hemisphere. Off to a great start we already found out where they lived, Canada! Now to find the city. A new student just informed they were near Toronto. Looking at the map, our team decides to ask if they are on the coast line, they aren't.  Apparently, they aren't near a mountain range, however, they are near a lake. We now know they are North of Mississauga, a city we chose.  They Canadians are getting close, guessing that we are near Plano. However we are catching up, guessing the correct high way that runs through their city. We guessed right! They live in Vaughan! They are still having trouble guessing our city by guessing all the ones surrounding it, including Lewisville. They guessed it right, Flower Mound! We are now sharing a little bit about us, our weather, our favorite foods, and about school. This has really been such a blast learning about our upper half!

Skype #17- Berlin, Germany

We are currently at Lauren's school in Berlin, Germany! Her campus is a K-12  school.  In Germany it is very international. Many people from many parts of Europe go to visit or live in Germany. In the morning it's about in the 40s but in the afternoon it gets colder, down to about 30 degrees! Since it is so diverse place, people speak many different languages.  Berlin is home to many museums.
The connection we had for this skype session was not a good one.  We were only able to communicate for a few minutes.  Hopefully we can reconnect at another time!  Berlin looks quite interesting!

Skype #16 - Kenya Field Trip

Field Trip to Kenya

Kenya has many cities and many parts of wildlife but we are here to learn more. The Job that we will learn about helps many Kenyan families know what to buy, how to live a healthy life ,what animal breeds to buy, and a lot more useful information that every family needs to know. They raise wildlife and make sure they are healthy for future families or meals. Many animals carry diseases so they decrease the amount of diseases caused in a year. Their organization has a line from pigs to bees. The MEDF farm helps a lot of people, like people with HIV, by showing the people how to live a healthier life. The MEDF change peoples lives through many different ways. They explained to us that the villagers usually have to walk three miles to get water. However, the MEDF farm is privileged and has a water containment in the ground that allows the farm to easily get water and give it to others who need it. The farm is very small with very few workers, but is a very successful farm and has changed many lives for the better. 

Mystery Skype #15 - Boras, Sweden

5:30 am and we're off!  They're in northern Europe? They're on the Baltic Sea!  They're in Sweden!!!!

They guessed Texas and were greeted by the flying Texas banana!  We shared our slideshow about Texas and they asked questions! We learned that soccer is their favorite sport, they like to hangout with friends after school and they eat meatballs.
These students are 17 years old.  They had been studying gun ownership and asked if our students had guns in the house.  It's Texas, so yes!  We also discovered that we have more homework than they do!

Now it's time to rest and clean up before the pancake breakfast!

Skype #14 - Holland

We spoke with Mrs. Loftin and her daughter in Holland.  Ashlynn, the daughter, spoke to us in Dutch.  We had to guess what she was saying.
Some fun facts she shared with us in the Dutch language:
-50% of the country is below sea level
-Dutch people has the tallest people in the world and they don't play basketball!
-86% of the people speak English as their second language.
-18 million bikes in this country
-Holland is known for liberals, windmills, tulips, cheese,  and wooden shoes

Ashlynn then had some of her friends introduce themselves in their primary language.  We heard Greek, Swedish, and Egyptian introductions.

Dutch eggs are not found in the refrigerator section AND they have FEATHERS on them!!  YUMMY!!  Europe doesn't believe in egg washing, so they do not need to be refrigerated!

Wooden shoes are hand made in Holland!  So COOL! The climate in Holland is "rain, rain, rain!" it rains a lot and is cold.  The only time that it gets warm is in the spring and it gets to 12 degrees celsius, or 53 degrees Fahrenheit.

Holland doesn't use one dollar bills, they use Euros.

Mystery Skype #14 - Turin, Italy

We are just now starting Skype number 14! Two students are coming up to answer our questions. They live in Europe! We can't hear anything because all the kids are talking in the background. They live in Turin, Italy.   The main religion is Catholicism.