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| By fall 2002 three
Goleta schools had joined the endeavor. Fifth and sixth grade students at El Rancho, El Camino, and Foothill
Elementary
Schools had learned about Nepali culture and natural history from several slideshows
and lectures. The American students
wrote letters to their counter-parts in three schools in rural central
Nepal. I collected donated maps (thank
you to Map.com of Goleta) and the students gave art supplies and I headed back
to Nepal (ostensibly to do geology). The welcome from the
Nepali schools was resounding. They are
thrilled to have people on the other side of the
world care enough to write and send supplies. Their students wrote reply letters. When the teachers and headmasters were asked what additional supplies |
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