Malaysia

=** Malaysia**= ==Thank you so much to Mark Marshall's 2nd grade students at the [|International School of Kuala Lumpar] for answering our questions about Malayasia. We hope you will send us questions too!==

1. Do you have beaches in your country? If so, do you go there often? Yes, we have beaches. I usually go there on holidays. I like to go to this beach where we can barbeque. 2. What season are you in right now? We are in Spring. Our temperature is about 80˚ during the day. What is your climate like right now? Which is your coldest month?

3. How do you get to school? We drive in a car. Some of us drive 30 minutes to get to our school. Some of us also get to school in cars. But most of the people, they come in the schoolbus. 4. Do you have electronic devices like cell phones, televisions, computers, and Wii’s? Yes we have a lot of electronic devices and 5 people from our class have Wii. Everyone has televisions. All of us have at least 1 computer. 5. What is your land like? In Florida we have very flat land. There are no mountains. Most of our state where we live is at sea level.

6. What games do you like to play? Our favorite games are kickball, chess, and jumping rope. I like to play basketball, jumprope, twister, and hoola-hoop 7. What exactly is an International school? How are the grades divided? An International school is when students wear uniforms and people are all around the world. 8. What are the main foods you eat? Do you have a McDonald’s in your country? Where does your food come from? We have grocery stores where we buy our food. We have McDonalds. We do share at grocery shops and eat at restaurants.

9. Where do you live? What kind of homes do you have? Do you have big houses? Some of us live in big houses, apartments, and Recidences. It depends on the office our dads are working. Like my dad works in High Commision of India. So I get to live in an apartment in Setiawangsa. ( Putri Aptt.) 10. What exports does your country have?

11. If we visited Kuala Lumpur, what would be some things to do or places to visit? Our fantastic zoo, KLCC is Malaysia's biggest building and the biggest flower in Malaysia is called the Rafflesia. http://encarta.msn.com/media_461558376_761552810_-1_1/giant_rafflesia_flower.html

12. What time to you wake up to go to school? What time does school start? How many hours do you go to school each day? What time does school finish? How many days to you have to go to school? We have 174 school days each year. We only go to school on Mondays – Fridays. Do you wear uniforms for school? What do you learn about in school? I wake up at 7:00am and school starts at 8:00am. School finishes at 2:30pm. School takes 6.5 hours. Yes, we wear uniforms. School for us is 5 days too (Monday to Friday). We have 178 days.

13. What languages do you use/teach in your school? We speak English but also learn Spanish. We also speak English. We are learning Spanish too next year. 14. Do you have baseball and soccer fields? What is your national sport? No we don't have a baseball field but we do have soccer fields. Our national sport is soccer. 15. Does your country have military units? Yes, I saw an army van here before. 16. What does your city look like? Do you have lots of stores? Tall buildings? Are there ponds, lakes, and parks in your city?

17. Have you ever been to the Petronas Twin Towers? Yes I have. I have been to the Sky Bridge in the middle of the Twin Towers. 18. What type of government do you have? We are a federal republic. Our leader is President Barack Obama.

19. What is your favorite place in your country? I am from India. And my favorite place in India is India Gate. And in Malaysia my favorite place is Genting Highlands and Petronas Twin Tower. 20. What landforms are in your country? Do you have mountains? Waterfalls?

21. Does you country have many big cities? Yes. Our country has big cities.

22. Do you have many natural resources?

23. Are you green? Do you recycle? <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Yes, we do. In Earth day, I recycled a lot.