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4/15/2024 (#1 this year)
Welcome back or welcome to Hokusei! This is the 1st English News of 2024 and it is thefirst paperless English News. I decided to go paperless when I realized how much paper
and ink I had used. A week has passed since the start of the school year. How are things
going? Have you settled in1 to your new classes? New 1st and 4th grade students, how
are you doing? Have you learned how to find your way around school yet? Don’t worry
if you get lost, just stop and ask anybody. All of the teachers and students are very
friendly. And the English Play is on Friday and Saturday this week. I am very excited.
They always put on a wonderful show! Good luck everyone!!
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Last week’s answer

Something you didn’t know about Africa
1. Nobody knows where the name Africa came from. The Romans called the people
who lived near the Nile Afri. In Latin, “ca” on the end of a word means land, America,
for example. So, Afri+ca means land of the Afri. The word Afri could come from anolder word, “ifri”, which meant people who live in caves2.
2. Africa is much larger than it looks on maps. It is the second largest continent3 andhas a land area of 30 million km2.
3. Africa is known as the “cradle of humankind4” because it is where humans firstevolved. Early humans started to walk out of Africa between 90,000 and 60,000
years ago, heading into all the other countries.

Russ Cook Finished Run Across Africa
Last week, a British man called Russ
Cook completed his run across Africa. Infact, it should be called the run up Africa
because he started on 22nd April 2023 at
the most southerly tip5 of South Africa,
called Cape Agulhas, and he ran to themost northerly point of Tunisia. The
whole run was 16,000 km and it took him
352 days, running over 60 km every day
with almost no rest days. He calls himself“The Hardest Geezer”. “Hard” means“strong” and a “geezer” is a man in British
slang6. His original goal was to run all theway without having any rests, but he hadvisa problems in a few countries and hadto stop. He did the run for charity and so
far he has raised 173,000,000 yen. His
goal is to raise 193,000,000 yen and it looks like he will do it because his story
is in newspapers in many countries now. As well as the visa problems, he andhis crew were also robbed at gunpoint7 and they had a lot of equipment8
stolen9. He ran across the Sahara desert and he got very sick. He never gave up,
though, and he ran
onthrougheverything.
Hehasn’t said if he isgoingtotry
another challenge
after this one. Iwonder where hecould run. Maybehe could run all
around the world?

1.settled in 落ち着く 2.cave 洞窟 3.continent 大陸 4.cradle of humankind 南アフリカの人類化石遺跡群 5.tip 国の先 6.slang 俗語 7.robbed at gunpoint 銃を突きつけられる
8.equipment 道具 9.stolen 盗まれた steal・stole・stolen

An Unusual JobWorld record
Here’s a strange record to start the year off. How many teeth do you have? Most of us
have 32 teeth. If you have had your wisdom teeth1 removed, then you will have 28 teeth.
Some animals have fewer teeth than we do. Elephants only have 26 teeth. Cats have 30teeth. Many animals have many more teeth than we do. Dogs have 42 teeth. Crocodiles
have between 60 and 110 teeth, depending on the type of crocodile. Sharks have 300 ormore teeth. The world record for the most teeth in a human is 41. A Canadian man called
Evano Mellone has teeth between teeth in his mouth. He even has some teeth thathaven’t come through yet. However, there is a boy in India who had 526 teeth in hismouth. This is not a record though, because they were not whole teeth. He had a sac in
his lower jaw that contained 526 tiny teeth!

Lego Master Builder
During the spring vacation, my daughter and I
put together some of the Lego sets she has.
There are so many different Lego sets thesedays, pretty much something for everything.
Nobody seems to know exactly how many Lego sets there are, butbrickset.com, a Lego set catalogue3 not connected to Lego, lists4 20,668 Legosets! While my daughter and I were making the sets, I started to think about
who comes up with the ideas and who makes the instructions. Well, that is
this week’s unusual job. If you really like Lego, then maybe you can becomea Lego Master Builder! Lego is a Danish company, and they have teams ofdesigners that work on making new sets. You can become one of these
designers if you try. These people are celled Lego Designers. Then, if you
really like Lego, you can become a Lego Certified5 Professional. These people
make large Lego models for businesses or shows. Then, if you really really
really like Lego, you can become a Lego Master Builder. It is very hard tobecome an LMB and there is usually only one in each country. An LMB makes
artwork with Lego, makes things for Legoland, makes original models, andmakes displays for Lego events. The LMB for Japan is Jumpei Mitsui. He
started to work for Lego while he was a student at the University of Tokyo.
Maybe you can be an LMB.

"The person who does not read books has noadvantage over the person who cannot read them." 1.wisdom teeth 親知らず 2.advantage 利点 3.catalogue カタログ 4.list 上場する
2— Mark Twain

5.certified 資格を持っている