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7/1/2024 (#9 this year)
We are in to July! This year is whizzing by1! And this week we have the high school
festival. How is everyone doing? Are you ready? Are you making last minuteadjustments2? Don’t worry, you still have four days. I am pretty excited because thefestival is always fun. The PS are always amazing and I am always impressed with howmuch talent you all have. I won’t be here on Friday because the junior high students
are going to different places and I am going to Upopoi with the 2nd grade, but I will behere on Saturday. The weather is looking pretty good! It is going to be a wonderful few
days and I know you will all have a great time.
18 differences!

Last week’s answer

Something you didn’t know about orangutans
1. There are three different species3 of orangutan. Bornean, Sumatran, and Tapanuli.
2. The word “orangutan” comes from Malay and it means “person of the forest”.
3. Orangutans have very long arms. They have an arm span of 2.2 m, and they are only
1.5 m tall. Their arms are 1.5 times longer than their legs.
4. They live with their mother until they are 7. They learn many things from theirmothers, including which leaves they can eat to heal a cut.
5. They can live for 50 years.
6. They are very strong animals. They are estimated4 to be 7 times stronger than ahuman. They have very strong arms and hands.

Wild Orangutan Uses Medicine
If you get sick, what do you do? You probably buy some medicine from Sapporo
Drugstore, or, if you are really bad, maybe you go to hospital. The doctor will
diagnose5 you and then give you some medicine. Do you know what is in themedicine? Do you know how it works or why it makes you better? No? Neither
do I. However, I do know that a lot of our medicines come from plants.
Scientists find plants that can kill bacteria6, or do different things. Then theyisolate7 the part of the plant that does that and make it into medicines. Before
we had hospitals and doctors, we ate the plants to get better. We knew whichplants worked by trial and error8. Well, it seems that animals can do the samething. Researchers were watching a group of orangutans in Indonesia. One ofthem was in a fight and had a deep cut9 under his eye. In a forest, it is very
easy for cuts to get infected10 and that can easily kill an animal. The orangutan
did something amazing, though. He tore leaves off a plant called Fibraurea
tinctoria and he chewed them up. He then put the juice and chewed up leaf
on the cut under his eye. He repeated this for three days and the wound11 washealed. We know that the fibraurea tinctorial plant is a pain-killer12, and has
antibacterial13 and anti-inflammatory14 properties. The fact that the orangutan
knows that is amazing!

1.whiz by ヒューと飛ぶ 2.adjustment 調整 3.species 種 4.estimate 推定する 5.diagnose 診断する
6.bacteria 黴菌 7.isolate 分離する 8.trial and error 試行錯誤 9.deep cut 深い切り傷 10.infected 化膿した
11.wound 傷 12.pain-killer 痛み止め 13.antibacterial 抗菌効果のある 12.anti-inflammatory 抗炎症のAn Unusual Job

World record
This is kind of an odd record and it is not really one that will probably be beaten. You could
beat it, but you would have set up the situation and it wouldn’t be quite the same. KivelyPapajohn of Limassol, Cyprus, has the world record for the longest time trapped1 in anelevator. She was 76 years old and this was in 1988. On 28 December, Kively Papajohn
went shopping to buy some things to eat over the New Year holiday. When she came back,he got in the elevator in her building to go home and the power in the building went out2.
It was the New Year, so there were not many other people in the building and nobody
knew she was there. She was trapped in the elevator for 6 days before someone realized
and came to rescue her. 6 dayssounds like a long time to bewithout food and water, but
the granny had bought bread,
fruit, and vegetables, which
she ate over the 6 days. Shewas thirsty, but there wasenough water in the fruit tostop dehydration3. We have anelevator here at school. Let meknow if you want to try andbreak this record.

“There is nothing stronger thangentleness .”— Han Suyin
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Professional Ice Sculptor
This is a job that you need to have a lot of skill for, but it does pay very well.
That is probably because there are not many people who can do it. A
professional ice sculptor5 is someone who carves6 ice statues out of giant
blocks of ice. You might have seen something like it before. There issometimes one at the snow festival in Suskino. Ice sculptors carve things outof giant blocks of ice using chainsaws, knives, chisels7, and many other tools.
You are probably wondering who would want to buy a sculpture made of ice
because they melt very quickly. Well, a lot of companies buy them forevents. A good ice sculpture is very novel8 and it makes the event look better.
The company will usually ask for a design that fits with their event, or
something that contains their company logo. It is not an easy job to do. You
have to be very good at carving, but ice is much harder to carve than stone
because it can break very easily. It also melts, so the carving has to be done
inside a giant freezer. A famous ice sculptor can make a lot of money!

1.trapped 閉じ込められた 2.power go out 停電になる 3.dehydration 脱水症状 4.gentleness やさしさ 5.sculptor 彫刻家 6.carve 彫刻する7.chisel 彫刻刀 8.novel 彫刻刀