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5/7/2024 (#2 this year)
Did you have a good Golden Week? Did you go anywhere? The weather was ok, but it
was not as nice as I’d hoped. My family and I stayed in Sapporo and did things near ourhouse. It was very nice. We are lucky because we had holidays in the middle of theweek, too, but my daughter had to go to school because she is an elementary school
student. This Friday we have the long walk. It is going to be a lot of fun. I love it everyyear. I’m hoping that the weather will be nice. Not too cold and not too hot. Perfectwalking weather. If you are in the 1st and the 4th grade, you have never done it before,but don’t worry because it is a lot of fun.
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Mr. Trash Wheel is 10-years-old
Mr. Trash Wheel’s real name is “The Inner Harbor3 Water Wheel4”. It ison the edge of the Jones Falls river in Baltimore, USA, and it is there to taketrash out of the river. It was launched5 in May 2014, so this is it’s 10th birthday!
Mr. Trash Wheels has a conveyor belt and a rake6 that are powered by the large
waterwheels on its sides. The rakes pull trash up onto the conveyor belt, and
it is carried to a floating barge7. The conveyor belt doesn’t move very quickly,
but it is strong and it can lift heavy things like mattresses and tires. In ten years,Mr. Trash Wheel has collected 2,500 tons of trash!! That is a lot of trash. Youmight be surprised that there is so much trash in the river, but that is theproblem when we drop trash in town. When it rains, the trash washes intodrains8 and those drains lead to the river. Mr. Trash Wheel has a fan club aswell, called the Order of the Wheel. It is here if you are interested. To join, youhave to promise to reduce the amount of single-use9 plastics you use. Mr.
Trash Wheel has been so popular, that he now has four brothers and sisters.
There is Professor Trash Wheel, Captain Trash Wheel, and Gwynnda the Good
Wheel of the West. Should we have one in Sapporo? What could we call it?

Last week’s answer

Something you didn’t know about rivers
1. The Nile is said to be1 the longest river in the world at 6,650 km long, but somepeople say that the Amazon is longer. The problem is, it is very difficult to find thesource of either river.
2. The Amazon is the biggest river by volume2 of water. It releases 209,000 m3 persecond into the Atlantic ocean.
3. The Amazon is also the fastest river. It flows at 11 km/h.
4. The shortest river in the world is the Roe River in Montana, USA. It is only 61 m long.
5. I don’t know how they worked it out, but the Finke River in Australia is the oldest
river in the world. It is 400 million years old.

1.said to be～だと言われている 2.volume 量 3.harbor 港 4.water wheel 水車 5.launch 通水 6.rake 熊手 7.barge 荷船 8.drain 下水管 9.single-use 使い捨てAn Unusual JobWorld record
I like to find world records that I think we could beat. We could definitely beat this one.
How many people do you think can fit1 in a car? Are you thinking about your parent’s car?
It probably has two seats in the front and three seats in the back, so, five people? Or,maybe they have a bigger car and there are two more seats in the very back, so, sevenpeople? Well, it depends on2 the type of car, but in 2015 in Russia, 41 people fitted into acar. That was quite a large car, though. What about a smaller car? Do you know a Mini
Cooper? I will put a picture here. The record for the most people in a Mini Cooper is 29.
However, they were school girls and most of them look quite small. You can watch thevideo here. The record for the most adults in a Mini Cooper is 27. Then, the smallest car
you can buy is a Smart Car. The record for the most people in a Smart Car is 20! What doyou think? Should we try?

Cartographer
This job is not so unusual, but it is probably a job you have never thought of.
It is also probably a job that is changing greatly thanks to companies likeGoogle. A cartographer3 is someone who makes maps. The word comesfrom French. “Carte” means map and “graphie” means the science ofsomething, as in “photography”. People have made maps for thousands ofyears. Once we started to explore4 other countries, maps became more
important and once trains, planes, and cars were invented, maps becamevery important indeed5. Cartographers used to travel around and draw mapsby hand. Modern cartographers sometimes draw by hand, but more often
they use software. That is how Google is changing map making. Modern
cartographers use software and photographs to make their maps. Maps are
updated far more frequently6 than they used to be as well. Before Google, it
took a long time to update a map. These days, it is still a lot of work, but
Google uses more people and their technology means that people don’t
have to draw the maps by hand. I thought that Google’s technology would
be putting cartographers out of work7, but it is the opposite8. There is moredemand9 for cartographers than ever before.

"We can’t help everyone, but everyone 1.fit in 入れる 2.depend on ～による 3.cartographer 地図製作者
4.explore 探検する 5.indeed 本当に 6.more frequently さらに頻繁に
can help someone." — Ronald Reagan
7.put ～ out of work～の職業の仕事を失う 8.demand 要求