Aileen

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really ride on the back of a whale?” one child in long-braided pigtails asks me, her eyebrows meeting in the middle. Her face is solemn; I have to subdue my giggles. “Do you really have a koala in a tree behind your house?” another asks. “Did Nicholas ride a kangaroo to school in Brisbane?” And then, a chubby boy in rounded black glasses stops me as I walk out the door. “How big are the mosquitoes in Australia? Nicholas told us the mosquitoes are a meter long, and you have to use a tennis racquet to kill them!” His eyes look like saucers behind his lenses. I see Nicholas in the background, ...more
Aileen
I think the conversation that Nicholas had in his new school there encouraged him to speak often. He feels special amongst his classmates.
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