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everything count. For instance they use newspapers for wrapping paper.
The dropout rate in the school system is about 60 per cent and in the classrooms each teacher has approximately 50 students. In the farming areas the youth are motivated to remain there and not migrate to the cities.
“The Maylasian people are very modest and well covered in their dress,” said Libby. “They wear long sleeves and scarves and even wear a sarong when bathing. It was most difficult for me to take a bath with my clothes on. she said. I had taken my onepiece bathing suit with me, and even in that causes the people to stare, though they do that anyhow since a blonde American is an uncommon sight there. One day when 1 got off a bus a crowd of about 35 people gathered around to look at me and a child who was crying was so fascinated she stopped. I wonder what kind of examples we are to them.”
The natives are having a religious fast and you do not eat all day. Food is eaten at 3 or 4 a.m. and nothing else can be consumed until 7 that night. You are not supposed to even swallow your saliva and they go around spitting all day. The food consists of rice, fish and long beans. It is literally a crime to sell food on the street during the fast, which begins with the sighting of the new moon.
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