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Read Children's Narratives: Tibetan & Vermont

Taken from Kids Share: Tibetan and Vermont Children's Narratives (Part 1)

Living in Vermont By Willow

Vermont is a great place. It has beautiful farms and trees. Unfortunately, global warming is starting to affect Vermont. In the future, we all hope that people keep global warming out of Vermont while keeping farms and trees plentiful. Locally grown food is much better for the environment than food grown far away! That’s because the food grown far away is transported in huge trucks that use a lot of gas. That makes our carbon footprint even bigger! In the future, people better come to their senses and start buying food locally grown!  By Maya As leaves of fall trees change colors, people take their last walk in the woods without the fluffy white snow beneath them to slow their steps. The first snow comes, people bundle up to keep warm. They start a fire with wood they stacked in the fall. When snow finally melts, farmers start planting their crops. Kids are slushing around in the mud. Our apple trees burst with blossoms and buzz with bees. Running sap drips into metal buckets attached to sugar maple trees. Kids count down to the last day of school, looking forward to the warm summer sun!

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Hopes & Dreams

Seeds of Tibet by Tsering Wangmo By Tsering Wangmo

There is a big country called Tibet where I was born in a small city called Bawa. I am known as Tsering Wangmo. My name means a small girl from Tibet, also the Seed of Tibet.  I love my country, the snow of the land. What are my hopes and dreams? The dreams of my imagination are things nice and wonderful. I imagine beautiful things around me on this blue planet. I too have big dreams like all ancient people. My dream is to become a perfect woman in this world.  A woman who is well educated and loved by all people. A woman who works for her country and thinks for her country, the land of the snow. Can I do this? It may be difficult to do because my beloved country of Tibet has been captured by the powerful Red China for a long time now. Tibet is at the top of the world, above all other countries, in the land of the snow. Can I escape from China? That will be big. “No," I will never. All the Tibetans will not either. We will learn more education so we can fight them with our knowledge! I think one day we will be free. Free from the darkness of hell and go back to my peaceful homeland, the place which we, the Tibetans, really miss and our parents we have not seen since we have left them. and go back to my peaceful homeland the place which we, the Tibetans really miss and our parents we have not seen since we have left them. Youth of today is hope for tomorrow. So, Seeds of Tibet, wake up for our mother land! I hope we stand on the road of Lhasa and sing our national anthem, peace around the world and happiness ever after!

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Potala Palace (Lhasa, Tibet)

By Tselen Dolma I am Tselen Dolma. I came from Tibet. I came to India in the year 2001. I am studying in TCV Bylakuppe school. My hobby is to read books and listening to stories. All the peoples of this world have their own hopes and dreams, each one of us has our own unique wishes in life. Some people only wish for themselves while others wish for everyone.  I have many hopes and dreams. But I have one great hope, to become a good computer software engineer who will help serve my country and world with peace and harmony. I also hope for my country to have freedom soon and that we, 6 million Tibetans, assemble at Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet with our great leader, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, full of joy and happiness. When I am lonely, I dream that I am the president of China. I imagine I will give freedom to innocent people and animals of snow land. I would always take care of the public and would be friendly with neighboring countries. I would also turn my country into a peaceful and harmonious land, which everybody would appreciate and look forward to. And I dream for my country to have many human rights which will benefit all people who live there. All the Tibetan youngsters will be very brilliant and those who are doing good and great jobs by serving our motherland with peace and using their modern education for the right path. Tibetans are all united and friendly with each other and continue to follow His Holiness. Lastly, I pray a good long life for His Holiness and the world full of peace and harmony. I hope my hopes and dreams come true in my life.