Our new friend

There is a girl in my school  from Iran who joined the school two months ago. She doesn't speak a lot of English, but my mother sometimes comes to help her one-to-one when the school asks her. The girl came to our house today and we played Monopoly and had pizza and pancakes  with her. She was a little shy at first, but when we tried to say some Farsi words, our pronunciation was so bad that we all couldn't stop laughing about it and the girl seemed less shy after that. We also played a really boring shopping  game that we stopped playing almost as soon as we started.

I just remembered that a while ago, just after we first met the girl, we watched a movie in the British Museum about marsh-dwellers who have lived the same way for around five thousand years. They spear fish, make reed carpets (sometimes two in a day!)and sell buffaloes. The sad thing is that they are being pushed out of their land because the rivers are two polluted to fish from and a lot of land has been given up for government projects.