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  • Where I'm From this is what homework is like.

  • School bag.

  • And...

  • This is all my school books.

  • And this is the book that has all the homework.

  • Um, we have kanji and reading.

  • Math. And washing your school shoes.

  • You have to copy all of this on your notebook.

  • This is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...

  • 16, 17, 18, 19...

  • And then 20.

  • So this is how you wash your school shoes.

  • You put the soap inside your shoes.

  • And then you put it outside to dry.

  • This is what I read for my homework.

  • I thought Japanese you read backwards, or from right to left.

  • From right here? You open it from here?

  • Yeah, you open it from the other side.

  • This way.

  • Ok, and where do you start reading?

  • From here.

  • Oh, ok.

  • But the other book you read, like from...

  • This way.

  • Oh, left to right.

  • Yeah.

  • And how do you know how to read all those different characters.

  • There's lots of them.

  • So this is a character and it says like a little thing here.

  • If you don't know,

  • Oh, how many of those are there?

  • There looks like a lot of them.

  • Yeah, it is.

  • It's all Astro Boy.

  • And do you like homework?

  • Not that much.

  • Bye, bye.

Where I'm From this is what homework is like.

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