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5 10 15 20 25 30 35 22 ing. He asked me precisely when I was ready to talk to him, although I hadn’t really gotten my ideas together. Talking to José helped me understand my feelings. Episode 7: The football match Yesterday we performed the play in the main square. The audi- ence clapped and laughed quite a lot. The children thought the people had enjoyed it. After the play, some of the people from the village were talking about the river issue, so maybe the kids had their way in the end. “Hey guys! I think they really liked the play. Pedro asked me if we would like to continue taking part in the festival,” says Silvia. “What has the fact that they liked the play got to do with them asking us to continue taking part in the festi- val?” Mohamed asks. “And they’ve asked us if we want to play in the football tournament,” Silvia says, ignoring Mohamed’s ques- tion. She is very excited because she loves football. “Silvia, you’ve been asked a question,” says Maite. “If they hadn’t liked the play, they wouldn’t have congratulated us, would they?” Silvia looks at Mohamed while answering, but she seems upset at being inter- rupted.“ That’s not a reason. If they hadn’t said anything, it could have been because they thought we aren’t any good at football. It didn’t need to have anything to do with the play,” says Mohamed. “If they thought we played really badly, that would be a good rea- son to invite us to the tournament, so they could beat us easily.” Elena tries to help Silvia. “Who wants to play a team of strangers who play better than you? Nobody likes to lose.” “I’m not sure, but this reason is better than the other; they invited us because we are bad football players, not because we are good actors... mm but maybe we were good actors, acting like bad football players!” Mo- hammed laughs while admitting that our reasoning makes sense. “Now, tell us about the match, I’m sure we all want to play.” “There are different age groups, and the tournament is called ‘From the