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5 10 15 20 25 30 18 right to get Austrian citizenship and the parents cannot just go to an office and ask for it. The parents can only go there if they have Austrian citizenship themselves. In America it is different, if a child is born there, s/he has the right to get American citi- zenship – there is a birthright citizenship in the United States of America.” our teacher tried to explain. Now we were all confused – she talked about countries, rules and laws, about American and Austrian passports. It was weird. I could not listen anymore. Some of the children looked out of the window. Patrick made faces and some other children giggled. Martin was hiding his mobile phone trying to send an SMS. Suzan was drawing and Zhen looked at his comics under the table. Now our teacher stopped and said: “Do you understand now, Emina? What does everyone else think about it?” Emina did not know what to say. She looked at her. Then the bell rang. We were all glad. – I think even our teacher was glad, be- cause, when she went out of the classroom, she said to herself: “Well, they did not understand. How…” Episode 6: What makes you you? (told by Tina) This morning we had a game at school. We played volleyball. “I don`t want you on the team,” Caroline said. I was angry. I wanted to shout and say: “You stupid idiot.” But I just said: “That´s ok. I will play on Suzan´s team then.”