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5 10 15 20 25 30 28 “I really wondered how she could move – but she was very good and nearly won the game.” Sonia said. “What else has happened?” Isabell wanted to know. Dina continued: “Late in the afternoon, my mum had a friend visit her. They were drinking coffee and talked about different cultures – about languages and Iran. I got curious and sat down next to them. At that moment I could hear my mother´s friend say: “I do not understand, when they are in our country, why don’t they leave their head cloths at home? We also must adjust, when we go there.” “You know how I felt”, Dina asked, “I really got angry – but I did not say a word. Then I heard my mother´s friend mumble: ‘Then I will also go to Iran and I will not wear a scarf around my head.” I thought to myself, ‘but you would not go far’. In Iran it would be as if you, as a woman, walked down the street naked. Suddenly my anger was gone. I had to laugh because I imagined my mother´s friend walking down a street in our town without clothes. Wouldn’t it be funny?” Isabell, Sonia, Dina and I laughed. As we neared the school building we saw Isaac coming along. Isaac was our new classmate. He did not know how to read or write in German. But he tried to speak in German. Of course he stumbled a lot, got the tenses mixed up and his words often came out in the wrong order. I really thought about how learning to speak, write and read in another language was so difficult. How was it possible that some of my classmates could speak, write and read in two or even in three languages? When I thought about them I really felt stupid.