Charlotte

Tanzania

In Tanzania a girl wakes up around 5:00 AM. In Charlotte, a student wakes up around 6:30. Every morning, a Tanzanian girl cooks breakfast and cleans the house. In Charlotte, a girl doesn't cook breakfast and clean the house in the morning. Tanzanian people get to school at 7:00 AM and leave between 3 and 4:30 PM.

Tanzanians love soccer. Sometimes kids don't have a soccer ball. So they make balls from rags, newspaper, or whatever else they can find. Most of the time they don't wear shoes. Volleyball and netball ( a game similar to basketball with no dribbling ) are favorite sports for many girls. Tanzanians also play a board game called bao. The board is usually wooden and has many holes. Players move pebbles from hole to hole until they are able to Take the opponent's pebbles.

In Charlotte we play lacrosse, soccer, baseball, football, and basketball.

In Charlotte, school starts at 7:50 and ends at 2:50. It takes us about 11 minutes to get to school. Our subjects are math, language arts, P.E., foreign language, science, music, computer, and social studies.

In Tanzania they start school at 8:00 and end between 3 and 4:30. Their subjects are english, Kiswahili, science, math, and history.

Jakaya Kikwete is Tanzania's president. The president works with a 357 member National Assembly called Bunge which makes Tanzania's laws. The president serves 5 year terms and the voting age is 18.

In Charlotte we have a mayor and the voting age is 18.

Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world. Most Tanzanians make me their living through agriculture. This means the grow crops like corn, coffee beans, or cotton. They also have livestock like cattle and goats. They might not go to a grocery store like we do they might go to the nearest town market once a week to sell their crops and make things that they can't make themselves.

In Charlotte, we use the dollar. Some people work at banks like Wells Fargo, BB&T, and Bank of America.

Tanzania is 365,755 square miles and has 2 seasons rainy where it rains for days and dry where it is like a big drought.

Charlotte is 297.7 square miles and has 4 seasons, summer and spring are warm, where fall and winter are cold.

The population in Tanzania is 49,639,138.

In Charlotte, the population is 792,862.

The Capital in Tanzania is Dodoma.

The capital of North Carolina is Raleigh.

Tanzania's holidays are Independence Day, Union Day, and Eid al-Fitr. Tanzanian foods are ugali, bananas and rice, and doughnuts.

In Charlotte we have Christmas, Halloween, and New Years. In Charlotte we eat mac and cheese, pizza, and hamburgers.

The language in Tanzania is Kiswahili. The religions are Muslim, native beliefs, and Christian.

We speak English and our religions are Christianity Judaism

Most Tanzanians get from place to place by walking, riding bicycles, or riding in carts pulled by oxen or donkeys.

In Charlotte we get around by riding in cars, motorcycles, and walking.

In Tanzania the wildlife includes wildebeests, elephants, and dik-diks...

In Charlotte we have raccoons, snakes, and squirrels...

A dik-dik is a small antelope

• There are 430 species of animals in Tanzania.
• Dik-diks live in pairs not herds.

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• Charlotte is the largest city in North Carolina.
• Downtown is called uptown