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Pen pal Corner
Name: G.W. Lasanthika Samanmali Kumari
Gender: Female
School: B/Sri Devananda Central College
Hobbies: Reading books, dancing, watching TV
Age group: 12 - 14
Pen pals preferred from: Any country
Address: `Singithi Sewana', Maragolla, Mirahawatta, Sri Lanka
* * *
Name: Chandimal Priyadarsana
Gender: Male
School: B/Sri Devananda Madya Maha Vidyalaya
Hobbies: Listening to the radio
Age group: 12 - 18
Pen pals preferred from: Any country
Address: C/o W. Asantha
Chandan Kumar,
Mahavangiyapathana,
Amunumulla, Welimada,
Sri Lanka
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Name: Shasheen Arunodha
Gender: Male
School: B/Sri Devananda Madya Maha Vidyalaya
Hobbies: Playing cricket
Age group: 10 - 11
Pen pals preferred from: Any country
Address: `Sriyani', Dambawinna, Welimada, Sri Lanka
* * *
Name: Asela Gayan Lakmal Dissanayaka
Gender: Male
School: B/Sri Devananda Madya Maha Vidyalaya
Hobbies: Collecting stamps, reading books
Age group: 9-12
Pen pals preferred from: Any country
Address: `Asela', Mahawangiyapathana, Amunumulla, Welimada, Sri Lanka
* * *
Name: Bhagya Lakmali Dissanayaka
Gender: Female
School: B/Sri Devananda Madya Maha Vidyalaya
Hobbies: Playing, reading books, watching TV
Age group: 12-18
Pen pals preferred from: Any country
Address: `Asela', Mahavangiyapathana, Amunumulla, Welimada, Sri Lanka
* * *
Name: J.M.S. Anjana
Gender: Female
Hobbies: Reading story books, listening to music, collecting
stickers, playing computer games; favourite sports - basketball,
cycling, badminton
Age group: 14-16
Pen pals preferred from: America, Australia, England, Singapore
Address: No. 440/1 A, Mangala Mawatha, Godigamuwa, Maharagama, Sri
Lanka
* * *
Name: S.A. Sahjaya
Gender: Male
School: B/Sri Devananda Madya Maha Vidyalaya
Hobbies: Playing cricket, reading books
Age group: 12-14
Pen pals preferred from: Any country
Address: Gurukadura, Mirahawatta, Bandarawela, Sri Lanka
* * *
Name: G.W.G. Nisansala Dilrukshi
Gender: Female
Hobbies: Reading, music, shopping, writing
Age group: 16-18
Pen pals preferred from: India, Nepal, New Zealand, Japan
Address: No. 134/A, Kooragala, Hondiyadeniya, Weligalla, Gampola, Sri
Lanka
* * *
Name: S.G. Nadeesha Sandamali
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Hobbies: Playing chess, watching TV, reading books
Age group: 15-20
Pen pals preferred from: Sri Lanka, China, India, Australia, England
Address: Rippon Girls' College, Rippon Hostel, Richmond Hill, Galle,
Sri Lanka
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Name: Nimasha Luckchani Seneviratne
Gender: Female
Age: 16
School: St. Joseph's Balika Maha Vidyalaya
Hobbies: Reading story books, playing the piano and clarinet,
dancing, collecting stamps
Age group: 15-19
Pen pals preferred from: Germany, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands,
New Zealand
Address: No. 509/6, Amarasekara Place, Ranwala, Kegalle, Sri Lanka.
Find pen pals
from Malta
Would you like to correspond with a pen friend from Malta? If so, you
now have the opportunity to find a pen pal through the International
Correspondence Club (ICC) which is based in Malta.
According to Director of the Club, Albert V.Rutter, "By writing a
letter, one can enrich one's life by making new friends, give a true
picture of one's country to others, practise a language and help create
the climate of better understanding so necessary for world peace."
The aim of the ICC is to develop and maintain, through the medium of
correspondence, friendly relations and better understanding between the
people of Malta and the people of other countries; to help in the
knowledge of foreign languages and culture and to organise
correspondence exchanges for students, schoolchildren and all those who
are interested in correspondence.
It is an international project set up with the aim of fostering
friendship with no barriers for membership.
It is a voluntary, non-profit making organisation recognised by
UNESCO and the European Union. Besides group exchanges, the Club also
handle individual requests from all over the world.
Those who are interested in finding pen pals from Malta can write to:
Albert V. Rutter, Director, International Correspondence Club, 11,
Censu Borg Street, Hamrun HMR 1163, Malta.
Scientists find
new marine animals
Scientists said they had uncovered new marine animals in their search
of previously unexplored Australian waters, along with a bizarre
carnivorous sea squirt and ocean-dwelling spiders.
A joint US-Australian team spent a month in deep waters off the coast
of the southern island of Tasmania to "search for life deeper than any
previous voyage in Australian waters," lead researcher Ron Thresher
said.
What
they found were not only species new to science - including previously
undescribed soft corals - but fresh indications of global warming's
threat to the country's unique marine life.
"Our sampling documented the deepest known Australian fauna,
including a bizarre carnivorous sea squirt, sea spiders and giant
sponges, and previously unknown marine communities dominated by
gooseneck barnacles and millions of round, purple-spotted sea anemones,"
Thresher said.
Using a submersible (underwater) car-sized robot named Jason, the
team explored a rift in the earth's crust known as the Tasman Fracture
Zone, a sheer two kilometre (1.24 mile) drop to 4,000 metres (13,200
feet) below the ocean's surface.
Blogging (writing personal accounts on the web) on board the ship,
researcher Adam Subhas said the team witnessed some "cool biology" as
they descended the fracture, including the sea squirt, which he
described as "basically an underwater Venus fly trap, but much bigger."
The sea squirt, also known as an ascidian, stands 50 centimetres tall
on the sea floor at a depth of just over 4,000 metres. It traps prey in
its funnel-like front section if they touch it when they swim past.
"The geology was fascinating too - the sediment was incredibly fine
and lightly packed; it made me think of powder snow," Subhas wrote.
Fossil coral fields were found, dating back more than 10,000 years.
Thresher said samples taken would provide ancient climate data for
use in global warming projections.
"Modern-day deep-water coral reefs were also found, however, there is
strong evidence that this reef system is dying, with most reef-forming
coral deeper than 1,300 metres newly dead," he said.
Though close analysis of samples was still required, Thresher said
modelling suggested ocean acidification could be responsible.
-AFP
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