TRAVELING BUDDIES WIN PALS WORLDWIDE.Byline: Kevin F. Sherry Daily News Staff Writer Oh, to be able to travel like Mark Glicksteen's buddy, Crabby crab·by adj. crab·bi·er, crab·bi·est Informal Grouchy; ill-tempered. crab  bi·ly adv. . Over the past six months, the first-grader's friend has visited 22 countries on five continents, assembling a souvenir book of photographs and postcards, foreign coins and stamps, and even an origami The code name for Microsoft's Ultra-Mobile PC. See Ultra-Mobile PC. bird from Japan and dry pasta from Rome. Not too bad for a stuffed toy stuffed toy stuff n → Stofftier nt dog. The treasured toy was among the Travel Buddies sent abroad this school year by first-graders at Oak Hills Elementary School elementary school: see school. . This month, the youngsters have been welcoming back their stuffed animals, some of whom have crisscrossed criss·cross v. criss·crossed, criss·cross·ing, criss·cross·es v.tr. 1. To mark with crossing lines. 2. the globe several times over. At the start of the school year each student brought in a stuffed animal to serve as a Travel Buddy. In November, students placed their buddies in miniature backpacks with a note asking the animals' caretakers to send updates on the animals' travels. Many students brought their buddies to Thanksgiving dinner The centerpiece of contemporary Thanksgiving in the United States is a large meal, starring a large roasted turkey. All of the dishes in the traditional American version of Thanksgiving Dinner are made from foods native to North America, according to tradition the Pilgrims received these and gave them to a family member who was going on a trip. ``The postcards came rolling in right after that,'' said teacher Sharon Pember. Many travelers passed the buddy along to people they met on their journeys. Each of the buddies wore a note asking that they be mailed back to the school by May 1, but ``some of them are still traveling,'' Pember said. In the program's three years, only a few buddies have had to be listed as MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology , or ``missing in travels.'' The buddies who have returned home and their travel books will be on display for tonight's open house at the school. Mark's buddy Crabby was one of the most-traveled and at each stop someone added a bit of local culture to Crabby's travel book, which was thick with foreign coins, stamps, photographs and postcards. The book also contained letters from people who met Crabby along the way. ``As you can see, it's pretty full,'' Mark said. Dispatches from the buddies help students locate other states and foreign lands on their classroom maps. ``I think it's a great introduction to geography and learning about the world,'' Pember said. One teddy bear from teacher Judi Gould's class came back with pictures of him sitting on the actual South Pole South Pole, southern end of the earth's axis, lat. 90° S. It is distinguished from the south magnetic pole. The South Pole was reached by Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, in 1911. See Antarctica. . He returned complete with a new pair of bear-sized wooden skis and ski poles. ``There's some outstanding treasures here,'' said Gould, who started the Travel Buddy program at Oak Hills three years ago. ``Just hearing all these things "These Things" is an EP by She Wants Revenge, released in 2005 by Perfect Kiss, a subsidiary of Geffen Records. Music Video The music video stars Shirley Manson, lead singer of the band Garbage. Track Listing 1. "These Things [Radio Edit]" - 3:17 2. helps them understand the world a little better.'' Some people sent e-mail from all over the world back to the students to update them on their buddies' journeys. ``They've communicated to us many different ways,'' Pember said. Colton Beyer-Johnson's bunny hopped a plane to Kenya, where he gathered hand-carved items like a flute and a necklace adorned with giraffes, elephants and cheetahs. ``They love when the souvenirs are in the backpacks,'' Pember said. Blake Miller's buddy, Dodger Dog The Dodger Dog is a hot dog named after the Major League Baseball franchise that sells them (the Los Angeles Dodgers). This foot-long ballpark frankfurter wrapped in a steamed bun is consumed by the millions over the course of the baseball season. , toured the French Riviera, London, Germany, Belgium, Rome, Spain and Las Vegas. Blake's travel book ends with a picture of him and his pup back at home base in Dodger Stadium. Aly Tominaga's Lamby crisscrossed the country and made stops in Palm Springs, Boston and Texas. Lamby saw snow in Pennsylvania and the Golden Gate and Bay bridges in San Francisco. ``Lamby definitely had some long and winding travels,'' said teacher Jessica Jimenez. One buddy visited an elementary school class in Coffeyville, Kan. The Kansas students wrote about themselves for Gould's class. Erica Kim's buddy, Dot, took a 12-hour flight to the Cook Islands in the South Pacific to discover an island feast and hula dancing. Dot also visited Rockefeller Center in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of during Christmas. Kelsey Gurnick's panda, Love, traveled by train and brought back information about the metric system metric system, system of weights and measures planned in France and adopted there in 1799; it has since been adopted by most of the technologically developed countries of the world. from Canada. The panda's travel book contained mementos of Phoenix, Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, San Diego and San Francisco, as well as pictures of him next to the Eiffel Tower. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1-2--Color) At left, first-grade teacher Jessica Jimenez shows her Oak Hills Elementary School class an item that came back with student Sarah Almada's bear, Teddy. As part of a class geography project, students sent stuffed animals like Teddy and Lamby, above, on trips around the world, from San Francisco to the South Pole, collecting friends and mementos along the way. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News |
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