What’s your name? Ari.
How old are you?
Seven, almost eight.
Where do you live? In Modi’in, in Israel.

How would you describe your bedroom? Two beds on each side, pillows facing window, shelves in the middle, with a door in the middle made out of a box of a television.
Do you have brothers or sisters? If so, what are they like? I have got a brother and he looks cute, curly hair. Likes to share. Brown eyes.
Who is your hero? Everyone, because everyone helps me in different times.
What is your favourite food? Water, if that counts as food. And if not, banana.
What music do you listen to? ‘Happy’ [by Pharrell Williams] and ‘Don’t Believe Me? Just Watch’ [by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars], songs from Horrid Henry and Elvis Presley.
What’s your favourite thing to do when you’re not at school? To play Minecraft and Jetpack, build lego and play games with my family, and TV.
What’s the best things about being a kid? I’m not a baby goat! And, about what you mean, that you can do whatever you want. It’s your decision to be crazy or not crazy, to be sad or happy, to be stupid or smart.
What’s the worst? That your parents tell you what to do and you have to wait almost 20 years to choose what your kids do.
What’s the best thing about living in Israel? That there’s so many people to meet, and those people are nice.
What’s the worst? That we don’t separate the garbage and if we don’t do that then our city will be dead.
What do you want to be when you’re older?  OK, there’s a few things… One is to be a spy, two is to be an astronaut, three is to be a policeman, four is to be a fireman, five is to be a doctor, and the last is to go to Mars and discover aliens on Mars.

 

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