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It was nice adopting an elephant'</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>'<strong>Dear Kate</strong>,<br > </em><em>Thank you for coming to our school and telling Swan Class all about elephants. We were very interested in your information. We have adopted one of the elephants called Mafunyane. Are your monkeys still being cheeky?'</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>'<strong>Dear Kate</strong>,<br > </em><em>I really enjoyed your extremely interesting talk about elephants and the names of all the elephants and your camp at Botswana. I really would like to go to Botswana and I've learned to respect elephants a lot more than I did'</em></p> <p class="Tittle">&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table><!-- InstanceEndEditable --></td> <td width="8"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="8" height="1" /></td> <td class="RightPatch">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="CrvBgBtm"><img src="images/Patch_Left_CrvB.gif" width="13" height="13" align="right" /></td> <td><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="230" height="1" /></td> <td> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="5"><img src="images/Btm_Crv1.gif" width="5" height="13" /></td> <td class="MidBtm"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="13" /></td> <td width="5"><img src="images/Btm_Crv2.gif" width="5" height="13" /></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width="8"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="8" height="1" /></td> <td class="CrvBgBtm"><img src="images/Patch_Right_CrvB.gif" width="13" height="13" /></td> </tr> </table> </body> <!-- InstanceEnd --></html>