Charlie was excited to be going to a school for the first time in Kundiawa. He climbed the steep hill making his way to the top. He had been told just go to the very top of the hill and then you will be there. It took him 15 minutes to get to the top and he felt very hot by the time he got there. Gon Kumbia Primary School was much bigger than any primary school he had ever been to before, it had over 1000 pupils. The classrooms were arranged in rows, each row was a different Grade. In Papua New Guinea you did not go into a year group but a Grade, that means that there are children of different ages in each class because not all the children started school at the same time and sometimes children might have a year off school and start again another year.

School began early at 8.00 which meant everybody was ready for a break at 10 o'clock. Before it was recess, that is what they call morning break, Mums come and sit around the edge of the compound under the trees bringing things they have grown or cooked to sell. There were all sorts of fruit, bananas, pawpaw slices, pineapple, peanuts in their shells, maize and sweet potato chips.

Recess was thirty minutes so there was lots of time for children to play. Charlie watched desperately wanting to join in but was too shy to ask as children played a jumping game with a long loop of string, which they jumped in and out of. The string was made up of tied together freezer plastic bags twisted round to make a line. Charlie asked some children what the game was called and they said, "Jingle Jangle."

Later that day when children had come home from school Charlie was looking over the fence at the children in the next door garden and they were playing Jingle Jangle. This time Charlie was brave enough to ask if he could join in and they said, "Yes." Charlie had a great time, laughing all the time.

In the house next door there lives, one grandmother, her two sons and their wives and each married couple has six children. That was too many for Charlie to add up but it does make for a lot of new friends. Can you work out how many new friends Charlie has?