If you are making the trip to America, the upper peninsula is a great place to go. We are a relatively small state, with a population a little over 300,000. One benefit of the upper peninsula is its geography. It is one of the only states that has not been completely urbanized. The are over 4,000 lakes, and 12,000 miles of streams in the upper peninsula. Most of which, are surrounded by woods. Depending on the season, you can always fish, swim, or ice skate.
If you don't like to spend your time alone in nature we have many events that occur year round. In the fall there are high school football games three nights a week, sometimes drawing thousands of people each. In the winter, you can visit pine mountain and ski. Once a year, thousands and thousands of people gather to watch a world wide ski jump contest take place at pine mountain. In the summer, people enjoy going to some of the upper peninsula's hundreds of beaches and parks. The combination of the people and the geography that the upper peninsula has to offer is what makes it one of the best places you could visit in America.



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    Mrs. Sutton's English 10 Class Kingsford, Michigan USA

    We are a sophomore English class of 28 students. (One of us is a foreign exchange student from Italy.) Most of us are 15 or 16 years old.

    We live in Kingsford, MI, a small rural town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Our school, Kingsford High School, has a population of about 650 students. Most of the students in our school come from middle class backgrounds of Caucasian descent. Our school's mascot is a Flivver car because in the early 1900's, these Ford cars were mass produced  in our part of Michigan.  Our town is named after Edwin G. Kingsford, one of the leaders of the Ford Motor Company.

    One of the main employers in our area is Verso, a paper mill. Other large employers are the Dickinson County Hospital and a hospital for military veterans called the Oscar G. Johnson Medical Center. 

    Because we live where snow covers the ground seven months of the year, most of us know how to ski, snow shoe, ice fish, snowmobile, and ice skate. Those of us who don't like winter sports enjoy the warmer months of the year by swimming in the lakes and rivers, hunting or fishing in the woods, hiking on trails, or just hanging out in town with our friends. 

    At our school, we can participate in many sports like football, soccer, tennis, volleyball, track, cross-country, basketball, and softball. We can also join all sorts of school activities like student council, drama, choir, band, class government, and so much more! Those of us who don't like sports or school activities spend our free time playing video games, listening to music, and shopping.  

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