From Trash to Music
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Tears of joy are rolling down my ____.
I’m so happy and thrilled. If I were a ____, I would fly. I look around.
The other members in my orchestra are hugging one ____.
Our ____ has just finished and everyone is standing and giving us a big hand.
None of us ever expected that this day would come. It ____ been a long journey.
My name is Andrea and I’m a ____ in the Recycled Orchestra.
____ is it called the Recycled Orchestra?
____ because our musical instruments are made of objects from a landfill.
That’s why it’s ____ known as the Landfill Harmonic Orchestra.
Most of us in the orchestra are from ____, a small town in Paraguay.
There is a huge landfill in our ____.
Some people even say that Cateura itself is a ____ landfill.
Many of us are poor. There weren’t many hopes and ____ in our town.
Everything began to ____, however, when we met Favio Chávez.
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____ was an environmental educator and a musician.
He wanted to teach us music, but there was a ____ problem.
There were ____ a few musical instruments in the whole town.
We couldn’t afford to buy new ____. But Favio didn’t give up.
He said that we could make musical ____ with objects from the landfill.
A talented man named Nicholas was ____ to put this idea into practice.
He made violins from oil drums. He turned water ____ into flutes.
We had another problem. No one knew ____ to play musical instruments.
We didn’t even know how to read ____. Favio taught us with great patience.
Step by step, we began to ____ some sounds on our instruments.
I still remember the ____ piece of music that we played.
It was ____ short and mostly out of tune.
But it was the most beautiful ____ to us.
We felt a new ____ in our hearts.
From then on, we ____ to practice every day.
One day, Favio ____ us some great news.
We were ____ to have a concert, a real concert!
And here we are ____ in front of hundreds of people.
They love our music. The world sends us trash, but we send ____ music!