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    LifeBrL3 06 01 01

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    Alex Sheshunoff and Sarah Kalish decided to build a new home, choosing a remote island paradise rather than staying locally in Iowa. Alex had previously visited the Palau islands and enjoyed scuba diving there. They chose the small island of Angaur within Palau, which had a population of only around 150 people. With permission from the island's 83-year-old leader, they built a simple house themselves with help from friends, learning construction skills and giving their friends a free holiday in exchange. After many months of hard work, their dream house in a remote paradise was complete.

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    Alex Sheshunoff and Sarah Kalish decided to build a new home, choosing a remote island paradise rather than staying locally in Iowa. Alex had previously visited the Palau islands and enjoyed scuba diving there. They chose the small island of Angaur within Palau, which had a population of only around 150 people. With permission from the island's 83-year-old leader, they built a simple house themselves with help from friends, learning construction skills and giving their friends a free holiday in exchange. After many months of hard work, their dream house in a remote paradise was complete.

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    Alex Sheshunoff and Sarah Kalish decided to build a new home, choosing a remote island paradise rather than staying locally in Iowa. Alex had previously visited the Palau islands and enjoyed scuba diving there. They chose the small island of Angaur within Palau, which had a population of only around 150 people. With permission from the island's 83-year-old leader, they built a simple house themselves with help from friends, learning construction skills and giving their friends a free holiday in exchange. After many months of hard work, their dream house in a remote paradise was complete.

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    Alex Sheshunoff and Sarah Kalish decided to build a new home, choosing a remote island paradise rather than staying locally in Iowa. Alex had previously visited the Palau islands and enjoyed scuba diving there. They chose the small island of Angaur within Palau, which had a population of only around 150 people. With permission from the island's 83-year-old leader, they built a simple house themselves with help from friends, learning construction skills and giving their friends a free holiday in exchange. After many months of hard work, their dream house in a remote paradise was complete.

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    A new life

    in paradise
    1 Alex Sheshunoff is a writer and Sarah Kalish is a
    lawyer. They both had good jobs and an apartment
    in Iowa city. However, one day they decided to
    build a new home for themselves. Most people
    would probably look locally, perhaps in the nicer
    neighbourhoods. But actually, they planned to find
    a place in paradise to create their home.

    2 For Alex, it was fairly easy to choose an island


    with everything he wanted. As a keen scuba diver,
    Alex first visited the Palau group of islands years
    ago because of the beautiful ocean. He continued
    to go back there from time to time so this seemed
    like a good choice for paradise. The islands are
    about 7,500 kilometres west of Hawaii so they are
    difficult to reach. However, they have green forests
    with interesting wildlife and they are surrounded by
    a blue ocean full of colourful fish. In the end, Alex
    and Sarah chose one island in particular – Angaur.

    3 Angaur is only thirteen kilometres around with


    a population of about 150 people. Before they
    could start to work on the house, they had to
    get permission from the head of the island – an
    83-year-old woman. She was worried they intended
    to develop the area for other tourists but Alex
    PALAU said, ‘We would like to build a simple house.’ They
    ISLANDS
    agreed on the rent of $100 a month for twenty
    Pacific
    Ocean

    LAOS Babeldaob
    years. The head of the island was happy. She said,
    THAILAND Philippine
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    Urukthapel
    ‘Angaur welcomes you.’
    PHILIPPINES Sea Eil Malk
    CAMBODIA
    PALAU
    VIETNAM ISLANDS Peleliu
    4 Then the real work began. Alex and Sarah didn’t
    Angaur
    South China Sea

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    want to pay for a construction company, so they
    M A L A Y S I A
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    Ocean
    taught themselves a lot about building. They also
    BORNEO
    had a lot of friends in Iowa. They came out to help
    and in return got a free holiday by the beach. The
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    local people of Anguar also worked for the couple


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    and after many months of hard work and a final


    Java

    Indian Pacific
    visit from the head of the island, their dream house
    Ocean Ocean
    was ready.
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