atrapada por un pez ambriento.

People would follow it all along its long journey. Scientists would follow it by driving along roads that traveled parallel to the Nile river.

La gente seguirá el largo viaje de la Pelota de Ping Pong. Científicos seguirán el evento bordeando en carro las carreteras paralelas al Río Nilo.

They would keep careful track of how far the ball had traveled each day. Sometimes they would even circle over the ping pong ball in a helicopter, making sure that the ball was safely traveling downstream.

Cuidadosamente llevarán un control del progreso hecho cada día. Algunas veces incluso helicopteros rondearán sobre la Pelota de Ping Pong para estar seguros de que todo va bien.

Once a week people all over the globe would turn on their televisions to see how far the ping pong ball had travelled in the past week.

Una vez a la semana alrededor del mundo la gente prenderá la televisión para ver el progreso del viaje de la Pelota de Ping Pong.

The television studios would have a large map of Africa on the wall, with an arrow pointing to where the ping ball was on that particular day.

Los estudios de televisión mantendrian en la pared un mapa de

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