Amia Sult, age 10, of Des Moines, Iowa, for her question;

Where is Paso Paso?

Imagine a dreamy island, set in a warm blue ocean. There are mountains and valleys full of tropical greenery and nobody lives very far from a sunny, sandy beach. Bananas and coconuts and other crops grow in the fields, tunas and other fishes swim off the shores, tempting the fishermen to catch them. This is the Island of Tutuila, south of the equator and about 2,300 miles southwest of Hawaii. This lonely part of the Pacific Ocean is a long way from Asia and Australia. But from there, small boats leave for six other nearby islands.

These seven islands are American Samoa, a United States territory. The 26,000 people who live there have schools and Christian churches. They speak Samoan, their native language, and most of them also speak English. Their capital city is Pago Pago. It stands on the island of Tutuila, cooling its toes in one of the loveliest blue harbors in the world. But, since nothing is 100 per cent perfect, sunny Samoa gets lots of sharp showers  and sometimes a howling hurricane.