My first experience with skateboarding
Hi! My name is Zhandos Orazalin. Today, I’m going to tell you about my first experience with skateboarding. I’m from Kazakhstan, which is a fascinating country located between Europe and Asia.  It’s a size of whole of the Western Europe, it has stable government and it’s becoming a very attractive place for investments.
[Watch Zhandos Orazalin talk about his experience at ASU & learning to skateboard]

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