Iguazu falls
In the Iguazu falls we went on a helicopter! I was really excited and I could not believe how lucky I was. I felt really lucky that I was 10 the first time I went on a helicopter. And Tariq (my brother) is 3 and he went on the helicopter. When we were flying over […]
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Glaciers are ice sheets on the mountains. At the bottom of a glacier there is earth. Ice comes down from mountains and reaches the bottom of the valley. Ice plates are made when ice is made quicker than it melts. We have been to many glaciers, These are the glaciers that we have seen: Viedma, Perito […]
Read the rest of this entry »Our time in Patagonia
We had a really good time in a place in Patagonia called Chalten.The first day we came here we went out to eat dinner and after our parents let us have an ice cream. The next day we climbed up a hill with teachers from Chalten and they were P.E. teachers. After we walked about […]
Read the rest of this entry »Watching Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires
Watching a game in Buenos Aires is very different from watching a football match in England. First we went to a restaurant, it was very different from the rest of the restaurants because it had no seats or tables so everyone had to stand up while they were eating. The queue for the match was […]
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In Bolivia we firstly went to Copacabana and we were searching for a place to stay. We finally slept in a Hotel. The next day we went to la isla del sol (The island of the sun) and when we got there we had to walk up a mountain that was 500 metres tall. The […]
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Today we are in a lake that is the highest lake that you can cross in altitude, the lake Titicaca. We are going to go to the Uros islands. The Uros islands are man-made and they float. It took us 1 hour to get there and the first thing I realised was that there was […]
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Today and for roughly two weeks we are working at a school called Aldea Yanapay. At Aldea Yanapay there is a topic every week, and guess what their topic was? English! At the end of the week we had to make a song of what we want to be when we are older. The thing […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Galapagos August 2011
Now we are in the Galapagos Islands and we are having a great time, we went snorkelling with turtles, sealions and some sting rays. My dad saw and eagle ray which is a different kind of sting ray but it is much bigger. I also saw starfish in different colours. One day we had a […]
Read the rest of this entry »Volunteering at the Children’s Eternal Rainforest
Today we volunteered at the children’s eternal rainforest. If we volunteered that means that we work without getting money. We had to clear the leaves out of the path to make compost. That means we did two good things, 1. We cleared the path so people could walk through 2. We could make the leaves […]
Read the rest of this entry »Zip wires in Costa Rica
Today I’m in Costa Rica and I went on lots of Zipwires! I had a great time and a very fun time there. All of the zipwires were great and sometimes as long as 600 metres. The first one was only 40 metres and not so scary. But at first I felt really scared and […]
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