Peru

I live in Peru. Peru is in South America.  The city of Peru that I live in is Lima.  I live by the beach and it is quiet where I live but it is the city.  I think it is quiet because of the beach.  The beach is covered in rubbish and there is a flag that says "No saludable" which means "Not healthy" in English.  

They speak Spanish in Peru.  In the jungle, some people speak Shipibo, a jungle language.  I can speak Spanish and English.  I also speak a little bit of Shipibo because we have some Shipibo guys in our community who taught me some Shipibo. 

My favourite food is Aji de Gallina which means Chicken Chili.

My favorite drink is chicha morada, which is made from pineapple skins, purple corn, cinnamon and cloves boiled together in water.  

I like living in Peru because there are lots of things to do.  For example, in the summer you can go out for a swim. 

In January and February last year I went to the Club Cultural, where I did Karate, Fencing, Football and Swimming.  Everybody has to do swimming, but it got boring after a while.  My most favourite was Karate.  It has been a while, but I still remember the moves. There was something I didn't like about Karate though - there was hundreds of ants on the floor and they kept climbing on my leg and I had to keep killing them and picking them up.  

I love Peru.  

Daddy

I love Daddy, especially when he lets me watch Clash of Clans. I call it C.O.C. He also plays Candy Crush Saga. I call it C.C. As far as I know, he is on level 100. He has got new games called Farm Heroes Saga and another game called Pet Rescue Saga. 

I love to give him lots of cuddles and kisses. But I don’t like it when we have to go and pay bills together, because it takes too long.  

Every two Friday nights we have a Daddy date.  One Daddy date we go out, and the other Daddy date we stay in my house and play Risk.  

I really do love Daddy.  

Kaleb

Kaleb is my youngest brother.  He is very silly because he says funny sentences, e.g. "I'm not a fast wunner! (runner)" or "You climbing up the twee! (tree)" or "Doely (Joely) is making a catapult!" "I want ta (a) Daddy date toooo!" 

He loves doing creative time, especially painting.  

He loves copying Judah (Amanda and Shaun's son). When Judah crawls around, Kaleb copies him.  

Kaleb is also very silly - he screams when it is not necessary, he says '-ockroach!" when sometimes there isn't a cockroach just to tease us.  

Kaleb loves to copy everything I say and do.  If I say, "Yuck, this is disgusting!" He laughs and says the same.  If I take off my T-shirt, he takes off his t-shirt.  If I say "I'm a copycat!" he says "Daniel's a copycat!"

When we're walking, he only wants to hold my hand.  I more or less like holding his hand, because sometimes I want to walk quicker, but sometimes because I love him I do it.  

Kaleb is so silly. I love him.

Rio 2

Yesterday I went to the cinema and guess what, I went to watch Rio 2! It was the first time I went to a cinema! 

Rio 2 was so exciting. I especially liked when the birds fought the loggers. We bought a huge thing of popcorn there. I loved Rio 2.

Creative time

We do creative time once a day Monday to Friday as part of homeschool.  You can paint stuff, and basically create anything you want to create.  I love painting with our paint pens, with paint brushes and Joel loves to do woodwork.  One day I made doodle dots because I was experimenting with paint. 

One day I made cross-hearts just for fun. 

 One day I made a dotty flower and I was also experimenting too using salt and glue. 

 The following pictures are of the Burgess family.  To make the skin colour I used pink and yellow paints. 

 This is Jonathan the robot.  Joel gave me the idea.  

 And here are my turbo-fire race cars. I put fire on the back for turbo-boosters.  That is why it is called turbo-fire.  

 Creative time is fun.  

Easter

I love Easter, especially the chocolate eggs. My parents hide them and we find them. It's called an Easter egg hunt. This year we are not doing in the garden, but in the park. I can't wait for Easter! This year it is April the 20th. I made an Easter bunny sock puppet. 

This year we are also dividing everybody into groups for the Easter egg hunt. On Easter we can remember that Jesus died for us to take away our sins. I might make an Easter garden. Easter is fun.

Australia

Australia was fun, especially the swimming pool, because my uncles (Ben and Sam) kept human cannonballing me to the pirate (Joel) in the pirate ship (a small raft). 

I loved running with the dogs, Bailey and Tia. Bailey loved playing fetch with a tennis ball with me or Joel or Kaleb.

Our next door neighbour, Nicole, is Chilean and her dog, Lucas, chews our tennis balls so we can't get the tennis balls back non slobbery. The parrots on her house that we saw on the last day were looking for insects down  the drain and were beautiful.

 I love Australia.