The Bloody Sock/Birdman

Birdman Rally Box Kite

Ms. Balloon
Ms. Balloon running up for flight

The Bloody Sock

One day I went out into my prison (back yard) and there were pieces of very tiny glass. And I was not wearing shoes because I did not know there was anything there. So, when I was playing handball I stepped on some glass and Ripley needs to be quiet because she is interrupting my thoughts. And now, my sock is all covered in big blobs of blood because we used it to wipe up the blood on my foot.

In Australia, there is a thing called the Birdman Rally. It is when people build crafts for themselves for them to fly on. Some people are actually trying to win, others are just trying to show off. Like a lot of people just run and jump. To make sure it is safe, they jump off a really big platform into a giant river called the Yarra River. The only girl got 15 meters and she only used helium filled balloons. (I'm letting you figure out what 15 meters is in feet.)

How I got a Ping Pong Table

My dad wanted a ping pong table very very very much.  So, we went to a ping pong table store.  At the ping pong table store, there was a ping pong/pool/air hockey/foosball table.  It was for $1200. The ping pong table we bought was $300.  It is not an outdoor one, meaning that it can withstand the rain, so we have to assemble it and dissassemble it whenever it rains.  Right now, it is in our kitchen.  Here is a picture.

There is a festival called Jazz in the Park.  At the festival, there is a jazz band, home made treats, and a bounce house.  At the festival, I had one cookie, and four bottles worth of razzberry soda water.  And that's it.  I did not do anything in the actual school festival, I just skated in an empty parking lot near the school with one of my friends.  We skated for three hours, then it was 8.30pm, our time.  I fell over a couple of times, but that wasn't bad.  And by the way, there were more than 600 people at the party.  I was SO tired at school today, because I went to bed at 9.30 last night.

Amazing Things

There was a black cat at my cousin's house and the black cat was very nice.

I'm the shaving cream master!

This is the Crazy Coaster, the Disneyland of Australia!

This is Ripley and I on the Crazy Coaster.

This apple is special; it was grown half green and half red.


Grand Prix

The Grand Prix is a GIANT car racing event that goes for days. (Not overnight) The Grand Prix is right next to our house. They are already preparing for it, even though it is two months away. The Grand Prix is SO noisy, that they have to cancel my school on the days it is on.

School

There are 347 kids in the whole school. It is a very big difference from Farm School -- going from 19 to 347. Grownups think that Farm School is a country school because it is so small. There is a Blaise, a Nicholas, Liam but no one else besides those three people. I couldn't understand some of the words you are meant to spell for a spelling test, so I waited until she said them in a sentence.

Shaving Master
Some of these pictures (the ones where I'm covered with white shaving cream) are Ripley and I by accident squirting shaving cream on to ourselves. Then we rubbed it in like sunscreen.

Headsox
There is a Headsox in Australia. Headsox are like hats, but you can wear them in all different styles. You can wear them like a pirate hat, you can wear it like a cap, you can also wear it like a bandana. I got my Headsox from a kid named Ollie, because his Dad owns the Headsox corporation, so if you are his friend, he'll give you a Headsox.

BBQ Mania

We got invited to THREE different Barbies this weekend.  The first one was at a big and old fashioned house but upstairs isn't completely finished and it won't ever be completely finished because the architect ran out of money so they didn't make another room on floor three.  There is no floor three anymore, so on floor two, the ceilings are 15 feet above your head.  We stayed till 11 o'clock at night and it took us 15-20 minutes to get home.  

On Saturday morning I went to an awesome house with chickens in their backyard and a ping pong table.  And a PS2.   I played Halo2.  

On Sunday, we went to the really boring mall and then we went to Jane O'Donnell's house.  She is an old family friend of my dad's.  We biked to Jane's.  The problem was, we stayed too long and it got dark so we couldn't ride back in the dark, so Jane had to drive us back to our home.  Then the next day, which is today, we got our bikes back.  

TODAY IS AUSTRALIA DAY

The Ignauriation

I stayed up all night to watch the ignoriation (I called inauguration ignoriation).   Here, it was on at 3 o'clock in the morning, so I stayed up aaaalll night to watch it in my mom's bed.  I was not the only one who stayed up: my mom did of course.  Daddy stayed up for about 30 minutes (at 3am) and then fell asleep again.   I stayed up till 5.30am our time.  I liked the concert before the ignauration because the kid behind Obama was sleeping, then she was licking her lips.  We watched it one week after the inauguration when it was on the TV at midnight, our time.

P.S. All of the times in this blog are my time. 

Weekend Activities

I took all these pictures except for the ones that I'm in, on the way to the skate park.  I also rode across the Yarra River, which means I rode past the non-city line.  There was a giant gay and lesbian fair and the skatepark was in the middle of it (I was going to the skatepark, not the fair.  I didn't know there was the fair that day.)

This is a BLACK swan.  In Australia, they only have black swans.  They don't have a SINGLE white swan in ALL of Australia.  This swan is in the far side of Albert Park Lake (Albert Park is the oval behind my house).  

This picture is of a huge amount of seagulls.  The little white dots are seagulls.  This is also at Albert Park Lake.  Albert Park Lake is in Albert Park.

This picture is a closeup of the picture below it.  The actual picture is a picture of the memorial shrine for wars.  In a different shrine, some skateboarders were skating on a plaque with the dead people's names on it.  (I saw this on the news.)

 

These are advertisements signs on wheels, being towed by people on three-wheeled motorcycles.  I have no clue what "WHACK" is.  I think it is a sports drink with no sugar.  And it's full of something unknown.

This skatepark is the first skatepark I've been to in Australia.  In this top picture, I am dropping in off a one-meter high quarter pipe.  A meter is 3 feet.  In this picture below, I am doing a headless pop shoveit (a pop shoveit is a jump and your board does a 180 degree spin).  The headless part of the explanation of this picture isn't a trick -- it just means there isn't a head in this picture. 

This is me getting ready to go on a 12 kilometre bike ride to the skateboard park where I had all those pictures above.  (It looks like I'm going on a four day campout.)

The picture below, I am jumping off a pier railing in St. Kilda.  (I'm not jumping into the water).  What letter did I make with my hand?  The picture above, I am leaping over the railing.

Phillip Island

Phillip Island is an Island that you can drive over a bridge to. From Melbourne, it is two hours away. When the tide is in, you can barely walk on the beach without getting wet. When the tide is out, you can walk 300 feet before you hit the water (not including between sand bars). There is someone named Beth who lives on Phillip Island who we went to visit. Her parents had a kayak and I had a boogie board, so I used the strap of my boogie board to tie it to the back of the kayak. We did 2 laps -- each lap was 300 feet. She was towing me and I was pushing at the same time, but I wasn't fast enough to keep up with her, so mostly she towed me.

We played beach soccer (on the beach -- that's why it is called beach soccer) at least 100 feet out from shore because there was still at least 50 feet away from water. Everyone played, including my mom, my dad, my friend Luke, my friend Beth (the kayaker), Luke's dad, someone named Zoe, and someone named Shaun. Here's a picture of beach cricket (not on Phillip Island -- on the beach near our house) since we didn't take a picture of beach soccer on Phillip Island.

I got a Ripstick for Christmas and I rode it around Phillip Island.

On the way to Phillip Island, there were some very big fiberglass animals. There was a koala, a great white shark, and a grafittied worm. On the way to Phillip Island and back, there is a town called Casey. Here's a picture of the Casey medical center and the giant graiffitied worm and the giant shark. Look veeerrry very very close to see the name Casey Medical Center.