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~Josie~

American Ambassador

The American ambassador held a party at his house for Christmas. We made cookies, ate some stuff and visited Santa! We all got presents, I got a band thingy to make bracelets with, Audrey got a jump-rope, Guy got a rubeix-cube! We where one of the most well-dressed family's. My favorite part was making cookies, because you could decorate them with any thing you wanted! There were different shapes and sizes of cookies!!!!!!! I liked the stars the best.

We where one of the most well-dressed family's!

 

  Me getting my present!

Audrey eating here cookie!

~Josie~

A no-name poem (a poem without a name yet)

Here is the poem (this is not the name)




Christmas is my favorite time


So I am going to make this rhyme

Trees are decked with lovely signs

Of memories and scents of pine.



I wish my family was here to party

But they're in Croatia traveling hardy

Having the most amazing journey

A once in a lifetime live and learn-y.



I wish you all a Christmas Merry

And now I have to catch my ferry!
 
By:
Karen Person
 
Please leave comments on every poem so that i know that you like them!
 

Just to cheer you up a bit a new poem

Santa's lost boot


Santa lost his boot
It went through the shoot
Santa was concerning
That the fire was burning
All the kids where good
The way they should
He had to drop some things
Like a doll with wings
The presents were wrapped
As the children napped
The house was quiet
There was no kid named Wyatt
Climbing back up the chimney
No more presents not any
Then he jumped on the sleigh
Then he went a way
Leaving his boot behind
He did not mind
Riding out into the night
Rodolph was his only light

By:
Josie

shoes and sticks

Here on December 5th you get presents in your shoes! I got a dog LPS (Littlest Pet Shop) I named it happy because it was the happiest and it was also had a blow dryer. Josie got a cat LPS and named it Jess it came with a hair brush.

Beacuse of the Christmas holiday, I would like to anonce something.

Holiday Celebration:

Random titles is having some celebration.
Mythos is having some celebration.

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Only the BEST OF THE BEST poems made it on this blog.

 When Christmas Comes

When Christmas comes
The snow blows hard
I feel my mothers guard
Santa comes down the chimney
presents he drops many
A bite of chocolate
A sip of milk
it tasted like silk
When Christmas comes.

by: Audrey Beaudoin

Labin the Mining Town.

We are about to go into a mining shaft in a muesam with a couple friends we made.

The mining shaft was very dark and we could only see by the lights. There was one time in the mining shaft were there is no light because it burned out so my dad had to use his palm light and others used cell phones.
It seamed like there was rail road tracks on the bottom of the picture. It was actually rail tracks for the cars to move the oar. Are shoes got very dirty and we wanted to clean our shoes because in between the rail tracks  there was sand and dirt. We also had to duck sometimes because it got so small. The other thing is that we had to where helmet so that we would not get hurt when we bonked our heads.

The museum we went to also had a lot of pottery. The pots are used for storing olive oil, wine and more. This pottery is called amphora. Amphora is a type of ceramic vase. Ancient Greeks and Romans used them for transporting many things.

Some Mediterranean people still use amphora's. The amphora can be painted.

To learn more about the amphora:

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CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT LABIN (A SHORT PARAGRAPH)!!

Town of Rovinj

The town of Rovinj gets very crowded in the summer. In the town of Rovinj, there is an arch with a Turkish head on one side and a Venetian head on the other side. The one on the top is the Turkish head and the other one is the Venetian. A lot of people like to fish in that area, in fact, I bet most of the people are fisherman.



There is a lot of fisherman in the town of Rovinj. I do not think there is any room to swim. It is a egg shaped island so boats can park around it.

 There is even a boat here. It is a very old boat on display in front of the museum. It is a  flat bottom boat used by fisherman, it is very old. In the corner there is a police car and it parked there because the road was too narrow to drive through.




 Do you like the town of Rovinj? Here is a link to learn more about it:  CLICK HERE TO LEARN ABOUT ROVINJ!

WATER, AND, OR

Water,

Water is voda (v-o-d-a) in Croatian.


And,

And is I (E) or A (E) in Croatian.

Or,

Or is ili (i-l-e) in Croatian.

Cowboy in Croatia!!??

Imagine a Croatian cowboy! Would he look like this?

Ljubljana, the Capital of Slovenia

Here is Ljubljana (l-oob-ley-ane-a) City. This is the Dragon Bridge and the picture is my dads favorite picture, as it is even Dads new desktop background on his computer! We also saw a castle that Queen Elizabeth II (Queen of England) went last year to visit.

Smallest town in the world!

The town is called Hum (h-you-m) . It is not abandoned, there is a population of 16 people. It is true it is the smallest town in the whole world!
It is in Croatia near a very good restaurant that we went to in the nearby village of Kotle!

 To learn more about Hum go to this link: CLICK HERE!

votes

Most people would like to go to Europe! Most people were amazed by all the Burger Kings! That's all for today!

A CASTLE A DAY OR WHAT THEY SAY! (In Italy)

City of Trieste in Italy.


A big hole in a tree. Dad thought it was not cool but I wanted it


Miramar Castle near Trieste.

Here is the Trieste town square! Bueno Italiano!

We saw a beautiful swan!

ITALY!

Right here is my sister, Audrey. She is standing by a real cannon!

Right here is a lamp post. The locks mean that the couple that wrote their names on it were in love. Then the owner of the lock (the couple) would throw their keys into the water.

The Grave Yard At Halloween

Here in Croatia the Croatians don't do Halloween. Instead they go to the graveyard and light candles. We went to a graveyard but could not stay there for long because I was sick. They do costumes in February for Carnival.

The graveyards are very crowded on All Saints Eve (Halloween).

Halloween in Rijeka

 My family and I dressed up for Halloween this year. We also carved pumpkins.  

Guy was Shrek.

Audrey was a fairy. I carved a cool wolf (just like the one in the drawings). Guy carved a man walking through a tunnel and Audrey made a normal scary face pumpkin.

I was a ghost princess

Fish Market

Eew look at these ugly fish!

The eel looks kind of cool. What do you think?  There are so many types of fish in this fish market.
My dad loves sea food so nummy for him but the smell is horrible.
The owners of this place probably put parsley in the eels mouth to look nicer.
 
The cool sword fish has a long nose. 

Swans

Back at Linderhof Castle I got a picture of real swans. King Ludwig II loved swans. I also got a picture of the fountain. The fountain goes really tall.

Home!

 Our life at home is like this. The ice cream truck comes every 2nd Sunday, and the ice cream is delicious! Sometimes we go to a different mall than the one we did the last time. In Rijeka, there are tons of  stores. My favorite is the one called Centar Tower. Centar Tower is a big mall with all kinds of stuff. It's the biggest one we have seen. A lot of people come to Centar Tower. I think it is their favorite mall.
Sometimes I make friends but here making a close friend takes years.

Adriatic Sea and Parking!

Our view is of the Adriatic Sea and the Istrian Peninsula. The Adriatic Sea is a large body of water on the eastern side of Italy. Croatia is the place we have lived in which used to be part of Italy.
The car in this picture is less than an inch away from the wall. Most cars are parked like that. The driving is so bad that we almost got into a car wreck! Right now we don't have a car, but we had gone places earlier in our rental car.

Learn Croatian

One and two


The numbers 1 and 2. Jedan pronounced  ye-dan. Jedan is one in Croatian. Dva pronounced da-va. Dva is two in Croatian. Jedan and dva are the first two numbers.

Facts

                                            Soccer

Soccer is the most popular team sport. In Croatia, they call soccer foot ball because you use your feet. Isn't it odd that we call foot ball, foot ball and you usually use your hands. A single national team represents the entire state so you'd have to try your hardest to win! We went to a soccer game last night and we got very good popcorn.

   At the soccer game there were about 1000 police (kind of exaggerating). The police wore padded armor and they also checked my jacket to see if I had anything that could harm anyone. I got hurt on the way there so I went back to the house and put a band aid on. The cars usually don't stop for us but there were so many police around the stadium that they stopped very fast for us. Croatia won the soccer game!

Where I've Been

        Red means I have lived there, blue means I've been there.

Things there are that we have at home.

Kitty's


There are a bunch of street kitty's. I think there really cute. This morning I saw a cat cuddling with my family's ball, that reminds me that they also have balls in Croatia. We got a Ben10 ball because it was the cheapest.
In this picture, you see a really cute cat. We call the cat Celeste.

Learn Croaitan

Colors Blue and Green

Here is how to say blue and green.
"Plava" pronounced pla-va. Plava is blue. "Zelena" pronunced zel-en-a. Zelena is green. Usually girls and boys favorite color is either  blue or green. My favorite is blue.

swimming

We have a pool near are home in Croatia. I go swimming every Monday,Wednesday and Friday.
The water is warm. I love it verlo-dobro that means very well in Croatian.

Linderhof

We went back to Germany and went to a palace that King Ludwig II. I liked all the cool fountains
the castle is called Linderhof. it has lots of fancy rooms.We were not allowed to take pictures because they want to make money for the pictures they sell and so that the walls don't lose their paintings.
We went through a cool town called Oberamergau. We got a picture of the full moon rising up over the Austrian Alps.

Do you want to learn more about Linderhof? Then go to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linderhof_Palace

Facts

gummy bears


Did you know that Gummy bears were originated in Germany.They taste like sugar here in Germany.They also in the hotel we stayed in instead of pillow chocolates we got gummi bears on are pillows.Actually they were gummi sheep but they should both taste they same.

For more about Gummy bears go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummy_bear

Zegreb

We got a very fun trip to Zagreb. We just got home to our apartment in Croatia. The hotel we went to was very swanky because Zagreb is the capital city of Croatia. We saw statues of very famous people. We love the bakery there. I got a strudel. It was good. The swanky hotel we went to is 5 stars. It was built to be a stop over for the Orient Express which was a train that ran between Paris and Istanbul. The Orient Express was a famous train used by rich people.This is me and my brother at the market.

For more info about the Orient Express go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient_Express

extinct!

Today we saw an almost extinct animal Griffon vulture .We got a pretty good picture of the animals.we saw devet of them. That means eight in Croatian.The island we went to is Cres.It was very fun.We went to a bakery I got a jelly croissant. For more info go to:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffon_vulture

KRK

We went to a beach it was fun it was in Krk.Right here is were we went.We went swimming in the lake it was fun.We got sladoled that means ice cream in Croatian.The ice cream was nummy! mmm

For more info go to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krk

amphitheater

We also went to a Roman amphitheater my brother and dad had a walky-talky tour. Me, my sister,and mom explored the amphitheater
In other amphitheaters they flooded them for ship battles but there was no need to because there was ocean near by. We had lunch at the park near by.

To learn more about this Amphitheater go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pula_Arena

Neuschwanstein

This is the castle Neuschwanstein my family went to.Its another picture of the beautiful castle that mad king Ludwig the II.People thought that he was mad because he kept taking peoples money to build castles.In Germany they call it schloss Neuschwanstein. Schloss means castle in German





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We have gone to Trsat

Trsat castle was fun! We got to go to a cafe and a cool tour.It was cheap! Trast has one huge tower two little ones and a arch way entance.

Wondering about Trsat? Well here is a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trsat_Castle

We have gone to Neuscheinstein castle

We have gone to Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria, Germany, It was super fun. We had a tour of the castle. Now we live in Croatia. We have gone to the city square and got ice cream. Neuschwanstein means new swan castle.

For more info go to this link about Neuschwanstein: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein_Castle