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Travel Blogs from Cumbernauld
Pre-Trip
I am so excited about going to Australia and becoming a teenager. It shall be great. Santa will come and he will give me lots of present, I hope! I've got one more day of school left and then we are driving to Manchester to get our flight at 2pm on Thursday. I think the flight is going to really bad because its 24 hours long. What am I going to do? I hope there will be a lot of movies and nice food. ...
Planning everything
So we're at the stage of planning everything. We know the basic route we want to go on, first Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands for a while as mark is heading out to work there for a bit then we can head to South America to travel around until the money runs out. Now we need to get all the details sorted but its difficult to know how much to plan because you don't want to be stuck ...
Arrival in Edinburgh
Well had nice flight from Luton to Edinburgh, got off the plane to discover it wasn't as cold as Luton lol, although it never seems quite right getting off a plane and not being hit by nice hot air. The bus was easy and fortunately it stopped a few hundred yards from the guest house. Had ...
Genna - 5 1/2 Snow Days and Counting...
... Jungle Book. I had the kids brainstorm designs the first lesson and from there they did drawings of the characters to feature on the cover. I printed the layout for the cover they came up with, and their prints will fit inside that frame. This is just to give the image some context and to teach them a bit about design, and how form and function work. I will post pictures of their prints on Saturday once they are done tomorrow (fingers crossed).
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Back home
... Irn-Bru, well and truly signalling my return home.
This whole trip was a complete eye-opener to me. For someone who had never been outside of Europe before, I learned so much about different cultures and how so many people that are essentially the same deep down, can live their lives so entirely differently. My friends and family may not notice at all, but personally I feel this trip has changed me. If nothing else it has given me ...