Sunday, December 20, 2009

Being a player escort at the FIFA World Club Cup

Last Saturday I was a player escort in the FIFA World Club Cup. It was really fun because I walked out on a football pitch with a player called Jose Gonzalez from a team called Atlante.

Atlante is a Mexican team. It was really fun but we had to wait around for 2 hours before we got to do the first practice. It was boring that part because we weren’t allowed to talk all that time.


When our practice was finished I knew I would do well out on the pitch. The match was in Zayed Sports stadium in Abu Dhabi and the stadium looked a little bit round.


When it was the actual match I was really nervous being looked at by the crowd because I have never experienced being on a real football pitch before. Once I had finished being a player escort I watched the match from the stands.


Atlante beat Auckland 3 - 0.
After the match ended I went to the fan zone and got my face painted.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Dolphin watching in Musandam, Oman

A few months ago we went to Oman. Oman is a country next to the UAE. We went to a place called Musandam and stayed in a hotel called Khasab hotel.

Musandam is a place high into the mountains. After we had a rest we went on a boat ride on a dhow to see dolphins. It took a long time to see the dolphins but we did see them. The dophins jumped in and out of the water and they swam next to our boat! The dolphins were great.



When we got to Telegraph Island we got out our snorkling kits. When we got in the water it was warm and I lost a flipper. Later on someone got it, then me my big brother and my dad went swimming, but I used a body board. It was good fun.

Then the next day I went on a morning drive with my dad and brother at the bottom of the mountain. We saw lots of goats in a group. But some were alone. The morning drive was really good.


After we went driving up a mountain. There was no road onlya path. It was really rocky and we stopped in certain places to take photos. We could see a big view from the top. Some of the time we drove right at the edge. It was exellent.


On our way home we stopped at a beach to play. The beach was good and it had proper big waves.
Then we drove home to Dubai.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Al Ain holiday

Last week we went to Al Ain, which is a town in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Al Ain is a desert town next to some mountains. Al Ain is famous for the man who founded the U.A.E and for natural spring water.

We were in a hotel on the mountain, which is called Jebel Hafeet. The hotel was really big. The hotel had a big swimming pool and mini golf. There is a jacuzi that has places that you can lie down. And there is a water slide pool. The water slides are all good but the fastest is the best.



The mini golf has ten holes and my best score was two putts in the hole.

For breakfast and dinner we had a buffet.

One evening we went to Al Ain night zoo and saw lots of animals like lions and zebras. The night zoo is very good.
I thought Al Ain was very good and we also went with friends!

Saturday, July 4, 2009

My birthday party

A few weeks ago it was my 8th birthday party and we went to a big bowling alley in Dubai. I had my birthday party before my real birthday because my friends might go on holiday because it is the school holidays. I invited loads of friends and they all showed up!

My birthday party was excelent. First there was bowling. There were two lanes and I was playing in both of them. I was in first place in the second lane but then people overtook me at the second go. Finally my friend Denzel won in the first lane.

Then we went to my birthday lunch at Mugg and Bean (a cafe). My mum put magic candles on my cake so the candles would not blow out!


Then we went to play games in the games arcade. It was great!

A few days ago it was my real 8th birthday! I had lots of cards and one of them had 200 dirhams!
I thought they were both fabulous.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Hamster babies grow up

Our baby hamsters have grown up now and we gave some away. Now we have 3 of them including the mum. Our mum and dad let us keep two of the babies.

Now they have a big castle play area with lots of tube runs. The hamsters really like it in the play area. We named the white one whiting (my little brother's hamster) and the brown hamster cuppaccino (my hamster).

Friday, April 10, 2009

Hamster babies

The other day my big brother's hamster had five babies.

Nanny and Grandad's visit to Dubai

When my nanny and granddad came over to Dubai we went to a lot of places. First we went to the Madinat and then showed them the Burj Al Arab next to Jumeirah beach.

On another day we went back to the beach and then afterwards drove to the Palm Jumeirah to see the Atlantis hotel. Then on the way to the Marina we saw a car on fire.
At the Marina we ran through the fountains. The water was cold.

On an other day we went and to the Burj Dubai and saw them testing the fountains. They went really high.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Thailand trip, part 2

Here's some more of the things we did in Thailand, when we went out of Bangkok. We went to the Salt Farm at Samhoot Songfram. It was really fun - we watched people collect salt. They make the salt by letting the sea water dry and then after about a week they are left with salt.
We went to another place and saw some people making sugar from coconut flowers at the Orchid Farm in Rachaburi. They make it by boiling the flowers.

Then we went to another place called the Floating Market in Damnoen Saduak. There were lots of shops on water. We went on a small boat and when we wanted to buy something the people in the shops on the water would grab our boat and pull us to their shop.

It was very crowded with shoppers in boats but it was really fun. It was hard to get back to the shore because it was so crowded with boats. At Elephant Village we got to ride on an elephant. If you have a camera the elephant master will get off the elephant and take photos and videos of you. When the rider gets off he sometimes lets you ride on the elephants neck, but my mum did not let me. That wasn't fair because my dad let my big brother ride on the elephants neck for their elephant. I liked riding the elephant because it was very high. For me, this was the best part of the holiday.
We went to Samphran to see more elephants. They played elephant football and all but 2 of the elephants scored a goal. Then they did a pretend battle with the elephants to show how they went into a war with elephants in the old times. They fired pretend canon balls that made a big bang and made real fire. But they didn't hit anybody.
Then we went for lunch at Rose Garden and we went to see a show there. The show was about Thai people and how they lived. First they did traditional Thai music and they also did Thai boxing, which they didn't actually hurt each other in. Then they had a fight with real swords and when the woman's sword got knocked out of her hand she kept slapping the man's face.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Holiday in Thailand, Bangkok part 1

We've just got back from a holiday in Bangkok in Thailand. We were there for 6 days and had a great time. We went to lots of different places.

On the day we arrived we went to Jim Thompson's House. It was really fun. First we went to the garden and saw lots of plants. We went on a tour and we got to go in his house. The lady told us about Thai wooden houses not being made with nails, but Jim Thompson made his house with nails.
He came to Thailand in the 2nd World War. She also spoke about Thai people believing that people with long ears live long and healthy lives and people whose ears curve in a certain way at the top being clever.

The next day we went to Wat Arun. Wat means temple. It was very high and big and took over 60 years to build. We went up a very steep staircase and my mum took some photos of me and my little brother, then we went up more stairs and took more photos.We did not climb to the very top because the stairs were very steep. So we went down to the bottom where there were Buddha statues and a place where you could pray with a monk. We didn't do it though.
At last our dad and my big brother came down. He said we were chickens for not going to the top. I said it was because he was taking too long taking photos and I would have come if he didn't take so long.

I liked Wat Arun because we got to climb up lots of stairs, take lots of photos and it was very interesting.

Another day we went to the Grand Palace and looked around. It was very hot that day. We went around and took lots of photos. The Grand Palace is very big. We saw the Emerald Buddha in the temple.On the last day we went to the Snake Farm. The man took out a King Cobra and said it was the longest cobra in the world. Then he asked if anyone wanted to help catch the King Cobra but no one put their hand up. Then he took out two cobras and said they were one of the most venomous snakes in the world. They also had Pit Vipers. After, we went to the mini snake museum.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Camping fun in Dubai

I went camping in the desert yesterday.

On the way to where we were camping we went up loads of big and small sand dunes, the big ones were very steep. There were 6 cars in the convoy.



When we got to the camp we put up our tents and made a big fire. Camels came into our camp. Six camels were near our tent.

In the night I made a sculpture out of dead branches and my friend Matthew thought of making our own fire, so we took some of the grownups fire and lit our one. A few minutes later our fire was doing better then the grownups fire!

At bed time me and my big brother tried to stop going to bed because we were having so much fun.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

My second time quad biking

Yesterday we went quad biking in the desert in Dubai with my brother's friend Joseph.

The first time I went up a sand dune I made a sharp turn and came down the sand dune so fast I fell off of the quad bike. The quad bike landed on me! Luckily all the grownups pulled the quad bike off me and I said I wasn't gonna have another go but I did.

I got back on the quad bike and I was much better. I did half a doughnut but my mum wouldn't let me finish it.

After my second go I played Jurassic Park with my brothers. It was really fun but then we had to go home.