My school's world record

Our school was asked to go paint a giant canvas (painting) of the world to try get into the Guinness World Records 2011. I was painting the border of a rainforest.

We only had 3 minutes but we beat the World Record. We had 500 people painting at once! We did it in the new Mirdif City Centre in Dubai.

School astronaut visit

Here in my school we had an astronaut visit and I had a chance to ask him a question. His name was Barry E 'Butch' Wilmore. He went to the Space Station.

My question was, what ambition made you want to go into space?

He said that it when he was a boy he had always been good at sports but he wanted to go to space. He said that when he was a boy he asked his mum lots of questions about how things happen so he went up into space to try and find out himself.

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cat fight

Stargate theme park

Today I went to a theme park called Stargate in Zabeel Park, Dubai. We went there because it was my little brother's birthday 4 days ago (Feb 23) and we went there for his birthday treat.

The theme park is new so there was quite a lot of people there. There are 7 things you can ride on and lots of arcade games. We were allowed to go on 3 things.

We went on the bumper cars twice. My little brother drove the kid's go karts and me and my big brother and his friend drove the adult go karts. I thought that both the rides were good but I prefer the bumper cars because they were just a bit more fun to me and in the go karts I was going fast but it wasn't as fast as I wanted. Then when I was used to that speed they made it go really fast and I kept crashing!

Watch the video and see me crash!



We were going to go on the rollar coaster but we spent our money on our second bumper car ride.

Then we went for lunch. While my mum and dad had lunch we played stuck in the mud.

I had a great time and can't wait till I go again.

Holidays

At school we had 2 days of holiday and I went to my friend's golf lessons and yesterday I went to my mum's golf at Al Badia and we had food at the restaurant. The bathrooms were so fancy they even had a Jacuzzi!
It was great.

school and web 2.0

today at school I have been doing my new club web 2.0 and at P.E we have been getting ready for sports day.

in web 2.0 I have been learning how to improve my blog with gadgets

any questions? just comment.

Going on a cruise ship (visit)

Today we went to a cruise ship docked in Dubai Port Rashid. The ship is called Costa Luminosa. We were invited to go have lunch and look around the ship.

The ship has 11 decks and 2 sky decks. The cruise ship also had a casino and a kids game area! we went to lunch there and the food was great.
After lunch we went to the 3D movie theatre and we watched a mini movie in 3D. The movie was about a ride through a haunted, abandoned gold mine. It was like a rollercoaster because we were in a wagon that was moving and our chairs kept moving around and water and air was spraying at us. It actually like we going through the gold mine and there was lots of booby traps set in it and stuff kept flying at us.

The big hailstorm

On New Year’s Day we were at home and there was heavy rain in Dubai which then turned into a hailstorm. There was lots of thunder and lightning. The rain was pouring down and one side of the house was flooded outside. We played in the flooded area after the rain stopped.

What I did for Christmas

We went to Wafi Mall the weekend before Christmas to see Santa. It was quite cool. We got stuffed animals. After, we went to a play area called Encounter Zone and had lunch at Planet Hollywood.

On Christmas day, we had to wake up when the sun rose, then I got to wake up my big brother Kieran so that we could bring our stockings into our Mum and Dad’s bedroom. My other brother was already awake.

After about an hour, we all opened our presents. We got nice presents. I got a wrestling ring, a match attacks book with 3 packets, two wrestlers, two PSP games and a football net. Me and my brothers also bought an X-Box a few days later with our Christmas money from our Nanny and Granddad.

After we opened our present and played a bit with our toys, we went to a delicious buffet with some friends. It was in the golf club at Dubai Creek. The temperature was fine. While we were there I saw a friend that used to go to our school.

I enjoyed my Christmas Day.

On New Year’s Eve we had a garden party at our house, which was really fun. Lots of our friends came round. We played while the parents talked and drank. We played football, cricket and on the X-Box. The party was great, we also got to stay up until New Year!

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.