me and my dad went on a london double-decker bus trip all the way to the north-east of london. i'm going to the london eye, a giant observation wheel, and the london aquarium. oh yeah. and the london pub walk, where we try to visit every famed pub on the thames river. the london eye is on millenium pier, both beind tributes to the turn of the millenium in 2000. the aquarium is below the pier. with an enclosed walkway with fish in a giant tank all around you. very cool.

i'm in london! woohoo! it's so huge. 10 times as big as toronto. we got tickets for everything. london eye, tower of london, london aquarium, and the musical, we will rock you. the city is so old. the buildings are really beautiful, and there's so much history.

english poems

free verse

york minster cathedral
spiralling history
encased by ancient stone
domed roof, the heavens
endless above
with stories below...

triplets

the river tyne,
a shipping line,
lost in time.


haiku

on the roman wall
the soldiers marched, defended
a long time ago

cinquain

countryside
rolling, green
cultivating, growing, living
peaceful, tranquil, calm, buzzing
heaven

hi,guys. sorry i haven't written in a while; it's harder than it looks to find an internet cafe. i'm in york right now, after staying in newcastle for two nights. york is great, it's big enough to be called a city, but small enough that you can walk around the old city in half an hour. there's this great place in yhe city centre called the shambles. it's amn old medieval town, so the buildings are all saggy and hang over the already narrow street. pretty cool. see ya.

math question 3

carlisle              12 miles                 brampton             6 hours
banks                8 miles                   gilsland                4 hours
gilsland              2 miles                   bush nook           1 hour
army museum    6 miles                   milecastle inn       3 hours
milecastle inn     7 miles                   housesteads        3.5 hours
vindolanda         1.5 miles               once brewed       .5 hours

1.=12/6=2mph
2.=8/4=2mph
3.=6/3=2mph
4.=7/3.5=2mph
5.=2/1=2mph
6.=1/.5=3mph

2+2+2+2+3+2=13/6=2.15

2.15mph average

i'm in a place called once brewed youth hostel, now. i'm off to a town called hexham and a roman fort called vindolanda. we're now 68% done the walk. hooray! after we're done, we take a train to york and then to london. b&b's are really nice, nice people... yeah. it's hailing right now, so it's pretty close to freezing in northern england.

hey there. this one's about the big downers throughout th trip. #1: a hadn't slept for 30 hours straight. #2: i fell into a creek because my dad got a litle bit lost and it turned out i didn't actually have to try to jump 6 and a half feet to the other side and across barbed wire. there were three bridges 15 feet away. smooth, dad. #3: a forced march on the first day of walking for 12 and a half miles. my feet hurt like nobody's business.

hey, guys. i've been in two b&b's now. one was in carlisle, a town near the england-scotland border, and i'm in one called bush nook. don't ask me why it's called that. the closest town is gilsland, and we stopped in a cafe that was called "house of meg". apparently, meg was a killer who killed guests who stayed there for their loose change, dragged them through a tunnel that led from the fireplace to accross the street and when it was high tide, she'd let the bodies wash away with the tide. nice. anyway, the bush nook is great apart from being in the middle of nowhere, but yeah. people are really nice here. the first day of hiking, we hiked for 12 ana a half mile. the next, 8, then today we did 6. not bad.

first england post

first post. in the airport, we got there at 4:45 and our flight was supposed to take off at 8:20, but the plane they had was having "technical difficulties". so, they got a new plane, which was bigger, so it needed more crew. unfortunately, the rest of the crew we needed were in the dominican republic. they were flown up, which took 3 hours or so, so we were at the airport for 6 hours. the flight was 6 and a half hours, so by the time we got to carlisle from manchester, i hadn't slept for 30 hours. we crashed at a b&b called east view in the downown core of carlisle, which you could walk around in 20 minutes.

last minute check-up

I'm leaving tomorrow, just some last minute packing to do. follow my blog, everyone! And if you see stuff that looks like homework, it probably is. I'm posting all of it on my blog. So Ms. Tidgwell, Ms. Garda and Mr Houzer, check every day!