Teddy Bears Around the World

Sam bear went on a bus.

He went to Howick Historical Village. He learned how people lived in New Zealand 100 years ago.

He went in the teacher’s back pack.

He played with the hobby horse and the stilts.

He ate lunch with Caleb.

He visited the school room with his friends.

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Eddy’s day out with William

Sam Bear went to Pippins with Grace. Grace was going to be invested - she was going to become a Pippin. (Pippins is the Junior Guides Group in New Zealand.)

He went on an Easter Egg hunt. He got two eggs.

On Friday night he went to the school disco. He danced with the children. It was lots of fun. The children put a glow stick on his foot.

Teddy Bears Around the World » England

7^th Febuary 2008 Eddy’s day out in Cookworthy

On Thursday we went to Cookworthy with Eddy our travelling teddy. First we went to the roundhouse and talked. Years 2 and 3 knew some stuff about the Celtics; I was in charge of Eddy.

Then we split up in to groups years two and three stayed in the round house and made name necklaces. While years 4 and 5 found animals foot prints, then we had lunch. After lunch our roundhouse teacher made us sweet potato and parsnips.

Next years 2 and 3 had to find animal foot prints we found lots of animal foot prints.

This is when the fun started, there were lots of pictures of taken of me and Eddy. I think Eddy had such a good time as he was so tired when we got back to school and I had a good time.

Sam Bear went for a bush walk in Murphy’s Bush.

He followed a sign to the bush path.He had a yummy picnic at a table.

He enjoyed climbing the trees.

He thought the New Zealand bush was very beautiful. Do you agree?

I am on deployment with one of SJEDS students’ father to Kuwait.

Do you know where Kuwait is?

We originally moved into tents for a couple of weeks. The tents had from 5 to 7 people in them. I actually didn’t mind living in the tents (except when the the wind and sandstorms kicked in). We have since moved into what are called pre-cast buildings (PCB’s). It is kind of like a big warehouse. These buildings hold 58 people and me. We use lockers and blankets for walls. The good thing about the PCB’s is that they have internet connections.

The weather is starting to warm up. However, it is also sandstorm season. We have had a few sandstorms so far. Below is a little idea what a sandstorm looks like. The pictures are of a ship in the port. One on a clear day and one during a sandstorm.

The most fun I had was when I went to work with Mr. C. a couple of weeks ago. I also get to hang out with Commander Thom. You can see him in the pictures with me below. We made rounds around the yards and made a few friends along the way.

I am so lucky!!! I got to go to New York this past week. My travel companions had to go to a conference… but I had fun roaming around in the big Apple!

I checked out Radio City Music Hall. It is a huge hall where New Yorkers go to see shows, concerts, watch movies and other kind of special events. From the outside the building does not look that big, but I felt very small once I was inside sitting on the red velvet cushy chairs. It was very comfortable though.

Although the weather was very cold (which I am not used to from my hometown in Florida) I wandered around the city, looked at the snowy Central Park and then ended up in Times Square.

The flashing lights around me were AMAZING. I saw so many commercials  for movies and TV shows playing on big screens that were hanging on all the buildings.

After a little while I felt that I was frozen onto the posts that I was sitting on. I wiggled myself free and went into a store nearby to warm up a little.

That store happened to be a store full of M&Ms! Chocolate candy everywhere. Can you believe it?? I made friends with a lot of different kinds of M&Ms. Big ones,little ones, yellow, green, blue, red… you name the color.  They were all over the place.

Although the cold was very hard for me to get used to, I had a great time in New York.

One day I went on a big aeroplane to visit Australia with Mrs K-B. I travelled over by hiding in her backpack.

I liked visiting the Sydney Habour Bridge and the beautiful Opera House.

My favourite place was the Wildlife Park. I saw a furry Koala sleeping in a tree.

I went for a ride on a massive shark, I was frightened so I held on tight.

I shared a branch with a huge scary snake.

I liked Australia but I was pleased to fly back to Auckland New Zealand and see my friends in Room 7 again.