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 * 18th June' 12**

So this week, I just couldn’t get summer out of my mind! I am so excited. I’m also happy because I did good in all the exams, well all except French.

Anyways, this week I read another part of the book ‘Freakonomics’. It was about how teachers cheat to make themselves look good. In some middle school exams, they tried to find out how and why teachers would cheat. good bonuses were given to the teacher whose students did well. So, sometimes, the teachers changed the answers on the students’ multiple-choice exam just to make themselves look good and get good bonuses. It was interesting but sad. I mean, the teachers can just work a little harder to make the students actually learn stuff instead of changing their answers. The way they found out that the teachers were cheating was by finding patterns in the students' answers. They also looked for unusual patterns, like if the student isn't that good in studies and suddenly gets a high score on the exam. After this, they wrote about the truth behind sumo wrestling matches. I haven’t read that yet.

I read a few articles on Yahoo as well. I do that very often when I’m bored. So I read about these summer camps. I don’t actually want to go to summer camp but they seemed really cool. There was this really nice adventure summer camp, and sea camp, this air/pilot camp, were they actually go on helicopter and plane rides, and this really cool car one. I would love to go to that one.

I’m actually sad that this is our last journal. It’s fun to write every weekend. Sometimes, when I wouldn’t have anything to write about, I would go online and try to find interesting articles to read. I got to know about some really cool things.

Here are some pictures of the camps-


 * 11th June' 12**

This weekend, I didn’t do anything much. I studied. That’s pretty much all I did. It got really boring by the end of it. Another reason I can't wait for summer is that I won't have to study!

My sister told me two very interesting things this weekend. She was telling me about some stuff she learnt in Math. One was about how ‘i’ is a number. It’s something to do with negative under roots. Like how pi is 3.14 or 22/7. ‘i’ is just i. It doesn’t have a number to it. The other thing was about the multiplication sign. When we were young, we were told that we only multiply using the ‘x’ sign, but then now we also use the dot ‘.’ to multiply. They are two different things. Apparently the dot is used to multiply vectors and matrices. She didn’t tell me much because she’s going to learn it next year, but I thought that both these things are actually very interesting. I didn’t know that ‘i’ is an actual number too. I always thought the dot was just another sign instead of the ‘x’ for multiplying. I didn’t know they were two different things.

That’s the only interesting thing about this weekend. I’ve also started a countdown for the number of days left to go to New York. We have exactly 10 days!


 * 3rd June' 12**

This week I couldn’t stop thinking about summer! That got me thinking about all my holidays. So this week I decided to write about my top 5 favorite vacations.

5. China (Hong Kong)- We went to China twice. Once we went to Shanghai, Beijing, and Xi’an. In that trip, visiting the Great Wall was fun. The next time we went to Hong Kong. The trip to Hong Kong was my 5th favorite vacation because we went with our cousins! We went to Disney land and stayed in one of the hotels there! It was a really good hotel! They had a piano shaped pool with the best slide ever! And they had Mickey Mouse shaped waffles!

4. Cuba- Cuba was a really nice place! It was very interesting. I actually learned quite a lot about its history and people. I loved the cars the most. They were so old!

3. Egypt- My third favorite was Egypt. Alexandria is the prettiest place in the whole world! The view of the Mediterranean Sea was so good! The pyramids in Giza were good too! It was really fun to go inside them! We also shopped a lot of Cairo.

2. Alaska- Last summer, my uncle took his two sons and my sister and I to Alaska! It was so much fun! It was the best summer ever! We went on this cruise and saw icebergs and glaciers! The sun over there set at like literally 11 ‘o’ clock! It was really cool! I also tried reindeer meat and salmon cheeks for the first time. The salmon cheeks were pretty good! It was also a fun holidays because our parents weren’t there with us!

1. Australia and New Zealand- This was my favorite holiday. We went there with the same cousins we went to HK with. Snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef was the best thing ever! I would definitely go to Cairo again. Queenstown and Milford Sound in NZ were fun too! We had snowball fights and quite an adventure on the way to Milford Sound. In Queenstown, the Luge was the best! It's like a ride in the mountains. They have two different tracks, one easy and one hard! We also went to a Geothermal Geyser in Rotorua.

Here's a picture of it-


 * 27th May' 12**

This week I started reading a book called ‘Freakonomics’ by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. My sister told me to read and it actually is really interesting. The book is about an economist explaining things in our daily life. Explaining the hidden side of things.

There was one really interesting one about how real estate agents. They have secrets of their own when you tell them to sell your house. They are the ones who pay for the ads for your house. They spend their own money and use their own time. The real estate agents of the buyer and seller together get 6% of the money. From which 1.5% goes to each of the companies. They directly only get 1.5% of the sale price. Most of the agents will try to encourage you to take the first offer we get on your house. Why? They do this because if you reject the first offer then they will have to spend more time and money to print new ads and to find new buyers. You may get better offers later but they don’t really care about this because their fee doesn’t go up much. They still only get 1.5% of the money. So they would rather tell you to take the first offer than spend more energy, time and money looking for a better one since her fee doesn’t go up much anyway.

Another interesting one was about elections. The money spent bycandidate in elections does not affect the election at all. If the winner had spent half of what he actually spent, then he would lose only 1% of the vote. If the losing candidate spent double, he would also get only 1% more votes. Money doesn’t matter; the thing that matters is who the person is. The House of Representatives may spend $1 billion dollars on the elections but that doesn’t affect anything.

I haven’t finished the book yet but there is one chapter in which they explain the truth behind winners in sumo wrestling.


 * 21st May' 12**

This week, I didn’t really do much. It felt really short and went by really quickly. I watch a movie (WITH MY SISTER!) on Thursday, The Avengers. I liked it! It was a good movie. I loved how they had reflecting panels on their plane/ship so they could be invisible in the air. It was really cool. Now I want to watch the individual superhero movies as well, like all the Iron Mans, Thor and maybe The Hulk too. I’ve already watched Captain America. On Saturday, we went to Werner’s house! We played video games. Guitar Hero was my favorite game! Halo was good too but I always died really fast. Since I got bored for the rest of my weekend, my sister suggested that I watch Ted Talks. So I watched one called ‘Try something new for 30 days’ by Matt Cutts. He’s works at Google. He talked about how he tried something new for thirty days. It was really interesting because he was right! Thirty days seems really long but if you want to try something new, it’s not that long. I found it interesting how he climbed a mountain, resisted sugar and also wrote a book in just thirty days. He was right; these changes can really have an impact on our lives and make it more interesting! It was around a three minute video- [] Also I can’t wait for summer! I am so excited to go to Delhi! Though it will be really hot there, but I don’t mind. I’m just excited to go back! I’m also excited for New York.


 * 14th May' 12**

This week Hunter told us about this game called Diplomacy. It’s almost exactly like this game called Risk. So Diplomacy is about having your own armies and fleets and your own countries or territories. There can be up to seven people playing one game. It’s a game about in which people have to try to conquer as many territories as they can.

Almost everyone in the whole class plays it now. I just signed up and stated playing it today (14th)! That game is between Werner, Hunter, Matthew, Tristan, Daniel, Reuben and me. It’s not a bad game except when people take too long to give their orders. Everyone has twelve hours to finalize their orders. It’s a fun game and very addictive.

Otherwise this week was pretty boring, I had a good weekend. I didn’t really do much. Except I read this article about being psychopaths. It was a really creepy article. It was about how children at an early age show temper and behavior that is like that of a psychopath’s. Their behavior is like that mainly because either witnessed bad things or they have been abused or neglected by someone close to them. It also had a list of things really young children had done to others.

“The New York Times article mentions the case of [|9-year-old Jeffrey Bailey Jr.], who in 1986 pushed a 3-year-old into the deep end of a Florida swimming pool and then pulled up a chair to watch the child drown; after the toddler died, Bailey got up and went home.”

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There is also a video at the bottom of the page which shows a girl talking to a psychiatrist about her feelings.


 * 7th May' 12**

This weekend I watched a video about how people modify movies. About how they add different props and things that are not actually there. It was really interesting because I didn’t know that there are so many things that are added to a scene of a movie. It’s also interesting how they can make it look so real when it’s actually not. They even add extra people! They turned simple and plain things into beautiful places. I didn’t know that they changed and added so man graphics. It’s like movies can now just be made on a computer. They added so many people to an almost empty beach and added a whole boardwalk to it too. They turned a simple road to make it look from the olden days. They also showed how ships are added to the scene. They looked so realistic. It was really cool. Here’s a link to the video- []

When I get bored, I go on the internet and randomly keep browsing around. I saw two other very interesting things. One article I saw was about garage doors. It said that people can buy these garage door posters if they are bored with their plain looking door. They were really nice. They also seemed very creative. The other very creative thing I saw were pen drives. I didn’t even know these types even existed! Some of these are really expensive though. The cork one was around $50. I want the mini cooper one but in black! Pen Drives- Garage Door Posters-


 * 30th April' 12**

This weekend seemed to go pretty fast! Field Day was really fun. I liked how everyone had to do almost everything. Now, because of that, I’m pretty sore all over. My stomach hurts when I laugh :(. After Field Day we went and looked at a house, which I really liked and I hope we get it. I also hope that we get it fast because all out stuff must be coming really soon! I’m so excited for all my stuff to get here! Then I can FINALLY have all my clothes and shoes. I also can’t wait till all our books get here! I get pretty bored during the day because I don’t have any books to read. I wanted to go to the bookstore here but my father doesn’t have a lot of time during the weekdays. After that in the evening a lot of us went to TGIF for dinner, which was really fun! On Sunday, Matthew, Reuben and I went to Manley’s house to film our Macbeth in 10 minutes. Our video is going to be so interesting and funny! :D We spent a lot of time filming it. That was all I did during the weekend. It was really busy but I had fun! Though I wish that Field was on a school day and not on the weekend. I also can’t believe that I got in to High Honor Roll! In my previous school, we needed a GPA of 3.80 to get in. So it was a little harder to get in.


 * 23rd April' 12**

I read an article on Yahoo today and it was about brain freezes. Before just recently scientists had no idea about why people have brain freeze. So they performed an experiment on people. They got thirteen volunteers, all healthy, and they made them sip really really cold water through a straw and they made sure it touched the roof of their mouth. They raised their hands when their brain freeze would start and stop. The scientists monitored their brains during this time. They saw that there was an artery called anterior cerebral artery, which is present in the middle of the brain behind our eyes in which the blood flow increases. This is what causes the pain in a brain freeze! Then when the artery goes back to its normal size the pain goes away. Scientists think that the brain does this to protect itself, like a defense against the cold or something. Another interesting thing I saw in Popular Science was how to show water frozen in mid-air. It is an optical illusion, which was really cool! They had a speaker, which was giving out waves of twenty-four hertz and a camera which video taped at 24 fps. Put a small and thin tube of water above the speaker and let the water fall (away from the speaker) and then this will make it look as if it is frozen in mid-air. If you change the hertz to twenty-three, the water will appear to go backwards slowly! The video was also very interesting - http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-04/video-freezing-stream-water-mid-air-or-moving-it-backwards


 * 14th April' 12**

For this spring break, we went to Cuba! Cuba is a pretty interesting place. I heard that the people over there are very unhappy for some reasons but actually the people seemed pretty happy to me. It was definitely like going back in time! There were all these really and I mean really old cars. They dated back to the 1960s. My dad told me they had old cars because they don’t have the money to get new things and so they use and preserve their old things. The people in Cuba can’t really buy things from outside because it s a communist, but I think communist countries have their own advantages! They have two currencies over there, one for the nationals and one for tourists.  We went to Havana, Trinidad and Santiago. I liked Havana the best because of old Havana! We took a horse carriage ride around it and it was pretty cool. We saw old houses, a bar in which Ernest Hemingway used to go to, the Malecón from which the view was really beautiful, parks and other places. Throughout the whole trip we stayed in Casas, which are people’s houses. They give rooms to the tourists. Trinidad was a really small town; it didn't have a lot of sightseeing. Santiago was bigger than Trinidad. We saw a lot of things there. The stained glass windows in the Church there were really pretty. The ice-cream there was pretty good too! I would hate to see Cuba all developed. I think it’s nice the way it is right now! = =


 * 1st April '12**

The high school students in my old school go on a weeklong trip every year called Explore Nepal. Grade 9 goes to Chitwan, to build a biogas plant for the Tharu people (a tribe), grade 10 goes to a resort for team-building exercises, and grade 11 goes mountain biking and grade 12 does community service. I’m going to write about my trip. I went on one Explore Nepal trip in grade 9. Everyone except two people went. It is a compulsory trip unless you’re sick or have a broken knee or a concussion like those two people. We went to Chitwan for five days to build a biogas plant there. We stayed in tents, right beside the river. The first day when we reached everyone was really tired because of the long bus ride till Chitwan, but as soon as we reached it was really nice because we got a nice welcome from the people of the village we stayed in. On the first day we didn’t really do much except build our tents, swim in the river and then make dinner with the Tharu people. The next day was when all the work started. Everyone biked to the work site. We got divided into two groups and went to two different places to dig a hole for the plant, around six feet deep. It was really really tiring but I actually had a lot of fun! The next day, we went to a different site where there was already a six foot deep hole, and there we made a brick wall inside it. We did everything on our own, from wetting the bricks to removing frogs from the hole; we even carried the sand for the cement which was really heavy. The Tharu people also helped us because we had any idea how to make cement or how to place the bricks! Again everyone got really tired. The fourth day, we went to another work site where there was a brick wall which was all covered and ready for the next step. The next step was building a dome on top of the ground and covering it with cement. That was a lot of fun! In the evenings we also did other activities! We got henna tattoos, learned the Tharu dance, went fishing, and visited their museum. I really liked Explore Nepal and I’m kind of sad I’m not going to go this year because I heard grade 10 is the best. (I had a slideshow but it was more than 10 MB)


 * 25th March' 12**

This week, I was reading a magazine called Popular Science. I really like that magazine so I told my dad to get a subscription of it! So there was this one article which I found quite interesting. It was about a guy who puts his finger into molten lead. He had also done this other experiment before, in which he put his whole hand into really cold liquid nitrogen. It’s temperature went down to -320 degrees. He only put it in for a second otherwise he would get frostbite. So the experiment, which he did recently, was putting his finger into molten lead. He trusted the Leidenfrost effect, which is an effect, which states that as soon as he puts his finger into the lead, the moisture on his finger will vaporize and create an insulating layer of steam which would protect his finger for around a fraction of a second. The lead had to be really really hot otherwise enough steam wouldn’t be created, which would lead to the lead sticking on his finger and his finger would be burnt. He heated the lead until it reached a temperature of 500 degrees. He put his finger in it for about a sixth of a second and was successful in not getting burnt. In the article, he also wrote that he performed the nitrogen experiment for the entertainment of the magazine readers. I thought that was kind of weird because who would want to put their hand into freezing nitrogen just to amuse some people. He did the lead experiment so he could get rid of the fear of getting burnt by lead.


 * 18th March' 12**

This was definitely one of my best weekends here! On Saturday, I celebrated my birthday! Isabella, Charlotte, Hunter, Manley, Louis, DaBin, Werner, Reuben and I went for paintball! This was my first time playing and I was pretty excited even though everyone told me it hurts. As soon as we reached Sun Coast Adventure Park, we got our guns and armor and we divided ourselves and played! While playing, the mask was really uncomfortable because I also had my glasses on. The first course was not that good, I didn’t really like the bunkers there but after one game, we went to another course, which was so much better! The other team won three times, and all three times it was Louis who got the flag. Then after that we changed teams and then we won the next two games! In one of them, I was in the PERFECT place and was almost going to get the flag but then my bullets finished and the lady told me to stand out. That was really bad. After playing, we ate, and then Werner and Reuben had to leave. Then after some time, we went to the maze! The maze was so much fun! We had to go inside the maze and find four letters which were ‘M’, ‘A’, ‘Z’, ‘E’ and we were timed. It was really funny because all of us were running around trying to find letters and shouting out to other people to see if they found any letters! Louis found them in the least time, but only because he went under the dividers! Then it was time for the park to close and Isabella invited us to her house for swimming.

I went to her house a little later than everyone else. I reached there around 7. We all went inside the pool after that! It was fun. We had water fights and we pushed each other into the pool. We played Mario Kart after it got too cold outside, till almost 11! Then I think almost everyone left. After going home I saw that I had these two HUGE bruises on my leg, but I didn’t care because I enjoyed!

So I really had a good time! :D Thanx again guys!


 * 9th March' 12 **

So this week my journal entry is a follow up of last week’s journal. The story of Holi. I didn’t look it up online! I asked my mom about it! It’s actually a pretty interesting story. I can’t believe that I didn’t remember because I am pretty sure my grandmother used to tell me this story when I was small. It’s a nice story, I like it. So here it goes… There was a king whose name was Hiranyakashipu. He was really mean and totally cruel. There was this God- Brahma who had given him a boon. So then the king couldn’t die during day or night, he couldn’t be killed by man or by an animal, couldn’t be killed inside a home or outside and not on earth or sky. It was after this that he became really proud and selfish and demanded that everyone worships him and no one else. His son, Prahlada, refused to worship his father and instead insisted on worshipping another God, Vishnu. So Hiranyakashipu got mad and decided to kill his son, he tried a lot but Prahlada’s belief in God Vishnu protected him through everything. Hiranyakashipu had a sister, Holika; she was as evil as him. She also had a boon, she could be in fire without burning, she had a cloth, which she wrapped around her and that would prevent her from getting burnt. They made a plan; they made Prahlada sit on a pyre on Holika’s lap while she had the cloth around her, and burnt it. Though she didn’t know one thing, she would die if she had someone else with her in fire, and she died. He prayed to God Vishnu and he lived. Here’s the best part! Even Hiranyakashipu died. God Vishnu killed him! He killed him during dusk, not night or day, he was a God, not a person or animal, he killed him on his lap, not on earth or sky, just in the doorway, so that was not inside nor outside! So Holi is celebrated because of the death of Holika!


 * 4th March’ 12 **

So today, (Sunday) I went to someone’s house to play Holi. Holi is a Hindu festival, a festival of colors. This year it’s supposed to be celebrated on 8th March but since that is a Thursday, we celebrated it today. So on the day of Holi, people play with colors and water! They also dress in white. So basically it’s just a festival where we all play with water and colors! It was a lot of fun. In the beginning it was kind of awkward for my sister and me, but then we were fine once we actually started playing! Everyone also puts color on other’s faces and so we all get really colorful by the end of it. So there all these water pistols which people use to throw water and the water is normally colored. Over there, were like these barrels, all of them had different colored water. And then on a table, there were different colors. The colors nowadays are usually organic, I think. In the beginning, I got a lot of color on my face and I became wet in a few minutes! I always tend to wash off the color as soon people put some on my face and so my sister always puts more on me! I think she almost got a little jealous because the color on my face washes away easily. Anyways, we were all completely wet by the end of it and we didn’t really stay in that place for too long because my sister had to do homework. When I came home, I took a shower and all I could see was purple colored water! I admit that this wasn’t the best Holi ever, but it was pretty fun! Next year, I also plan on having a Holi party! I only couldn’t have it this year because we haven’t exactly found a house yet.
 * 26th Feb' 12**

For this journal entry, I’m going to write about my weekend! i bet almost everyone who was there on Friday will also write about their weekend, Friday to be exact! So on Friday, a lot of us went to Hunter’s house to watch a movie. We also celebrated Werner’s birthday there. We watched The Woman in Black. Now that I think of it, it wasn’t that scary, it was just kind of creepy. The woman in black was kind of creepy she was like possessed and really weird! The whole movie was really weird or I think it just got confusing in some parts. The scenes with mirrors and the empty passage were the worst. I only screamed once, and that wasn’t because the movie was scary, it was because DaBin was creeping up behind me to scare Charlotte, who was sitting beside me. I got scared instead of Charlotte. Another thing, which scared me, was Manley’s hand.We also actually had a lot of food! After watching the movie, we played truth or dare! ...It was interesting. For the rest of the weekend I didn’t really do much. I did go watch The Vow on Saturday! It was a good movie. It was about a couple who met with an accident and the girl lost her memory and then the guy had to make her fall in love with her all over again! It was sweet. Channing Tatum obviously looked really good and Rachel McAdams looked really pretty! I think she looks better with black hair. Other than that, my weekend was pretty boring! All I did was my math homework, chat with some Nepal friends and watch TV and swim. And there are exactly fifteen days left for me to turn fifteen!!!!! :D


 * 19th Feb' 12**

This weekend, we went to this resort called Beaches in Ocho Rios! It took two hours to reach that place. It wasn’t a bad car ride, at least compared to the ones we used to have back in Kathmandu. So Beaches is a resort. It has a lot of water activities! We did every single one of them, except scuba diving because we weren’t certified. We were only there for one night, so we tried doing everything we could! As soon as we reached, we signed up for the snorkeling, which was a few hours later. So during that time, we ate something and then went out to the beach and tried a few of their activities. We went on water cycle thing, where we cycle in the water. We went on the banana boat! That was the best part of the whole trip. In our first ride, my sister and I were sitting and the back, the boat made a sharp turn and only we fell in the ocean! It was sooooo much fun! We wanted to go again but we didn’t have time. Then a boat took us a little out to the reef and we snorkeled there for a while. It wasn’t that good. I had more fun in Australia, in the outer barrier reef. It was way better there. So after that we went to the resort pool! They had eleven water slides there; the scariest one was this green one, which was literally vertical! They also had a game room, where they had the XBOX Kinect; we went there and played Dance Central a lot! The next day, which was Sunday, we went kayaking and sailing and then we did the banana boat again!!!! This time they took us in a different direction. And this time, everyone on the boat fell! Which again was really fun, except now I have a bruise on my chin because my helmet was too tight. We had lunch and then I went on the water slides one last time before we had to leave. I had an amazing weekend! **12th Feb’ 12**

This weekend, while I was on Facebook, this picture caught my eye. Actually it was the caption that really caught my eye. It was about the number eleven. There are many events that have that number involved in them somehow. It was mainly about the plane crash into the Twin Towers on September 9th 2001. Here are the facts about the number eleven.

> “For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle. The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah and lo, while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced: for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah and there was peace.” > That verse is number 9.11 of the Koran. 1 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 2 = 11.
 * 1) New York City has 11 letters
 * 2) Afghanistan has 11 letters.
 * 3) Ramsin Yuseb (The terrorist who threatened to destroy the Twin Towers in 1993) has 11 letters.
 * 4) George W Bush has 11 letters.
 * 5) The two twin towers make an “11″
 * 6) New York is the 11th state.
 * 7) The first plane crashing against the Twin Towers was flight number 11.
 * 8) Flight 11 was carrying 92 passengers. 9 + 2 = 11
 * 9) Flight 77, which also hit Twin Towers, was carrying 65 passengers. 6+5 = 11
 * 10) The tragedy was on September 11, or 9/11, as it is now known. 9 + 1+ 1 = 11
 * 11) The date is equal to the US emergency services telephone number 911. 9 + 1 + 1 = 11.
 * 12) The total number of victims inside all the hi-jacked planes was 254. 2 + 5 + 4 = 11.
 * 13) September 11 is day number 254 of the calendar year. Again 2 + 5 + 4 = 11.
 * 14) The Madrid bombing took place on 3/11/2004. 3 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 4 = 11.
 * 15) The tragedy of Madrid happened 911 days after the Twin Towers incident.
 * 16) The most recognized symbol for the US, after the Stars & Stripes, is the Eagle. The following verse is taken from the Koran, the Islamic holy book:
 * 1) The Haiti earthquake was on January 11.
 * 2) The Japan earthquake was on March 11.
 * 3) The supposed "end of the world" is 12/21/2012. Add all the numbers of that date.
 * 1) Open Microsoft Word and do the following-
 * 2) Type in capitals Q33 NY. This is the flight number of the first plane to hit one of the Twin Towers.
 * 3) Change the font to a readable size
 * 4) Change the font to the WINGDINGS.

On one hand, I think that all these facts and events are just a coincidence. I don’t really think that the world is going to actually end. But on the other, all this is actually true; all the events that happened were related to the number eleven in some way or the other. I found these facts really interesting. The most interesting ones were from number 17 onwards! If we do number twenty, then we get which is really creepy because the picture kind of shows what happened on September 11th.

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**6th Feb’12** This is my first journal entry and so I decided to write about something that I watched. On Sunday, I watched ‘The Journey to the Centre of the Earth’, again. I’ve watched that movie like three or four times already and I guess I could say that it’s one of my favorites as I realized that I don’t get bored watching it again and again and of course Josh Hutcherson (Sean in the movie) is so cute! The movie is about Sean who goes to spend time with his uncle Trevor, a volcanologist, and they both discover something on Trevor’s radar near Iceland after reading a book which belonged to Sean’s father, which was called ‘A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. The book was about this whole new place in the centre of the Earth, and they then started believing that Sean’s father disappeared as he went on that journey trying to find that place! So they decide to go and find the centre of the Earth, and of course they do but only after an adventure. Their journey was amazing! They try many new things and find things that had been extinct years ago and find things that they never new existed. They go through a mine, which was shut down and they have this roller coaster ride in there and I would definitely LOVE to be there and they find loads diamonds! Sean also brings some of them back home. They go through a huge magnetic field and find dinosaurs, which obviously wouldn’t be very fun. While watching the movie the only thing that I could think of was that I want to be there and do everything, well not everything but a lot of the things they did. Now I can’t wait for the second part of the movie, which is coming out on 10th February! In that movie they go to a mysterious island.