Compare this to my feeling from the beginning of the year, which you can read here.
This is my goodbye post to Sarriá. Remember it's not over yet! Stay tuned for my Costa Brava blog post!
The color run is a run me and mommy ran where they through colored powder on you! This is a post I wrote at the beginning of the year. Enjoy! (P.S. I don't remember why everything is in caps.) I HAVE LOTS OF FEELINGS ABOUT BARCLONA. SOME OF THEM ARE :
WHEN I’M ON SMALL THIN STREETS. I FEEL LONELY. WHEN I’M AT MY NEW SCHOOL. I STILL FEEL LIKE EVERY DAY IS A FIGHT FOR THE SURVIVAL OF MY HAPPINESS. ITS NOT LIKE IAA ANY MORE THE GAMES HERE ARE LIMITED TO 2 OR 3 KIDS. WHEN I WIN THAT FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL I FEEL HAPPY. BUT WHEN I LOSE I FEEL SAD. WHEN PEOPLE ALL AROUND ME SPEAKING SPANISH AND I’M SPEAKING ENGLISH I FEEL STRANGE. WELL THAT’S IT FOR FEELINGS SO FAR! In SLL we are doing a contest. It is for the Saint Jordi holiday. If you win first place, you get a book and a rose, second place, you get a book, third place, you get a rose and fourth place you get a special mention. OH! Silly me, I forgot to tell you what the contest is! It is a poem contest and whoever makes the best poem wins. It is broken into grade groups. Third grade is doing one kind of poem and the other grades do different poems. I am doing a calagram (a poem that is a picture in words )about the minotaur. And I am pretty sure that I will at least win third place because I am not up against anybody who is hard to beat. I am up against Layne and Gianni and a bunch of ELL kids. Now let me tell you why I got this contest in the bag: 1. the ELL kids come here twice a week and they don’t know a lot of spanish 2. Gianni probably won’t be done in time and he doesn’t know quite as much spanish as I do. Layne is a problem but I don’t care about the rose I care about the book! So I don’t care if I don’t get first as long as I get second. Now a few days have passed and today I did my final touches on my calagram like coloring it in and drawing the face. I can’t wait to find out what the scores are. Anyways, the ELL kids couldn’t finish in time so I am only up against Layne and Gianni. I got some bad news today: we are going to have to impress the judges to get a third place and if we get a strict judge we won’t even get a second place.
I was scared during the night that we got to Florence because it was creepy walking down the small vandalized streets. I didn’t like the graffiti of the guy shooting little helpless birds out of the sky. We were looking for our grandparents. Daddy recognized our grandpa Mac just by his walk. We went to a pizza place and it was really good. But much better pizza places were to come. The third day was really fun we went to a marble corey and to Piza. In piza we had this awesome pizza (well mommy and daddy and mac didn't like it they rated it a two) it was SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSO good. And we all got our pictures taken in front of the leaning tower of Piza.
crying when we started walking down a staircase on top of the inner dome. And I was also scared when we went onto a high balcony that was virtually touching the cieling. We saw a painting of a dude who was about to jump off a balcony painted on the ceiling, and that made me even more scared when I saw it. I liked Rome better than Florence because it had funner stuff that we did in it. I really liked the apartment. I had my GoGos with me and I didn’t know I would have my GoGos there. I think I accidentally left one there- one named KarateDeer. I really liked seeing the underground parts of the colosseum. The guide talked to fast at the colosseum and I got a cool action figure there. I liked Gladiator School a lot, even though it wasn’t everything I wanted it to be. The beginning of Gladiator school in the museum wasn’t that cool because I already knew that stuff from books, like the fact that some gladiators who can’t keep fighting get their heads smashed open. The best part of Gladiator school was when we got to battle each other. That was really fun. I should have won the fight against the other kid at the school the teacher gave him extra points and didn’t count some of the points I scored. (See the kid wasn’t very good.)
Now comes the really gross poopy part. Its not about Caga Tío, its about Caganeros. In case you're wondering what Caganero means, it means "shitter". They are called that because they are figures of shepherds who are pooping and if you look at their backside you will see that they have a bare behind. You buy them and put them in your nativity scene. They make different kinds of Caganeros now. They make Parc Güell lizards, politicians, Iron Man, Gandolf, Golum, Yoda and Bart. Bart has yellow poop and Yoda has green poop.
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