James Lee

This week I got a new mobile phone. I love my phone so much that I always have it with me, but I am not allowed to take it to school. If you would like my phone number please email me and I'll send it to you.

The other weekend I went to Parkway Parade. Parkway Parade is a shopping mall a short distance from our house.
When I was in parkway parade I was buying some chocolates for my mum for mother’s day. After I had bought her some chocolates I went to the bookshop on the bottom floor to have a look at some books.
There was a big crowd in the bookshop, so we went to see what was going on. All the people were queuing up to see James Lee.
James Lee is an author; he has written a series of books called ‘Mr. Midnight’ which I think are really good!
I bought 5 of his books and got him to sign them. While he was signing them he asked me some questions, such as: “Where are you from?” and “How long have you been living in Singapore?”
After he had signed the books I told him I had a sister called Lucinda and that she had written the first page of a story for him.
In the back page of his books he invites readers to start a book and he then finishes it.

When he had signed my books he gave me a goodie bag, it contained: two magnets, a poster, some bookmarks and some notepads.

After buying my books we went home. When Lucinda saw everything she took it around to her friend Erssy’s house. Erssy and Lucinda then wanted to go to parkway parade, so we all went out again.
When I saw James Lee for the second time, he recognized me and asked “Is this Lucinda?” and I said yes.
Erssy and Lucinda bought some books and went to get them signed. Then James Lee wrote our names on a piece of paper and said “I will keep this with me and put you in danger in the next book I write” We all got excited and started to think of the first page of a story we could write for him.

Next we went to get some ice cream, I had a dark chocolate, Erssy had a Belgium chocolate and Lucinda had the same.
After we had eaten our ice creams we went back home had some dinner then went to bed and that day was very fun!!

Poppy & Lucinda on 'Deviant Art'

My mum is a designer and photographer. She sells some of her photographs on 'istockphoto' so other designers can use them, the money that she gets for these goes to help Tibetan children living in exile in India. She also has her own website of her photography called 'Samsara'

My mum also sends pictures to a website called 'Deviant Art' so that other artists can use them to create digital art pieces. She has uploaded several pictures of me and Lucinda, these are some of my mums photographs of us that other artists have used to make pictures with. We love them, what do you think?

If you click on the title of the picture it will take you to the artists gallery so that you can see more of their work.

Nimue - (Poppy)

Vow - (Lucinda)

Daughter of Dawn - (Poppy)

Little Reds Fairy Godmother - (Lucinda)

Pink Fairy - (Lucinda) by mum

The Enchanted Forest - (Poppy) by mum

Bintan

On the 25th of April I went to camp at Bintan with my class from school.

When I arrived at school I went down stairs to join the stage where choir was being held, so I could sing my songs. When I had finished I went to the classroom and played some games with Esther and Zoe.

At 11.00 clock we left school for Bintan, everyone was excited! When we got on the bus I sat next to my friend Esther and we talked to each other about what fun it was going to be without any parents around.

We arrived at the ferry terminal, got off the bus with our passports in our hands, ready to get through the gates. As soon as we got through the gates we got on the ferry and watched x-men, the journey was two hours long!


When we arrived at the Indonesian ferry terminal we waited half an hour for the people to stamp our passports, it was tedious. After that we left the ferry terminal and got onto a bus which took us to a boat.
After an hours journey we arrived at the boat which took us to ‘Loola adventure camp’ which was where we were staying. The journey was two hours long so we did some boom netting on the way and it was fun! Boom netting is an activity when you jump from a boat into a net which is dragging along the water. You are allowed to jump from the 1st floor the second floor or the 3rd floor which is really high up! When I went boom netting I got 5 goes, I jumped from the second floor 4 times and the 3rd once because it was scary!

When we arrived at Loola it was night time and we had to get in to groups depending on how many people can fit in a cabin, so I stayed with Esther, Zoe, Seung-a, Sophia, Louisa, Isabella and Ananya. Our cabin had two bunk beads next two each other and four mattresses on the floor so we decided 4 people would sleep on the mattresses one night and we swap over the next.

The next morning we woke up got ready then went to breakfast. After breakfast we came back and talked about the cabin, I thought the cabin was nice because it was situated above the water on poles.

Our first activity of the day was rock climbing, it was quite hard because the rocks were quite small, I had three goes and I only managed to reach half way up.

After rock climbing we went to the obstacle course, it was really hard! At the obstacle course we had to climb up a wall about 2 metres high there was nothing to stand on to get up there, so a girl called Tsenyi pushed us from the bottom whilst Ananya pulled us up from the top, it was really fun!

After the obstacle course we had free time so I went out crab hunting with Zoe, Dheina, Hugh and Seung-a and we found lots of crabs even purple ones.

Building a raft was our next activity but it was so difficult so no one managed to do it because when they were put in the sea they fell apart, it was tiring.

After building the rafts we went kayaking, I kept falling out every minute so Esther and Dheina left me in the water to swim back to the shore, but don’t worry the water was shallow and we had life jackets on.

The last activity we did was the flying fox and it was awesome! The flying fox is an activity where you hold onto a bar attached to a long rope, then you slide down the rope into the sea. When it was my turn I said I wasn’t going to go because I was too scared, the drop looked steep. A minute later the man attached me too the harness and said he wouldn’t go too fast so I jumped off the platform and screamed awesome, I was flying in the air, a few minutes later I had landed in the sea and I wanted another go but I wasn’t allowed so I played in the sea with Esther.

After the flying fox everyone got a shower then went too dinner. We were having a BBQ by a huge fire. After we had eaten, a man who worked at Loola put some music on and we all danced around the fire for an hour. After dinner we put our pyjamas on and went to bed.

The next day we woke up at 6:00 a.m. got ready then went to breakfast. Our first activity of the day was archery. When it was my go I didn’t hit the target because it was so hard, Louisa was the only one who hit a bulls eye.

After archery we played badminton with a partner. I played with Esther but she didn’t know how to play so I taught her and she kept getting better until the end of the game.

When badminton had finished we had to pack our stuff then leave, it was sad. Everyone enjoyed Bintan and I wish we can go back there again.

Photos from top:

1. Zoe, Esther, Me and our teacher Miss Foster on the ferry to Bintan
2. Esther, Seung-a, Isabella, Me, Zoe, Ananya, Sophia and Louisa
3. Our Cabin
4. Esther on the boat

Year 5 Camp

Yesterday I got my Padi card! A Padi card is a card that tells people that I have done my scuba diving training, this allows me go scuba diving wherever I want!
When I received my card I was excited because I have been waiting for it for months!

I am now a junior scuba diver; I did my first four dives in Tioman last November. Tioman is one of Malaysia’s islands and it is beautiful.
At first I was a bit scared to go in the water, but the instructor encouraged me to go. I’m so glad I did because it was amazing!
The first dive I did was 5 metres deep, and the deepest 18 metres.
We are going to go back to Tioman later this year when my sister Ziggi and Matt come over. I will be diving there again, hopefully Matt will come too.

In 3 days I am going to Bintan with my class for 3 days, I can’t wait!
Bintan is one of Indonesia’s islands, I went there last year with my family and it was lovely.
I am going to share a cabin with my friends Esther and Zoe; we are going to have lots of fun together snorkelling, rock climbing, boom netting, night fishing and all that fun stuff!
The best thing about camp is there are going to be no parents!!! Mum, Dad and Lucinda are off to Bangkok for a few days.

Below is a picture of the cabins that we are staying in.

Tell you all about it when I get back.

Mr Bean

Last week Lucinda and I went to the cinema to see ‘Mr Beans Holiday’. It was exciting because we went alone. My mum didn’t want to come because she can’t stand Rowan Atkinson!!! It was very strange being in the cinema on our own because this was the first time we had been out with no parents.
We got into the cinema and found our seats. After we had settled in our seats, Lucinda started to freak because she thought we were in the the wrong cinema! I assured her we were in the correct place.




The film was so funny, my favourite part of the film was when Mr Bean was phoning strangers. He phoned this guy, who said to him “Please say you love me” but Mr Bean put the phone down and didn’t say anything. The man thought he had been speaking to his girlfriend, so he threw himself into the river and he drowned!






The cinema that we went to was brand new. It was in a place called ‘Vivo City’. ‘Vivo City’ is a huge new shopping mall in Singapore. It is built on the harbour overlooking the bay and Sentosa island. The view from the top of the mall is great, you can see the cable cars that go over to Sentosa and all the cruise ships that come to dock in the harbour.
Inside Vivo city is a monorail station where you can get a train straight over to Sentosa island.
On the roof top are shallow pools, some of them have huge sculptures in them, at night they are lit up and they are beautiful. In one of the pools you can actually go paddling! There is also a open air auditorium where they have concerts.
These are some pictures my mum took at Vivo, on the top one you can see the Dragon Boat, the dots in the sky above it are the cable cars. The second pic is the mono rail, the train is coming from Sentosa straight into the mall.

My New Website

This is my new website, I am going to be writing about daily events and happenings, I will be uploading lots of pictures and maybe some video clips.

I haven't done much this week, but I have found a new website 'Pokemon Crater' This is a fun website; you have to find lots of Pokemon characters around the map. The aim is to find every Pokemon. Everyone is now playing this game instead of Millsberry.

My best friend Rabeca and her twin sister left our school last week, they are going to live in New Zealand. This is a picture of me and Rabeca taken at the international schools cross country run a few weeks ago. I hope Rabeca will check into my new site often and keep in touch with us all.

On Friday I went swimming outside with my friends from next door but one, Megan and Melody, we went to the pool outside our door, I don't have a picture of this pool, so here is a picture of the big pool further down!

Last week Lucinda and I had to go and sing in front of one of Singapores ministers, they were opening a new bicycle path near our school, we all had to dress in our national costumes, England does not have one so we just wore a t-shirt with the union jack on. We sang a song called 'di tanjong katong' this song was sung in Malay and it very hard to sing! The event was filmed and we were on the news that evening!

This is a photo of us that my mum took in the studio before we left.