Well, we were planning to go to Lisbon, Portugal, from the very start of our journey this year. But, to break up a 6-hour long trip from Madrid, we decided to stop in Cáceres for the night. Cáceres is a medieval town that is close to the border of Spain. Oh, and we discovered that the old town was built entirely from rock. We ev...
Today we went to a place other than Madrid. You already probably guessed it. Wait, what did you just say a second ago? Oh, yes, it’s Toledo! And the way we got there was by a train that went I don’t know how fast. Fine, it went faster than I have ever been in my life on the ground (I think it goes about 120 mph). The trai...
Today we went to Procession, a religious parade that is part of the Easter celebration. The parade is famous because of the floats that are carried by people. The floats are extremely heavy. The people need to take rests now and then and there are a lot of people that are ready to switch with the people who need a rest. There are two...
My mom signed me and my brother Evan up for Spanish school. We walk to the school every morning. I have a very nice teacher named Paula. She taught me things like how to say “My name is so-and-so” (in this case, it’s “My name is Emilian”), and the way to say it in Spanish is “Yo me llamo Emilian...
I haven’t been posting in a while, but now we are on part 2 of our sabbatical tour, so I will get to posting regularly. Guess were we are right now: a. Spain b. Spain c. Spain again (: Answer: That’s right, we are in Spain! Madrid, Spain, to be exact. And MAN is the weather good over here. Since April 5 we have been weari...
My mom is on sabbatical, so we decided to have a trip around the world. Because we were traveling so much, I couldn’t go to school, so my mom is homeschooling me. This report is about my thoughts on homeschooling. My mom is a professor of educational psychology and she teaches me. Our days are different from days in a regular schoo...
I will miss traveling. I will miss UAE, with its man-made islands. I will miss Australia, with its kangaroos and wallabies. I will miss New Zealand, with its penguins and sheep. I will miss Singapore, with its tall skyscrapers. I will miss Hong Kong, with its trains. And finally, I will miss Macau, with its beautiful buildings and ca...
December 18th is my birthday so we decided to celebrate by going to Hong Kong Disneyland, the newest Disneyland in the world. We took the train there. First we went to Toy Story World. We went on to the RC Racer, a car that drives on a giant horseshoe. You get on to the car and it goes to the top of the horseshoe, and then it ...
My family and I found out that you can go to Macau, a special administrative region (just like Hong Kong). So, we embarked on a great adventure. We needed to pass Passport Control to get on to the ferry, and because there were no regular tickets available, we ended up being in premium class. They served us food and drinks and we got ...
Before we came to Hong Kong, the thing we wanted to see most was the Big Buddha. We went, got tickets onto Ngong Ping 360 and came in to the crystal cabin, a cable car with a glass bottom that would take us to the village (and the Big Buddha). It was the longest cable car ride that we had been on. We flew across multiple mountains an...