24/10/09 Australia - Litchfield

Today my brother did these farting noises again. Today our left back wheel was flat. My father had to change it. I was thinking if something pocked into it or that if we were at the rocky road yesterday and that made a hole into the wheel. Whatever it was it was fixed by now. while my father was fixing it the rest of the family was eating their breakfast. When my father was finished fixing it he ate too. My mother accompanied him. Because my father doesn't like to eat alone. Well I was sad that this was our last day here. I knew that we would have to give back the car, but I didn't want to. Before we gave back the car we went to the Wangi Falls. As you can expect it's another waterfall. It was a nice waterfall. You didn't have to walk far to get to it. There was a loop walk that my father and I managed to walk. The walk was only 1.7km long and took us about half an hour. After we finished my mother and brother were waiting for us to come and then swim. That's what we did. Nearby was a small kiosk. We bought ice cream, ate it and then we ate Lemington that we still had in our fridge. Because it was our last day in Australia and we had to give back the car and go to the airport we got on our way to Darwin. We gave back the car, took our baggage and went to city to see a little bit of the city. We didn't have much time, so we went to Mc Donalds to eat. At the airport we took the right flight and went to Jakarta. At home I was so happy to see my cats and my bed again. Now I'm back in my Home sweet Home.

23/10/09 Australia - Litchfield National Park

In bed my brother was pretending that he was farting. I don't like it when he does that. We went to another waterfall. First it was a walk to a lookout and then to pool of it. Well and then we had a shady Creek walk. Then we went to Buley Rockholes. That are waterholes where you can swim. I would say it was like a waterfall. Just that the water was not flowing directly down, but it was like a river. I said that this is the best place I have been in my holiday. You could slide down like on a slide, but it didn;t slide that well and hurted. The water had a good temperature and was a great place to swim and have fun. Then we went to the lost city. it wasn't a city at all. there were just rocks and a path that you could go and see these rocks. Then we went to a safari car park for a sleepover. this time we grilled chicken on a grill provided. It of corse took a while. So I first took a shower and then when the chicken was ready we of corse ate it. At first I didn't want to sleep, but then I fell asleep.

22/10/09 Australia - Coming to Litchfield

We had to wake up early again. We went to another boat tour. This one had an earlier breakfast. It was on the boat. Well and we had to walk a little bit. But not far at all. We saw some rocks and on the walk some paintings. It was a nice tour I would say. After the tour we went back to the campground to pick up our tent. And then we were on our way to a gallery I would say. We bought a painting of a turtle. After that we went shopping again. We ate and went to Litchfield visitor center. We saw a model of the Karlstein castle on our way to the the Litchfield visitor and caravan park.

21/10/09 Australia - Gunlom and Edith falls

I woke up early, because of the birds. I went down to my parents tent. We cleaned up everything from that tent and ate our breakfast there. Meanwhile my brother came down to eat with us. We all got ready to go and headed the road again. On our way we had to stop to turn on our 4WD, because we were on our way to a rocky road that guided us to a burned area near a waterfall. This waterfall was not dried out. There was some water coming down, but not as much as we usually see in Australia. on top of this waterfall you could swim. The water was more refreshing than the one from yesterday. I saw a 50cm long lizard. It was beautiful. Because I was hot I went into the water. There were no crocodiles up here. After the swim we went to town to eat something. We got on our way to an information center and bought more food. The city we now were in is called Katherine. The info center was closed and our tanks were empty. so we went to a tanking area and filed both the main and sub tank. We drove a small way to a camping area. While we were eating our dinner I saw a light and wanted to know what it was. I went to it and saw that it was only a candle. On my way to this candle a big bat flue over my head. It's wings were about 50cm long. It was beautiful and scary at the same time. I told it my parents and then went to bed. In bed I wasn't asleep. I still watched the bats and couldn't stop watching. This time my whole family saw them and then we all fell asleep.

20/10/09 Australia - Yellow water - Maguk

Today my family and I took a bus to the yellow water river. We just had to sit in a boat and listen what the guides were saying. We saw crocodiles, birds and fish. they all were amazing. The crew brought us to the restaurant in the camp and then ate some breakfast. After that we went to the car and packed our stuff. Then we went to the pool to get another swim. My mother and I took a shower and off we all went to an aboriginal cultural center. We saw writings about how they feel now and how they felt before. We also saw some traditional things from them. From that place on we went to Maguk waterfall. This waterfall at least had some water. There was a place to swim. We swam and felt very got afterwards. When I got out and changed I felt hot again. Back in the car we drove to a shop to buy some food. Right next to it was a camp were we ate and went to bed.

19/10/09 Australia - Twin and Jim Jim falls

In the morning we woke up at six and ate our breakfast in the tent, because of the flies. The first walk was a five or six km walk. It was very hot and there were almost no more shadow places. I liked the road that we took to get here. It was very rocky and there were many shallow rivers. One river was 40cm deep. It was fun, because it always shook us up and then down. But at the top our way to the waterfall that was called Twin falls was no water. It was too hot for the water to be here. It was the dry season now and the people say that here has bean no rain since the 10th of March. First I thought that it didn't make any sense to go here, but then I realised that it did, because of the view. I could have stayed even longer if the hot hadn't have killed me. I just had 600ml of water, so I couldn't drink much. Well that was the top of the Twin falls. Back down we took a boat that guided us to the bottom of the falls. There was another walk waiting for us now. I liked this walk more. But in this water there were crocodiles. so you couldn't swim. There was a bridge over a part of this walk. On the bridge were showers. I felt way better after taking a shower. Then the second walk wasn't that long at all. But my mother, brother and I were too tired to walk. We stayed at a nice shadow place and waited for my father to come back from the walk. This walk was a walk to the Jim Jim falls. He said that there was a part of water you could swim in (without crocodiles). I would say that my father almost never gets tired. When my mother, brother and I waited we were explaining things. Like where the sand came from and like this. Just that we didn't tell the truth. It all was just a lie. When my father came we all went back to the car and went to the camp we were yesterday. All we did there was eat. Then we went to a loge with a pool. I was so exited to go into the refreshing pool. The pool really was refreshing. We ate and like always went to bed.

18/10/09 Australia - Nourlangie

In the morning it took us one hour to pack our table, chairs and tents. And then we went to see some more things in Australia. We went to a visitor center that was pretty interesting. After that we saw the billabong. That means something like lake or pond. At the one we were at were crocodiles. But we didn't see any. Then we went to another place with aboriginal paintings. They were even nicer than the ones we saw in the first place. Then in the car my parents stopped to look at the map or something. Then it finally continued on a rocky road to another camp. In every place there are flies and they are very disturbing. At night we got ready for tomorrows long walk. We had a nice grill time with the flies. Even when thy were annoying the dinner still tasted good.

17/10/09 Australia - Ubirr

My family and I took a taxi to the 4WD car that we hired. With this car we went shopping in Darwin and then drove to a nice site in Kakadu National Park, where we looked at some aboriginal paintings and then at the sunset. It was a small walk till there. At the nearest camp we settled down and opened our tents. It was not easy in the darkness. But we managed. One tent was on top of the car and the other one on the ground. My brother and I slept on top of the car. After we ate our dinner we went to bed and fell asleep. It wasn't nice sit at our dinner, because there were many small flies that were disturbing us. My mother told me that there are many flies everywhere at this part of Australia.

16/10/09 Arriving to Australia - Northern Territory

In school we had madness. I was in the team Bromo. My mother picked me up from school and we picked up my father from the office. And then we went to the airport. I was very exited for this holiday. We first had to fly to Denpasar and then to Darwin. A shuttle bus brought us to the airport inn where we slept over.

Vocab Definitions

Seizure: When a muscle does not release again.

Swarming: A large number of beings that are at the same small place and move around.

Venture: A journey, trip or beginning of something.

Dignity: Small controled and fair movements.

Kneed: When you massage a person then you actually kneed him. It means the same.

Illuminating: To light up. But we mostly use it as I get it now or now I understand.

Virility: A man who thinks that he is sexy.

Jittering: Making a small movement without stopping.

Hispanic: People who are from a Spanish speaking country or have a part of the family Spanish. But don't live in these counties.

Trepidation: A feeling that something bad is going to happen.

Magic tree house: Dinosaurs before dark

Title: Dinosaurs before dark
Author:Mary Pope Osborne (***)

Jack and Annie one day find a tree house near their house. Annie always wants to discover everything. So she goes inside and realises that it is a library. Jack loves books therefore he climbs up too. They find different books each time. Jack or Annie just have to point at the picture and say: I wish I could be there!
The tree house starts turning and they are there.

In this book they go to the dinosaurs and try to figure out how to get back home. They must run away from dangerous dinosaurs.

The best part was when Jack forgot his pack with the book about dinosaurs and his note book inside it. He ran back for it. When he found and took it a tyrannosaurus Rex blocked his way to the tree house. Annie was waiting for him in the tree house and was scared that the tyrannosaurus would get Jack and eat him. The pteranodon, they have discovered before, comes to the tree house. Annie tells the pteranodon to take Jack to her. The pteranodon did what Annie told him to do. Jack was suddenly flying on the pteranodon and gets to the tree house suavely.

Penny: Pony verzweifelt gesucht!

Author: Thomas Brezina (*****)

Language:German

In this book the main characters are Penny, a girl that is very brave and never gives up with something. She has got two dogs Milli and Robin. Her little brother Romeo is very mean to Penny. Penny's father is a veterinarian and helps many animals. Penny's older brother Elvis normally cares about Penny. Penny's even older brother Kolumbus never is at home till darkness. Ennio, a boy that Penny never really met, has got many ponies.

One day when Mary- Jane, one off the ponies,gets a baby that is called Baby Lou that baby gets stolen. Penny, Francessca and Vicky try to help Ennio find Baby Lou. Francessca and Vicky then give up, because it is to much for them. Romeo and his best twin friends Maxi and Millian one night try to help Penny and Ennio find the pony. On the end Elvis also helps them. They find the young thieves and fight them. They win the fight.

The best part was when Romeo and his friends one night spy on the thieves and realise that they want to kill Baby Lou. the thieves were four boys from the school Penny went to. The three kids got caught by the four boys and try to fight them. When all the sudden Penny and Elvis came on motor bikes to the three friends and help them.The big Bernard that the twins have jumped on the four boys and helped the others fight the bad boys. The bad boys got busted and the rest was happy now.

10 sentences with new vocabulary

1. The world best ventriloquist is now on TV

2. There is nobody, because it is a vast place here in Africa.

3. It was a big blunder to leave the books in my open locker.

4. The river water is rampant, because the dam is broken.

5. The dog is idly lying in the grass.

6. It was very overwhelming what the teacher just said.

7. People who went near the cliff were in mortal danger.

8. Sofie stole a pencil case from a peer while the student was making a project about how malicious it is to steal.

9. The angel is very perplexed of what the devils do.

10. The kids on the playground are bellowing in the whole break.