I hopped onto a plane to travel to an island in-between Australia and New Zealand. It is called Norfolk Island, and Shane told me that it is an external territory of Australia. They use Australian money and the TV is also from Australia, but I still needed to carry my passport to visit from Australia! [...]
Shane carried me along to a game of Australian Football, what is also known as “Aussie Rules”. Shane had to explain many things about the game, and I hope I have remembered them all in writing this! The game is based on Gaelic Football that came to Australia from Ireland more than 160 years ago. [...]
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A friend of Shane whose name is Fi went on holidays to Japan and brought a gift back to Australia for us – desserts in the shape of a frog! The box was very nice, it was a green colour with the big smiling face of a white frog on the front – it looked [...]
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I was very excited because I was going to see my first musical! It is called “The Lion King” and it is about Africa, and because I had visited Africa last year, Shane said that I would enjoy it. Shane visited his favourite hotel in Singapore, the Pan Pacific and it was very beautiful. The [...]
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I flew on another plane to the big island of Java, it is in a country called Indonesia. The people here speak a similar language to the people in Malaysia. I visited a place called Borobudur, a temple that was built 1200 years ago – it is a very big for a building that is [...]
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After seeing some lovely tarsiers and chocolate hills on Bohol, I hopped onto a boat and went for a trip on the water. The sun was bright, and the breeze was cool – it was wonderful! I visited a very small place called Mantatao Island. Most of the people who live here fish to [...]
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I went on another plane and visited the Philippines. We arrived in a city called Cebu, and near it was a place called Mactan Island. Shane told me that Mactan Island was famous and he told me an interesting story. On 10 August 1519 a man called Ferdinand Magellan left Spain with 237 on five [...]
It was exciting to be hopping on a plane again to travel overseas. This time I visited Asia and the first stop was the capital city of Malaysia called Kuala Lumpur. There is a building called the Petronas Twin Towers and it is very beautiful in the evening. Shane told me that Petronas is the [...]
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This was my first time to see a cricket Test match! The game was between Australia and England in Brisbane, Australia. Australia and England have played each other since 1877 and the series is called “The Ashes”. Shane told me that the name was chosen because when Australia beat England in 1882, the English were [...]
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After 10 weeks of traveling in the Middle East and East Africa, we arrived in Bangkok. Shane and I were tired after so much travel, so we relaxed and only saw one place in Bangkok called the Grand Palace. The Grand Palace has very important buildings and they were pretty – there were many statues [...]
