My surprise holidays

All  schools of the province of Azuay are on holidays for eight days.  I am not sure why.  But, during those days I would like to go to Quito, a city in the mountains, where there is a Guesthouse which is very nice.  I like it there because there are some games that I can only play in Quito.  I also like the park.  And because of all our friends who are there.  The last time we went to Quito we went by plane.  Here is a picture of how Quito looked from my window in the plane.




This is a view of Quito from the aeroplane window, just before landing.  You can see the Pichincha volcano, the Guesthouse, the park nearby and the airport runway.

If we don't go to Quito, I'd like to go to Playas.  Playas is a beach village.  The last time I went to the beach at Playas I had fresh coconut, which was delicious.  I like the temperature of the water of the beach, where I play building castles with sand and jumping in and out from the water.  We usually eat fish when we are in Playas, and I kind of like it.


Here we are in Playas. You can see the man in the centre of the picture. He is the one selling fresh coconuts. First he makes a small opening in the shell of the coconut and we can drink the coconut water. Then he opens it up with his machete and we can eat the coconut flesh. 

Jungle Doctor

A few months ago my Grandma, the Mum of my Dad, sent me some books of the Jungle Doctor series.  The titles are Jungle Doctor (No. 1), Jungle Doctor Operates (No. 3 ), Jungle Doctor's Enemies (No. 5), Eyes on Jungle Doctor (No. 10) and Jungle Doctor on the Hop (No. 15).

Mvumi is the place where Bwana - the African word for a Doctor - has his hospital and has lots of friends like his African assistants Daudi, Roger, Samson and Simba.  Mubofu, one of Bwana's friends, is a blind boy and knows the way to the hospital even though he is blind.  He brings people from his village even though the chief of Mubofu's village didn't accept the offer of Bwana's help.  When the chief found out what Mubofu was doing he ordered some of his men to trap Mubofu and to hit him and throw him to a ditch where hyenas could eat him.  The chief also ordered his men to attack the hospital at the sound of the village's drum.

I liked reading these stories because Bwana did lots of things to help African people, I learned some African words, like fundi (expert), panya (rat), kabisa (completely) or mbukwa (good day), and the drawings are good.

The things I learned were:

• We have to kill rats otherwise they can cause a big crisis.  If we don't kill rats we can't get away from their fleas.  In order to catch fleas we need to put the dead rats in boiling water and the fleas will jump out, and we put some honey and the fleas will jump in the honey and sink.
• Bwana helped to cure the eyes of a witch doctor called Ng'oma.  We have to help the enemy.  Then we will have fewer enemies and more friends.
• Mubofu, the blind boy, could take an ill person to the hospital.  We all can help somebody else in one way or another.

In the tent

For the first time in my eight years of life I had the chance to be out for a night.  My Dad and I put the tent up right outside our house in the garden.  We pumped up the mattresses and took the sleeping bags into the tent.  I considered useful to take with me my torch, my pillow and my sandals.

I was very peaceful and asleep when I heard a monster creeping into the tent's waterproof cap.  My Dad was so deep asleep that he didn't hear the monster.  I saw the monster.  It was very tall, it had blue prickles all over his back and had black fur.  It made noices like "groawwwww" and it started to sniff right on the tent's entrance.  I reached for my torch and sandals.  I picked one of my sandals, switched on the torch and went over the tent's entrance.  I saw the monster and he had white, red and orange eyes.  I scared it off by moving my torch in his direction.  When he saw me he growled and I stepped out and slapped him with my sandal.  It run away very scared.

We woke up very early and we went inside the house.  I got ready for school and had breakfast.  I enjoyed my first night camping.  Maybe, I'll see the monster again next time I go camping.  But I don't know when I will go camping again.