My pal, Spot, traveled to Abu Dhabi with our Math Department Chair in October while I was jaunting around France. He got to visit with camels and see the real desert! We had to work quickly to get his passport ready, but it all worked out. Then, he went to England over the Christmas/New Year [...][...]
Archive for the ‘Europe’ Category
Mr. Fuzzy travels to Germany
Hello, My name is Mr.Fuzzy. I would like to tell you about my Christmas Vacation in Germany. During the 7 hour flight from Newark to Frankfurt, my friend and I snuggled up under a blanket and watched a movie. Before landing we even had time for a nap and a small breakfast. The next morning [...][...]
Home from Paris!
I have finally rested up and overcome my jetlag. But, oh, how I miss the many friends I made in Paris! My chaperones chronicled my adventures in a wonderful photo story- Cupcake’sParisAdventure .Please feel free to have a look at the spectacular escapades I experienced as I traveled wit[...]
Ready to fly to Paris!
I have my beret, my passport, and my chaperone all set to fly to Paris. I am so excited! I also brought along a few pages of class work to complete during the long plane ride across the Atlantic Ocean. I cannot wait to write about my new adventures in France. Bon Voyage! [...]
Au revoir, Texas! Bonjour France!
I am so excited! One of our second grade students has invited me to fly to Paris with him this month…Oo la la! I have never been out of Fort Worth, Texas, nor have I ever set foot on a new continent. We have been studying maps and globes in class, so I am excited [...][...]
Mõmmi in Estonian autumn display in Tartu Private School
Our Mõmmi visited the annual autumn display in our school fuajee.[...]
Going to the Salt Mines
We visited salt mines which are 10 minutes away from Krakow. It was 14 degrees Celsius (or 57 degrees Fahrenheit). We traveled more than 400 feet into the earth by a very fast elevator. It dropped quickly and Sami started to growl, ” Bear me please!” The miners were very talented and carved all[...]
Visiting a Concentration Camp in Lublin & Auschwitz
I was bearly awake from a busy morning, so I went to sleep on the bus as we traveled to Lublin. This was the Polish Jerusalem because so many Jewish people lived there to study at the Yeshivas. Many people studied there to become rabbis. I went to a very sad place called Mydonik Concentration [...][...]
Real Little Heroes from History
We went on a city tour of Warsaw. Before World War 11, there was about 380,000 Jewish people living in this community. Every third person was Jewish and Warsaw had the second largest Jewish population outside of New York City! I wonder if there were that many Jewish bears! We went to visit a l[...]