Back in Greece

We got off the ferry feeling tired but that didn't matter.First we arrived in Makrihelo at first (I think). It was very different to be back in Greece but nice.Once we had reached Methoni we went straight to our house well (Chrisanthe's house).I was so excited I ran to the house and pushed the door open it was amazing.I went to my room it had changed alittle.Then I said to mum ''where is everything'' she said it was in the basement so we rushed down and got all our stuff such as: Gondolas,teddy bears souverniers and clothes we looked at every thing about 5 times and then went to the park.At the park we saw Thori, Yani,Yani ,Evthoxia,Christiana and Lemonia.From that day on we went to the park every day until school interfiered.We booked in to school and went to it every day. Iwas in a 3/4 class (like Australia) and Olympia was in a 5/6 class. The school was a very naughty school.For instance,When someone does something naughty like play on teachers phone the teacher grabs them by the ear and smacks them on the head with 5 books.It's not a pretty site. Anyway you get used to it after a while.But dont worry they do abit of school work. We got about 10 books made up of : 1 religion book,2 history books,2 language books,2 music books,2 math books and 2 English books.School life went on and on until the last day we had to leave.

On route from Dover to Dunkerque

We got to Dover feeling really exited about being on a ferry,but once we got on it felt normal.The ship was a big ship one that didn't have any cabins but that didn't matter because it wasn't an over night ship. The first thing we did was have a look around the ship. On our way around the ship we decided it was time to have a nibble before we reached Italy so Olympia and I had a packet of chips. I had salt and vinegar. When we had left the cafe we went to have a look at some shops.Olympia and I tryed on all the perfume in the shops,Unfortunately we got caught by the shop keeper and she told us off.Just when we were about to head to the deck to have a look we were told that the ship was in Italy and we had to go to the car.We rushed down to the car and got ready to drive off we were the 4th last to drive off. Atleast we were in Italy.

(white cliffs of Dover)

Some arabic I used in Egypt

Since I have left Egypt I am going to write some words that I learnt.
Hello: Asalamou aleikom, response: Aleikom asalam
Thank-you: Shokrun
Your're welcome: Afwan
No: La
Yes: Aiwa
I : Ana
Want: Aisa (for a girl ) and Ousa (for a boy)
Bye: Masalama
Small: Saghair
Big: kabeer
Good morning: Saba al hair, response: saba al noor
Good afternoon: Messa al hair, response: Messa al noor
Good night: Tispa al hair
one: wahed
two: itnin
three: talata
four: arba
five: hamsa
six: setta
seven: saba
eight: tamanya
nine: tesa
ten: ashara
Goodbye Egypt, Hello England

My journey back to England

A few days ago Mum and Dad tried to book tickets on a flight called Thomson that goes to England, so they got on their computers. Mum booked her and me and Dad booked himself and Olympia and they pressed ok at the same time and guess what ? Mums computer went back to the start and said "you have failed" and Dads went to something that said "you have succeeded". What! They have got a flight and we haven't! Oh what a nightmare! So it seems like we have to stay in boiling hot Egypt for the rest of our lives while they get to go to the nice cool England.Thats Unfair.Finally after a few days we managed to get tickets for the same flight and all was well except for the fact that ours were more expensive. So after a fantastic week in Dahab we were on the flight watching T.V of course. But when the Dinner came around Olympia and I had to pay 7 english pounds for each one. And mum and dad got theirs for free, Of course! because Dad was sitting in mums and my seat, so thats why mine and mums were more expensive! So we paid for the meals and a few hours later we were Finally there. . It was 15 degrees not 38 like Dahab. Goodbye Egypt. Hello England.

My amazing dive in Dahab - Egypt

A few days ago I was in Dahab ready to dive, I had my regulator, my wetsuit, my tank, my booties and my fins. I was going to dive in the Red sea again! My instructors name was Mady but I also dived with Dad seeing as he is a dive master. We got in the water at about 11:00 and Mady and Dad taught Olympia and I a few sign's such as: I have a problem,Can I watch you do that again?, can we go up a little bit. and are you OK. She also taught us how to clear your regulator in 2 ways! When we finally got under we went straight down to about 9 meters when my regulator fell out of my mouth. Oh no I had to clean it.I cleaned it with number 2 way which is to take it out of your mouth, put it upside down and then put it back in your mouth and blow as hard as you can. Fortunately it worked it was safely placed in my mouth and it was clean. Anyway what I saw was: The Racoon butterfly fish,The red sea banner fish,The threadfin butterflyfish,pipe fish, The half spotted grouper,Lion fish,half and half chromis, Long nosed halk fish,The Napoleon wrasse,The red sea Picasso fish,starry puffer,The red sea ghost crab,hermet crabs,jelly fish,grape coral,finger coral,rose coral,crown of thorns,honey comb coral,brain coral and rough leather coral. That's one load of things isn't it? A few minutes later we had to get out and get dressed to go have lunch with our instructor oh I was having so much fun.

My amazing trip with the rubbish

Today at midday Olympia and I had to go down and put the two bags of rubbish in the bin, the toilet paper one and the kitchen one. We both wanted to take the toilet paper one because every time we we would through it down to the bottom of the stairs and then go get it. But this time I through it down while Olympia tryed to catch it. Unfortunately this didn't work instead it went in a little ditch behind the sink. I went to go get it. It worked,so we went over to the gate only to find it was locked. Me nor Olympia wanted to go get the key so I squeezed the toilet paper one through the crack and chucked it in the bin. Yes it worked! Oh now the kitchen one was to fat. So we got the ladder that we use to get the cats. We got it over (with abit of fuss) and I started climbing the ladder unfortunately it got unstable so I got off and said it wasn't a good idea. So we were trapped. Until Olympia had a bright idea that she climbs the gate and chucks it in the bin Fortunately it worked Yey we got rid of the stinky rubbish! Oh now we had the ladder to deal with. So we picked up the ladder and just as we were putting the ladder back it fell on Olympia and squished her. Finally we got it up and lived happily ever after.

The amazing Mohamed Ali mosque

On the 29.6.07 we went to an amazing mosque it's name was The Mohamed Ali mosques.It was so amazing you got to know about it.Well,we caught a cab and started to drive from new Cairo and in to Old Cairo,and you should of seen the architecture it was amazing! First we got our tickets and went straight in to the mosque area and Luckily a tour guide was there so we hooked on and went inside. Inside there was a big Chandelier with little ones all around it.There was also a big domed roof that was hand calved by the Egyptians! Wow the ancient Egyptian men must have had pretty big muscles. And the walls were extremely thick infact as thick as an Elephant. Suddenly a Police came in and started calling the prey without a micro phone just with a big loud speaking voice P.S He wasn't very good.Anyway after the prey we had to go out because we were nearly out of time so we went out and had a look outside.We saw things like Chandeliers,paintings,lions mosques and many more amazing things. Eventually we came to another mosque and went inside.There was nobody there Oh well it was to amazing to turn back now.We saw the Umm preying thing but this time it was outside. After seeing all that everyone was tyred so we had to go home.

My day at the Pyramids

One day ago we went to the amazing Pyramids and saw lots of extraordinary things.I'll tell you all about it.Well when we first got out of the taxi everyone was either asking us to ride in there horse and cart or to give them baksheesh which is a meaning of tips in Arabic. Anyway when we finally got out of all the fuss we went to the Pyramid named Cheops which is were king Cheops was buried.Oh sorry I forgot to tell you what a pyramid was. A pyramid is built to be a tomb or a grave house and to protect the body of a King or Queen.It has four triangular sides that meet at a point. Pyramids were made from huge blocks of stone that weigh about the weight of 2 modern cars. The largest surviving pyramid is the Great Pyramid of Cheops that covers an area of thirteen acres and is made up of two and a quarter million blocks (that's alot of weight). Well back to my story.When we got in to the pyramid of Cheops It was a little bit hot but when we got in further in It Was Boiling! and guess what we find at the end, An empty tomb.We came all the way for just an empty tomb.I touched the tomb thinking I would get the mummies curse, which is: "Death shall come on swift wings to him that toucheth the tomb of Pharaoh" but I don't believe this curse because I touched the tomb and I stayed the same.When we finally got out of the tomb,we saw the pyramids of his 2 sons that I don't know the names of. After a bit of looking around we went to this museum like thing were we saw an amazing boat that the pharaohs used to sail in when they wanted to go to places in the afterlife. At about 4:00 pm we had to go because it closed at 4:30, dam it we had to go.

The Egyptian Museum

Afew days ago we went to the amazing Egyptian Museum and it was so much fun! First we got our tickets and went in.The first things we saw were things like statues but they wern't all just Egyptian they were greek and roman too! and there was actually ancient greek writing too! but ancient greek is not like greek nowdays so we coldn't realy make out the words.The statues usually had the inprint of isis on them (the godess of the Underworld) After seeing all that we saw things like pottery and cuttlery and they usually had the imprint of the gods such as: Thorus,Thoth,Acires,Isis,Anabis and many more. Next we saw one of the most amazing things it was the coffin things that they used to put the mummies in after preparation.After a while of looking at that we saw the jewlry of which the Queens and Princesses used vto wear.My favorite one was a necklace with cobras all around the edge. After looking at that we went to the animal mummy room were we saw animals like: baboons,dogs,birds,crocodiles and many more creatures.It was kind of freaky walking through all those dead things I mean they might come alive any minute. When we got out we went to the most the most amazing thing, it was were the mummies were.The mummies names were: Tuthmosis 4th,King Tuthmosis 3rd,King Amamhotep 2nd,King Tuthmosis 2nd,King Tuthmosis 1st,King Amemhotep 1st,Setti 1st,King Meremptah,Princess Meritamum,King Seqeneretaa 2nd and last but not least Ramses 2nd.When we got out of the mummy room we went to see tuts stuff such as carriages, thrones, games, masks, beds, canopic jars and many other statues and gods.Having seen all that we decided to go to another mummy room and there we saw 5 women,1 queen with pet baboon,4 ramses 9,5,4,3,1 high preist,1prince.After looking at those we hooked on to a tour guide who told us about how the mummies were prepared I'll tell you what he said ''First the mummies lye on one bed and have the first preparation done then they lye on another bed and have the second process done then put on the 3rd bed and have the last process done and then have the same thing done with the coffins and the sarcophagusess until the pharoh can rest in peace. After looking at that we all said we were getting tired so we had to go home.

Here is a link to the Egyptain museum web site http://www.egyptianmuseum.gov.eg/

Not another Salvage Door

We have just bought 24 antiqe doors that are aprox 100 years old and and weigh about 200 kg each we have also been to so many salvage yards, and do you know what it is like trapsing around Egypt in the hot sun? Well its actually pretty cool because you get to see so much amazing architecture and the doors are just absolutely wonderful! let me give you an idea of how they look. This lovely brown door is my favorite one.It was one of the most expensive ones.It's got a lovely brown knocker with a amazing arch at the top. The Bad thing about trapsing around Egypt in the Hot sun is that it is BOILING! and at salvage yards there is not realy to many seats So you have to walk around with your parents and decide on doors. We have bought 24 doors and 30 knockers I'll show you what the knockers look like. Anyway the next bit we have got to do is sell them.

Have a look at them all here

http://picasaweb.google.com/sinbad.sailer/AbandonedTreasure?authkey=zLK8FT7BnOo

Any body want them?

My trip to Cairo

Yesterday we got on a train to Cairo and we had booked 1st class but it didn't look much like luxury to me (since I live in Australia)it looked abit like 2nd class.I was expecting a nice big bed with a chanderlier above it but all it is, is a chair with chattering people all aroud you.The good thing is that they were pretty big chairs atleast okaly big.And guess what, we had to spend 8 hours on this not very posh train. Well it wasent that bad because I fell asleep and didn't wake up for hours until sombody punched me in the nose, and that sombody was my older sister Olympia.I woke up in a big fuss until Olympia said we were in Cairo Woohoo we could finally by free!

My time in Luxor -Egypt

I have been in Luxor for about 5 weeks now and had a wonderful time.The only thing bad about it is the temprature. It is Boiling! but once you get used to it its Ok but still hot. Luxor is seperated in to 2 banks one called the east bank and one called the west bank. They are seperated by the Nile.The east and the west banks are completely different.The east bank is more like a buisness place were you can get all your local groceries and that stuff,and the west bank is the quiet one were there is not many rules and its more like a desert than a city.The east bank also has the amazing luxor and Karnak temple that are old temples that were built thousands and thousands of yars ago but the good thing is that the west bank has the valleys of the kings and queens and Hatsepsuts temple. We have just left Luxor and are now on the train to Cairo.

Belly Dancing

How To belly Dance

First,move your butt from side to side while shaking your boobs this way and that and then put your hands in the air and start twisting your fingers in all kinds of ways and in no time at all you will be moving like a pop star.O'h Sorry I was ment to be writing about what I did not how to belly dance.Well it all started when we went to a small tent like thing that was called the bedowen tent.We went in and had 4 glasess of water.Afew seconds later The guy who owned the bedowen tent got up and swung the belly dancing skirts around us and I went to put the brar on.It looked good.P.S It didnt realy fit so I took it off.The next second he put a sword in my hands and said Dance! I put it in my mouth and started to move my butt and moving my shoulders (because I didn't have boobs)and started to twist my fingers like a pop star.After a while of dancing I took off my skirt and sat down and afew minutes Olympia had done the same thing.Then we had to go.dam I wish i hadent of taken off the skirt.

A Dive in the red sea

Today I went Diving and it was so cool! I'll tell you what it was like.First we got in our gear and waked off to the pool to see if we could breath well under water.I went really well exept for the fact that sometimes I didn't give back the signal that I was good because I was looking at the floor of the boring pool.Next we started heading to the sea.(by the way we were in Egypt so its the red sea)and I went in first. When we got in all I could realy see was coral and fish but as we got deeper I could see the most amazing things e.g Starfish, crabs, fish, anenamy and many more things.But the problem was that I didn't have enough weights to pull me down so I couldent realy go down and see many things.When I got out Olympia (my sister) got in,and she did a realy good dive.then I went in again and saw pretty much the same as last time just I could go down and see them.Then we started to get out.Nooo That was the End!