The Blog of Alvaro

Alvaro expounds on his journey through Central and South America.

Postcard to Chase Bridge

Written By: Alvaro’s dad – Sep• 05•11

Dear Mr. King and school,

I have been in South America for 2 months and we are coming back to England in 4 more months. When we are coming back Yuri who is the head teacher from Aldea Yanapay is coming to our house. I really enjoyed feeding and talking to the parrots, snorkelling with the sea lions, snorkelling in Xcaret, having fun with Yuri, doing the superman. I thought that was scary was going down the rappel.

I wish you a happy term,
From Alvaro.

P.S. from Alvaro’s dad. The superman was a slide along a wire for 1 km on top of the rainforests in Costa Rica.

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  1. Mr King says:
    September 9, 2011 at 10:45 am

    Dear Alvaro,
    I shared your blog postcard in assembly the rappel looks incredible! You must have felt excited and scared all at the same time!
    Best wishes,
    Mr King

  2. Michael says:
    November 30, 2011 at 11:47 pm

    Dear Alvaro,
    I remember that Tanja did a similar slide when we were in Costa Rica two years ago. But your foto now gives me an impression how you and she must have felt doing the canopy tour.
    Regards from Argentina,
    Michael (the diving ref from Iguazu)

News – Robber in Buenos Aires

Written By: Alvaro’s dad – Dec• 19•11

Family Al-Qasem went on a tube on the same stop as a robber. This coud cause a problem because the robber could just take the wallet ad walk quite nicely and then at the stairs he could run and escape. Or another way is the robber coud steal the credit card and then use it to buy a sofa and then the dad wouldont know why he has lost so much money. So this is what rally hapend. The robber went on the same stop as us. at the first stop he got 1155 pesos and then through the dads wallet on the floor and pointed to the wallet and then while the dad was piking it up the rober had time to esap and the dad told the mum what happend and then the mum chased the robber and she fell and the robber gave the mum

The police badge from the policeman

all the money he stole from the Al-Qasem family. So then the dad ran and he jumped over the barier and people was slowing him down and and the people was shouting robber and then the dad did a tackle and then a man in black helped the dad and then the police arested him and he got in prison for 1 or 2 months.
(written in the style of a newspaper article by Alvaro, posted by his dad)

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Day one and our aeroplane

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On Thursday 30 June 2011 I went to Mexico on British Airways which is a aeroplane. It was very interesting because it was like a computer and a television stuck together. The flight took 10 hours. I listend to music on the head phones. Next I watched James and the Giant Peach. It was brilliant! […]

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The Galapagos Islands, August 2011

By Alvaro’s dad Posted in Ecuador , | 2 Comments »

We whent to Galapagos Islands. Today we are going snorkelling so we put on are swimming suit and snorkelling gear. My dad saw a eagle ray and every one in my family exept for Aida and Tariq saw a sting ray because Aida and Tariq were to little. Their was a sea lion next to […]

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Volunteering at the Children’s Eternal Rainforest

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Today we are at children’s eternal rainforest to volunteer and volunteer means to help do some work without getting paid. First we met Wendy. Wendy gave us 4 pairs of gloves, 5 rakes and 4 bags. We had to brush the leaves and put them in a pile. Some of us had are gloves on […]

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Zip wires in Costa Rica

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Today we are in Costa Rica at EXTREME Canopy. A man who works here told us how to put the harness on and were to put your hands and feet. On the second ride I got used to it. The first few rides were practice rides and they were 30 or 40m. The rappel was […]

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Che Guevara

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Che Guevara was a argentinian doctor. He had a trip around South America on a motor bike. While he was travelling around South America he saw some poor people and some rich people. The poor people were working hard and not earning very much money from the rich people, and he saw that the rich […]

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Pedal boat in Trinidad, Cuba

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On a lovely sunny day we went to the beach. At the beach we had to put some sun-cream on because it was so sunny. I was the first to go in the water, the water was see through. I told my mum if we could go on the pedle boat. She said yes but […]

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Havana,Cuba July,2011. Partagras Cigar Factory

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Today we are at the cigar factory. Cuba is the most important country for cigars. The difference between a cigarette and a cigar is that cigars are brown and cigarettes are brown and white. Cigars are fatter and longer than cigarettes. cigars and cigarettes are very bad for you and can kill you. At the cigar […]

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The beach and pool in Mexico

By Alvaro’s dad Posted in Mexico , | 1 Comment »

We went to have lunch in a Mexican restaurant. Then we had a fabulous ice cream. I had cookie with cream and a fabulous cone with m&ms on top. Then we went to touch a cute monkey, it was free. Next I watched TV, next I went to the swimming pool and I met a […]

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Day one and our aeroplane

By Alvaro’s dad Posted in Travel , , | Comments Off

On Thursday 30 June 2011 I went to Mexico on British Airways which is a aeroplane. It was very interesting because it was like a computer and a television stuck together. The flight took 10 hours. I listend to music on the head phones. Next I watched James and the Giant Peach. It was brilliant! […]

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Day one and our aeroplane

By Alvaro’s dad Posted in Travel , , | Comments Off

On Thursday 30 June 2011 I went to Mexico on British Airways which is a aeroplane. It was very interesting because it was like a computer and a television stuck together. The flight took 10 hours. I listend to music on the head phones. Next I watched James and the Giant Peach. It was brilliant! […]

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Day one and our aeroplane

Written By: Alvaro’s dad – Jul• 01•11

On Thursday 30 June 2011 I went to Mexico on British Airways which is a aeroplane. It was very interesting because it was like a computer and a television stuck together. The flight took 10 hours. I listend to music on the head phones. Next I watched James and the Giant Peach. It was brilliant! My best character was the centipide. After James and the Giant peach it was about a hour left to land to Mexico. For lunch I had rice with chicken, pudding was very nice. For dinner I had a sandwich with 2 water melons, pudding was a crunchy kitkat. Then a lady gave me and Omar a pencil case and she gave Aida and Tariq a toy brief case.

After the aeoroplane we went to see what car we could buy for 2 days. We went to McDonalds to eat some ice cream and drink some water because it was a very hot day. Tariq didn’t put his seat belt on so I had to help him. After it was hevy rain for like 10 minutes then we went to see our hotel and it was very cool. Then I wrote a card to Mr Bruce on the aeroplane and I continued it on the hotel. Then it was bed time and no one was in my bedroom.

At the morning I ate sweet cornflakes. After breakfast we went on the beach. After we went on the swimming pool.

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The pool was very nice.

(transcribed from the original diary by Alvaro’s dad)

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Day one and our aeroplane

By Alvaro’s dad Posted in Travel , , | Comments Off

On Thursday 30 June 2011 I went to Mexico on British Airways which is a aeroplane. It was very interesting because it was like a computer and a television stuck together. The flight took 10 hours. I listend to music on the head phones. Next I watched James and the Giant Peach. It was brilliant! […]

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Day one and our aeroplane

By Alvaro’s dad Posted in Travel , , | Comments Off

On Thursday 30 June 2011 I went to Mexico on British Airways which is a aeroplane. It was very interesting because it was like a computer and a television stuck together. The flight took 10 hours. I listend to music on the head phones. Next I watched James and the Giant Peach. It was brilliant! […]

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Day one and our aeroplane

Written By: Alvaro’s dad – Jul• 01•11

On Thursday 30 June 2011 I went to Mexico on British Airways which is a aeroplane. It was very interesting because it was like a computer and a television stuck together. The flight took 10 hours. I listend to music on the head phones. Next I watched James and the Giant Peach. It was brilliant! My best character was the centipide. After James and the Giant peach it was about a hour left to land to Mexico. For lunch I had rice with chicken, pudding was very nice. For dinner I had a sandwich with 2 water melons, pudding was a crunchy kitkat. Then a lady gave me and Omar a pencil case and she gave Aida and Tariq a toy brief case.

After the aeoroplane we went to see what car we could buy for 2 days. We went to McDonalds to eat some ice cream and drink some water because it was a very hot day. Tariq didn’t put his seat belt on so I had to help him. After it was hevy rain for like 10 minutes then we went to see our hotel and it was very cool. Then I wrote a card to Mr Bruce on the aeroplane and I continued it on the hotel. Then it was bed time and no one was in my bedroom.

At the morning I ate sweet cornflakes. After breakfast we went on the beach. After we went on the swimming pool.

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The pool was very nice.

(transcribed from the original diary by Alvaro’s dad)

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News – Robber in Buenos Aires

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Family Al-Qasem went on a tube on the same stop as a robber. This coud cause a problem because the robber could just take the wallet ad walk quite nicely and then at the stairs he could run and escape. Or another way is the robber coud steal the credit card and then use it […]

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