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Christmas Day: Before I tell you the story about the boxing day trip... I'm going to tell you what I got for Christmas! From Santa I got a new watch, from dad I got a Body Art set and from mum I got a walkie talkie set. From Nana I got some shirts,from my cousin Christy I got a mini oval shaped thing called Princess Max! Last of all I got a bead set from my Uncle Andrew!

Boxing Day: Today was boxing day and mum, dad and I went to the beach. It was so awesome... we saw fish in the water schools of them and there were big and small fish. I actually swam with a school of fish. Dad said that we could go to the beach again and practice snorkeling then when I'm ready we could probably drive up north to Ningaloo Reef and snorkel up there! I said think that sounded awesome! So that was our Christmas. Tell me how your X-mas was, by posting a comment underneath!!

Two weeks ago it was my last gymnastics class with my coach Tracey and her daughter Thalia. She said that she's got some problems, so she's going to stop for a little while and if she's alright again then she can teach us again. (I hope so.) My gymnastics class is a level 2 & 3. Here are some pictures that mum took.

This is Thalia (right)
and me (left).



This me with my
coach Tracey.



These are my friends Gemma (top left), Darcy (Left),
Grace (Top), Louise (right) and me (middle)

I just recently started my summer school holiday. On the second week of the school holidays, mum, dad and me went down south to Collie. That was where the Wellington Dam is. Collie is about two hours from Perth but on the way there we got stuck in traffic twice! We went to a campsite in Collie called Potter's Gorge and that's where we set up camp. We brought our big tent. The first thing we did when we got there was we saw a thing called a campground host and there was a person sitting there so dad drove over to the campground host. Dad got down from the car and started talking to the lady shortly mum and I came down from the car and herd the lady say that we could camp wherever we wanted so we got back into the car and drove around to have a look there were allot of spaces but it wasn't that big. We picked our spot near the edges because it was that or the middle and hot sun. When mum and dad were setting up the tent I discovered we were near a small log. So I climbed up and down it, after a while I got a bit bored so I went to ask dad weather I could help he said yes I was just in time for putting down the pegs so I got the pegs and dad said he would the pegs in so I made up a service called please pick a peg dad thought it was really funny. Then we had lunch which was some of dad's famous beef curry. It was yum! Then dad went to get some ice and and my ice-cream. While he was gone mum was trying to figure out how to put the vestibule then she realized that she had to put up the rain sheet. As soon as she figured that out dad was back.

Mum told him that they needed to put up the rain sheet so while I was enjoying my ice-cream in the tent they started the process of putting the rain sheet on the tent when I finished they were still doing stuff so I asked dad weather I could go down to the Wellington Dam shore because it was just near our camp. Dad said yes so I walked there. I took my thongs off so I could walk in the so only my feet would get wet. When I was walking I saw a girl called Matilda swimming in the water then shortly after she introduced herself 2 boys ran along and raced into the water I got a little wet but that was okay. They were Matilda's twin brother's. The youngest out of the twins was Snow but I don't know why but I kept on calling him Smokey?! But he didn't care. The other one was called Banjo he kept on asking us questions like where were we going today and he was so attached to dad because the first day dad went fishing down the shore of the dam and guess what... Banjo followed him when his mum said don't go past the toilets and my dad went passed the toilets! SO Banjo already left shortly after dad left and mum and I knew that he was going to go past the toilets. then shortly after Banjo left Snow came looking for him mum and I sent Snow to go to the front of the toilets and to see whether he was there and guess what he wasn't! So Snow went to tell his mum.

Other than that the trip was great dad wanted to catch a fish called the Red Fin Perch but he didn't catch any. He also wanted to catch a fish called a Trout. We saw one but that was it, we also fished up a undersized Maron! It was so cool! Also every morning when we wake up there are some wild Parrots that surrounded our tent, and if they want to they will come and eat some ground nuts just put it on your hand and Polly the parrot will come. It was so awesome. Everyone got a hold in one morning! We also saw a wild emu running across the road and a Bobtail Skink. We didn't take pictures of the Emu and the Bobtail because they were running away mum and dad also got to see a Red Tailed Cockatoo but I didn't. We also went to a place called Gnomes Ville where you had to bring a gnome and put anywhere there were like millions of gnomes they were up in the trees on the ground and there was also a big bunch of gnomes set up as a gnome rescue team rescuing a gnome and you could pull it up and down. Here are some pictures we took.

Rushing water from
Wellington Dam.

Me holding Polly with mum
next to me!



Me holding
Polly!

Me holding Polly later
in the day.


This was our camp
kitchen!



Mum wouldn't go to bed until she got
her coffee water to boil!



This where we ate most
of our meals.

This was our
tent!

On the last week of school on the recent Wednesday. All the yr 5's slept over at school. So straight after school we went to the under cover area. Mr Bingham told us about the rules and that if we saw Kurtis around we have to just stay away and tell a parent or a teacher and without fail he came and he threw water bombs at Elle's tent! So he got told off and and he also threatened Mrs Berkout the principle of our school. He also put fire works on at night we could hear and see them. Other then that I had fun we had a mini disco that went for an hour and a half.Then we had a movie put on for us called the Polar Express it was soooo cool! I didn't go to bed until 1:15 in the morning so I stayed up really late. Here are some pictures mum took when she visited me that evening!

This is what Elle( left) was
sleeping in!



Me (right) and Elle (left) sitting
in her tent.



My friend Madison.



Hammie (Kelly left) carrying
me (right).



Zoe,Kelly Joseph(My Crush!),
me, Jess and Sush!



I still can't believe that 5 girls can lift a
forty something kg boy.



Zoe's still trying to
catch Joseph.



Elle and Nural think it's
happy snaps time!

Earlier this year we had a day called "Harmony Day.'' It was really cool because you got to dress up in the religion you celebrate. I dressed up in my Chinese new year clothes. But in this picture I dressed up in my Punjabi costume because I was one of the dancers for my friends dance.