Fish!

 Here are some photos of the some fish that we saw while under water.....

Cowfish! So cute!

French angelfish 

Parrotfish

OWSD! (Open water scuba diving)

After getting some good sleep and a lesson about the Bonaire waters, we got our equipment and learned how to do a buddy check. Our teacher was a Dutch man who had moved to Bonaire 3 years ago. His name was Job (pronounced Joep), and he was really fun. 

Our very first dive was amazing! We saw two turtles and an eel!

Doing a buddy check

First time in the water!!

Belmare Diving

2:30 Bonaire time, and 8:30 to us, no matter....lets go swimming! The hotel was amazing. The room was 2 floors, had a nice kitchen, large living room, 3 bedrooms (sleeping 6), and a great deck where we ate all of our meals. The grounds were great too. There was a pool less than 5m away from the cliff to the ocean. And there were 2 docks that we could jump off of into the crystal clear water. 

Our amazing hotel called Belmare. We had the room on the second floor between the 2 big palm trees. 

Posing with the iguana! 

Amazing view from the room!

Off to Bonaire.....

Or should I call it Paradise? 

Anyway.....on Monday the 18th of April we woke up at 4 and left the house at 5am! Pretty early. 

The plane ride was 9 hours to Aruba, then we had a 1 hour layover, then another hour to Curacao, where we got off and nearly missed our connection - to Bonaire! The Bonaire plane was TINY! There were less than 15 seats - no flight attendants and no oxygen masks in case of an emergency! It was so cool!

Tiny Bonaire island hopper 

Massive KLM 747

We spent the rest of the evening in PARADISE! 

Happy Birthday DTH3

If you're wondering, DTH3 stands for Dutch Treat Hash House Harriers. And this hash was our 5 year anniversary. So Ashlynn and I made cakes! Because if it's your birthday you always need cake as well as all the junk food you end up eating. We made chocolate chip cookie cakes! Yummy!

Here are the cakes. The top one was meant to be a windmill and the bottom one reads 'Happy 5th DTH3'

David and Andrew came around for the party and in this photo you can see Ashlynn blowing out the tea light candle that I put on one of the cakes. 

Easter Hash

The day before we left for Bonaire, we held an Easter Hash at our house. Ashlynn and I laid the trail in the morning, and I cycled during the hash and hid chocolate easter eggs for the kids to find. 

The hash ended at our house, where we ate chocolate, made a fire and dyed eggs for Easter. 

Dying eggs 

Most of the girls dyed eggs,

while the guys sat and played with the fire!

Green Day Activities

If you're going to run a Green Day, you just have to have activities to go along with it....

Plant a Sunflower in a recycled plastic bottle

Organic Food tasting. Compare fair trade products to non fair trade products

Recycle!
Throw the correct objects into the correct bins to win sweets!

More birthday parties!?

After Frisbee I cycled with Ellie, Emilie, Ziyoda, and Lizzy to Amelia's house for her birthday party.

We started off the party  by jumping on Amelia's trampoline and playing with her bunny rabbit. 

Then we went to the nearby park and had fun throwing the Frisbee while running around on the pirate ship playground. 

Lizzy, Emilie, Ellie

Ziyoda, Amelia, Emelie

Lizzy and Emelie hanging upside down on the monkey bars. 

After the park, we ate pizza, watched films, ate popcorn, talked, ate candy.......ect

Green Day

Because I'm in the Environmental committee of the school along with Ziyoda, we both knew about Green Day weeks before it actually happened. Green Day was a non school uniform day, to raise both awareness and money for the committee. I helped to advertise and organize the baking competition and bake sale that took place at snack.

From Left to Right - Me, Hannah, Amelia, Emilie, Nora, Mayu, Lizzy, Ziyoda, Ellie

Daddy's Late Birthday

Because Daddy had been in France paragliding, we hadn't had a chance to wish him a proper Happy Birthday. So the day of the International Event, Ashlynn and I made a chocolate cake and decorated it very beautifully. 

We got home from the event and gave him his presents and his cake...

Singing Happy Birthday

About to open the cake...

The CAKE!
(If you can't figure out what it is, it's an ocean with a scuba diver at the top - and if you didn't realise that, you  may be wondering what B-day stands for. Well, I'm not going to tell you. Go look it up in a dictionary!)

The Best by Far!

 I know that I'm not really meant to say that our performance was the best, but I think it was.....as was ours last year as well. 

I think everybody who participated had fun and so did we. 

I hope that Lizzy and Katy will perform with us again next year. 

Getting the Kids involved

During one of the verses, (which we didn't feel like coming up with a dance for) we went into the crowd and threw candy to the kids.

Point of interest : Kids love food

After another chorus Ashlynn and Katy stayed up on stage doing the Can-Can and other random dances, while Lizzy and I went down and tried to get some of the kids up on stage. It was a massive success and great fun!

To view the dance go to : http://www.youtube.com/user/BSNmarketing#p/u/7/in8DTop7B5k

Ashlynn and Katy doing the Can-Can. Ashlynn holding down her beads so they don't fly everywhere

With all the kids on stage. A few of the kids were told before hand  to come up like the Russian girls who had practiced with us during the dress rehearsal.

Y-M-C-A

You know the moves, you know the words, so stand up and join in!

For the American performance we did the YMCA. Because it was a last minute thing, (like the British one) we had Americans and British people in it. Lizzy, her sister Katy, Ashlynn and I. 

We had started off wanting to do something from the film Grease, then Wicked the musical. In the end we had 1 week till the dress rehearsal and Ashlynn said, "Why don't we do the YMCA?"

So we got Mr. Lowe to teach Lizzy and I the dance moves after Frisbee one Friday. We had 2 chances to practice before the dress rehearsal.

The performance was a major hit........

Katy and Ashlynn - dressed up as what I think are DJ's

I was dressed up as an Indian from the original  song  the  Village  People. 

Lizzy was a cowboy also from the Village People. 

While at dinner at Lizzy's house, we came up with the entire dance and we made big cardboard signs that had the letters on for us to hold up.

Consider yourself....

International Festival Time!

I was performing in 2 countries performances. The English one and the American one. 

For the English one Kelly and I sang 'Consider yourself' from the well known musical Oliver. 

We had to sing in cockney accents!

2 days before the performance, I was off school with a soar throat! I couldn't talk, which would be bad for Kelly if she had to sing it all herself. At the dress rehearsal I sounded really bad, but by the real performance I was feeling okay. 

To watch it go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_2Atdv6m0s

Before the show, Kelly and I went outside, got hand fulls of dirt, and smeared it all over our faces, necks, arms and legs! 

This was the first time that I've ever used a microphone to sing in front of a large audience!

Consider yourself our mate
We do't want to have no fuss,
For after some consideration, we can state
Consider yourself
One of us!