Hey,everyone! I was just writing to let you know that i changed the title to the blog,but the address will stay the same. I thought about changing the title because we just moved to California in august,2012,and a few people suggested it. So from now on,the title will be Geisheimers in California. And its been great over here so far. I have pretty good grades ( b+'s,a-'s,and a's) and at a previous roar assembly ( mentioned on a
previous post ) my class won 3rd in attendance and a trophy to go with it,and on December 1st we're getting a live Christmas tree at a Christmas farm. And thanksgiving,we just had friends over for the afternoon and evening. And now,i will tell you who was the winner of favorite rides at California adventure at Disneyland. It is............ radiator springs racers half roller coaster! We barely got there in time for fast passes,and when it was finally time to ride,it started out as a normal ride. And when it was time to race another car in radiator springs,the car went as fast as a roller coaster around sharp bends and hills. And,we beat the other car! It really would be sad if you don't want to ride it because it. is. awesome!!! Well,time to go,but i will see you on the next post that should come up by Christmas,and on February 2nd,is this blog's birthday! OK.,i guess i will see you later. bye!
Friday, November 30, 2012
Monday, November 5, 2012
WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON RECENTLY
Hello,everybody! Sorry i couldn't get to you sooner,but,like i said i have been very busy. And now that i have time,let me tell you a little bit about what's going on. Well,in Berlin,we checked in to our hotel,or apartment,and there was a maze that was really close that we walked through every morning before sight-seeing. We also had breakfast at a doughnut shop one morning or two,and there was a lot of stuff to see
in Berlin! We saw the wall,where the wall was, Hitler's bunker,and a really tall gold statue that had tons of bullet-holes from world war two! Then came the day that we had to leave,so we had breakfast at Starbucks, and we saw the bike racers racing a few streets away. And there was the Brandenburg gate with fake army guys posing for pictures,lots of people,and even a KID dressed up as DARTH VADER posing for PICTURES!!! A kid dressed up as Darth Vader,posing for pictures,and making money is,like,really rare!
Oh,and,we also saw a real concentration camp. See the videos on my mom's post to see how it was.
Well,that's about it for Berlin. but then summer came where i got to see my grand parents. Unfortunetly,
it wasn't one of the usual summers because of the drought in Breckenridge,and there was a lot of work to do to the house that we bought in lakeside that ALMOST got blown away by hurricane sandy! Fortunetly,
the house is still there. Then it was time to go to California! Dad picked us up and drove us home,and i had to sleep on molly's daybed. A few weeks later,when we were done unpacking and my bed was built,we started school. They let us come to school 3 days before my birthday at 10:00am to start. My teacher's name is Mr.graham. And my principle's last name is graham,and their not even related. Now i have a bunch
of homework,and we have this thing called AR,which stands for advanced reading,where you read a book and take a quiz about the book and you receive points. If you get 100 points at the end of the year,you get a trophy.Then we have a reward system for the whole school. They have these tickets called roar tickets that say RESPECTFUL OBEDIENT ALWAYS SAFE RESPONSIBLE,and they give them to you if you do one of those. And then you have to put your name and teacher on there,and put them in a bucket in the classroom,and at the monthly roar assembly,they pull out two tickets,read the name on there,and call the person on stage so they can give them a sticker,a button,a pencil the claw,and the super roar claw,that are claw machines that have colors in them,and depending on the color you get,you get a prize. And we have three class reward systems. The first,the teacher divides us into table groups,and if your whole table is good,you get table points. And the table with the most table points at the end of the week gets to be super-groups,who get to get first in line for every thing,even lunch, except for coming in at the beginning of the day.
then there is the paper clip chain,and if the whole class is good,we get paper clips added. And if we get four chains from top to bottom of the whiteboard,we get a party.The last reward system,the teacher gives us 6 smaller tickets which serve as bathroom and drinking passes,and at the end of the week,you exchange however many you have for roar tickets.And,in November 2012,we will have a business fair.
And for those who do not know,i joined the boy scouts of america! My meetings are every other week.
I also joined awana at church. It's like a Wednesday Sunday-school only with tons more kids. And i get to help out as a leader in training in one of the groups for the first 30 minutes before joining my group. Well,that's it for today. See you on the next post no later than Christmas! BYE!
in Berlin! We saw the wall,where the wall was, Hitler's bunker,and a really tall gold statue that had tons of bullet-holes from world war two! Then came the day that we had to leave,so we had breakfast at Starbucks, and we saw the bike racers racing a few streets away. And there was the Brandenburg gate with fake army guys posing for pictures,lots of people,and even a KID dressed up as DARTH VADER posing for PICTURES!!! A kid dressed up as Darth Vader,posing for pictures,and making money is,like,really rare!
Oh,and,we also saw a real concentration camp. See the videos on my mom's post to see how it was.
Well,that's about it for Berlin. but then summer came where i got to see my grand parents. Unfortunetly,
it wasn't one of the usual summers because of the drought in Breckenridge,and there was a lot of work to do to the house that we bought in lakeside that ALMOST got blown away by hurricane sandy! Fortunetly,
the house is still there. Then it was time to go to California! Dad picked us up and drove us home,and i had to sleep on molly's daybed. A few weeks later,when we were done unpacking and my bed was built,we started school. They let us come to school 3 days before my birthday at 10:00am to start. My teacher's name is Mr.graham. And my principle's last name is graham,and their not even related. Now i have a bunch
of homework,and we have this thing called AR,which stands for advanced reading,where you read a book and take a quiz about the book and you receive points. If you get 100 points at the end of the year,you get a trophy.Then we have a reward system for the whole school. They have these tickets called roar tickets that say RESPECTFUL OBEDIENT ALWAYS SAFE RESPONSIBLE,and they give them to you if you do one of those. And then you have to put your name and teacher on there,and put them in a bucket in the classroom,and at the monthly roar assembly,they pull out two tickets,read the name on there,and call the person on stage so they can give them a sticker,a button,a pencil the claw,and the super roar claw,that are claw machines that have colors in them,and depending on the color you get,you get a prize. And we have three class reward systems. The first,the teacher divides us into table groups,and if your whole table is good,you get table points. And the table with the most table points at the end of the week gets to be super-groups,who get to get first in line for every thing,even lunch, except for coming in at the beginning of the day.
then there is the paper clip chain,and if the whole class is good,we get paper clips added. And if we get four chains from top to bottom of the whiteboard,we get a party.The last reward system,the teacher gives us 6 smaller tickets which serve as bathroom and drinking passes,and at the end of the week,you exchange however many you have for roar tickets.And,in November 2012,we will have a business fair.
And for those who do not know,i joined the boy scouts of america! My meetings are every other week.
I also joined awana at church. It's like a Wednesday Sunday-school only with tons more kids. And i get to help out as a leader in training in one of the groups for the first 30 minutes before joining my group. Well,that's it for today. See you on the next post no later than Christmas! BYE!
Friday, June 29, 2012
information
Sorry about the lack of updates,but right after mom posted the video's,i couldn't find my blog on the dashboard and i couldn't access anything and now i'm really busy so now that i can access my blog dashboard,i will wright about Berlin and the movers really soon. My mom posted video's on Facebook if you want to see me help movers. See you on the Berlin post!
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Day Trip from Berlin
Hello! Guest blogger, Benji's mom, here :) Benji will write more on the subject, I'm sure, but for now I wanted to post these videos I made about our day spent at the concentration camp in Germany. It was quite the opportunity to go and walk the grounds, which are now a museum. To learn more about Sachsenhausen, you can do an internet search with the name as the search term. It was primarily a camp for Soviet POWs, mainly including people accused of "political" crimes, but Jews were also part of the camp's prisoners. This was a very somber experience. Above all, I wanted to be respectful, maintaining dignity for those who suffered, and I hope these videos in no way detract from this goal.
The video above is with color and narration. The one below is a little more artsy with an old film style set to music.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
go fish:version 2
How's it going? I hope your doing great because i invented a new version of go fish. It's based on the original but modified so here's how it goes:
STUFF THAT YOU NEED: cards suitable for both versions of go fish.
GOAL: get a "book''[ see glossary] of 4 cards of the same shape. [ diamonds,clovers...]
GLOSSARY:
book: see goal explanation
ace: allows you to take a desired shape from any player [ card with A in the middle ]
normal: card with the same number of shapes as the numbers in the corners.
HOW TO PLAY
a player gives 5 cards to each player.The youngest starts first. He/she asks any player for a shape that matches one of his/her cards. If the player asked does not have the card asked for,he says go fish! So,the ask'er takes a card from the stake.Then it's the other player that asks,and the same process goes on.If the player has the card that the ask'er wants,the ask'er keeps the card.If the player has a joker,it counts as a 1-3 card of any shape. The game ends when there is no more cards in the stake. If a player has run out out of cards,he/she takes 5 more from the stake. If there is no more cards,the game ends.
IMPORTANT! you are not allowed to ask the same shape as the previous player.
if you have any questions about the game,just place a comment. I would be happy to answer. Remember Berlin on the 7th. But i may do the blog a couple of days after we get back on the 10th. see you then !
AND HAVE FUN!
STUFF THAT YOU NEED: cards suitable for both versions of go fish.
GOAL: get a "book''[ see glossary] of 4 cards of the same shape. [ diamonds,clovers...]
GLOSSARY:
book: see goal explanation
ace: allows you to take a desired shape from any player [ card with A in the middle ]
normal: card with the same number of shapes as the numbers in the corners.
HOW TO PLAY
a player gives 5 cards to each player.The youngest starts first. He/she asks any player for a shape that matches one of his/her cards. If the player asked does not have the card asked for,he says go fish! So,the ask'er takes a card from the stake.Then it's the other player that asks,and the same process goes on.If the player has the card that the ask'er wants,the ask'er keeps the card.If the player has a joker,it counts as a 1-3 card of any shape. The game ends when there is no more cards in the stake. If a player has run out out of cards,he/she takes 5 more from the stake. If there is no more cards,the game ends.
IMPORTANT! you are not allowed to ask the same shape as the previous player.
if you have any questions about the game,just place a comment. I would be happy to answer. Remember Berlin on the 7th. But i may do the blog a couple of days after we get back on the 10th. see you then !
AND HAVE FUN!
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
day 2 final full day
After breakfast,we went to the sagrada familia cathedral. It was designed by Mr.gaudi to! looked around,and it
was pretty nice. Then we had a snack at Mc Donald's again for a snack.After that,we went to a park where we
saw guella,the lizard. Really famous. After that,we had to walk a whole MILE to get to the restaurant that dad
chose for lunch. after lunch,we went shopping where i got a Messi 10 official jersey! Then we hit the ice cream shop and had some ice cream. after that,we went shopping a tiny bit more before taking our last metro in Barcelona,[ because we took a taxi to the airport.] back to the apartment/hotel suit. In the morning,dad tried every taxi station on the phone but NONE spoke English! So we had the grand pleasure of walking in the rain to a taxi station. On the way,we saw a taxi with a green light and dad did a signal but instead of slowing down,it
accelerated! We got to to the taxi station,hopped into a taxi,and got to the airport did security,and finally flew out back to Switzerland. Now that where safe at home,we can get ready for our next. see you soon on the blog!
was pretty nice. Then we had a snack at Mc Donald's again for a snack.After that,we went to a park where we
saw guella,the lizard. Really famous. After that,we had to walk a whole MILE to get to the restaurant that dad
chose for lunch. after lunch,we went shopping where i got a Messi 10 official jersey! Then we hit the ice cream shop and had some ice cream. after that,we went shopping a tiny bit more before taking our last metro in Barcelona,[ because we took a taxi to the airport.] back to the apartment/hotel suit. In the morning,dad tried every taxi station on the phone but NONE spoke English! So we had the grand pleasure of walking in the rain to a taxi station. On the way,we saw a taxi with a green light and dad did a signal but instead of slowing down,it
accelerated! We got to to the taxi station,hopped into a taxi,and got to the airport did security,and finally flew out back to Switzerland. Now that where safe at home,we can get ready for our next. see you soon on the blog!
Barcelona:day 1
hey there! I know that i haven't written in a while,but that doesn't mean that the blog is over! We took off on a "sit wherever you want to sit" plane and we landed in Barcelona inter. airport. We took a taxi to our hotel suite and most of it was good except the only fancy bed that mom and dad got and me and molly got the pull-out bed in the couch. In the morning we went to a special popular market for breakfast and mom took pictures of the food and molly was pinching her nose and says that it's stinky in there. Our breakfast was mostly just chocolate. Then we walked over to a cathedral. Not much that is really special.Then we had a snack at
Mc Donald's.[ can you believe they eat lunch at 2:00 pm and dinner at 10:00PM??!!!] then we took a funicualer,then a cable car,and finally arrived at the castle with world war 2 cannons and we saw the ''liberty of the seas",mom's cruise boat that she sailed in at the carribean! What's it doing in Barcelona? Nice castle there!
after the castle we had lunch,then we saw one of this gaudi guy's "skeleton" house. The whole house had skeleton parts. The top of the roof was like a spine and the balconies where like eyes... after that we went to a cafe and eat some dessert. I don't remember but i do know that it was goood. Then we went back to the suite for the night. Well,see you tomorrow!
Mc Donald's.[ can you believe they eat lunch at 2:00 pm and dinner at 10:00PM??!!!] then we took a funicualer,then a cable car,and finally arrived at the castle with world war 2 cannons and we saw the ''liberty of the seas",mom's cruise boat that she sailed in at the carribean! What's it doing in Barcelona? Nice castle there!
after the castle we had lunch,then we saw one of this gaudi guy's "skeleton" house. The whole house had skeleton parts. The top of the roof was like a spine and the balconies where like eyes... after that we went to a cafe and eat some dessert. I don't remember but i do know that it was goood. Then we went back to the suite for the night. Well,see you tomorrow!
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