Riley's Adventures

We visited: Athens, Greece Istanbul, Turkey Mykonos, Greece Crete, Greece Santorini, Greece Rhodes, Greece Pathmos, Greece Kursadi, Turkey Me in front of an Athens, Greece Subway My favorite city, was "Istanbul Turkey". They had Trams and Subways(+ Buses), too.

We started packing today, because we going to Vienna, Austria. Vienna is the capital of Austria, and they have very neat things there. I used Mom's Backpack to pack most of my things I wanted to bring. Mom put very few of some Travel books on Vienna in there also. Maggie used her school bag to pack all of her things in. I didn't use my school bag because it is very small.  I had good luck today because I found a 1 Euro coin laying on the stair case. I found it when I was taking Toga outside, in the morning. I also found a 50 Cent Coin when I was cleaning our room today. A few days ago, when we taking a walk, and I found a little trail of money!! I found 6 Cents in total at the end. I keep finding money on the ground!! Our next vacation after Vienna, Austria, is Paris, France. We will have to see the Eiffel Tower, and I am glad Mom just printed tickets today!! I like that we keep going places, and learn at least 1 word from that country's language. Like 'Bonjour' is ...

Will, we started a class blog, which I am very happy about. Also, we are going to get doners without Maggie tonight. She is with her friend Moli, right now. Mom is being lazy, sleeping. Toga, our dog, always does the samething as my mom, so he sleeping and snoring to. Dad is driving home from work. Our next vacations we are going to are Vien, (Vien is the German Way of saying Vianna, Austria) and Paris, France. I can't wait to go all the way to the top of the Eiffel tower, which will be great. If you're wondering about my school, then click here . Also, this is a daily schdule of what my class does at school: 1.We get our blue bag, snack box, and water bottle. We put our coats in our locker, and also our backpacks, or like some people like to call them book bags. 2.We come in and look on the white board, we usally do Buddy Spelling, is where another friends in the class test us with the spelling words that the level we are at Spelling. Sometimes, we do Mug Shot sentences after ...

Today(1/16/2011), we went for s long bike ride. We rode all the way to Laubgast, to the nearest gas station and put air in Dad's tires. We also blew all of the dust off of our bikes, because they have been just sitting in our storage room in the basement for months now. After the gas station, we went down a side street and looked at the horrible flood. I was halfway down the side street and it was touching my feet! It was crazy! I think I read somewhere this was the worst flood Dresden ever had! After that we just rode all the way back home. Dad went jogging and Mom took Toga for a walk. Me and Maggs were just in our room, doing our normal weekend stuff...

Hannah, I'm sure you all know that she lives in Ballston Spa, and is seven years old. Late in November, she found out she had leukemia (a type of cancer). She is going to get a bone marrow transplant in February, 2011. If you live and Germany, and you children go to DIS(Dresden International School), you can bring you big bags full of plastic recyclable bottles, to get some room in your kitchen. If you live in NY, USA, you can go to a special fundraiser for Hannah on January 29th, 2011 to Peabody's Sports and Grille/Bailey's Cafe from 1:00pm to 10:00pm. There will be a $10.00 admission fee, which will be given to Hannah and her family, in need. Here is the events invitation: Hannah's Special Fundraiser in United States: When: January 29th, 2011 from 1:00pm to 10:00pm What: This will be a nice fundraiser, including Beer Tasting, Kid's room, and a lot more! Why: To help Hannah, who is in need right now! ...

Dear Malta Ave Students, I am glad to be Skyping you soon! It is a crazy time difference here, but it will still work. I hope you are having a good week of school. I will be back in July 2010. (Hopefully not on my birthday) I will show you pictures of our adventures here in Germany. Here, I will show you two of my favorites up at the top...

1. Get my book I created from Grandma. 2. Get the shoes you ordered (and tell grandpa"did you see it said jimmy"? 3. get toga's treats I will edit this post if I think of anymore, Dad!

A DVB tram driver always is a reg. Man or Woman. They have they eyes looking for stop lights, their feet always stepping on breaks and pedals. Every time they come to a stop, they need to press the open door button, right away. When they need to turn, they have the buttons "Left" and "Right" or "Left arrow" or "Right arrow" depending if the tram is older or newer. The trams get their power from a big thing on top hooked up to a wire on the top of the tram. When a tram and another tram pass each other, they will ring a bell or do this weird hand-motion thing with their hands.

On August 14th, 2010, Ballston Spa Resident, Maggie Walz, who moved to Dresden, Germany, because of her father’s GlobalFoundries job, participated in the Dresden International School’s Zuckertuten Festival. The Zuckertuten Festival is where Parents and Siblings go and find toys, Barbies, sugar goods, etc. and put it in a large designed cardboard cone. The parents bring the cone on the day of the festival to the school. The child receives it from their teacher. When the child gets home they open the cone and see what they have & play with it. The principal gave a short speech about going in to first grade and how much fun they will have. Then the 2 classes/40 kids received their own cone. Then the Primary School teacher asked some of the kids what they were looking forward to in First Grade. After the festival, the whole school was invited to see their new teacher and their teacher’s classroom. They let everyone play on the playground and had a school fundraiser BBQ. They served w...

Today Maggie's is turning 6 to I'd like to show you a Smilebox I made. I hope you like it.

Yesterday, we wanted to go to the mall to get Maggie's Cone. (A Cone of toys because of when school starts for only 1st graders) We went to a store named Muller and did a lot looking then checked out and then Mom went in this earring store and I waited at a resturant table. Then we left and we got on a bus becasue Prager St. is Contruction right now. I thought in would take us to Bohnhoff Mitte were the 6 NIdersedlitz goes and we could take the 6 home. I kept. saying to Mom, it's the next one, and I kept. repeating it. I went to look at the map and some lady said we were going the wrong way and then I say at the stop that another bus stoped at the stop near our house. We looked and it said that we would have to be on that bus for 50 minutes! We had to do it every know we didn't want to. We got on that one and it took forever. We got off at another stop I wasen't really planning to do, but then took another tram from that stop home. Does that make any sense?

Near the Shiler Garten in Dresden, Germany, the bike trail againest the Elbe River is crowed because of a flood. Some of the bike trail got flooded and evryone is using the back-up one but is very small. The rain got v ery tough and filled up the Elbe River. All the Fahres are closed and docks are filled with water.

I found my sister's littliest doll she got from Prague. She was playing with it on the balcony. So we went out one more time and looked and it was on our neighbors balcony. So I climbed and grabbed it so they didn't see me. I'm glad that she got it back today.

I woke up and it was 6 in the morning. It was thundering and all the lights were on. I went in the kitchen and Dad was making coffee. He said “ Do you want breakfast?” I said “Sure”. He made me cereal. And then Maggie came in and Dad made her breakfast, too. Then I said “Wait, We’re going to Prague today!” (Prague is one of the top 10 cities in the world!) We started to pack and got in our car and went to Prague. Dad got some money at the back, stopped at the Groccrie Store and got some drinks for the ride, and got some gas for the car, and then started to our ride to our hotel we we’re going to go to. Dad said we couldn't check in to the hotel until 2:00, so we went to the huge mall I’ve every seen! We had lunch there. I had a Fish Stick sandwich and Maggie had the samething. Dad had a shrimp sandwich. Mom had this big bowl of everything. We went to the hotel and checked in. We put our cloths away. We went took a walk and went up a lot of stairs to get to a castle. We walked...

A ton of trams... Will yesterday, we wanted to go on a hike on one of the trails in Dresden. We got on a tram and went to a stop and started walking on a trail. Maggie wanted to stop at a playground so we stopped at one and played there for like 10 minutes. We walked back to another tram stop and saw that train #1 Phrolis and #2 this very long one stop there. We knew that it didn't go to our house. But we saw that it went to a stop that a another trm that goes to our house stops there. So we get on #1 Prolis and wait and wait and wait. The tram gets to it's end stop and turns into 1 Lutawisz. We stay on that one and Mom says that one will go to a stop that goes to our house. It gets to that stop, we had to cross a ton of streets and got on th e tram that went to our house. We get home and had crazy day. Lost key... We went to the pool and Mom lost her locker key to our locker where all our stuff was in. She told the life guard and apparently some one found in. Thank You whoeve...

On the last day of school, (6/24) we first went to my babysitter's house. Usually we are always late, but today we were early. So I was just talking to Joy, my babysitter(only in the morning). Will when we had to leave to go to school on the last day! I went to wait to go in the school building. Mrs. Tina, let us in. I went to my classroom and we cleaned out our desk then we made a little autograph book. The cover was what you won't miss about school and what you will miss in school. I glued on the cover. Then people came around to sign my book. Ms. Durham said I could play my slideshow I made. It made Gregory, a kid in my class. The slideshow is about 10 minutes long. Than we started cleaning a lot. Then we went to go to the rug to tell of what we will never forget in our 2009-2010 school year. Mrs. Bondi, our school's pick up lady, picked us up and brought us to the cafeteria. I saw my Grandma waiting for me. I had a great 2nd grade/2009-2010...

Yesterday, My class threw me a party, a Farewell party. At Payton's house, a girl in my class. I had so much fun. First, I bl owed up this big beach ball. It took me about 5 minutes to blow up. Then we played volley-ball. It was fun. Then I had some Pizza because the party was from 4:00-6:00. So then we just played the whole time. Then when everyone left, we were still there. We opened the gifts. I want to thank everyone for coming. I want to thank you Payton's whole family, everyone who came, and thats pretty much it!

Yesterday, I had my last Cub Scout Metting. Will my little sister went on a playdate, with her friend Katherine. So we enter the park and we go threw the whole parking lot and there was not even 1 parking spot because they were all taken! So ww parked at the bank across the street. So we crossed the street and went to where all the other Cub Scouts were. So we finally got to the tent were all of The cyb scouts were. Then I saw my best friend, Cade. We sat by them. Cade's younger sister found a ladybug. After we were done talking we did the awards. First, they did the tigers[First Grade]. Next, the wolfs [Second Grade]. I got one gold and one silver arrow-point. All were left next were the bears, and webalos 1 & 2. Then I got my bear book because I'm going into third grade and 3rd graders are bears. They had ice-cream there so I grabbed some. After I was done I went to go play on the playground. I played on the playground for like 3 hours! Then we went home t...