Thursday, 30 June 2011

Portugal

I haven't been able to put up any posts for the last week because in Portugal we didn't have any Internet connections so sorry about that.

In Portugal I did a lot of sight-seeing. We went to a big church in Viseu, we went to a wind farm, a village called Pena, felt thermal spring water, (which is thought to have volcanic water in it), the new Benfica soccer stadium, (which is the biggest stadium in Portugal), a castle on the water in Belem, a big shopping centre that had a "Funcenter" in it that had a rollercoaster, a bowling alley and heaps and heaps of games. We also went to another shopping centre that had an enormous spurting fountain in the middle of it that went up all something like seven floors.

At the Benfica Stadium there was a big room that had hundreds of trophies in it and some were taller than me! Also in the Benfica Stadium we got to see the Benfica Eagle that was a real eagle that at games would do a lap of the stadium and then land on a perch in the middle of the stadium.The eagle hadn't actually done it at a real game yet because it is a new eagle than to the one that used to fly around the old stadium.The eagle is kind of like a mascot.We got to walk right around the Benfica Stadium and we saw an awesome, enormous Lego replica of the new stadium that was about two metres long. It also had heaps of little Lego figures in he crowd and on the pitch. There was one Lego figure taking a swing at goal.

I had a lot of fun in Portugal.

Lily

                                                               Lego replica of Benfica stadium.
 
Me pushing the castle in Belem, Lisbon.

Friday, 3 June 2011

17 Days To Go

Only 17 days to go until us girls leave to go to Portugal. I've got my Passport and ticket and have been working on my French. I might also have to work on my Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and German.