Choose your own adventure - February

I love Disney. In case you didn't know this yet I have been to so many Disneys and Disney Cruises.
They are lots of fun and I smile the whole time. Beauty and the Beast castle is the greatest.
There are lots of rides and my favourite is the Beauty and the Beast castle ride and sitting in a big teacup you get to ride around the dining hall, and see the rose in the glass cabinet. The Beast comes to dance with Belle at the end in her yellow dress and it is true love.
Disney also has my favourite food such as the Mickey Mouse ear pancakes, lots of drinks too.
I won't ever stop talking about the Disney Cruises they are so much fun and I have lots of photos to remember my holidays.
I haven't been to Shanghai yet but when I can I will go to the Shanghai Disney. Paris too. I think my holiday to Paris will be incredible.
All the Disney parks have slight differences. Shanghai have some special characters and Euro Disney in Paris also have different ones. I’m sure the food will be different too.
I always buy a shirt or two when I go on my holidays. In fact I will wear my new Anastasia t-shirt from the new show on Monday for my friends to see.
I am looking forward to bowling this Saturday with my carer. It has been too long. And I miss it. So much fun.
Thank you, your friend, Claire.




Today is a free topic for my blog, so I decided to write about gifts. People receive gifts on special occasions. Some people like to wrap them in wrapping paper, while others prefer to put gifts in a box or a gift bag.
There are so many designs for wrapping paper and gift bags, such as Disney, Snoopy, Minions, fairy, Christmas, unicorns, and more. I asked mum where she bought wrapping paper when I was small. She told me she bought it at Citra Galleria, which is my favourite gift shop in Jakarta.
I received so many gifts when I was a little kid. When I was small, I did not have my own money yet, except for Lunar New Year red pocket money. I loved all the gifts that my family and friends gave me. I got cute loungewear pants, Powerpuff Girls cutlery and a mug, a sheep plush toy, a Disney Princess bag, a Beauty and the Beast toy from a friend, and going out clothes. I could go on and on sharing about my childhood gifts.
If I had to pick my favourite childhood gift, I would choose the cute loungewear pants. I liked them because they felt cozy when I wore them. I usually wore them while lounging at home, or as pyjama pants. They had different designs and colours, some of them in pastel shades like baby yellow and baby pink.
I also learned that when someone gives you a present, it is good to say thank you and appreciate it. It is the thought that counts, even if the gift is edible. I remember in primary school I got chocolate as a Kris Kringle gift. I still appreciated it even though I could not keep it forever, because I could eat it.
I also received lots of gifts when I graduated from school from some of my teachers. I got a Pooh photo album with pictures of me at school, Uno cards, body wash, colour pencils, a plush toy, and lollies. I opened them straight away. When you receive a gift, do you open it at home, or do you open it in front of the giver?
Thank you for reading.
Jacinda signing off.




Tuesday I went to ACMI in the city. It is a great place with cool stuff about animation and films.  It looks like a museum.
I saw the old filmmaker it was old and cool.
Someone has made the stop motion movie of clay and the was a movie called “Memoir of a Snail” and it was a good movie but very sad. Oh well it doesn't matter. There are people who have made the mouth, just like the talking mouth for Wallace and Grommit.
There is a lego stop motion too.  
There are old game consoles, such as the ps1, ps2, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo, Nintendo Entertainment System and ps4.   So many of it is for the gamers club.
I like how cool is the train travel side to side, it was petty amazing.
My favourite is about collecting the movies and shows and four collections. I got the Conjuring, Annabelle, Supernatural and the House of Wax. I can’t wait to see Scream 7, it is coming out today.
Korey.


Today's blog topic is a choose your own adventure.
Today I'm going to write about the things that make me happy!!
Today I'm feeling happy, because I got my nails done yesterday. My sister paints my nails, I love my sister she makes me happy.
My sister painted my nails purple, the colour purple makes me happy. My favourite colours are purple and pink because they make me happy.
My nails are sparkly purple, they make me smile when I look at them because they make me feel good.
I've started making coffee, with my friends at Lyrebird Community Centre. Learning to make coffee makes me happy. It makes me happy because I'm learning something new and I can do hard things because I'm brave.
I feel brave when I go on the escalators by myself and that makes me happy. I've been working on going on the escalators by myself. Before I go on the escalators I tell myself I am brave and this reminds me I can do it!


Going shopping with Sheridan also makes me happy. I love looking at everything and buying things. After we look around the shops and I practice going on the escalators, we eat our lunch together. I like having a sandwich for lunch — that makes me happy.
What makes you happy?
Written by Ronalda. 


I want to go back to America again because they’re beautiful people out there. Disney is always beautiful but big rides. So many good clothes and big food yummy. They have different money, oh lord. Anyway there is hot weather out there for beautiful days. I’m so happy today for Ruby came back after three days missing. Oh lord, my mama found her that’s good.  That’s why I didn’t sleep without Ruby. TJ.


My adventure started at 2.00am last Thursday when my friend Sabrina and I got dressed and headed to her Aunties house to pick her up to head to the airport to travel to Cairns.
When we got to Cairns airport, we got up to the gate and Sabrina had lost her boarding pass. The security guards moved us aside, and we waited until they brought a “Dummy” boarding pass for her. Finally we got through and went out to meet her Aunty who went before us, so she could have a smoke.


We got settled into the apartment, we needed food, Sabrina said let’s go on another adventure. We walked to the receptionist and asked her where the local shop is, she said five minutes down the road by bus, so we walked to the bus stop, got on a bus and ended up on the wrong bus and went the total opposite way for about 25 minutes, only us. We got our lunch and the food for the week.  We had to get a taxi back to the resort though.


We went to a Thai restaurant, and ordered an adult beverage.
The next morning Sabrina and I went to catch a train to Kuranda village. 
We had lunch at the Kuranda pub and on the way to the pub we saw a dog in a car in the drivers seat waiting for his owner to come out from the pub. We stood there talking to the dog for a good while. Then we went to the butterfly house. 
I had a butterfly land on my phone. Then we headed back down by a cable car and I swear we were up in the clouds. 
The next day, was a relaxing day so we just wandered around and visited a few different shops, we got the right bus home. 
We went out for dinner at a local Italian place, then headed back to the room.  We were all in bed by 9pm. 


The next day Sabrina and I went on a bus tour to see the Mossman gorge, the Daintree forest and Cape Tribulation. We had a cruise with the tour and saw a few crocodiles on the banks of the river. 
We got home after a long day, but we still all went out for dinner at another Italian restaurant.  


The next morning we had the morning to relax and do what ever, but after lunch we went on a tour bus to a crocodile zoo/farm.
I held a baby Crocodile named Goliath, then went on another boat cruise where the driver would stop and try and feed the crocodiles that lived in the swampy river. You should have seen all of the crocodiles jumping out of the water to get the piece of meat. 
We got home at dinner time and took Sabrina’s Aunt out to the Italian restaurant for our last night in Cairns. 


We woke up the next day, packed our stuff and were ready to go get breakfast until Sabrina read the email again, we thought it was 10.45am but it was 9.45am, breakfast plans went out the door. So we caught a taxi and headed to the airport, lucky she re-read her emails. We got on the plane things were running smoothly, until we got as far as Bendigo where we weren’t allowed to land due to the storms. We did a few circles then we landed finally in Melbourne. Again things were running smoothly, until we got to her car. The poor car battery had died. We waited for almost three hours for a car company to help us, but a security guard drove past and jump started her car, we packed the car up and we were on the move again until we got to the ticket bay. Because the car battery had died, we had passed our time limit so the ticket machine wouldn’t accept our ticket. I swear the airport didn’t want us to leave. She rang help and they opened the gate and we were off again. 
I got home at 8pm, chased my cat to show him love but he wasn’t having it, until we were in bed every few hours he would walk up to my head to see if I was there and he would start to purr, so I know he was happy again. Maggie on the other hand couldn’t care less, unless I gave her food. 
Anyways that my crazy adventure with my friend and her aunt. 
Haley.




Dear readers, how are you? Today's topic is a choose your own adventure and I have chosen to write about what friendship means to me and why.  Let me start by telling you what friendship means to me. Friendship to me is people who are kind, caring, sweet, bubbly, and supportive. I like being with supportive people and support workers because it makes me feel happy and supported. They make me feel like I belong and am able to ask for help if I need it. I like having someone to go talk to if something is wrong. It makes me feel happy being with safe people in safe places so I’m able to express myself and just having people who listen like Cindy, Krystle, Chanel and Sheridan. To be honest with you  Krystle, Cindy and Sheridan gives the best hugs but Chanel gives the best soft hugs as well.
I enjoy spending time with one of my best friends called Millie and cooking with her and my friends on Tuesdays. 
Readers what are your adventures? Let us know in the comments below. Thank you for reading my blog this is Beth signing off until next week!




Today it’s a choose your adventure blog, today I’ll be talking about my experience on the Ned Kelly tour. Krystle picked me up from my house then we went to Maccas for breakfast and then we met up with Charlotte and Martina at Narre Warren train station, and then we got off at State library station. We walked to the State Library to see Ned Kelly’s armour and then I got a chance to read Justice Raymond Barry’s account of the trial of Ned Kelly.   There is a wonderful wood carving of the hearing of Ned Kelly being sentenced to death by hanging. A fact I learned on the tour is the day before Ned got hung, his mum was working in the laundry across where Ned’s cell was.  They brought Ellen to Ned’s cell to say her final good bye to him . She said if you die you die like a Kelly and at 10:10am on the 11/11/1880 Ned was hung. 
We looked up where the old police headquarters was and there is a crest it says Russell Street.  We walked to the watch house and we had to line up ladies on one side and men on the other. We did some role playing and a few people got to play a character. One guy was charged with dealing dangerous things and then a kid got charged with drinking beer in a public place. Then I got picked as Edith and was arrested because as I was stalking the people in the watch house and when we where told not to touch the writing because it’s heritage listed. I asked the Sergeant about the picture of the young woman in the picture and she told me that Angela who was walking out of the watchouse to go the police canteen to buy some food and a minute later, forty years ago, the bomb went and she was thrown into the air and she was laying on her back then the police officers had to make sure they wasn’t another explosion. The people who did the bombing are still in jail but one of them has passed away and the other has been released but Craig Minogue is still in jail and is not allowed to be released.
Ash.


Charlotte too is writing about her adventure on the weekend below.
Dear Readers this week's topic is a choose your own adventure. 
Readers let me start by telling you that Ash and I did a Ned Kelly tour at the old Melbourne Gaol and we also did the watch house tour. The funny thing is that Ash got called stalker because she kept stalking people and Ash told us about the police headquarters at Russell Street and the bombing. 
It was so interesting to learn about the history of Old Melbourne Gaol and Ned Kelly.  Martina and I went into Ned Kelly's cell and Krystle took a photo of us in his cell and inside of Ned Kelly's cell  there was a plaque of were his body was buried  after he died.  On our tour of Ned Kelly the tour guide said that there was piece of the actual rope they used to hung him in a cell on the second floor, and there was another cell that had all the names of the prisoners that committed different  crime's and the dates and years on the wall. We went on another tour called the watchhouse tour and we were greeted by a sergeant of heritage listed watch house and we got to experience  what it was like in the old days. Before it ended we were allowed to take photos in the female exercise yard and I got my mugshot photo was taken by Martina.
Written by Charlotte.


Shan’s February choose your own adventure blog…
What’s really awesome about having access to many books and the internet is that I now know that there are roughly 200,000 different species of insects in Australia, this is information I found on the Taxonomy Australia website. I’ve never been on that website before because when it comes to searching for information I usually have my go to websites for reliable information. For example the National Geographic website, though as you may already know there are millions, even billions of websites that you can use and many books you can find on any topic that brings you joy. Though you may not find joy in knowing how many insects there are in our lovely country but each to their own right?


On the topic of insects I also find the Australian museum website very helpful. If you have ever been to a museum the information is set out very much the same as it would be at the museum. Very factual and to the point, this is something that brings me a ridiculous amount of joy because I don’t have to question if the information is correct, I do enjoy fact checking information but if I don’t have to its wonderful I can just enjoy my moment of learning. I’m also going to encourage everyone to go visit the museum at least once in your lifetime You can make it a day out and enjoy the journey of learning. 


If I can find a physical book on a topic I want to learn about I’ll either buy it or borrow it from the local library, for privacy reasons I’m not going to tell you where my local places are however you can google “my local library” and it will tell you where your local library is and joining the library is I think fairly simple but there are also people at the library that can help you join. According to Public Libraries Victoria there are over 300 public library locations in Victoria, some of those would be mobile libraries that are for more rural areas which is fabulous because it provides more access to libraries. I believe everyone should have access to libraries because it’s a magical place full of words and knowledge. 


Did you know that the Victorian State Library started with 3846 original volumes, which means first edition books and doesn’t that bit of information bring you so much joy? I know that for some the answer will be no and that’s absolutely ok my friends because it brings me joy to know that the state library of Victoria have been able to expand their collection in both physical books and online editions. If you want to know by how much you’ll need to go to the state library of Victoria website or Google it to find out. I hope I have sparked your curiosity enough that you actually do go and find out. 
Thank you to our beautiful readers for following along on our blogging journeys, we are so very grateful for you today and everyday!


Your friend always,
Shan.


Choose your own adventure.
One day, a girl named Sally went shopping for her birthday cake. But it turned into a pie. She also put some apple in the pie. She used her phone to look up a recipe because she didn’t know how to make the pie. 
Ben.