Diving, Skateboarding, Climbing and Monkeying
We have been traveling for about eight months now…….
and I have learnt lots of new things including lots of little bits of languages, including Spanish and Thai, and I have learnt lots of accents like American and Australians and New Zealand. Do you know how to say cheers mate in Australian? Cheese mite!
The four best things that I have learnt are skateboarding, diving, climbing and monkeying.
Diving
It was at the hotel called H20 Villas in Mexico, where I learnt to dive. This place that we stayed at was the best place with a pool for us to learn diving because it was really really deep at one end. On my first try at diving it was like I was going in like a rainbow and I was going like 1 cm away from the wall so my mum and dad told me to change to be like a matchstick and go further out and they told Henna to go way further out. The trick is to jump up and out tipping your body down into the water. Me and Henna got so good we taught daddy to dive but he’s not very good.
Skateboarding
When we stayed with our friends who are about 14 and 16 but they were kids and they had a skateboard so we practiced down and up the flat and we fell off about 200 times then gave up and then like four months after that in America we went to a park and there was a skateboarding club. I skateboarded with the club for about four hours. I had a skateboard that had fireworks in orange with green wheels were. My sister had the hard skateboard with bigger wheels and it was harder because it was heavier and heavier is not always better but that one turned a lot easier so I asked if I could have a go but only for like five minutes then changed back to mine and of course we wore a helmet and I got really really good at it. We have a skateboard at home, I never use it because it’s my sister’s but now I’m going to use it a lot but I have also asked the boss now and I’m going to have a new one of my own when we get home.
The trick to learning skateboarding was to listen carefully to Charlie because he was a really good coach. You have to do a big push off to get rolling. You have to practice the same skill over and over again. To turn you lean your feet and body over the board the way you want to go. If you get good enough you can try the little ramps. I tried them and the trick is to lean in the direction the board is going and push down when you roll back down. To step off you just put your f00t on the ground and step off.
