GREEN FOOT!!

You have heard of BIG FOOT, I am GREEN FOOT!!! I was walking around the pool at school when I slipped (I wasn't messing around) and fell into the pool. I hit my foot on the edge of the pool as I fell in. The teachers asked me if I was OK and I said "I think so". I wanted to finish the swimming lesson, so I did. When the swimming lesson was finished. I got out of the pool and realised that my foot REALLY hurt. So I was allowed to go to the school nurse. My teacher offered to carry me, but I said "No, THANK YOU!!" and so one of my friends went with me to the nurse.

She put some cream on my foot and said that if it was still bad the next day then I should go to the hospital and get an x-ray. When Mum picked me up from school my foot was still killing me and I was in my uniform but had my flip-flops (thongs) on my feet. Mum was surprised that I didn't have on my school shoes and asked "why are you wearing your flip-flops?" So I told her.

When I got home, I sat on the couch and mum put some ice on my foot. Then she decided to take me to the hospital that afternoon. When we got to the hospital I had three x-rays and a ride in a wheel-chair. The doctor said that I had fractured three of the bones in my foot (that join to the three toes between my big toe and my little toe). Then I got a cast put on my foot. It goes all the way from my toes, around my heel and almost to my knee. The cast is green! That is why I said I am Green Foot! I also got two red crutches.

At first the crutches were hard to use (and my hands REALLY hurt and got a couple of blisters) but I am used to them now and am pretty good at moving around. I have to go back for a check in a couple of weeks.

School is good and I am fine. There is a photo of me and my green foot and my red crutches.

Alexander

Sarah's Blog -- Starting School

Hi everyone, it’s Sarah. I just finished my first week of school here in Dubai. It was great. Although, there’s some funny story’s too.

Alexander and I go to the same school but, the middle school and the high school are on a different campus to the primary school (where Alexander is). I also started a day early.

On the first day I caught the bus form the primary school to the high school but, the taking the attendance took forever and we were 12 minutes late. After we meet our homeroom teachers we got our lockers (mine smells like someone left their P.E. shoes in their locker all year) and our schedules we had English and Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies was really fun. Our teacher was really funny and we had to do a poster on our beliefs and values. Our teacher told us to leave that in our lockers until next class. So I left that day and I double checked that I had packed everything because there were papers that had to be signed. Nope, all that was there was my paper for Cultural studies. So I got home and I wanted show mum my timetable. I looked in my bag . . . It wasn’t there. Neither were the papers. I had left my timetable, homework book and papers that needed to be signed underneath the paper that was still in my locker! Oh No!!!

So the next day I catch the bus and we were 5 minutes late. I went to homeroom. That day I had Math, Arabic, Double period of Science and Computer Technology. Math was fun; my teacher looks like Jeff the Wiggle. Arabic was ok. Science was awesome! Our teacher is really cool, and in IT we learned about the great technology breakthroughs. That was really it for my second day.

On Thursday (the end of the week) I walked into the bus waiting area and I looked at my bag. Uh-oh. My locker key wasn’t there. I had left it in the car! I ran back out to where mum was parked. Luckily she was there and I got my locker key. The rest of the day was pretty uneventful.

So that’s my first week of school in Dubai. Bye!