Callanan Middle School

This is a great school. This school is a 6th through 8th grade school that mainly leads in to Theodore Roosevelt High School. This school is a nice school with some pretty cool teachers and a lot of cool kids. This is a good place to go to middle school, and I would choose to go here over almost any other middle school in Des Moines.

There are a lot of things to know about Callanan like that our old gym is now the school library. We have a pretty new gym that has the famous big cougar in the center. This is a very cool and fun school that I actually don't hate coming to. I love hanging out with friends and everyone in the school. This was the last stop of the trip.

We Are Going Where?!?! Los Angeles, California

This was a trip that I personally thought was going to be fun just because Casey Blake who plays for the Los Angeles DOdgers is from Indianola, Iowa. He also went to high school with my aunt and they are still best friends for life. He still lives in Indianola in the off season but then lives in Los Angeles during the season. He lives down the street from my grandpa's house in Indianola. He is a good baseball player too. He plays 3rd base for the Dodgers and is a very good hitter. This was a great trip.

I learned a lot like that LA has about 90 stages and about 300 museums. I got to go to about five museums and one stage to see the play Wicked. LA is big enough to have two baseball teams like New York and Chicago. They have a very succesful NBA team, the LA Lakers. They have a lot of sports teams and almost all of them are succesful.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

On my trip to Rio de Janeiro I really wanted to see the world famous statue of Christ. The statue tital is Christ the Redeemer. It was very cool when i visited and saw it. It is a lot bigger than I origanly thought it was going to be. There were a lot of people visiting the statue at the time that I went so it was a little crouded but I was still able to get up close to it. The view is an amazing view looking over the city. This is the same city that is a canidate for the 2016 Olympic Games. There has never been a host city for the olympics in South America ever in history. This was a fun trip and I learned a lot.

The stands at 30 meters made by the artist Paul Landowski. It sits on Corcovado Mountain. Until 1960 Rio was the capital of Brazil until it was moved inland to Brasilia. The current population in Rio is 7,000,000 people. These are just some of the things that I learned on the trip to Rio.

Chelsea, England

This was actually the city I was looking forward to the most because it is home to my favorite soccer team Chelsea FC. I also was looking forward to it because I wanted to hace some of the authentic fish and chips. I actually got some fish and chips while I was at the Chelsea FC vs. Manchester Untied game. It had to have been one of the best days of my life because I loved the fish and chips and chelsea won the game 2-1. It was a great game and my favorite team came out victorious. I loved this trip almost as much as I loved the trip to China.

There was some things to learn while I was there like that in the 18th century a dentist tied a string around a patients tooth and tied the other end to a hole tied in a bullet. He then loaded the same bullet into his shotgun and pulled the trigger. I would not want that to happen to me ever. I also learned that the Sex Pistols (band) were from Chelsea origanly.

Were Going To...Paris, France

I knew that I was going to have to try the snails here sometime and was actually looking forward to it until i got to the resturant. It was a little akward with everyone watching me trying to figure out how to eat them. I didn't know if i should suck out the actual snail or just crack the shell off with the knife or fork. I finally had to ask the waiter and he gratefully told me how but because of his accent I still didn't really follow what he was saying. I just smiled and nodded and then tryed to eat one. The waiter stayed there next to the table making sure I knew what I was doing which didn't make things better. I finally got the hang of eating snails after about three attempts in three different ways. Overall I did terrible but the snails were actually pretty good.

I learned on this trip that France is the 6th laregest economy in the world. The Eiffel Tower is a total of 984 feet tall and towers over the city. I learned that le Toure de France is ended in Paris every year by riding a number of laps in the city. I also learned that the Louve is one of the largest art museums in the world.