My Mini Holliday

So I arrive and My Host Family says were going on Holiday.  .Thought Tenerife was the Holiday.. ..........Location, Location, Location....

• Volcanic Island in a clear blue tropical ocean.
• Lots of fruit juices to put ice and little umbrellas in.
• Sun all the time.

O. K. so whats do they mean holiday???????

Well I said Tenerife has a VOLCANO...We on the Canary Islands every were you look there is a volcano.

Let me explain about volcanos..

They are cracks in the earths's crust were really hot liquid rock and other unpleasant stuff like sulfur gas and dirt escapes.

Volcanic Island
She's ready to blow

Unlike grade school. The baking soda and vinigar used in these puppies is like a billion degrees and there is no way Mom could fit one in he back of the van to take to school.

Anyway there is only one volcano on Tenerife. It' sjust hugh.

Well each of the other Canaries have at least one volcano also. Don't know why they aren't called the Volcano Islands.

I thought Canaries. Well there would be those little yellow birds that sing real sweet until a miner takes it down into a mine. I haven't seen a single canary. In fact, I have a whole sack of bird seed that I don't know what to do with.



Well the purpose of the holiday was for my host family to compete in an open water swim. Did I say my Host Parents are serious swimmers. They compete in open ocean swimming. Forget Jelly fish and those small spinny sea erchins that I stepped on. These people swim like 2 to 3 kilometers out into the Atlantic for fun. They swim fast too. I'm thinking they are thinking sharks. 

But then sharks are not very much differant than the fish we catch in Canada. So I desided to post a little video that my father took while he was raising money to help Rotary help children by participating in the Rotary Club of Brantford Graet Northern Ride. http://www.greatnorthernride.com/.  Look it up. They always are collecting money. Frankly I'll take my chances with sea creatures. Doing anything other than modeling ski apearal is simply uncivilized and cold.

Needless to say they (my Host family) made record time. My host sister and I tried to appear really supportive. We did get good tans. Well sort of.

  I got really really REALLY SUN BURNED. My skin feels like molten rock and is peeling off like the skin off one of those snakes in the plane that I came over on.

Did I tell you I didn't sleep on the flight over.

My host family has suggested that I train with them. For a while I was training with my Host Sister, dana. Now I'm training with Dana's grandmother.