Blogging Bears

Students at Hadley Middle School in Wichita, Kansas - USA, sent a teddy bear named Ted Hadley to students in Italy. In return, students in Italy sent their teddy bear (Bea) to students at Hadley. The students will be journaling from the view point of their visiting bears. This exchange will help the students practice their English, as well as learn about a different country and their culture.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

I visited Mrs. Young's house

















Hello everyone,
I went home with the assistant principal, Mrs. Young. She was in the picture at Thanksgiving dressed like a turkey!! She is so funny and she has daughters I can play with at her house. I came to the house and found my miniature/giant Barbie house. Tomorrow is Valentine's Day so I got some roses. I took a tour of my new house, it has 9 rooms!!! I will be here for 3 days and hope to enjoy every second of it. I got here pretty late and didn't have time to do much, so now I am going to bed. I will write more tomorrow. (Later that same night) I didn't go to sleep yet, I watched TV for a little bit. Now I will go to bed.
Valentine's Day: Today I'm going to a concert. It's not a Valentine concert or a punk rock concert. It is a band concert. Honer Band to be exact. Last night I slept in my huge house. This morning I went into my kitchen and found some huge roses. I took a picture of them with my camera. Today I thought that before the concert I would take a picture of my whole house.
Feb. 15th: Today I'm going to a Mexican restaurant called Ladesmas. Hopefully their food is good. At the restaurant I ate so much. When we got home we had to clean up a little bit. The Young's had some friends over and we watched a car race "The Daytona 500". There was a lot of food there too.
Feb. 16th: Today some of the Young's friends came over. We had a lot of fun playing school and hide and seek. This is my last day here and it has been really fun!

I love you all, Bea

My visit with Alysia







Hello,
I went home with Alysia for the weekend and we went to her father's house. I met her baby brother, he was so cute and tiny!!! We took one of Alysia's friends to eat dinner with us at a Chinese restaurant. I put my fortune from my cookie in my purse. Later we watched television. The next day we went to her mother's house and watched her brother play baseball (he is really good at it). We also went to Aysia's cousins' house, and all of them loved me! They wouldn't put me down, they liked to hold me. We also went to the movies and Alysia shared some candy and popcorn with me. It was really good. After the movie we went to eat dinner, we had Chinese food again. They must REALLY like Chinese food. On my last day with Alysia I was sad to leave because we had so much fun. I like meeting her whole family and they were really nice. We went to her cousins' house again and played games, ate tacos, played and watched television. I had such a nice time with her and her family.

Love, Bea

I went home with Ranessa




Hi,

I went home with Ranessa on a school bus. I got to meet her mom and she is very nice. Her little brother is William and her sisters' names are Shae and Tiera they are nice too. Tiera loved me very much and wanted to hold me. She took good care of me. I liked all of them!! I went to church and met Ranessa's cousins. I liked Jordan she is also 12 and we had fun! I got to meet her hamsters. Ranessa held them and I got scared for a minute but I stopped being scared and it was alright.

I hope all of you are fine. How is the weather in Italy? It is cold here, but it will warm up here soon. I love you all, Bea