Travelog for: Timothy III.

Hi Mummy,
finally life is getting normal here. This week thawing started. Yesterday we even had 12°C !

Look, most of the snow melted away.





We went to say Hello to Katja's sister-in-law, she is celebrating her birthday today. She is living in this street.







We hope that the remains of the snow will also melt soon!

Bye
Timothy

Hi Mummy,
we were so glad that the snow melted away, and now this ....



I am really fed up with snow!

Bye
Timothy III.

Hi Mummy,
once more it is really ugly outside, rainy and foggy. Because nobody wanted to go outside, we had time for a long breakfast.

Katja bought bread rolls and a Sunday paper.





Bye
Timothy III

Hi Mummy,
in the evening we prepared my envelope. Tomorrow I will travel to England. Katja told me that it would be nice to take some sweets with me for my next host.





I'm looking foreward to better weather!!

Bye
Timothy III.

Hi Mum,
I arrived safely in England late today.

It's warmer than Germany and there is no snow. My new host is a student and lives in student accomodation. It's big and lots of people live here. I didn't eat the sweets while travelling like I promised so my host shared them with me. They were yummy!

We played some video games.

I got to see what we will study in class tomorrow. It was Japanese! It looks difficult but I'm excited!

I will get to go to university lessons all week!
Bye,
Timothy III

Hi Mum,
Today was my first day of lessons. I went to Japanese class in the Fylde building.

Here is the view out of the window, we were very high up.

Here I am ready to learn!

After the lesson we went back to the flat and I helped cook bacon sandwiches. Learning is hungry work.

We also drank hot chocolate, white hot chocolate mixed with normal hot chocolate. It was really creamy.

Here is the view from the kitchen window. There are lots of flats in student halls.

After sandwiches we hung out in my host's friend's room. He has a big television.

I also made some friends. I told them about my adventures. Maybe they would like to explore the world one day.

Afterwards we went to one stop, the shop round the corner.

We looked at the tasty biscuits.

As I'm in England I had to see the tea!

Afterwards we went to the chinese supermarket and bought some tinned lyches. We bought some stuffed with pineapple which was very sweet and tasty.

We also bought coconut cream buns that were delivered fresh today. They were very very tasty.

I had a busy day today! I will be going to another lesson tomorrow.
Bye,
Timothy III

Hi Mum,
I started today by going to another lesson. It was in the Livesey House building today.

This time it was about Nationalism and imperialism in Asia and we learnt about Ghandi in India.

That night I got to listen to one of my host's friends play guitar in the kitchen. He was really good!

He also had a ukelele!

I helped them cook dinner.

It was vegetarian spaghetti bolognese. Doesn't it look tasty?

Tomorrow there aren't any lessons but there is still work to do.
Bye,
Timothy III

Hi Mum,
We woke up at midday today because there wasn’t any lessons. We went to the library to work on a group presentation. I’m afraid I couldn’t help much so I admired the view out of the window.

Here I am looking at a few books.

We went to a small party to celebrate Chinese New Year. It's the year of the rabbit now. We drank special chinese tea.

They had a big chocolate cake to celebrate.

I managed to get a piece with the rabbit's bottom on!

For dinner that night we had what we found in the cupboards, it was very mismatched! I helped make some vegetarian sausages. You just add water to the mixture, made them sausage shaped and fry them. It was fun!

After that we ate some vegetarian sushi. I had a bit with some cucumber in with soy sauce. The soy sauce came in a little fish shaped bottle which was very cute.

For dessert we ate some chocolate. It was a milk tray selection box. I liked the caramel ones the best.

Tomorrow we're going to a free concert. I'm a little scared because there will be lots of people but my host and friends say they'll keep me safe.
Bye,
Timothy III

Hi Mum,
Sorry for the lack of updates. My host had a lot of university work all at once but I helped as much as I could!

I'll do a big update now. I've been to two concerts and even met people from the televison. The first concert had many bands but some were boring so I helped play chess with my host and their friends.

I got to ride in one of their pockets and he made me a hat to wear.


When the main band called Brontide played we got to stand right at the front. It was very loud with guitars and drums but no singing. My host says it's called post-rock music. Afterwards they bought the record and I got to be in a photo with the band and my host's friends!


The second concert was for the acapella band called The Blanks. They are from the television programme called Scrubs. They were very funny and we got to meet the band afterwards! We got our tickets signed.

I also helped make a big cake. First it was just going to be two seperate cakes.

But then we swirled the cake mix together and it stayed like that after it cooked.

It was fun icing the cake with lots of chocolate icing and little chocolate stars.

The cake was really tasty. I've also been eating cornish pasties.

And I got to see a duck really close up! Well, I still had a window there to protect me.

Bye,
Timothy III

Hi Mum,
This is my last update with this host as I'm going to Chile!
I went back to my host's home town with them. We got a train then rode the buses. Here is me waiting for a bus.

I visted their grandparents and helped them in their garden.


We went out to see the ducks and swans. They told me how big swans are and I got a little afraid. To conquer my fear I got to play with a smaller swan first.

I managed to get quite close to a real swan as well.

We also saw some ducklings. They were very cute.

The day before I set out on my travels we had ate pizza, sugar mice and drank sarsaparilla.

The pizza arrived with a piece already missing!


Here I am on my way.

Bye bye United Kingdom!
Timothy III

I arrived in Chile! Luckily just in time for the celebration of the Mapuche new year! known as "Wetripantu" in Mapudungun (Mapuche language). Oh, by the way, Mapuches are the chilean aborigines. 
First we went around the stands in a square watching and trying some food.





They told me this yellow thing is called "chuchoca", it's dry mashed corn. 





This woman was wearing the typical mapuche dress and jewelry!



And this man was wearing the mapuche male costume.



I found this trolley and wanted to get closer to see what was on sale.



Candied apples! 



Yummy!! 



I heard a puppet show was about to start, so we got closer to see if we could find a good place to watch...




...but everywhere was so full that we ended up where the actors were, behind scene! 



I saw the very start of the show and recorded a video! That way you can hear the sound of the mapuche instruments.









I saw something was going on with cameras and microphones so I got closer to see 



They were cameras from TV! They were interviewing some politician guy...



As I got closer they didn't take long to notice me and I took part of the interview as well 



Soon enough they forgot about the politician and I was the main star,  I told them about my journey and ToyVoyagers project.
It was quite an exiting day!!

Yesterday we went to walk Leslie's dog, and since our house is in the very edge of the city, the countryside and a forest are just a few steps away!



This is her, Licy. I was excited to meet her but she didn't really pay much attention to me... she was busy running and playing around... 



From up here you can see our village.



And this is the view to the other side.




Then we walked through a path in the forest, but always near the edge 



And look what I found! A copihue! The national flower of Chile, which only grows in forests and ravines and it's very hard to find! Most of them are not flowering in this time of the year. How lucky I am! 

Look at this huge fabric! it caught my attention when i came into the house in my very first day here! It's from Bolivia. It's nice isn't it 



And I also found this big flag. Leslie told me that the red color symbolizes the blood spread during the conquest, the blue color, the sky, and the white color, the snow in the mountains.

I asked Leslie what nice places were there around, and she suggested Ñielol Hill, so in the afternoon he headed there 
We went up in the car and near the parking lot there were these 4 meters tall mapuche totems! They are called Chemamulls.





There was a fallen one near the others, because it was rotten.
I took a closer look at him.




Another thing that caught my attention were all the ashes on the ground! They came from Puyehue volcano, which is erupting in the south. 



From this high view point you can see Temuco, and notice that everything looks kind of white... that's because of the ash fall.






Mushrooms!  how nice!




Then we headed to the information centre, which had a little natural museum indise!!



There was an embalmed condor!!! It is the national bird of Chile and also the largest flying bird in the world!! It has a wingspan of about 3.2 m (10.5 ft) and can live up to 100 years!  What an amazing bird!!



Then I moved to these "piñones", the seed of Araucaria tree, the national tree of Chile. There were headphones to hear some information. 



Near there was a huge map of the 9th region of Chile, "La Araucanía" which where I am now.
I learned that just in La Araucanía there are 7 volcanoes! And in Chile, more than 2,900!!! which is the 15% of all the volcanoes in the world



I saw this embalmed Chilla Fox.



...And this huge rodent called Coipo. 



Nice teeth buddy! 



I also saw some other typical birds from this area.




And last but not least, a volcanic "bomb". A rock trown by a volcano... lucky that we are not near the erupting volcano! I wounld't really like to see rocks like this falling from the sky! 



And that was it.  I really enjoyed today!! 

A new TV joined me ! her name is Fiona and she's a lovely llama from USA. I welcomed her and then told her something Leslie had told me just a while ago, We are going on a trip to the north! 



We got some supplies into our backpacks and were ready early, but had to wait for Leslie, since she said she needed to get some stuff done before leaving. We were so anxious and she was taking so long! 



When Leslie was almost ready I suggested that we could go ahead, at least to the garden and wait for her there. But when we were opening the door we heard a voice saying "wait for me!"...



It was a pelican asking us not to leave him behind, he introduced himself as Wilson, a resident toy living here at Leslie's house. He said he's coming too  Great! more toys, more fun 



And then finally we left! You'll see more pictures later