Kyle the Crocodile

From Kirby:

Hi! We travled from Hong Kong to Seoul, South Korea, a distance of 1,362 miles. We moved across another time zone so now we are 14 hours ahead of Raleigh. 

Question: If it is 4:00 in the afternoon in Raleigh, what time is it in Seoul?

 

Seoul is the capial of South Korea with a population of 10 million people. The metropolitan area called Seoul National Capital Area includes the cities of Incheon and Gyeonggi-do. The area has a total population of 24.5 million people making it the world’s second largest metropolitan area.

Question: What is the world’s largest metropolitan area?

 

 

 

Next I go to the Philippines and Thailand. Talk to you later!

Love, Kirby

 

Hi all, Kirby Crocodile is now in Asia. He is traveling with a pilot for FedEx, so he will get to see lots of places in Asia. Here are the first pictures from the trip. First, Kirby had to fly from Raleigh to New York, and then he had a long flight from New York to Hong Kong. Here is what Kirby had to say. – Kyle

 

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Well, it was a long trip. It took us 15 1/2 hours to get from New York to Hong Kong. Hong Kong is 13 hours ahead of Raleigh. That means if it 12:00 p.m. in North Carolina (lunch time), it is 1:00 a.m. the next day in Hong Kong. I did have a really comfortable seat on the way over and even got to meet one of the pilots of the Cathy Pacific flight I was on.

 

 

 

After the long flight it was nice to arrive in Hong Kong. It was not a very clear day that day. There is a lot of smog in the city. I got to see one of the double-decker busses that people use to get around the city. Where else do they use double-decker busses??

 

Here’s a question for all of you back at Sycamore Creek: what are the two official languages of Hong Kong?? Hint: one of them sounds pretty familiar.

There will be more pictures to come. I miss everyone back home, but am having a great time.

Hi everyone. Maybe we’ll be back to school tomorrow! In the meantime, here are a lot of pictures of Katie’s trip to Washington, DC to see the inauguration. Thanks to our friends at Worcester Academy for taking Katie. Don’t forget to watch the video conference with Katie in the next post. – Kyle

Students: Did you watch the inauguration? What did you like best about it? What are you thoughts about our new president? Click comments at the top of this post to answer these questions.

[All pictures from Worcester Academy]

Hi again. Here is the video conference Mr. Clobridge conducted on Tuesday with Rebecca and Danielle from Worcester Academy and Katie. We were going to show this live on all the TVs in school on Tuesday, but with the snow day we had to improvise.

The video is not the best quality and at times our video and audio feed gets a little “confused” but you can see Katie and hear a little bit about what they have been doing over the past two days. This was recorded live from the National Mall in Washington, DC on Tuesday, January 20 at 10:00am, two hours before the inauguration.

Kaite Crocodile and WA Students at Inauguration from Sycamore Creek ES on Vimeo.

Hi everyone. Katie and the students from Worcester Academy have posted some more pictures of their adventures. I hope everyone got to watch the inauguration from home (and that you are enjoying the snow). Mr. Clobridge talked via video conference to two WA students. That video will be posted to the blog soon. In the meantime enjoy the photos.  -Kyle