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2018 FIFA World Cup

As you already may have known, the France National Football Team has won the world cup. They played excellently and won all the matches except for one that they drew: France win! France 2 - 1 Australia France 1 - 0 Peru France 0 - 0 Denmark France 4 - 3 Argentina France 2 - 0 Uruguay France 1 - 0 Belgium France 4 - 2 Croatia They played an amazing match with Croatia and got the trophy! Do you know how? Let's see the top players in the France National Football Team: Mbappe Mbappe - He also plays for PSG and is one of the best players in this team only being 19 years old. Griezmann - He plays for Athletico Madrid and is also a great player. Pavard - He scored a brilliant goal against Argentina Lloris - The goalkeeper who plays for Tottenham Hotspur and the captain for France. Pogba - He plays for Manchester United and is a great long- shooter Giroud - He plays for Chelsea as a striker Kante - He also plays for Chelsea and takes great free kicks Llor...

NEWS REPORT

On the 27th of June, a few schoolboys and their coach went cave diving. They were from a Thai soccer team called the Wild Boars. They had planned to in for an hour. They went 9 kilometers deep inside the cave.  Suddenly, after they had gone inside, it started to rain so heavily that it started to flood. Because of this, even the cave got flooded. Later, the boys found a dry mud place and sat there. They did not know what to do. They stayed there for 6 days.  Inside the cave On the 2nd of July, two British divers found them on the pit inside the cave. The real question was how to take them out. Another diver died on the 6th when he was carrying the others' air tanks.  Before the removal of the boys, about 243 million liters of water was removed from the cave. On the 8th of July four of the boys were rescued. There were two divers per kid. The diver in front of the kid held his air tank. They sometimes walked and sometimes on a stretcher. Strategy The same t...

Trip to Thailand

I went with my family to Thailand on the 7th of June and returned on the 12th of June. We went for 6 days and 5 nights. DAY 1 Scoot, Singapore's low cost airline On the 7th of June, I had a flight to go to Chiang Mai, a place in Northern Thailand. Our flight was supposed to be at 12 noon but was re-timed to 1 pm.  We were going by Scoot Airlines, Singapore's low cost airline. Our flight number was TR 674. The duration of the flight was about 3 hours. There was no entertainment, but the flight was comfortable. We had some lunch that we had picked up from the airport. Our plane in the air When we landed in the Chiang Mai International Airport, we noticed it was very small. As soon as we finished immigration and collected our baggage, we went to the arrival hall and there was a man wi th our family's name. The bed of The Grand Napat We were staying at a serviced apartment called ' The Grand Napat'. The man had brought a 10 seat vehicle just in...

Book review - The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis

Parvana, a sixth grade student, lived in Afghanistan with her family. All girls and women were not allowed to go outside the house or go to school. This was a strict rule made by the Taliban, the people ruling Afghanistan. Her family consisted of her father, her mother, elder sister Nooria, younger sister Maryam and younger brother Ali. Her father gets arrested for having books in the house and having a foreign education. The Breadwinner Her father was the only one who could earn money in the family as he is the only one who could go outside. How could her family earn money? Mrs. Weera, her mother's friend, had come to help them to settle down. All of them were very scared without him. Their previous houses had been bombed because of the war. Each time their house was bombed, they moved into a smaller house and lost a lot of things. They lived in a small room. Parvana and her mother decide to change Parvana into a boy to earn some money for her family. She will become ...

Thread ceremony of my cousin, Dhruv

On the 26th of March, a Monday, I went to attend my cousin, Dhruv's 'thread ceremony' or ' Poonal ceremony.' There had been a shorter ceremony the day before at our grandparents' house where six priests had come and do some prayers. Thread Ceremony  I had to wake up at 6:30 am in the morning. I took a car to ' Ragasudha Hall' in Chennai. When I first arrived, I saw that the ceremony had already started. Most of the people were eating breakfast. The special thing was they were eating on a banana leaf. That is the specialty of the South Indians. I  also had breakfast - Vada (an Indian dish made up of ground pulses in the shape of a ball), Idli (a South Indian steamed cake of rice) and a sweet. After that, Dhruv and his parents were onstage and his dad had to repeat the prayers that the priest was saying. In total, there were also six priests again. They later had to pour water on Dhruv, which is a tradition to make him clean and wash away the bad ...