Friday 18 February 2011

Palolem Beach, Goa






February 17th 2011

Edie:
We took our first auto-rickshaw in India yesterday to an animal sanctuary for dogs and cats. They were all really cute but it was quite sad, some of them had been attacked by crows and some flies had laid their eggs on the dogs and maggots had burrowed into their ears and backs.
A sweet kitten had a bent paw and she couldn’t walk properly.
There was an adorable little white kitten that they thought was going to die soon, she was not eating or drinking.
My favourite dog was called Mootsie. She had brain damage probably from being thrown into the river by her ears. There was also a cow called Bella, she had been run over. She thought she was a dog because she been brought up with dogs! She was very friendly, you cou;d stroke her.
I donated 700  rupees ( about ten pounds) to the sanctuary to help all the animals.

In the evening we went by rickshaw to an outdoor dance club by the sea called Neptune’s point . They were showing a film in the open air about King George, called The Kings speech. The evening was organised to raise money for the sanctuary. The film was about King George VIth. He had a stammer and he had knock-knees when he was little. His parents made him put metal down his legs to straighten them up. His first nanny that he ever had, pinched him and didn‘t feed him.
We all loved it, even Will
Louis sat in the front of the rickshaw on the way home.


Will:
Yesterday we saw some men cutting down coconuts from the palm trees.  I wrote a postcard to school telling them about the coconuts.
The men climbed slowly up the trees. They used their feet and their hands to get up the trees. When they were at the top, they put a rope around the tree that held them up.
Then they had a big knife in their pockets and they cut off the coconuts and they fell down to the path.
The ladies came by and picked up the coconuts and they put them in boxes and bags. It looked like they were going to fall down but they are very good at staying up. I didn’t know that rope could hold men up trees. It was around their feet, it kept their feet together and stopped them from falling down.

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