my trip to Wales!

Chaz’s Diary/notes
July 09.
Hi I’m Chaz, that’s short for Chandrika, which means moonlight. Chandra means moon and I love the moon.
I woke up in Brick Lane in March, and I started being called Chaz. Maybe Chandrika is too hard for people to spell, as it’s not an English name.
Since my first outing in Brick lane, where I met lots of people in the market and skipped over the red and white barriers that seem to line the roads there, I have been quite lonely and just hanging out with Kinetika at The Brady Centre.
I have to say though from my top shelf, there always seems to be a lot going on in that room. Lots of people make things that I’d like to get a closer look at.
A couple of weeks ago Ali – she’s the lady that seems to be in charge, finally decided to take me with her on one of her trips.
We drove a very long way and the view out of the window started changing. We went over a very long bridge and then there were mountains and everything turned green. I felt really excited because it was so beautiful.


















We arrived in Wales, and met some of
Ali’s friends, Peter, Cath and Aimee. They drove me up a really big hill and at the top was a massive wall with a lake on one side and a stream on the other. They said it was a dam. I sat on the wall, which was quite scary because it was a really really long way to fall off.
In the evening I already started to make new friends, Tom, Brad, Mike and Paula.
Tom has very yellow hair that was different from the people I met in Brick Lane. I am hoping he is going to write me song so I can remember the lovely time we had in the green place.










The next day I arrived in a place where there was lots of children the same height as me. They didn’t notice me at first, but when they did they all ran towards me. I think they were excited to see me because I have come from such a long way away. I flew up above them so they could see me and took a ride on an umbrella.









I made so many friends and some of them took me for a walk to make some more.



We went into a building made of stone and there were lots of friendly people drinking tea, and I met Mr. Humphries. He was sitting in front of some large pipes, and he suddenly started making some beautiful music, which made me want to fly and explore all the lights in the ceiling. It reminded me of where I use to live a little bit.












Next Tom said we were going to a football match, so we had to hurry down to have my photo taken with a lot of small people in blue shirts holding a ball. I was beginning to feel like I was really special, the way everyone was so good to me.Imagine how amazed I was the next day when I woke up by the side of a river and met some of the children from the day before. They gave me a big box, and inside were lots of little boxes with special seeds, and plants and stones inside. They come specially from this green place so I have them with me in London.
Next they gave me some things to wear, they said it was because it was carnival the next day and they invited me to come and see them in their new clothes too.
We visited the whole town and met everyone.
On the last day I went to carnival and visited all my friends, they were so pleased to invite me onto their big floats and I was really sad to leave.
I hope that I can go back to that lovely green place soon. I miss my friends there.