Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Every spring they migrate to Bulgaria in this village. They bring the eggs and they wait for them to hatch and then the parents teach them how to fly and stuff like all birds do.
This is a bird nest that has been in Komuniga for over 60 years and they all keeping re producing each other so these are the new birds, they cant fly yet they are big but they are learning to fly now which is cool. This nest is right outside my grandmas house and every one can see the nest from far because its on a very high electricity post.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

My cousins working on the tobacco!!!!

Hi, this is a picture of me and my 2 cousins working on tobacco and you can see how much tobacco needs to be in the arrow. On the right is my cousin called Ismail and he is 11 years old and on the left with the orange shirt is my cousin Selmar who is 9 years old and they work every day her at the top of the mountain in Komuniga and they work so they can help there grandma and grandpa to survive and themselves as well so us in New Zealand are lucky because you guys don't even know what that is and how to do it and for them its there whole life until they get married or go study in another city.

Bulgaria!

This is my Grandmas house in a Turkish village in Bulgaria called Komuniga. It is a big village but it has lots of stuff like a shop for food a restaurant, a cafe, a soccer stadium and schools so lots of people live there roughly about 200-300 people live there and lots of kids live there that work every day of the summer picking tobacco leaves, putting them into metal arrows and then it gets sold to the factory and its not illegal here and you feel really lucky when you look at them and see how hard they work in summer when it gets up to 50 degrees without getting 5 minutes to play and thats how my mum was like when she was a kid so there is a story and there will be pictures of the tobacco leaves and my cousins working for there grandma and grandpas to survive.