Sylvia DeCorso – The Blue Van – Overland Travels

Bike Accident

Sylvia DeCorso — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 18:44:29 +0000

Soooooooo today me and my sister Annabelle went for a bike ride for our once a day daily exercise. On our way home, a dog was sitting on the side of the bike path, the owner was off on the other side, as soon as I was about to go past it, the owner called it towards him, I was not able to stop in time, so I hit the dog. Happily, the dog was fine and it ran back over to its owner, I was not that good in shape, my knee was scraped and so were other parts of my body, I got the wind knocked out of me and I’m pretty sure I bruised my chest, it still hurts but not as much now. Other than that point I quite like biking, I learned how to ride a bike when my grandpa took me and my siblings biking when I was about six or seven, I could never really ride my bike in Alaska because it was either too cold or it was a dirt road, and we didn’t have the right bike for that, so it nice to be able to ride your bike down the streets of Edinburgh with hardly any cars on the road. Other than going out once a day for exercise, nothing really happens. I miss school and my friends, but I hope it’ll be over soon. One of the drawbacks of the bikes are the seats, there very uncomfortable, after you ride it for a long time, the next time you take the bike out you can’t really sit down on the seat, so that’s really the only bad part. I’ve come to realize that this so called social distancing it is quite different all over the world, here in the United Kingdom we are only aloud to leave your house once a day for exercise, other than that you can’t leave your house.

Social Distancing — Sylvia

Sylvia DeCorso — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 16:50:56 +0000

A lot has happened, such as, us going back to Scotland, me going to school, oh and well covid-19, how could I forget, well its not like schools shut down across the whole world and we’re only aloud to leave the house for exercise, but one of the lamest things is my school shutting down. I really love my school and my teachers, and it was so different than being homeschooled, you had to actually talk to people that wasn’t your family, it was such a big change, by the time school shut down I had only been in Scotland for a few months ( like two or three ) and so when I found out that school was going to close I was devastated, I had just begun to settle into place, this ment I had to say goodbye to friends for who knows how long, some of friends were supposed to leave at the end of term, and some people were leaving the country, they were horribly blue, they never might see these people again. Now I am simply locked up in my rental house, nothing to do except sit around all day, nothing interesting happens , just same old same, eating junk food and watching TV, this is the affect the corona virus has on people, ripping familys, friendship, relationships apart.

The Train Ride & a Castle

Sylvia DeCorso — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 21:46:40 +0000

We woke up really early in the morning, like 5am or something, to go to the train. We didn’t have any breakfast so everyone was really hungry. Mom made sandwiches but I don’t really like sandwiches. On the train, there was a cafeteria and a bathroom but the cafeteria was closed but in first class, they had food. So we had to eat sandwiches for lunch and I really don’t like sandwiches. The train took about three hours. It was night when we left for about an hour and then it started becoming day and then we switched trains. We got to Liverpool and we had to go to the bathroom but it cost 30 pence and there was a really long line. Liverpool was kind of ugly. When we walked around a mall and we went into a shop to use the bathroom. We saw a kit for a gingerbread house and I was thinking of buying it when we got our camper which was at a port. We walked to a dock called the Albert Dock and it had a lot of stores. There was a candy store on the dock and a store that was named after my sister Annabelle called Annabelle’s Accessories which my sister’s name is. After that, my sister and brother showed up. My sister and brother got to the dock because they came from John Lennon’s house. I don’t know who John Lennon is. We each bo ught a scarf and it was pretty. We walked about 2 miles to the camper and dad picked us up in our camper which had just been shipped. It took about an hour to find a place to cam p. We are camping at a beach with sand dunes and iron men made to look like this one man and there are 100 of them on the beach. They were creepy because they stand there and just kind of watch you. The next day, me and my brother and sister went out to explore the beach and we went way out really far because the tide was out and there was one iron man covered with barnacles and seaweed.

Before all this, we went to a castle back in our town. It was really fun. We walked around the dining hall and it was the castle where Queen Mary of Scots and her son lived and he made a coffin just for his mom, exactly of the perfect size of her exact face, eyes, dress and shoes. We went to where he made a building for his mother, because of her execution. She got executed by Queen Elizabeth. Queen Elizabeth chopped off her head. Before that she was in prison for 20 years. And there is a building made just for another mom, the oldest building in the castle and when the British attacked, they spared this one building. It was a tiny church. We saw the crown jewels of the castle. It was interesting. At the castle, we had snacks. My sister and brother had cake and my mom and dad had shortbread but I had crisps. Crisps are chips in Scottish. Later we went out to dinner and it was really nice. I got Bangers and Mash which means sausages and mashed potatoes. We were all really full. My brother couldn’t eat it all so he wrapped up his fish in a napkin and put it in his pocket and we called it a night.