Hello From Away followers! I am delighted to be posting again. Today I am going to document what we have been doing the past few days, talk about the next few days, and make some observations about this whole Covid-19 thing. I should probably start on Saturday the 21st. On Saturday, our family was getting a little bored of staying home practically all day and we were looking for sources of entertainment to subdue our extreme boredom. We thought that we should start an 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle. The dilemma was that we didn’t have an 1,000 piece puzzle. Luckily, our aunt Clare had 2, and the generously lent them both to us for the duration of the break! That was entertaining but we were also lacking fresh air, so my mom made an executive decision that we were going on a bicycle ride. The bike ride was actually very enjoyable except for the fact that we were underdressed and were all frigid. There’s always next time. In addition, we baked blueberry lemon scones. We think that the recipe had a typo because it took a lot longer to bake than it said it would. Anyway, the scones were scrumptious and here is a link to the recipe if you want to try making them. Link. The next day, Sunday, was a pretty low-key day. We stayed at home most of the day, excluding when we went to the schoolyard after lunch for a bit of fresh air. Another thing we accomplished was creating a schedule for “homeschool”. At the moment, we have reached our max GBs of photos but I might be able to find a way to post it later on. Similarly, today we didn’t leave the house much, however, we had a schedule to follow for the first day of “homeschool”! In the morning, we read our books, did math, wrote letters to our step-great-grandmother, Tillie, and started to make ice cream in our ice cream maker for (perfect segway into) my birthday tomorrow! Yep. That’s right. My 11th birthday is tomorrow! I am a bit bummed out that a lot of things are closed due to the virus but I will make the most of it. I feel like my parents are planning something. On the topic of the virus, I, personally, am not too worried about getting sick with the virus, I am more worried about the virus keeping on spreading and doing damage to the world we know today. The elderly population is most at risk so I hope that everyone can stay healthy and happy. Signing off, Evan.

1. Are you asleep?
2. Your name
3. The other end of the rope isn’t tied to anything.
4. Brad was a window cleaner and he was cleaning the windows outside the building. He opened the window and jumped into the building.
5. If you move half every time you will never reach the door.
6. The letter E.

I am sorry I didn’t post the answers yesterday. It slipped my mind.

Hello everybody! Today I was bored so I looked up some riddles and puzzles to keep me entertained. I am going to share some of them with you and tomorrow I will post the answers to them.

What question can you never answer yes to?

What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?

     A horse is tied to a five meter rope, six meters away from it was a bale of hay. Without breaking the rope, the horse was able to get to the bale of hay. How is this possible?

Brad stared through the dirty soot-smeared window on the 22nd floor of the office tower. Overcome with depression he slid the window open and jumped through it. It was a sheer drop outside the building to the ground. Miraculously after he landed he was completely unhurt. There was no cushioning, so how did he survive?

If you’re 8 feet away from a door and with each move you advance half the distance to the door. How many moves will it take to reach the door?

I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation, and I surround every place. What am I?

If you have any riddles you’d like to share with me. I’d be happy to try and solve them

Hello everybody!! I know this blog is called From Away and it’s supposed to be a travel blog about an amazing 6 month trip across Europe and Asia. However, during this three-week break from school due to Covid-19, I’ve been bored so I have decided to come back to the blog for the school break. I will write what I am doing off from school and give tips on how to stay entertained during this long break from school or work. I am deciding to call my posts From Home. So far, I have had a pretty entertaining 3 days. On Saturday, we cycled to Bloor Street and bought groceries. Also it was Pi Day! The first three digits of pi are 3.14 and it was 3/14. For Pi Day, my Mom and I made an apple Pie and BTW, I know the first 101 digits of pi. I’ll save you the trouble of looking at 101 digits of pi. On Sunday, we went for a neighbourhood jog for some exercise. We also watched an episode of Survivor season 26 (we are going to binge watch it over the break). Today (Monday), we went skiing at Hockley Valley. We were hoping to go to a different ski hill but due to Covid-19, basically all ski hills except Hockley Valley near us were closed. Luckily, Hockley was open for one more day then most ski hills and we went on the day it was closing. I have reached my max GBs of photos but I will try my best to describe stuff as best as I can. Feel free to leave comments and I will try to respond to them as soon as I can. What are you doing to stay entertained? Signing off, Evan.