Hi, my name is Joe. Joe
Crow!
I’m called Joe Crow because
that’s what I am. A crow! I’m a little bit different from most crows. Do you
know why? It’s because my beak is bright yellow. Most crows have a black beak
but I was born differently. It made me very famous in the woodlands of my home
town, Eastbourne. That's in England. I was so famous, in fact, that I became good friends with some of
the humans! Especially those at Pashley Down Infant School (more about that
later). My pet, Mr. MacInnes (more about him later too!), was a teacher there
so I got to know lots of different children.
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Me and my pet, Mr. MacInnes. |
You see, crows are extremely
clever birds; our bird family, called corvids, are the cleverest of all
bird-kind! That’s why I was allowed to help Mr. MacInnes in the class. Humans
need a lot of help, and I’m much better at solving puzzles than he is! I was very good at helping in Pashley Down School, and I was never, ever naughty... Just ask the children! Anyway,
one day Mr. MacInnes decided he was going to leave Pashley Down School. It wasn’t
an easy decision, apparently, he had to think about it a lot. But when he left,
so did I. And we didn’t just move to a new school, or a new town. We moved to
an entirely new country, in an entirely new continent! The place we moved to is
called Bhutan.
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A river in Paro, Bhutan. The international airport is in Paro. |
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Here you can see the peak of Mount Jomolhari, the tallest mountain in Bhutan. |
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Bhutan is a very small
country in Asia. It’s next to Tibet and India, and it is very mountainous.
That means there are lots of big mountains! I’d never seen mountains before and
they really are... enormous! The mountains
all have different names but together they are called the Himalayas.
I was a bit scared when we
moved to Bhutan. Mr. MacInnes said there were tigers and bears here, and I didn’t
know if the other birds would like me. Also, everything here is so new. The
animals, the scenery, the buildings and the things people wear and do are so
different from back home in England. Some of the things that I do seem strange
to the people here. But I am used to being different, and I’m sure I will get
used to things eventually. I hope you can see in the pictures how different
things look.
Great blog, very informative, thank you Joe Crow
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