The Earth rotates on its axis, and this takes 24 hours. Because of this, different parts of the world have different time. Countries agreed on this system in 1884. Time zones start at the Prime Meridian at Greenwich in London and end with the International Date Line. If you cross it, you change days, so you can go from today to yesterday! Samoa decided to change from one side of the International Date Line to the other in 2011. They went from December 29 to December 31, so they skipped December 30!

(Sidenote: the pupils in the group then had to describe their worst possible day involving all the worst events that could happen to them. They had to cram all this into one day they could skip just like the Samoans in December 2011).

Our worst possible day would look like this: First, there is a storm that day and at school, I have five lessons of Maths. During the storm, a lightning hits our house so we have to move to the cousins’ place then. The floor on the way to the cousins’ is frozen, so I slip and I break my leg. The ambulance comes and crashes into a tree, so I have to walk to the hospital. I am robbed on the way and when I come to the hospital, it is closed. So I spend the night in front of the hospital because my leg is too painful to walk. We would be happy to skip this day just like the Samoans did.

Špela, Nejc, Raisa, Gloria,7. r