July to December 2021 - 31st December, 2021

In July 2021, a dance group in Cuba was in the news. Datway's dancers learnt 'hip hop' online. They mixed it with Cuban dances and put it on the internet. They became famous.

And across North America the weather was hot.

"It was like 90 degrees at midnight or some - or 80 degrees or something - it was crazy."

In Western Europe, there were floods. We started space tourism, too.

Jeff Bezos: "We're going to build a road to space, so that our kids and their kids can build the future. And we need to do that. We need to do that to solve the problems here on Earth."

In August, the Olympics were in Japan. Sadly, people couldn't go.

Takako: "I'm Japanese and because of the Covid, I couldn't go back to Japan. That's why I went to see the Olympic Games on a big screen in the UK."

In Greece, tourists went to a new museum under the sea.

Hans Jurgen Fercher: "It makes it special and unique that it's a combination of diving and archaeological diving. It's diving into history."

In September, the band Abba told us about their new album. They created a special show too.

Hakan: "I'm knocked out! ABBA is back! ABBA is back! ABBA are avatars!"

It was the 20th anniversary of the 9/11attacks. 2977 people died. In New York, many people remembered them.

George W Bush: "In the weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks, I was proud to lead an amazing, resilient, united people."

September to October, there were many stories of freedom. There were Haitian refugees in Mexico. Britney Spears was free. And Little Amal remembered child refugees. She walked 2000 kilometres from Syria to the UK.

Jude Law: "It just seemed the most brilliant way to celebrate, try and raise awareness and share with the people who have taken a similar path to little Amal."

In November, there were many climate meetings. In Scotland, there was COP26. Greta Thunberg and many people wanted the governments to act fast.

Jenny Rise: "A lot of politicians are scared of the power of this movement and that we can achieve something."

At the end of 2021, Covid was still present. But there was some good news. Robots were helping teachers in Korea. Barbados is now a republic. And people in Sweden were baking gingerbread houses and enjoying architecture.

Sara Sandell : "So it's a lot of things that go with architecture and the design but also it's fun and everybody loves gingerbread houses!"

Are you ready for 2022?