September 11

The Spring Fair was last Saturday, and I managed to get my shoulders really sunburnt. Now, I can baly move without it hurting! Other than that, it was a great day. A lot of money was made for our church, and I saw the sunset, after waking up at four to be there on time. The world looks so different at 4 AM, and I don't regret getting up that early if it means I could see that sky. It was awesome.

Tomorrow, our high school teacher is coming for lunch, and to review our work. I'm a little nervous, as there is a lot that she might want to talk to us about, and I don't enjoy talking with teachers, especially when not strictly necessary.

June 6

Yesterday I was given a new skirt. It is all black, and it goes past my feet. I love it! Today I wore it, and I think it is fantastic. I love the way it swishes around me. Any skirt that does that is fantastic, and the longer the better. The only problem with a really long skirt is that when I am outside, I have to hold it up so it doesn't get dirty.

Our English teacher came around today, to give us some help on our next assignment. It was fun. I talked with her about classic books. I love classics, and have read a few, including all of Jane Austens' books, and all of the Sherlock Holmes books and stories.

The cake last night was delicious! It was chocolate, with melted chocolate just oozing out of it. It was really thick and rich. The melted chocolate was my favorite part.

Tomorrow we go to the city so my sister can get her braces looked at. She hasn't decided what colour yet.

May 31

Yesterday was my 200th post!

Taylor Swift is awesome! I love her music. She has some fantastic songs, that I really love.

Tomorrow is June, the first day of winter, and the first day of my birthday month. My birthday is on the fifth of June, and I'm getting really excited.

Our teacher came around today, and it was pretty cool. She confirmed that yes, the new maths book is a device by maths teachers to torture their students. It is really awful, and now she has let us off the hook. My older brother and I can now just do the old style maths, not the instrument of torture maths. Yes!

May 30

For the last few days we have been trying to install wifi, and finally it worked! We now have wifi, and it is so cool. I'm guessing that we will spend a lot of our time sending messages to each other over wifi. Talking may become a thing of the past in our household.

Tomorrow the teacher is coming to review the work that my older brother and I are doing. We are both dismally behind in Maths, and so we are not looking forward to the visit.

My birthday is under a week away! I've already had two positive replies to my party invites, and no negatives. I can hope that all my guests will make it.

May 22

My laptop's death warrant is practically signed. As soon as possible, I will be getting a new computer. I'm looking forward to it. I have never had a new computer. For a while I shared a computer with my sister, then my dad gave me his old laptop, but now I should be getting a new computer all my own! I really am blessed.

My sister has taken up knitting. It is so funny to see her sitting there with this gigantic ball of wool, knitting away. It is the biggest ball of wool I have ever seen, probably the length of a ruler, and bright purple. She hasn't told anyone what she is making, except possibly our mother.

My birthday is exactly two weeks away! I'm really excited, but I'm worried that most of my presents will be IOUs. No one seems to have bought me a present yet!

We have all been really busy with schoolwork. Today my older brother and I found out that an assignment that we didn't even know about is due on Friday! My little brother and sister have their teacher coming around in two weeks, and the teacher for me and my brother is coming around next week.

Does anyone agree with me that it seems so weird to say or write 'my brother and me'? For example, which makes more sense, 'the teacher has come for my brother and I', or 'the teacher has come for my brother and I'? 'My brother and me' is grammatically correct, but doesn't sound write. My sister summed it up nicely. "The one that doesn't make sense is correct"!

May 15

I'm on the family computer today, because my older brother is hard at work and I don't want to disturb him. However, this computer is really awkward for me to type on. Having an enter key helps though.

Today, for me, has been a day of finishing things. Two of my subjects had Unit Reviews, and I spent most of the morning working on them. Tomorrow I start a whole new unit in those subjects.

I used Skype for the first ime this morning! My brother and I had a Skype call from our English teacher. It was so cool, and I'd never done it before. What a world of possibilities there are out there!

I saw a fantastic picture of chocolate on this blog. The blog is called Animate and Create, Mate, and the chocolate photos posted recently are really amazing. How does anyone make a keyboard of chocolate, and for that matter, why would they want to?

April 24

The workshop today went well. It was weird, the only people there were the two teachers, my brother, myself, and one other student. Not many people could make it apparently.

I'm going to have a reading afternoon. It's been a while since I sat down with a book or three, and read the afternoon away. It's only three o clock, so I'll have plenty of time. I don't want to be on the internet this afternoon for two reasons. One, to disprove my brother's claim that I spend heaps of the internet (he's right, but I don't want to admit it). Two, my mother is setting up a wireless system, and she'd like us to be off the 'net while she's doing it.

So, off to the books!

April 20

For some reason I have been reading about April Fool's Day hoaxes this afternoon, and some of them are fantastic! There's a whole list of them here. I've only read the first two pages so far, and I knew a lot of them beforehand, from previous research, but they are still really funny. One of my favorites is the spaghetti trees. I can't believe so many people actually fell for that!

My little brother, mother, and sister have been frantically preparing for my sister's birthday party tomorrow. There's heaps to get done, it seems. She hasn't even finalised her costume yet, and neither have I! It has a Z theme, so she wants me to come as Zelda. I don't know what I would wear to be Zelda. I don't wear long purple dresses, and I don't have a sword. Hopefully, my sister will help me find something. Either that, or the guests won't know what Zelda looks like, so it won't matter.

It's Friday! No more schoolwork until Monday. YES! My schoolwork isn't really hard, but it can definitely be boring. I'll enjoy having a break. Our teacher will probably be coming next week, and she'll want to know how we are doing with our schoolwork. I hope I have good news.

No youth group tonight, which is sad. I enjoy youth group. I get to be with my friends, and play games, and have fun. I don't see my friends that often, so I enjoy it when I can.

I should probably be helping with party preparations right now, so I have to go.

April 17

Our teacher didn't come around today, and I have a crazy idea why. My sister puts important dates, like teachers visiting, or meetings being held, in her calendar. So far, everything she has put in her calendar has been postponed or canceled. Weird, but true. She put the teacher coming around in her calendar. Therefore, the teacher didn't come around. That's my crazy theory. The teacher comes next week instead.

We go square dancing tonight! We took a break for the holidays, but holidays are over, so we'll go square dancing.

My sister's birthday is tomorrow, and I haven't made her card yet! Maybe I'll make it before she wakes up tomorrow. She always wakes up late, so I should have plenty of time.

April 16

I got a lot of schoolwork done today. I actually managed to finish one of the subjects I was behind in, so I am now up to date in that, and I'm getting closer with the other two.

Tomorrow, our high school supervisor is coming around! Scary! I'm not exactly looking forward to telling her that I'm behind on my schoolwork, even if it wasn't entirely my fault. Because only my older brother and I are in the Senior class, she'll just be talking to us, and that is a scary concept. I don't like being singled out, but that's what going to happen. She'll single us out one by one and.. POUNCE! Just kidding. It just feels like that sometimes.

I've had a headache today, because my little brother doesn't understand the concept of 'inside voice'. He thinks that anything that should be said should be said loudly.

My sister's birthday is 2 days away!!! (How come she always seems to show up in my posts?)