It's almost May!

Isn't it incredible?

Today I had biology, and I gave my report on the stingray. The class seemed to be uninterested, but oh well. I never did figure out how to make one out of paper, so instead I did a bad, boring drawing. I think I'll probably get a good grade on the paper I wrote. I usually do pretty well in biology. I also had Musica today, and we have a concert in a little over a week. We are singing "Niska Banja" which is a cool folk song from Yugoslavia. My choir is good, but we sing dumb music a lot of the time, and most of it is religious. We should sing something by the Smiths, or maybe "My Sweet Lord," which could sound grand.

Topeka

If y'all are wondering what all these photographs are of, they are pictures of Topeka, Kansas, where I visited my grandparents! Now I'm in Cambridge. Hoo-ray. I had a pleasant trip, despite the fact that yesterday, we got on the plane, and then they were having mechanical troubles with it, so we had to wait on it for almost two hours, and then they moved us off the plane, and we waited in the airport for another hour, and then they were having more problems, so it took us about four hours to get on a plane.

Lunch in Lawrence

On Tuesday, we visited Lawrence, where my parents went to college. This is a delicious sandwich with goat cheese, red peppers, lettuce, pesto, and tomatoes. (Yes, it's true! I have finally started to like tomatoes a little bit!)

Easter dinner

Potato pasta, olives, salad, potato salad, scalloped potatoes, and (yuck!) ham.

Rather True Stories-like

I arranged these peppers and olives very nicely.

New hat

My cousin Jena gave me this lovely purple hat.

Kansas

My grandmother's lamp and table.

The library

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Origami

Does anyone know where I can find out how to make a origami stingray? Like this one?

Stingray

It's time for another biology project, folks! This time we had to choose an animal and write a report on it. It's not really that hard, but it's harder than it sounds. I have chosen a stingray. They're not that interesting, really.

Haircut

Yesterday, I got a lovely new haircut. Me mum cut it for me, and now I have shoulder-length hair and bangs. Then, we dyed my bangs reddish-blond, so they are now a different colour than the rest of my hair. Unfortunately, my hair is extremely hard to dye, so it's not really all that noticable, but I don't really mind.

Babysitting

The pictures are of two of Ezra's fellow Many Rivers students, who I babysit weekly. They shall remain unnamed. I like them very much, although they are both big sports kids. Mostly, they invite their neighbors over and play soccer the whole time. Yesterday, however, I taught them how to play freeze, which they seemed to enjoy, despite the fact that somebody hit his little sister in the face at some point, and made her cry. After she recovered, we continued to play freeze for a while, and then they wanted to have a dance party, so one of them went to get his favourite Green Day CD. Then I said, "I noticed you had a Talking Heads CD over there. How about we listen to the Talking Heads instead?" I put on the Talking Heads, and they seemed to enjoy it. It was a nice change. I really don't like playing soccer and four square, which is what they always want to do.
(I'm sorry that the pictures are so dark and blurry. Their house is really dark. I don't know where any of the lights are, or maybe they just don't have very many.)