Sick

I've been home sick with the fever (or flu, not sure which) for the past couple days. We had yesterday (Friday) off but I missed Wednesday and Thursday. In that time I read fourteen hours and fourty-five minutes. I suggest everyone sick at home read or do something of that sort in all that spare time. It's quite useful.

It's not so bad being sick really, I just hate missing out on school stuff. Last year, even if I was slightly sick, I went to school every single day, and I was never tardy, except the last day of school. I had gastroenteridis (I've got NO CLUE how you spell it), also known as stomach flue. I was tardy then, but I still went to school. It was a mellow day.

To all of you sick people out there: GET WELL SOON! You're missing out on life.

Easter!

This year we were at my cousins for Easter while our parents were on a great trip to Ireland. They had a lot of fun, but so did we!
I played a fun game that my cousins S & M and I love. We call it "Hogwarts." In it, we pretend that we are going to Hogwarts and we go to classes and have real homework that we do in our little assignment books. It's really fun.
We also played this game we call "The Jail Game" a bunch with the boys. It's where usually the three girls are the runners or hiders (whichever you like to call it) and the two boys are the hunters. We kind-of made new rules to the game to make it more fun. Here are the (new) rules:

• the boys have to count to ten to give the girls a chance to hide
• the girls hide and wait for the boys to find them
• then when the boys find one the put them in the jail (which was the trampoline)
• the other girls have to rescue the caught girl
• the boys prowl around while the girls sneak up and try to get the other girl
• if the girls make it, the boys have to count to ten again to give them a chance to get away
• then, the game turns into capture the flag - sort of
• so the girls are trying to get the flag or whatever they're using for it
• and if they succeed, they win the game
• and if they all get captured, the boys win the game

So it's really fun. And we played it a LOT.

My cousins celebrate Easter early because the Easter bunny doesn't want to have to work on Sunday morning at their house. So on Saturday (early) we had an Easter egg hunt. We were allowed to find fifteen eggs each. I dashed around and found fifteen eggs in less than two minutes, and felt kind-of bad when there weren't quite enough. S and her bro. D got only thirteen and fourteen. Then M found that she had an extra and gave it to D. Thankfully, there was plenty of sweets so S didn't complain much.
Then the next day, S, M, D, and the other S's Grandma had another Easter basket for us! She's not even my Grandma! It was so nice. She had this candy necklace making set in it and tons of jelly beans and then (best of all) a huge bucket filled with ADORABLE hair clips and ponytail/pigtail holders. They were all colorful and pretty. I wrote her a nice thank-you card after.
We had a lot of fun, but I missed my parents. I was glad and sad when the came. But now that I'm back, I realize (again) that there is no place like home - not just for the holidays - anytime.

St. Patrick's Day

Yesterday was fun. We didn't do anything in class that had to do with St. Patrick's Day, but we had an assembly where Irish dancers came to visit us and dance. It was neat.
I pinched a few people, not hard, but one of them I pinched did have green on. I ran away from her, but then she got me back during lunch.
Overall, it was a good St. Patty's Day!

Writing

For all you writers, writing stuff of any kind, (books, poems, etc.) I just want to recommend a very, very useful book. It was written by Gail Carson Levine, the one who wrote Ella Enchanted and many other fabulous stories, now a VERY experienced author. It's called "Writing Magic." It's wonderful and helped me quite a bit. Oh, I would seriously recommend doing the assignments that she gives you in it too. Do them in Google Documents or Word or Power Point or in a notebook or anything. Just do them. They are very helpful in writing anything. And they are quite fun.
Gail is a great author, and she has given me some exceptionally helpful hints.
Good luck!