Saturday, December 26, 2009
Christmas
Sunday, December 20, 2009
The Christmas Pageant
Friday, December 18, 2009
"The Golden Mask"
Thursday, December 17, 2009
The Dress Rehearsal
Today was the dress rehearsal of the school play. It was chaotic. First we all changed into our under-costume clothes (for me, a camisole and short leggings). Then we stood in line for a long time for our costumes to get our costumes. It took a long time to get to the front of the line because most of the costumes look alike and any last minute adjustments had to be made. Finally the curtain went up on the first scene. The only person watching was our teacher. Until the last scene everything went okay. The mummy climbed into the vacuum box that was painted to look like a sarcophagus, and the two boys standing right by the sarcophagus slammed the lid shut. No problem. But when it came time to push the mummy off stage, the two boys standing there couldn’t do it. There were supposed to be three boys standing by the box, but one was sick and wasn’t at school. Finally, despite what the script said, Sohphie had to come and help push the box off stage. I hope the performance tomorrow will go better.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
This is odd
Something weird is going on. Dad is working on building a “garden shed” and “firewood holder”. He’s already finished the firewood holder, but it seems awfully far from the house. As for the garden shed, he says we’ll need it in spring, but why not build it then, when it’s warm and sunny? And why in the world is Dad building a fence around the shed?
Saturday, December 12, 2009
The Christmas Tree
We got the Christmas tree today! It’s a real one. After we decorated it we drank hot cocoa and ate some of the sugar cookies I made. I played my flute a little. It’s not a real flute, not all shiny and with keys, it’s just one my dad helped me make out of PVC pipe. Aunt Sue and Uncle George are coming for Christmas.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Forty-Niners, not Forty-Niners
On Monday we got an assignment. We had to write a paper about a family member or pet. We had to turn it in on Friday (today), complete with with photo. I chose to write about Forty-Niner, my goldfish. The hardest part was taking a picture of him-- he would zip into the plants whenever he saw the camera. This morning we read our papers in front of the class. No one understood about his name, though. Last year I did a bunch of “California History” and learned all about the california gold rush forty-niners. But this was Iowa, and I was the only one who knew a ton of california history. Some of the boys knew who the forty-niners were, though. We had an interesting conversation during recess. Here is how it went.
Boy: “I didn’t know you liked football.”
Me: “What?”
Boy: “You sure must like football if you named your goldfish after a football team.”
Me: “Forty-Niner?!? I named him after the forty-niners, not some dumb football team!”
Boy: “That’s what I said, you named him after the San Francisco forty-niners, the football team.”
So I ended up explaining about who the forty-niners really were. I wish I’d written about Blackie instead.