It's Thursday night. I am sitting at my laptop (which doesn't have wireless access, so I guess that it's really a desktop), trying to catch up to everyone's else's mad computer skills. I just finished watching the 18th stage of the TdeF. Very exciting.
I'm also eating a big bowl of pineapple and mangos. The pineapples are so good that you just eat the core. It was supposed to be our dessert, but we decided to save it for later. Now it's later, and everyone else has gone to bed. I had another tennis lesson today. I've been doing that twice a week. I'm getting tired of my coach, though, so I only scheduled another lesson for next Thursday. He makes me do a lot of drills, like practicing "mooing towars da bal", and some of these drills don't even involve hitting the ball. I think that he enjoys making white people run around and swing at imaginary balls.
I'm going to try to find someone else for Tuesday nights.
Also, I received my first package today. A few days after we got here, I plugged in my iHome. The transformer was so big, I figured that it could handle (Mangos are delicious) 220V with no problem, so I didn't even check the transformer on it. Oops. It started smoking. So, I tried to order one from the UK that would have the right plug, but they didn't have any. So I had to order one from the US, so to run my iHome it takes a.) an adapter from UK to European plug, then, b.) a step-down transformer from 220V to 110V, and only then can I plug in my stupid iHome. Still, it's very exciting to have an alarm clock. We haven't had one since we got here. Luckily, we live right by a road, and Nigerians love to honk their horns, and I have a small bladder, so I'm up at 5:30, no problem.
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Books I want to Read but haven't because they cost money and I don't have any.
1.) "Inheritance" by Christopher Paolini. We actually have this book, but I have always been scared to read it because it has 849 pages in it. I finally decided to read it though. I started 3 days ago and am on page 252.
2.) "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan. Even if I had money I wouldn't be able to read this because it doesn't come out until October 2.
3.) "Matched" by Ally Condie. It is the first book in a trilogy about a utopia. In the book the main character Cassia has just reached the age where she will be told who to marry. When her match is also her best friend she is thrilled. Even though she already knows everything about her match she is still given a microchip that has all the information about her match that she needs to know. When she opens the microchip two people show up, her best friend and her neighbor.
4.) "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak is set during world war two and is narrated by death. And I don't know much else because I haven't read the book yet.
5.) "The Demigod Diaries" by Rick Riordan. I want to read it but can't because It doesn't come out till August 14. Which is the day before my school starts so I will have just enough time to read it.
1.) "Inheritance" by Christopher Paolini. We actually have this book, but I have always been scared to read it because it has 849 pages in it. I finally decided to read it though. I started 3 days ago and am on page 252.
2.) "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan. Even if I had money I wouldn't be able to read this because it doesn't come out until October 2.
3.) "Matched" by Ally Condie. It is the first book in a trilogy about a utopia. In the book the main character Cassia has just reached the age where she will be told who to marry. When her match is also her best friend she is thrilled. Even though she already knows everything about her match she is still given a microchip that has all the information about her match that she needs to know. When she opens the microchip two people show up, her best friend and her neighbor.
4.) "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak is set during world war two and is narrated by death. And I don't know much else because I haven't read the book yet.
5.) "The Demigod Diaries" by Rick Riordan. I want to read it but can't because It doesn't come out till August 14. Which is the day before my school starts so I will have just enough time to read it.
6) "Wish You Were Eyre" by Heather Vogel Frederik. It is the last book in a series about a group of girls in a mother-daughter book club. They face the challenges of life and learn to overcome them with the help of their friends and families.
Places I want to visit:
1.) Beijing, China
2.) Antartica
3.) Budapest, Hungary
4.) Tokyo, Japan
Places I want to visit:
1.) Beijing, China
2.) Antartica
3.) Budapest, Hungary
4.) Tokyo, Japan
5) Sydney, Australia
6) and many, many more
Things I want to do:
1.) Create a Smash Book (basically it is a scrapbook); I'm working on it
2.) Get better at running (I am on the cross country team)
3.) finnish putting together my bunk bed. My dad made it for me awhile ago, and now we are repainting it from purple and pink to green and yellow
4.) Get a 4.0 GPA. I was close at my last school but not quite.
Things I want to see:
Things I want to do:
1.) Create a Smash Book (basically it is a scrapbook); I'm working on it
2.) Get better at running (I am on the cross country team)
3.) finnish putting together my bunk bed. My dad made it for me awhile ago, and now we are repainting it from purple and pink to green and yellow
4.) Get a 4.0 GPA. I was close at my last school but not quite.
Things I want to see:
1.) A glacier, I don't care which one
2.) The Olympics.
3.) our house with our shipment unpacked
4.) Everest
2.) The Olympics.
3.) our house with our shipment unpacked
4.) Everest
4 comments:
hmmm, small bladder. something i never really knew about you...
i think Dad will like the color change. I don't think he could see the text very well because it was too similar.
sounds like that ihome has come in very handy!
I'm so glad you guys finally did something to let us see what you're up to. Kelly uses our blog kind of like a journal. It'll be nice to keep up.
Hi, who is taking tennis lessons? Sp or Am? Maybe the tennis teacher doesn't have tennis balls and so he wants you to still practice. You know - like Professor Hill on The Music Man!!!! love, vickie
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