11 – 17 December 2017
Monday
On Monday, it was our friend Dominique’s birthday, and she invited us round to her house before swimming lessons! We spent the morning doing Christmas craft stuff, rounded up with a delicious lunch of pizza. Afterwards, we went a little wild with my make-up set that I barely ever use (that’s why there was enough gold and sparkly eye shadow: otherwise it would have been all gone), where Elodie showed me how to do navy blue on the outer part of Dom’s eyelids closest to her ears, faded down to teal, faded down to gold sparkly nearest the tearsac (which, I have to say, I did a wonderful job of). I didn’t make her make-up smudged or all over the place, but I did go a tad wild with the colour choices; after giving her all that eyeshadow, I applied a shockingly neon yet reasonable amount of the pinkest blusher I had, along with the most magenta lip gloss I could find in my set (which wasn’t actually very bright or magenta at all).
When Mummy came to pick us up for our swimming lessons, Dominique and Lucia got their swimming stuff ready and played in the pool by themselves while we had our lessons from two till three. When the lessons finished, we played a sort of ‘Britain’s Got Talent: In Water Edition’ with them before we met their mum and had to hurry off home before the roads got too icy to drive! When we got back, I found that Mummy had got my birthday cake from Costco and had started making my banner to decorate the hall with (I’m having a party!) Now I am just sooo excited!
Tuesday
On Tuesday, Nanny came round and we got our 80s costumes ready for tomorrow! I am mind-bogglingly, word-confuzzlingly, nail-growingly-in-super-timeingly excited now! I have a particularly ugly chiffon button-up shirt that has a huge black collar with big, chunky, plastic white jewels on it and a black leopard skin design on it. It starts white at the top and fades down to neon green at the bottom – it is ugly, but that’s what 80s is all about. I am going to have black leggings and crimped hair with all random stuff and feathers and clips and bobbles in it and a lot of make-up! We also did some Latin and watched an episode of The Simpsons!
Wednesday
On Wednesday, can you guess what? It was my eleventh birthday! To see a post about it, click *here*.
Thursday
The day after my birthday, on Thursday, I had cake for breakfast 😉
We did some Latin and reading and a few other bits and bobs of work. We also watched the last episode of our recent biology documentary, ‘CELL’, and watched some another Simpsons episode after dinner. I really enjoy it; the episode we watched was about Homer and Marge’s son, Bart, getting together an army of schoolfriends to defeat a bully. At the end, it had a little snippet of Bart saying quite seriously, ‘Before we move on, I would like you to understand that all wars and battles are bad and you should never wage one at home. That is, all are bad excluding the Second World War, the American Civil War, and the Star Wars trilogy.’ It was hilarious!
Friday
On Friday, we went to drama in the morning (our friends Seth and Arthur’s sister Matilda came round in the morning and we picked her up and took her there). In the pantomime we’re doing, everyone else has a ‘Syncronised Swimming’ scene when we fall off a boat in a different act, but Tilly and I weren’t in it so while Chanel (our leader) coaxed everyone through the swimming scene, we practised our part of the song in the Mash-up. We’ve got a song that I really don’t like, Black Magic, but our dance so far is quite cool! We also rehearsed the ‘Banana Boat Song’ we’re doing before everyone falls of the boat and does the ‘Syncronised Swimming’, which is really fun too!
In the afternoon, William came and I did a lot of ‘MathsWhizz’ and also another, much more boring and not-very-fun website called ‘Conquer Maths’! We had a scrummy dinner of Quorn sausages and spicy beans as well as Mexican spicy rice, followed by a lot of my birthday cake. The cake is an enormous rectangle covered in thick creamy icing, about three times the size of my and Tilly’s head – but it is delicious!
Saturday
On Saturday this week, we went to our Stagecoach drama, where we did a demo in front of all the parents! Before they came in, we had time to have a twenty-minute lesson of drama, singing and dance to recap what we were going to show. In dance, we were doing a dance to ‘Welcome to the 60s’ in the musical Hairspray, which is really catchy and fun – as we showed it to the parents, the Stage 3s (Tilly and the other older ones) were all clapping and clicking and waving along! In drama, we were doing a few scenes from ‘Rapunzel’ as a pantomime, and I was Gothel the villain in a scene with Elizabeth the fairy. In singing, we did a song called ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’, and at the end we did one with the Stage 3s and the Stage 1s called ‘Christmas Time’. It was written by one of the boys at Stagecoach’s dad, and it wasn’t especially wonderful, but it was nice to sing along to!
Afterwards, Nanny came round and we watched the videos Mummy had taken of us at our show on the television. We also watched our film we’d made at our filmmaking club, ‘Don’t Kill Derek’, which is amazing! It’s really fun to see what results we got after all those filmmaking sessions – it took us such a long time because we did stop-motion on all of it. One scene was introducing how Derek, the caterpillar, could only eat cake. It showed a little play-dough cake in the centre of the scene, and Derek crawling up to it, with Tilly making little ‘depew, mew mew pew meepmeep!’ noises as he rolled along. Then, gradually, he ate the cake and it disappeared bite by bite. Then he rolled over and crawled away with the cherry on his head. The scene looked cute but it took us ages – just him crawling up and away, because we had to move each segment of his body a milimetre before we could take another picture, and then rolling over and getting the cherry on his head and crawling away again and… urgh! But it was really fun all the while 😉
Sunday
On the last day of the week, Sunday, it was a staying-in-working-and-playing day, which is why I don’t have a lot to write on the subject! We did a lot of Latin and I read some of my two books, Harry Potter and the Hostile Hospital, which is one of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events series. They’re both really good, but not as good as my favourite books, the Ruby Redfort series, by Lauren Child, Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell, and A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens! I also made cake-pops with the set I got for my birthday! I can tell you they are not as easy as they look!
