Monday
On Monday this week, I read Atlas Shrugged for the entire morning! I’m absolutely in love with it─it’s probably on a par with my favourite series, the Night trilogy by Elie Wiesel. Now that’s saying a lot! My favourite characters are probably Dagny Taggart and Hugh Akston. I haven’t seen much of the latter yet, but he strikes me as a very interesting old man.
In the afternoon, I read the last play in the Oresteia, The Eumenides. Then I added a few quotes from it into my analysis of Agamemnon, which is almost completely done!
Tuesday
The next day, we discovered a massive offer on all hot drinks in Costa Coffee! 😂 So I walked up to the train station with Tilly when she went to college, and came back with two hot chocolates and a coffee for my mum! I then spent the entirety of the morning─again─with my nose buried in Atlas Shrugged, and reluctantly put it down at about 1pm to continue my analysis of the Oresteia. In the afternoon, Tilly and I went back to Costa (!), and got 4 more hot chocolates! (We didn’t have any dinner that day…)
Wednesday
This morning, Tilly and I went up to get even more Costa coffees and hot chocolates! Then – again – I spent the majority of the morning reading Atlas Shrugged, before doing some Latin passage translations when my mum. In the afternoon, Tilly and I did some yoga – well, it’s not really yoga; it’s the exercises Tilly does at the gym, and she acts the instructor! 😉
Thursday
Today I went to Nanny’s house to stay until Sunday. Again, I spent the whole morning reading (I really can’t get my nose out of this book!), and then brought some workbooks up Nanny’s to keep me going until the weekend.
I did some work from my English book, which included writing a story about being at sea (which we incredibly boring. I have no interest in writing books about people at sea at all). Then I did some work from my English book by Susan Wise Bauer, making a chronological narrative out of a provided outline of the events leading up to the 1977 discovery of deep ocean hydrothermal vents!
Friday
On Friday, I finished my narrative about hydrothermal vents (and all the weird and wonderful creatures that have been found living near them, in the Atlantic), and wrote my story, Nocturne (still going with that!).