Monday
I was actually feeling a bit under the weather this morning, so I had to miss my piano lesson today. I spent a lot of the morning reading Atlas Shrugged and then starting on Book 7 of Herodotus’ Histories, which narrates how Xerxes attempted (whether or not he succeeded, I don’t know yet!) to invade Greece with the priority of subduing Athens.
I was feeling a bit better in the afternoon, so I risked going to my swimming lesson at two o’clock. As it was the last week of term, we spent half the lesson doing actual swimming (a very tiring half-hour of butterfly stroke!) followed by half an hour of “Olympics”. Swimming-lesson-style Olympics involved seeing who could jump in the farthest, cross country racing etc. It was really fun but it got a bit annoying when some of our more competitive group members got very involved! 😂
Tuesday
I realised this morning that I haven’t actually done any physics in quite a while and, seeing as I’m taking a GCSE in it in November, I should probably get on with some! So I continued on with the chapter on Energy Resources & Transfer today, learning about convection, conduction and radiation (did you know that all objects and organisms emit radiation?).
I then spent much of the morning and the afternoon reading Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. As part of Tilly’s university application, we looked at different themes that we liked to read about, so we made a list of all the books that had those themes (i.e. Religion: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman, Night by Elie Wiesel; Human nature: Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Long After Midnight by Ray Bradbury).
Over the weekend, my mum managed to reinstate my gym membership. As I’m fourteen now, I can attend all of the biking classes but not the rest of them until I’m sixteen. We did a bit of a class-booking spree today, so now practically every day until August is all booked up with biking classes! This evening, I did a Virtual Sprint class with Tilly and now I feel half-, maybe three-quarters-dead.
Wednesday
We went back to the gym today at nine o’clock in the morning! I did a biking class with Tilly, basically just read throughout the day into the afternoon, and then went back up to the leisure centre for my induction at the gym. After they’d given me a key and shown me around (it didn’t take long as I’ve been before) I spent half an hour really working out on three or four different machines. I’m writing this the next morning and my legs feel like they literally might fall off!
Thursday
Tilly and I went out today to go shopping! We caught the bus into a nearby shopping centre, ate a delicious lunch in Pret and then got a notebook in Flying Tiger that we’re going to a daily plan in with habit checklists, etc. We had a really nice, lovely long day out (very long because the bus decided to come two hours later than we thought it would!).
Costaaa! 
Costaaaaaaaaaaaa 
Me taken by surprise while Tilly photographs me! 😛 
Me and Tilly
Friday
Today I finally finished Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, and did an extremely long review of it! Afterwards, I did some more work on Herodotus’ Histories with my mum. We’re still on Book 7 at the moment, reading about how Xerxes led his army across the Hellespont, ready to attack Athens.
In the evening, we started watching 2001: A Space Odyssey but had to pause it twenty minutes in to get ready for a biking class at the gym. It was entirely virtual so no instructors, and Tilly and I were actually the only people there, so we had the entire stadium to ourselves!
Weekend
On Saturday morning, my mum and I started watching a course on Athens & Sparta, a MOOC hosted by the university that I really want to go when I’m older: Hillsdale College, in Michigan! I’ll be writing about the course as I go along, so look out for that.
In the afternoon, we watched 2001: A Space Odyssey (I reviewed it and posted the review on this blog). It was one of the most puzzling and bizarre films that I have ever seen! We finished it quite quickly though so we could start a new one on Sunday night, Zodiac, which is about the Zodiac killer of the 1960s. It’s really good so far – I much prefer it to the Space Odyssey!