Monday
After my piano lesson this morning, I watched the next video in my Hillsdale College course on Athens and Sparta. I’m getting quite a way through the course now and am getting a real feel for what it would actually be like being at Hillsdale! I also did some music theory and practice, read my book, and watched an episode of The X-Files with Andy.
Wednesday
Today, Tilly and I went out for the day with our dad! It’s been ages since we saw him just us three, as usually we go to stay at his house and everything there is so busy and crowded we don’t actually get to see him that much. So it was lovely to just go for a walk and have a chat 🙂 We walked along the river, got some lunch and then went to Costa and sat in there for a bit.
It was a really lovely day and we can’t wait to do it again soon!
Thursday
Now that I’ve finished Herodotus, I’ve moved on to reading some Plato! I’ve read his Apology of Socrates before, so I read another dialogue today, Meno. You can read my mini analysis of that here, but in summary, it was a discussion between Socrates and Meno about how virtue can be defined and how knowledge of anything can be acquired. I really enjoyed philosophy this morning; Plato is very easy to read so a good place to start. Socrates is a funny character and Meno is funny in his stupidity!
In the afternoon, I spent an hour and a half practising my instruments (like I do every day even if I don’t write about it!). I’m not feeling very well today but I have two gym classes later so I’ll have to snap out of it by then!
Friday
This morning I read a few chapters of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which is beginning to get much more interesting now. Then we finished off the Meno and my analysis of it. I’ve read the Apology before, so I just have three dialogues to go now before I can read Republic.
Nanny came round this afternoon, instead of her usual Saturday visit. I’m still feeling a bit ill – even took a coronavirus test, but it came back negative! – so this afternoon I did some creative writing. I’m planning a simple coming-of-age book set in British occupied India in the 1940s, and so far it’s going very well.
In the evening, William came over for the week, and we finished off the 300 Spartans which we started last week. It was a little boring but still very well done especially for the time it was made, in the 1960s I believe.
Weekend
I’m feeling really quite unwell this week, so I spent the weekend just lounging around in my pyjamas! I watched a lot of The Staircase, did my instrument practice, and then dragged myself up to the gym in the afternoon. Tilly went to London to go shopping with her friend, and came back with a load of Muji notepads for me and her friends! I’m going to use one of them as a commonplace book, and I have yet to decide what the other three are for.