April 14th, 2008
Today was the spring fair. For some reason Ms. Aragon decided our grade should sell baked potatoes instead of popsicles like we wanted. So we wasted the entire spring fair trying to sell stupid potatoes but only ONE PERSON bought one. I’m so mad. And they made me do the maypole dance too.
I went to a Waldorf school for the third grade, and they’re very, very fond of fairs. And we were all real mad at Ms. Aragon, or the two of us who had to go around selling hot potatoes in 70-degree weather, that is. I was stuck with the very same Jaren I mentioned before, I think because we snuck off campus at recess once and walked halfway to the mall.
As for the maypole? What business we had with a maypole in April is was beyond me. But I do remember that this was at a point when I was a real tomboy, and very much against skipping.
April 17th, 2008
The aftercare kids ruined our fort so Julian started hitting Eamon but Julian was the only one who got in trouble even though they ruined our fort.
I mentioned our fort being destroyed a total of 32 times in my diaries. Evidently the aftercare kids had some issues they needed to work through.
But they were 32 pretty good forts, actually. There was a corner of the schoolyard with a big hole, and we dug it out more and made a shelter over the top with branches. The only downside was that it was right next to the compost bin, so on any given day your nostrils would be serenaded by the sweet fragrance of pure death.
April 25, 2008
Today was our iceskating trip and we were playing crack the whip and Ms Aragon made me go to the front but we were going too fast and we slammed into a wall and then everyone fell on top of me. My back hurts soooo much but Ms Aragon told me to suck it up and Mom got mad at me.
Ah, the ill-fated ice-skating field trip. The teacher suggested we start a game of crack the whip directly in front of a sign which explicitly said ‘NO HORSEPLAY OR CRACK-THE-WHIP IS ALLOWED.’ But she wasn’t exactly the type of woman you defy, so off we went. Somehow I ended up in front and at the bottom of our 14-person pileup, and since we were breaking the rules, the people at the desk refused to give me an aspirin.
May 14, 2008
Tilcara’s leaving next year!
Tilcara was my arch nemesis, more than Aylin, even. We were once assigned to share a desk but scooted our chairs so far away from each other that we ended up on opposite sides of the classroom, and I was halfway out the door before the teacher even noticed and pulled me back in by my hair.
Round and Round 