Liz's Wednesday :) hehe sorry ellie, but ur post was so inspirational :)

Today I took the PSAT and it was EXHAUSTING! I woke up at 6:30am and got to the school at 7:30 only to find out that the test didn't start till 9. Great. Turns out the test started at like 9:45 so I spent most of my morning yawning and reading FEEDBACK (sequel to Variant). After I spent 5 hours total at the school taking a stupid test, I got to spend 3 more hours in Math and Chemistry class. Then I got to go home and do history homework which I just got done with (it's 11pm). My day has been crazy and I am SOOO TIRED!! I am going to bed, nighty night!

-Liz 

Ellie's Tuesday

Hello. So today I did school. And - I can't believe the words are comin' out of me mouth - I kind of think that I like geometry. This may be in part because I have an Australian turtle praising me every time I get something right.

See?

   Right now it's raining and thundering outside and I'm sitting in the living room with Matty. We're watching Robin Hood. >:D Guess what? It's BBC.
   I also discovered that asking questions and being a perfectionist sometimes pays off.

   Yesterday I got the worst grade on my Week 5 History quiz that I have ever gotten ever ever. I was a mess. I knew the material for the quiz - I had studied hard. But I rushed through and didn't re-read the questions and my grade was, we'll just say, a low C.

   Today I retook it and got a 90% because one question threw me and I didn't know the answer.

   My quiz grade averaged at 68%, which in a perfectionist like myself's eye is probably equivalent to a large black splot on your favorite book (though that's pretty terrible to think about too).

   Anyway, I emailed my AP History teacher, Mr. N, saying how sorry I was about the dreadful thing and that I was listening in class and I asked him about the question I got wrong.

   Well he replied. And he deleted the original bad grade because he "knew I was trying hard."

   So.

   What have I learned from this?

   Two things.

   I will never ever ever rush through a quiz that way again.

   And it always pays to ask the teachers intellectual questions and openly regret bad grades and participate in class so they know you care.

-Ellie

We Has the Funnies II

We Has The Funnies I

So we both kinda have a nutsy sense of humor

Then

Would you

Read to me

A sustaining

Book

Such as would

Help

And comfort

A wedged

Bear in great

Tightness?

-Winnie the Pooh

Hey Guys!

Elly let me be a part of her blog! So now, we are doing it together. :) We are best friends and my name is Liz. Currently we have over 500 miles separating us, so it's really sad :( But, welcome to our blog!!

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo.

Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.


Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.


Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?


Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo...

... and it's worth fighting for.