Jennifer

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__**15th May 2009 Friday, Ghana, Accra, Sunny, cloudless 4:00 pm **__ Dear Diary,

Today was great !!!!! I ADORE the book "Empty Quarter"!! If you haven't started reading it.......... you should DEFINITELY start NNNNNOOOOWWWW !!!!!!!!! (I got the format of the date etc. above from 'Ring Master' and 'Empty Quarter' !!).

In our class (4B, Lincoln Community School, Accra, Ghana ) our teacher, Miss. Pickles, is encouraging us to write our online diary so here I am, trying to write a diary. Some people would say it's easy but, even though i keep a paper diary, it is hard to write a diary knowing that everyone who has access to the internet, and who are allowed to look at blogs, in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD can see it !!!!!!!!! In fact, it's a bit frightening !!!!!! Well here goes - my first EVER entry:

Dear Diary, Today was great. We took a typing test at I.T. (computer class,) and I got an ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE score !!!!!!!!! I typed 28 words per minute, but I made..........48 MISTAKES !!!!!!!!!!! Therefore, I actually typed...... -20 words per minute !!!!! Isn't that a HORRIBLE score ???

My brother, James, has come to Ghana from England for a few weeks !!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you believe that ?????? He arrived about a month ago and is still here now !!!!!! He is so funny and is always SUCH a trickster !!!!! I'm SOOOOOOO happy that he is here !!!!

I can't WAIT until Summer (for the people in Australia it is your Winter when it is Summer for me !!!). I'm going to Alaska and I'm going on a cruise !!!!!! It has Ice-Skating, and Rock-Climbing and so many other things ( I think! ) !!!! After that we are going to Canada and I will surely see my Uncle, my Auntie, my cousins, my cousins' husbands and girlfriends, and my cousins' BABIES !!!!!!!!!!!! They are SOOOO CUTE !!!! I think two of them are 2 years old, and one of them is - I think - a few months old !!!! I also can't wait to be back in their house and see their dog again !!!!!!!!!

It is my friend's birthday is today so she invited me to La Palm Beach Resort for some tepenyaki (is that how you spell it......?). I can't wait !!!! She also invited my other friends, which are also kind of my cousins (because I've known them since I was very little !!!!!). I hope the food is good !!!! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE tepenyaki !!!! It's sooooooo good - and lots of fun !!

Well, that is all for today. Bye Diary. I will write again tomorrow (I hope !!). See you !!!!!! Jennifer *_*

__**18th May 2009, Monday, Ghana, Accra, Sunny, The sky is a bit grayish, Cloudy 9:00 am **__ Dear Diary,

Today has been GREAT so far. I'm sooooo sorry I couldn't write over the weekend !!!! I was really busy. On Saturday, I had ABSOLUTELY NO TIME just to sit down and relax !!!!!! In the morning, 10 o'clock a.m. to be precise, I had to go for extra ballet classes as the show, called "Migh School Dance-ical" is coming on the 6th of June. (Please come watch !!!!! You can buy tickets at Pippa's gym, in Osu. It's in the National Theater) That lasted 'till 11 o'clock a.m.

After that I was supposed to go and pick up my mum. She was in a building in Osu. It was the same building as where "Happy Minds Ghana" is. She was having a kind of facial I think. My driver and I went trudging all around the two story building going in EVERY SINGLE SHOP trying to look for her !!! And she didn't pick up her phone !!!! FINALLY I looked in the last shop in the building. It was called.......... uh... I've forgotten the name of the shop. Anyway, I peeked into the glass door to see if she was there. The lady at the corner then called me in, and I didn't really know what to do. I mean, I've never seen this lady before. but she had kind eyes and so I felt as i could trust her so I walked in. Then she asked me if I was looking for my mum, and I just nodded. Then, to my surprise and relief, she told me my mum was here. She told me that I needed to wait a little bit. So I waited for 15 to 30 mins, then I was allowed to go see my mum !!!!

That's all I have time to write today. Hopefully, I will write more. Bye Diary !!!!!! Jennifer *_*

__**20th May 2009, Wednesday, Ghana, Accra, Sunny, Cloudy 9:15 am**__ Dear Diary,

Today has been OK so far. We just took a maths test and I'm a bit worried. There was one question that I'm not so sure about yet. It was the question 'How many faces does a Pentagonal Prism have?' I put 5 but most people put 6. I put 5 because it has 5 faces, and one **base** but I'm not sure if a base is a face, or if it isn't. Hopefully I got it all correct. I can't wait till the end of year party in 4B !!!!!!!!!!!! (And that deserves all 12 exclamation marks on the end !) Our teacher just announced that since our school talent show was canceled, we might do one for our class only !!!!!!!!!!!!! That is all I have time to write for now. Bye !!!!!!! Windsinger (Jennifer)

Hi Jennifer. I don't mind if you look at my diary but I prefer you don't write on it. Sorry. Oh by the way, Pgl stands for Peter Gordon Lorence. the guy who made it. Some people say it stands for parents get lost but some of them like the one I'm going to is a family camp!!! Ok BYE! :) India

Dear Diary,
 * __21st May 2009, Friday, Ghana, Accra, Sunny, A bit cloudy, Hot, 2:01 am__

This week has been GREAT !!!!!! Today my brother's fiancé is coming from England for a week to visit !!!!!! I am sooooo excited !!!! Erin's birthday party is also today !!!!!! The trouble is that my brother's fiancé is arriving while I'm at Erin's party !!!!! Doesn't that suck ??

Today is also Book character day at school and I'm dressed up as the warden from the book HOLES !!!!!!! If you haven't read the book, you should DEFINITELY read it NOW !!!! It is SOOOO GOOD !!!! That is all I have time to write for now. Bye !!!!!! Windsinger *_* ** __26th May 2009, Tuesday, Ghana. Accra, Sunny, Cloudy, 5:54 pm__ Dear Diary,

I haven't written for quite a while. For the weekend I went to the Anomabo Beach resort !!!!!!!! There, I met soooo many people from my school like : Liza, Soairse (pronounces Seer-sha), Victor, and I met Carlotta !!! I also hear that India went there at one stage !!! I hope she had as much fun as I did !!! I had a LOT of fun !!!! Yesterday was African Unity Day, so we got Monday off !!!! At that time, I was still at Anomabo and it ABSOLUTELY BUCKETED down with........can you guess ??? I will give you some clues, In Ghana it is rainy season and.....well... I can only think up one clue but even with that clue I think you can guess it. It was........ RAIN !!!!!!!!!! We were just in the middle of eating luch at the restaraunt when....... POOF, down comes the rain !!!! We all went into the inner part of the restaraunt so we wouldn't get wet as the restaraunt was out doors. All of a sudden, all the waiters were pulling closed the glass doors that offer some protection from the wind and rain. Everybody started ordering tea to keep warm as many of us had just gotten out of the sea. I was FREEZING. Also on my weekend, there was a very high tide most of the day. There is a line of stumps by the front of the sunbeds that keeps the sand from disapearing into the ocean. The waves came write up to there !!!!!! YIKES !!!! Carlotta and I were sitting on the rice bags filled with sand by the stumps and it was high tide and all of the waves were really small then, ontop of one of the small waves a HUGE wave formed, and broke and I was pushed to the top of the beach where the sun beds are, and then the waves started pulling me into the ocean !!!!! I was able to hold onto a string that ties the rice bags full of sand together so I didn't get dragged that far but I ended up with rope burn !!!!! That is all I have time too write now. TTFN !!!!! That stands for 'TaTa For Now' !!!!!!! BYE !!! Windsinger *_*

__**27th May 2009, Wednesday, Ghana, Accra, The sky is a bit gray and is very cloudy, good chance of rain, 9:40 am**__ Dear Diary,

Today has been OK so far. I am writing in school once again and it is in the morning so I don't have much to write about yet. Hopefully, I will write again later as I need to write 3 days in my diary and if you write at school, it doesn't count. WAAA !!! Today after school I have quite all lot of things to do. And just to top it of ........ I have very little time to do it !!!! I am a very busy bee. Today, after school, I have gymnastics. The only problem is.......... I am NOT flexible !!!!!! In fact, I AM THE OPPOSITE OF FLEXIBLE !!!!!!! I can't even touch my toes for crying out loud !!!!!!!

After gymnastics, I have to go to ballet. The show I have talked about in previous entries, is coming up soon and we STILL haven't got our costumes yet !!!!! Hopefully, we will get them today. I our dance we are dancing swans and for our costumes, we have to wear a ...... TUTU !!!!! I am SOOOO excited !!!!! I've never worn a tutu before !!!!! Just incase you don't know what a tutu is, it is a kind of skirt you use for ballet and it is all puffy so it sticks out to the side !!!! Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy !!!!!!! If I wasn't in class right now...... I would jump up and down for joy !!!!!!!

I have kind of run out of things to write down. Uh......um..... wait !!!! Hold your horses !!!! I can write about my FRENCH TEST THAT IS TODAY !!!!!!!!! Now there is a little voice in my head saying : //"Why would anyone want to know about your french test ????? That is a boring topic !!!!!''// Well at least it is something to write about. "//Oh who cares about a test ???"// Well, I do care about about it so, SHUSH !!! In french class we are having a test on EVERYTHING we have learnt this year. The only thing is that ........ I HAVEN'T STUDIED ENOUGH !!!!!! My stomach is doing back flips and the butterflies are bumping against the side of my stomach !!!! Despite all of that, I am pretty confident that I will get a good score. I just hope it doesn't include too many words like knife, soon, plate, fork, serviette, and so on so forth because I have looked at that only....uh... ONCE I think !!!!!!

I need to go now. TTFN !!!!! Windsinger *_*

Dear Diary,
 * __ 27th May 2009, Wednesday, Ghana, Accra, It is getting dark outside, 6:19 pm __ **

There are a couple of things I want to write about. First of all, I am writing on my diary for the second time today !!!!!!! I've NEVER done that before !!!! Check if you don't belive me !!! SEE !!!!!! As my fellow class mate said, I really hope Man U wins the finals !!! My big brother, the one I talked about previously ( the one from England ), His fiancé, and my dad have all gone to Champs to watch the game !!! In case you were wondering, Champs is like a restaraunt that you can watch football in but also eat !!! It is a MANJOR place for football fans to go watch on BIG screens. I wasn't allowed to go as there is school tomorrow. BOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!! I am soooooo excited for the match !!!!!

One bad thing is that the costumes didn't arrive in ballet yet. *_* WWWWAAA !!!!! Our ballet teacher said the tutus are hard to make so they take up a bit of extra time. We did get our tiaras but we couldn't see them yet !!!!! Doesn't that suck ????

Another thing is that in french class.......We DIDN'T take the test !!!!!! I think I misheard her because today she told us that the test is on Friday. Sooo, it doesn't matter if I didn't study !!! YAAAYYY !!!!!!!!!

In gymnastics, we are doing this new thing where there is lots of mats on the floor so they make like a thin path, and the Gymnastics teacher hold a hoola hoop over the mats, and you step back, take a run for it, jump and dive, and then summersault as you land. it was quite hard at first but eventually I got it and I was one of the ONLY ones who could do it !!!!!!! See !!! You don't have to bee flexible to do EVERYTHING in gymnastics !!!! It is SOOOOO fun and I can't wait to do it again !!!!! It sounds hard but if you concour your fears and belive in yourself, you can do almost ANYTHING !!!

The finals are about to start and I need to start and I need to go and wash sooo, I guess that is all I have time to write for now. I just heard my mum say "oh Ronaldo !!!" so I guess the match has started so ....... TTFN !!!! See you !!! Windsinger *_*

__** 28th May 2009, Thursday, Ghana, Accra, Sunny, Cloudy, 5:25 pm **__ Dear Diary,

Today has been O.K. The first thing I want to talk about is P.E. In P.E, we have started a new unit on ......Da Da Da Doo Daaaaa !!! (theme Music !!!!) Hello everyone !!! We are at 'Guess the Activity' on T.V. with our lovely host .... Ladies and gentelmen, put your hands together for...... Windsinger Staret !!! (The crowd goes WILD !!!!!!) Then, Windsinger speaks : "Hello !!! Today I was writing on my online diary and I said "we started a new unit in P.E". Just incase you were wondering, we jumped from the part where I was about to tell you what our new unit is in P.E so we came here so you could try and GUESS it !!!! O.K. So we have 3 clues to what my new unit is. Clue Number 1. You use a bat. Clue Number 2. You use a glove. Clue Number 3. There is a pitcher, and a batter. Still can't guess ? O.K. I will give you 2 EXTRA clues !!! Extra clue number 1. Babe Ruth is Famous for being a pro at this sport. The last, and FINAL clue is ; You can get an OUT, a Homerun, a Home, and a SAFE !!! Now can you guess ??? YES !!!! YOU GOT IT !!! The answer is......BASEBALL !!!!!! " And now, we go back to the diary. We started a new unit on baseball. We actually started last week but I didn't write about it. I got my first HOME !!!!! I've never gotten a home before !!!!! I was soooo happy !!! But, the only thing is that we used a soft bat and a soft ball and we also hit the ball from a kind of stand. And, we didn't use the gloves. We used the gloved for the practice in throwing and catching the ball, but not in the real game.

Today we also had music. It was the day that we had give our recorders back to our music teacher and it is such a sad day. Luckily, I payed for mine !!!! WHOOOOO !!!! Therefore, I still have mine !!!!!It is mine forever !!!

In library, we have different units like for one example is that you get a paper and each paper has a question on it. You need to find the answer to that question and then put it in a kind of box. At the end, there was a raffle and you could win prizes if one of the questions you answered was picked !!! Since it is the end of the year, we have a fun unit. In this unit you can earn scoops of ice-cream (paper scoops) in your paper cone of ice-cream. Each grade has one cone. In this case the teachers and teaching assistants were also allowed to participate !! The nusery students too !! The prize is an ice-cream party !!! And guess what, our grade (grade 4) is winning !!!!! You can go to [] for more information on this.

That is all I feel like writing so I guess I should go now. TTFN !!!!! Windsinger *_ *

Hey Jennifer!!! I hope you don't mind me writing on your diary, you can delete it if you want. Anyway I just wanted to tell you i erased our names from the talent show list. I don't really feel like doing it. Sorry. India *_*!