Summer Languages

This summer I have been made tutor to my brother for Latin. On Saturday, we started, and thankfully, it all came back. After all, being the tutor, it's good to have a better understanding of the language than your student does! We read through the grammar, covered and copied all the vocabulary - 27 new words for Ev -, had a quiz -yeah, yeah, I'm a tough teacher -, and then he studied, studied, studied. We have 9 weeks to get through 12 lessons, including 3rd declension nouns: three chapters of them! I also am hoping to keep up with Spanish over the summer. Gulp!

Summer Vacation!

Hey, everyone! I am finally out of school!!!! It's wonderful to be free. :) Here are my some of my summer plans:

1. This summer, I'm tutoring my brother in Latin - the school where he is going next year teaches Latin, and I did the book I'll be teaching him last year, so hopefully it will all turn out okay-.
2. We're going to the Northeast in July, which is going to be soooo fun. We have family up there, and it just feels like home.
3. I'm also going to do a bake sale one weekend. Last time we did it, the sale was successful, but we had to split the money four ways, so it didn't amount to much.
4. Mom wants my brother and me to take computer classes, and both the library and the Apple store offer free lessons.

So, no really big plans. Of course, we'll go swimming! One of our friends lets us swim at her apartment pool, and there is rarely anyone swimming, so usually we have the pool to ourselves. What are you doing this summer? (Comments below this post.)

~Softball~

Well, last night we had our final game of the season. And, we actually won! 16-9. I was playing with a cold - well, congestion-, and before the game during warm-up, I jammed my thumb. It still hurts. So, the conditions weren't great going into the game. But the defense and offense just came together last night. :) We had our awards ceremony after the game, and I got the "Big Stick" award, in part to the grand slam I got a week ago. Then my coach asked if maybe I could be a co-coach with them next year! Anyway, softball was a lot of fun this year!

~Tallie IV~

Hi, everyone! I just wanted to let you know that Tallie is finally off the steroids and well on the road to recovery! She took the last of the steroids this evening. :) As I said, she's also improved majorly the past few days. I'll let you know when she's all better.

~Tallie III~

Hey, everyone! It has been a week and a half or so since I wrote about Tallie. The good news is that there is not much to report! Tallie is doing much better, and on her second week of steroids. She still negotiates stairs very carefully, but yesterday she she brought some balls over to Dad and me to play, and she did a full-body stretch and pounced like a cat on her toys! She'll be on the steroids one week from Tuesday and then she should be doing all better. I'll let you know how it all turns out!

Softball

So far in this softball season, we've had five games. We've also lost four of them. It's getting very demoralizing because we are only losing because we have a few really bad players that always manage to botch up the simplest plays. The only reason we won the one game was because we were missing almost all of our "bad" players. My friend also hit 2 homeruns in that game, and I hit one, so we got 4 runs from just those plays! (Yes, 4 runs - there was a player on base when I got mine.) We have three more games, so once they happen I'll let you know how they go!