Sayings and Speeches

hi!
sorry i didn't post yesterday-I just didn't really feel like it. I stayed up a bit watching tv, and I really didn't feel like posting on my blog

I'll tell you a bit about my day today. I was supposed to have computer science with my dad this morning, but he had a conference call so we didn't. Then at 10 I had public speaking class, which is with this group of homeschoolers. It is held in the home of one of the families, which is in Danville. We had to drive the hour there, and to top that off my mom couldn't remember their address so she had to have my dad look it up while she was driving. My dad, of course, made a complete mess of her emails, and didn't find it at all. After we dropped him off at the bart station though, my mom found it in a sec. We drove there, and had public speaking. It was fun. We were doing a class on sayings this month. Each person picked a saying, and had to do a quick extemporaneous speech on that saying. It was nice. We had two rounds, and I think i did OK. Itai kind of freaked out and didn't do that great, but other than that everyone was really good

one funny thing happened there. This boy Noah(whose house it was at) had the saying "you reap what you sow". He said that the perfect example for this would be the children's book "the little red hen"
no I'd never read that book until monday, when I read it with some of the kindergartners. Then Noah mentioned it in a speech-I'd call that strange. It feels kind of like the universe was making sure that I'd have the context for the speech.

After Public speaking class we went home. We had a meeting with our charter school teacher, which was cool. She brought her 4 year old son, who is super cute. She took some samples of our work, and did assessments on me and Itai. She said that I scored the highest she'd ever seen in reading comprehension-which I think might actually be true since it's always my best subject on standardized tests. On the SSAT(which I just took secondary school assessment test) I scored in the 98th percentile for reading comprehension.  I'm pretty proud of myself, because all my other subjects were almost as good.

The meeting took about an hour and a half, and now I'm blogging about my day-after having played some pocket frogs and talked to this guy who is coming to check out the plumbing at my house. Yeah.

-Eliza Ray