Getting Worried

Today very normal, but very crazy (for me at least) Sunday. After sacrament meeting, the first counselor in our wards bishopric came up to my mom and I, and told me he had an assignment for me. Naturally, I started getting worried as soon as he said that. He asked me if I could give talk next week, and I said yes. That wouldn't be so bad, except that next week is our ward conference, so I will be speaking along with the Bishop and the Stake president. I'm already getting scared. I must confess that I didn't pay as much attention in Sunday school because of that. After Sunday school was finished, I walked out with the three other kids in my class (yes, I only have three other kids in my class, which is pretty small compared to the 13+ I had last year). As soon as we stepped out of the room a member of the bishopric pulled each of the three girls in my class (including me) aside. Once again it was the first counselor that pulled me aside, and his first words to me were "I have another assignment for you" My first thought were "what do I have to do now?!?" (but of course I didn't say that out loud:) He told me that I was being asked to be the first counselor in the Mia Maid class. I of course said yes, and then I went into Young women's with a million things going through my mind. So now I have a new calling, and the scariest assignment of my life, all in one day. My life just got a lot busier.

Civil War Poem

I had to right a poem for a Civil war class I am taking, so I thought I'd post it. Here it is!

Did the Die in Vain?
By Me

Did they die in vain,
To keep the free from the pain,
Of permanent separation?

Fighting across the nation,
Lincoln’s emancipation,
Two countries fighting each other

Brother against brother,
Weeping tearful mother,
The Battle of Bull Run

The North won,
The South was out run,
Did God lend a hand?

Together we stand,
One nation, one land,
In God we must trust

Shakespeare Fair-again!

Here are the pictures from the Shakespeare Fair I mentioned in in a post a couple weeks ago.

The royal goblets on the royal table.

Getting ready to have two of the students coronations. From the left: My teacher Sister H, Rachel (who is about to become Queen), me, Emma, and Dante (who is about to become King)

Rachel and me.

Thank you Marianne for letting me use some of her pictures!

Baby Birds

This picture is from a couple of years ago, but I saw a Gold Finch (maybe it was one of these baby's!) this morning and it reminded me of this picture. I have a lot more good pictures of Gold Finch's, maybe later I'll post them.

OK, here's another picture:


Can you see the baby bird's beak? The mother is feeding him.

Books, Books Books!

I love to read! My favorite kind of books are Fantasy, but I love any kind of book. History, Non-fiction, Science fiction... I love books!

Last Saturday I finished reading the Harry Potter books, and I loved them. My favorite was the last one, but I liked all of them. If you saw one of my previous post on Shakespeare, you'll have noticed that last month I read A LOT of Shakespeare plays. I enjoy reading Shakespeare, and now that I've read so much of it (but not nearly as much as my Shakespeare teachers) I understand it pretty well. Another book that I listened to last month was Uncle Toms Cabin. I had to read or listen to it for a Civil war class I'm taking through my home-school group. I really liked Uncle Toms Cabin, and I thought it was a very good clasical book. It took me about three weeks to listen to it on and off.

Here is a list of [some] of my favorite books. They're not really in order, just as I think of them:)

The Book of Mormon

The Lord of the Rings (all of them)

The Hobbit

Narnia (all of them)

Harry Potter (all of them)

The Dark is Rising (Series, all of them)

Fablehaven (all of them)

The Mysterious Benedict Society (all of them)

Tresure Island

Watership Down

The Lost World

Eight Cousins

Macbeth

The Wizard of OZ

Half Magic

Magic by the Lake

Knights Castle

The Thyme Garden

A Wrinkle in Time

A Wind in the Door

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Uncle Toms Cabin

The Freedom Factor

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Peter and the Starcatchers

Under the Lilacs

Journey to the Center of the Earth

School Stuff

I decided that for a Personal Progress Project I would do a project involving schoolish things. (Personal Progress is a program for girls at my church ages 12-18. It a program that has different "values" such as Faith, Knowledge, and Virtue. Each value has a set of projects you can do, and you can also make up some of your own if you want to.) I thought for a project I would would blog about different home-school classes I have taken in the past year or to. I think I'll put it under the value Knowledge. I will have specific label for all of the post about school and classes, but I don't know what it will be yet. I hope you enjoy them!

Queen Me

I'm a Queen!
A Shakespeare Queen to be exact. Once a week, I have a home-school school that I go to. It is normal school hours, and I get home work every week. One of the classes is a Shakespeare class, where we read, study, and learn about Shakespeare's plays. One thing that is optional, is to read, watch or listen to 17 unabridged plays by Shakespeare. I finished all 17 last week! After we read, watch or listen to 17 plays we have a "coronation" and become come a King or Queen. In February, we have a Shakespeare Fair, where we have a performance from the older home school acting class. We also have a modernised Shakespearean diner, and all of the Kings and Queens sit at a special table and get served by the two Shakespeare teachers and all the kids who did not do 17 plays. I think that this year, every one of our 20 Shakespeare class students finished 17 plays, or will have finished them by the Fair which is this Saturday. I'm exited for it! I'll post pictures wen I get them.

Here is the list of all the plays I have watched, read or listened to from September 2009 to February this year:

1. A Midsummer Nights Dream- Watched(BBC)
2. A Midsummer Nights Dream- Read
3. The Taming of the Shrew- Watched(BBC)
4. The Taming of the Shrew- Read
5. The Tempest- Watched(BBC)
6. As You Like It- Watched(BBC)
7. The Merchant of Venice- Read
8. As You Like It- Listened
9. Romeo and Juliet-Read
10. Romeo and Juliet-Listened
11. Romeo and Juliet-Watched(BBC)
12. A Midsummer Nights Dream-Listened
13. Macbeth-Read
14. Macbeth-Listened
15. As You Like It-Read
16. Twelfth Night-Read
17. Twelfth Night-Listened