The Intemational Showcase was during the last period, and when I set up my project in the gym I was actually feeling pretty good about thing But I wish I'd got assigned a country where a they wore lighter clothes, because the furnace was still on full blast.
The heat was getting to some OTHER kids, too, and tempers were startin to flare. At one point Brazil and Bulgaria got in a fight over table space, and a teacher had to come and break it up.
Kids came in from the elementary school to check out our projects and ask questions. But all I had to do to get them to move along was pretend I only espake Maltese.
After that, the PARENTS started to arrive. Luckily, MINE couldn't come because Dad was at work and Mom was at her college. But some kid in my grade has a mom and dad who are actually FROM Malta, which was really bad luck for ME.
I thought they were gonna report me to my teacher, and I was ready to make a run for it. But then something happened that let me off hook.
The fight that started between Brazil and Bulgaria flared back up and spilled over to the “C’ and “D” countries. And before long the whole GYM was at war.
Luckily, the bell rang, and school got dismissed before anhone was seriously hurt. But the whole situation doesn't exactly give me a lot of hope for world peace.
Tuesday
Well, I THOUGHT I was in the clear, but I
was wrong. My Social Studies teacher sent a note
home to my parents that said I had to do my
Interntional Showcase project AGAIN.
So Mom said I can't watch TV or play video. games until I finish. I figure I can probably get this thing done by Saturday, but it won't matter anyway. That's because Mom is making me and my brothers have “Screen-Free Weekends”.
Mom thinks us kids are addicted to screens, and they're the reason we misbehave, So she started this new policy w're not allowed to use any electronics on Saturdays and Sundays, and we have to find other ways to entertain ourselves.