2011 Speech Festival

I took half day off from school on Thursday. Mummy took me to Chai Wan, where this year's Speech Festival took place. I had been preparing a poem to recite for nearly two months. It was a fun poem:

My appraisal

"All Wet"
by Tony Johnston.

Tommy had a water gun,
He squirted it at Jimmy,
At Jamie George and Jennifer,
and Katie Kim and Timmy.

He squirted Sally on the nose,
he squirted Molly on the toes,
he laughed and thought it lots of fun...
til Sammy got him with a hose.

I didn't win. :-( Mum said I spoke it too quickly; I didn't do any actions. The judge gave me 80 marks; the person who came first got 85 marks.

Turtle is dead

Turtle died on Wednesday. It happened in the night. We found him dead when I woke up. I was very upset. I was all alone when I got home from school; Shirley was preparing dinner. Dad found me crying when he came home, and promised we would bury him together. Dad put our friend in a box and put it in the fridge so that it wouldn't get too smelly.

Theodore said he had a plan for the burial. Today, after rugby training, we went to the park near our flat. Theodore chose a few spots and tried digging. It didn't work, so he found a spot under a hedge. Then he and Dad dug a hole; I helped scrape out the earth. When the hole was deep enough, Dad placed Turtle into the bottom. I helped cover him up with soil.

Theodore then wrote 'Turtle 2011 RIP" on a pair of wooden chopsticks, and drove it into the ground covering our dead pet. We cried; we were also bitten many times by mosquitos.

This is a map I drew of where we buried Turtle

Teeth

Theodore and I went to see Uncle Roger last week. He had to make two temporary fillings in my teeth, again :-( I told him my front tooth was wobbly, and he also told me I had an eruption (sounds painful), and explained it meant a new tooth was pushing the old one out. He said it would take a month, but it came out in two weeks.

My front tooth was wobbly on the way home from school yesterday. I had it in  my hand when I got home, but I dropped it downstairs in the lift lobby, and couldn't find it. Papa, Theodore and I went back downstairs after dinner to look for it. Luckily, Theodore found it very quickly.

Papa told me to put the tooth under my pillow for the Tooth Fairy to find,  in the morning, I discovered $100 where my tooth was. :-)

Sports day

Instead of the usual rugby training today, I took part in a rugby festival at our home ground hosted by Tai Po Rugby Club. Because we were celebrating Papa's birthday with Grandma and the Gugus at lunch today, we had to leave early. I don't know if I will get a participation medal for it next week – I got one when we played at our own festival, and at the one organised by Hong Kong University.

After lunch, Papa, Theodore and I competed in the swimming gala at our Club. I swam 25m kick and came first, and Papa tried to explain to me why I received a silver medal, like the one he got for finishing second. He said something about heat, which I didn't understand. Theodore won his back-stroke race, but didn't get a medal. He was a bit upset too. Somebody said he had a false start, whatever that means... Sai Gugu said she would complain because the marshalls didn't stop the race.

Fight

I had another fight with Theodore on the way to kids' Gallery today. He's much bigger than me, and usually gets his way.

Shirley was in the front seat, while we were in the back; Maya's crayons were there in the back. We both wanted to draw, so were fighting over crayons. As usual, Theodore won. He grabbed a crayon and stabbed me in the forehead. Mr. Wan told Theodore off, and Papa was not pleased with him when we got home. He told Theodore that I could have been blinded by the pencil.

Cavities

School's out. Mummy was worried to see black spots on my teeth, so Papa made an appointment with our dentist. Mummy and Papa took me and Theodore to see Uncle Roger this morning.

Theodore's teeth were fine, but Uncle Roger looked  in my mouth and reported 4 cavities – two on each side of my mouth, two on the top and two on the bottom. Only one of them was large enough to be fixed, so he put some filling in it for me. He told me I had to go back during the summer holidays. :-(

Party

I went to my school friend Maxine's birthday party yesterday. She is four. It was a Chinese themed party, with Pipa performance and ribbon dancing. She had a beautiful cake.