It's time!

I'm leaving for girls camp IN LESS THAN AN HOUR!!!! Wish me luck!
I'm still very nervous (I've heard a lot of horror stories about the cougar that found it's way into camp last year, and how bad the bathrooms are, etc.) but I'm a lot more confident now that I have my supplies. Hope I don't die, but I guess if I do I won't have to do any more book reviews. ; p
See ya next week!

Mom is making me do a book review :(

Whatever

Sword of the Rightful King

It's a novelization about King Aurthur pulling the sword out of the stone. I didn't think it was all that great. The cool thing was a little side story about one of Merlin's apprentices who was actually Queen Guenevere in disguise. She was trying to get revenge on this guy who left her sister. She made herself look way younger and got into the castle as a teenage boy. But of course she was way older and more experienced than that so when you are reading about it you are like "How does he (cuz you don't know he's actually a girl) know that?" That was the only part of the book that was interesting. The big problem (that leads to the climax or whatever) was some evil witch who was gonna curse the sword so that she could pull it out instead of Aurthur, but nothing happened with that so it fell kinda flat.
I don't think I really like Jane Yolen that much. Too many of her stories are like: "OK, once upon a time, this happened (or that). The End"
And then you are just like:
"Whatever"

Oh No

My brothers just found out what 'constipated' means. To them, this is the funniest thing in the ENTIRE WORLD!
They seriously run all around the house telling each other what constipated means. WHY IS THAT FUNNY?!!?!!!!!???????!!!!!!?!!!! : w (that was supposed to be an angry face, but......)

I finally went shopping for girls camp. I think I left it a little late, we have to drop the stuff off at 6:00 tonight. And I don't have all the stuff yet, just the big things.

I was trying to turn this into a big post about all the stuff going on lately, but it's just not that interesting..........

Scaffy just told me that I am (quote) "W-I-R-D".
Hypocrite.

The Devil's Arithmetic

It's really, really sad. Know that before anything else.
It's about this Jewish girl who goes back in time to the holocaust and goes to a concentration camp. Really sad. It's definitely the kinda book that makes you count your blessings.
I dunno, I didn't like reading it, but I guess it was a good thing to read. It made me think a lot. The girl in the story is 12, my age, but the book is written for adults. I think everybody should read it or a book like it, but if you do read it, you will not like it. Too sad. :(

Girls Camp anxietites

Girls Camp is almost here and I am scared to death. Seriously, it's a WHOLE WEEK in the mountains!
I need a whole buncha supplies and stuff and I need to get stuff for my Secret Sister (whom I have NOTHING in common with) and Secret Sister in my ward is like a big competition to see who can come up with the best and funniest gifts and whoever comes up with the best gifts is, like, automatically popular and I am not exactly popular as it is. And I feel like they just expect you to know everything. "OK we are having Girls Camp this year on June 23" (I think it's June 23) and that's it- you just have to know all the camp songs and where to get supplies and what supplies and the perfect Secret Sister gifts and what the heck Secret Sister even IS and "Oh yea, you have to pay to go but we are not gonna tell you who to give the money to, you just have to magically know that" and you also have to know where the stupid "CHICKEN NUGGET" thing came from!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am probably the only person EVER who didn't look forward to girls camp.

Stuff

I don't know what to write about. Seriously, there is like nothing going on in my life right now. That is the problem with summer: at first you really enjoy having nothing to do all day, but after a while it gets boring. Lets see.......... Thelly won the Pinewood Derby on Thursday. He and my dad worked really hard this year. I think my dad went a little crazy. He went and bought $45 wheels on the internet and a kitchen scale so he could be EXACTLY precise in the weight. But they had a weigh-in for the cars on Wednesday night, and the lady in charge used a really cheap scale- like REALLY cheap. So everybody had to take a lot of weight off their cars (according to my dad it is a good thing to have a heavy car and a bad thing to have to take weight off). After the weigh-in everybody left their car at the lady-who-was-in-charge's house. Everyone else just left their car, but my dad had this great big box that was all padded inside and everything. It was kinda funny. He won 1st place though, so I guess it was worth it.
I had my book club on Saturday. It's not really a book club, but I invite all the girls from church that are my age to come over to my house and we make some kinda dessert. I usually only get 2 or 3 people, but it's still fun. This time we made chocolate pie, and it was GOOD I tell you!
Mom went to the temple on

Saturday night, so my dad and brothers and i took advantage of that by watching lotsa tv. Star Wars, specifically. Dad went a little color- blind and he thought that Darth Maul's lightsaber was green. So me and my brothers all told him he was crazy and he said we were crazy, so we had a bet. If he was right, we all had to eat double-helping of whatever vegetable he chose. If we were right, we got to stay up later on whatever night we chose. Of course, Darth Maul has a red lightsaber, so we each get to stay up late on any night we choose. I think I'm gonna finally get to see a whole episode of So You Think you Can Dance!
On Sunday I gave my first talk ever in sacrament meeting. It was about Father's Day. I didn't think I did a very good job (it was super short and everything I said was obvious) but of course no one will say that to your face so they all tell you that you did great even though I did NOT do great, I just did average for a first talk. My aunt and uncle both gave talks too, so my mom got to hold my baby cousin. I WANTED TO HOLD MY BABY COUSIN!!!!!!!!! :( :( But I got to hold her on Saturday while my aunt ran a b-day party for her son, (Star Wars themed, of course) so I guess it was OK. My aunt holds the coolest parties. She decorated the whole house and sent out really cool customized invitations and set all the food up to look fantastic and taste really good and she got her neighbor to come over and be Darth Vader an everything. It's awesome, truly.

Hey, maybe I have stuff going on in my life after all...............

Random crap and a book review

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(Why, yes I am stalling, how did you ever guess?)

Whatever, I'm just gonna do a book report.

Millicent Min: Girl Genius

This is a really good book, not because of the way its written, but because of the storyline.
It's about this Chinese girl who is a super-genius-11-year-old- junior-in-high-school who has no friends, because everybody is scared of her super-smartness. When summer comes around Millicent's parents sign her up for volleyball because they want her to have a more "normal childhood". That's where Millicent meets Emily Ebers. Emily doesn't know about Millicent being a genius, and Millicent wants to keep it that way. So she lies. Of course, lies have a way with catching up with you......
I really like this book because it's written from Millicent's point of view, and even though she tries to say she doesn't care, you can see that she is really lonely and looking for a friend. And then Emily shows up, and Millicent thinks it the greatest thing that ever happened. She lies about being a genius because she thinks it will help her frienship wth Emily, but deep down, she knows it won't. This story is also written from Emily's point of view, in a different book, so that's really cool too. I really like it, but I don't know if an adult would.