On a trip to Pennsylvania

I am on a trip in the car to Pennsylvania to visit my grandparents for three days and I cannot wait to see them. We are taking a different route than last time because there is a lot of construction around Cincinnati. We are driving through eastern Kentucky, and West Virginia is next. I am not used to seeing all these trees and hills. I think it is pretty neat.

Sleepover Day

I am going to a sleepover tonight. It is with one of my friends I haven't seen in a while. He has a pool, so we will be able to go swimming. We are also going to have a water balloon fight. From time to time we will play on his Wii but of course I do not have one or any other video game stations :(, so it is fun when I get to. I get to play some games on my parents' iPad but I have to read, practice piano, and write a blog post before I am allowed to use it.

Summer reading

So I have started my book on man-made disasters. It is amazing how people ignore things that cause disease and even kill people. You can tell that the people creating the waste are pretty greedy because they deny everything even after doing tests, like in the story I recently read about where this company in Japan was dumping mercury into the water with their chemicals that infected the fish and the people that ate them. But of course it is not always companies. For example, in England a giant soot cloud covered everything in London, but it was made by everybody using their fireplaces not just a company.
If anybody is doing summer reading please comment about it.

To Comment

Hey it's Rena. Several of you have noted the difficulty of commenting. I think I have found the easiest way. Set up a Google account at Google.com (you don't have to fill out all that profile info; what they really need is just an e-mail address that lets them track you in case you start making terrorist threats). Once you have a Google account go back to this page and hit sign-in (right-hand corner). Once you've signed in, it'll take you to your own account page, just use the back arrow key to get back to Matthew's page, where you will see you are signed in at the top and free to comment. If anyone knows an easier way -- please feel free to comment.
And, my very thoughtful father-in-law also points out below that you won't get through if you are using Internet Explorer as your browser and to use Firefox instead.

Tennis in the heat.

I am taking tennis lessons this summer with Jo and a group of kids I have been playing with for a while. Today we had to play outside while the sun was boiling on our backs. Now something different about these courts is that they are clay so the ball bounces much higher, and it is much harder to play. We really just did a bunch of consistency drills and singles. But, of course, we had to end with cardio tennis, which makes you beg for  mercy. I was glad when we were finished, but, unfortunately my mom forgot my swimsuit.

Yesterday and the things going on today.

Yesterday, even though it was the first day after school, I had to go clothes shopping because in the fall I have to follow the ridiculous dress code. We also bought some new shoes that are shaped literally like a foot, and they are water shoes so they're pretty neat. We also got a couple graduation cards and gifts for some friends. Also, we went to the bookstore to buy the books I needed for summer reading. Now today I am going to do my final soccer game at 1:00, and I cannot wait, but the thing is, my coach can't be there so my mom and another parent are going to coach. 

Last day of school

IT IS THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL AND I AM PSYCHED. This is going to be a big summer but of course I couldn't have gotten through the year without my 5th grade teacher, Mr. Clark who is unfortunately going to teach at a different school called Simmons Elementary school in Versailles, Ky., and for those of you who don't know where he taught before it is Meadowthorpe Elementary in Lexington,Ky. Anybody who knows me at all please comment.