Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

Tuesday

Well I was really pleased with myself today, I won our class competition for the best adventure report! You remember when we climbed the island in Cornwall? Well our endeavour was rewarded with a £10 book token and the glory and adulation of the school in assembly.

I also got awarded my bronze times table certificate in assembly, so, a good day for both of us.

It wasn't all good though, we had a few issues in our little friend group of me, Amy and Sasha.  I'm sure we'll get over it.

Things got even worse at home, mum threw me the tv remote and for some reason I didn't catch it and it smacked me on the head.  It made quite a loud crack sort of sound....ouch.

Rugby for me after school.

And gymnastics for me before our late tea....

Wednesday

Well I had a much better day to day, no falling out with my friends and no flying remotes.  Although I did notice that panda had a sticky patch on his fluffy bottom, no doubt down to a sweet of some description.
We got issued with the script for our year six leavers play, before auditions on Friday.  A Midsummer Nights Dream no less!  I made a protest to Miss Buxey that I had football after school, athletics club after tea and my belated birthday party tomorrow night.  She told me that if I wanted a part bad enough, i'd find the time to learn the lines......
We managed to cram a few read throughs in before Team Kennet but it didn't feel like it was going in at all.

I improved my high jump with a new personal best of 115cm this week.

When we got home we had a quick acting masterclass to back up my script learning.  Mum and Dad were very helpful, they gave me all sorts of ideas to bring a bit more to my audtion than just memorising the words.  I got into a bit of a state about it all, worried i'd never remember it all......Dad tried to convince me that it would have sunken in by the morning and Mum read me the childrens book of a Midsummer Nights Dream at bedtime....preparation was certainly thorough.

Thursday

I had an epic shot at football today, from pretty much the half way line, soaring around the wall and only just clipping the crossbar at the corner, denying a goal.

It was Ned's party pretty much straight after school so Ali and Liam came home with us. There were far too many boys in the front room with that lot so I made a point of wishing them 'good day' before retreating to my own private quarters.

We had an Ipad binge session, Instagram, Youtube, Boom Beach.  Al the usuals.  Then we got changed and headed for Pizza Hut.

Yeah, I sat next to Ella which was awesome and Ned even picked me to make our pizzas first with him,

I'm good to my sister.....

I topped mine with lots of ham, lots of cheese and one slice of pepperoni.

I went full bore with the pepperoni.

In between making the pizzas and waiting for them to be cooked we went big on the salad bar.

We had a jalapeno eating contest too, only Liam and Ellis chickened out.

The pizzas were lovely when they arrived:

Once they were dispensed with it as time for the ice cream factory.

We were surprisingly sensible with it as well really.

Even if we did end up making a few dubious drink concoctions to try for dares using various fizzy drinks and salad bar items.........

My birthday cake (a giant mars bar cake) was a bit of an inconvenience really, I had ice cream to eat!

We all had a great time and it went really well.  

We were home by six, which gave us another chance to go through my audition script again.  It was quite a reassuring exercise,I seemed to remember it all really well.

Friday

Well today was the day for the auditions, between break and lunch time.  I was pretty nervois it. Has to be said.  We had to try out in front of the whole of year six, which made a few people nervous.  I was one the only ones who had memorised the script which helped no end as I could concentrate on my improvised acting parts.  Miss Buxey stated that I was a good singer, so I decided to go along with it and not contest her.  It went really well, and a few subsequent auditionees even copied a few of my moves.  We didn't have to wait long to find out who'd got what....I was chosen to play Lysander, one of the main characters.  I do have to sing and be in love with the girls though!  When it was announced the whole class clapped me which was lovely.  It was pretty awkward though as a lot of the girls in our class hadn't got the roles they wanted and there were a few tears being stifled.

We had another disappointing sports afternoon at St Barts, culminating in a game of tag rugby, with no tags, sloppy refereeing and forward passes being allowed!

I came out of school at pick up time with a massive smile on my face, Mum and Dad knew somethng was going on.  I told them quietly about the audition success but dodn't want to milk it too much as some people were still pretty upset.  On the way out of the playground, Mrs Laurie, the other year six teacher congratulated me on my excellent audition!

We played with the wooden railway set when we got home, it's one of our favourite things to go back to and play with even at our age.

After tea I sloped off out with Ali and Hugo for a bit down the park.  I was back in time to go to Abi and Faye's though.

Yeah, I was staying for a sleep over so took my overnight bag.

Kimi and Marny also came along, as did Nate!

He's still got cool hair and he's still super cute.

We made the most of the pleasant weather by playing on their swing and having a game of football and tennis.

After that We watched Big Hero Six together before us girls headed up to our quarters for the night.

I played Alan's game King of Tokyo with the grown up's.  It was really good fun, Mum and I ended up duking it out to the death, with me taking the eventual win well after midnight.

Saturday

We had a nice Ellis free lie in, much needed after last nights late one. I put the word out about going down the park and soon had Dylan for company.  We hung out down the park or at home all day, until sone of the others appeared to join us later in the afternoon (Tilly, Josh, Hugo).

I came back just in time for lunch which was a result. I spent the afternoon helping Mum do some cleaning ang hanging about in the garden which was nice.

We had to have an early night though as we had an early start to look forward to on Sunday....