Finally

I finished The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn today. I'm going to answer one of Coursen's prompt when I get home because then I can just write it in Word and then copy it because spelling counts. I really liked the story, and I"m kind of surprised when so many people have said they hated it, but I think you need to have a certain kind of humor to like the book. At the end it was a little tiresome because they took forever to rescue Jim which was why it was funny, but it got old with how it started to drag on and on. Other than that part it was good, though I didn't really see it as depressing or anything, maybe with Huck's dad or something, but that was about it. A Separate Peace just sounds depressing from the words on the back, but then again it's American literature so...yeah. I started Little Women a while ago and I'm going to start it again soon. It's really good so far and I'm only on chapter five (which is like 50 pages in). It talks a lot about Pilgrim's Progress, but I don't want to read it. I think I know the gist of it by now. All of the girls are realistic and the mom is the sweetest person in the world! Ah...and I thought I wasn't going to be interested in it...

Can't wait to go home! Just one night and twelve hours later and I'll be able to see my darling little fat cats! I'm coming home Pudgy, Thunder, and Nochi (still love you Snickers)!!!! oh and Dad too I guess. Jk see ya soon dad.

P.S. My freckles didn't last long for some reason, which is a relief in itself. Also the game Apples to Apples is awesome! You should play it with a bunch of people (who are not big perverts, but, who for some reason don't see the sexual use in handcuffs...huh I thought for sure Simon would get that one). Phrases on the vacation by the wonderful grandchildren AKA Me, Simon, Derrick, and Alison: Poof and I'm gone! & ...In the face! & HE'S HIGH! HE'S HIGH! HE'S HIGH ON A LITTLE KID SHOW! & NASCAR SUCKS & Betrayal. minus ten points. & Don't let Sam drive, she's terrible.

If you're a Duke, then I'm the King of France!

I really think I'm starting to love The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It's like a little collection of different stories all mixed into one big thing. Jim's reasoning for everything is hysterical, like why the French don't speak English and why King Solomon wasn't a genius. I'm trying to read the book ten chapters at a time so I'm on chapter 20 right now. I just got finished with the part where these two guys were running from someone and they were trying to get sympathy from Huck and Jim and one guy told them he was really a the rightful Duke of Bridgewater. The other guy wanted to be treated well too, so he told them he was the rightful King of France (even though the King he was supposed to be was like six hundred years old). At first I actually thought Huck and Jim had fallen for it, but at the end of the chapter Huck said he might as well humor them, so I don't know what Jim thought, though he's pretty gullible.

I went to Green Bay, Wisconsin today with Simon, mom, and Grandma. I only went because I wanted to go to the Barns and Nobel there to get War and Peace and any other things I wanted to read that were on Coursen's list. I love bookstores...it's a shame that all the ones around where I live have closed down. ): Hopefully I can go to the beach tomorrow when the weather turns better. OvO

By and by...

I got my expander off today and I couldn't be happier, though my mouth was bleeding a lot when they took it off...I had to rise my mouth out twice with freezing cold water before they could do anything else. Now i have my top braces on (but not the bottom because I would bite right through them), and I remembered why I was so happy when i got them off five years ago. I hate braces and now I have to wear them for a second time...gah!

I started The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn today and it's really not as bad as everyone was telling me it would be. I'm on Chapter Ten right now. Huck as said the phrase 'by and by' more times than i care to count and I think that's the only thing that kind of annoys me so far. When i first flipped through the book and saw that there was tons of southern 'talking' in it I groaned, but now that I'm reading it I've found that I sometimes talk like Huck does, not to his southern extent of course, but bits and peaces sound like me. I have to read Jim's words slowly, because it's kind of hard to grasp what he's saying if you rush through it. Huck's dad is an ass. All in all, not bad at all, I might even enjoy this story :)