At the school I am now going to, San Roque, every fifth grader gets a small,green laptop computer. I'm in fifth grade and on my second day of school, which just happened to be the Friday before spring break, the secretary told me that on the Monday after spring break, I'd get my computer. That day, when school ended, the secretary caught me on my way out of the room and brought me back inside. Feeling confused, I went inside the class room again. It soon became clear that all she needed from me was for me to write my name on a white box, that I assumed, contained my computer.
So when Monday arrived, I packed up my things really slowly, waiting for the secretary to come and give me the computer but that didn't happen. Then I slowly walked down the three stories of stairs to get back to the ground and exited the bleak brick school. I found daddy at the park across the street from the school. I told daddy that I don't have the computer yet because the secretary didn't give it to me yet. Daddy was counting on getting the computer so he could get the WIFI in our rental house running so he wasn't happy when I told him this. After some arguing on my part, I grumpily went back into the school with Sarah. First, I checked my classroom to see if my teacher was still in the room, but she wasn't. So Sarah and I went to the office on the second floor. There was a group of teachers in there probably talking. One of them asked me what I needed and I told him that the secretary hade promised to give me the computer today. He told me that I needed to bring a parent back to the school at 6:00pm to sign some docs and pick up the computer. Then I told Daddy the news and we started walking home and the teacher who told me the times for the meeting, told daddy every thing and we went home.
Mommy and I went back to the school that afternoon to get my computer. I was feeling nervous because I might have to explain in Spanish and I was exited because I was getting a computer!!!!!! When we got to the office the secretary was hard at work on one of the computers. After nocking on the door frame ( the door was open) we stepped cautiously into the room. When she finally turned around and looked at us questionably and I told her that we came here to pick up the computer. Then she rummaged around for the form for mommy to sign for the laptop. When she couldn't find it, she called the principal to help look. They finally had to photocopy one of the signed docs and whiteout the signatures. With docs signed and my new laptop under my arm, mommy and I trotted out of the school.
The only problems I have with my laptop now is that the cord is weak and that I can't surf the web with it because the WIFI is too slow. The incident that showed how weak my cord is when we went to Morocco. My computer had died and, of course, I plugged it in at our rental house and left it there for four days while we traveled. When we got back, I tried to turn it on and it just clicked and shut down again. What I learned from that is that when I plug my laptop in is that I've got to make sure that I push the plug in really hard.
I have found that my minuscular laptop computer is the perfect size for me and although I can't do much on it besides changing the color if the windows and goof of on this smart board application. I enjoy having my laptop all the same and I'm glad that all the fifth graders at San Roque get their own computer.
Pretty cool, Kayley. Glad you like it! You're using great vocabulary as you write. Awesome.
ReplyDeleteSee you SOON!!!! love, bippy
ps. We're delighted that you're joining the Paris expedition. Good call. We're going to Versailles, so you have to learn about the kings that lived there. The last one, Louis the XVI and his wife [Marie Antoinette] lost their heads and thus began the French Revolution. 1789. In those days, the guillotine was very popular.