How many times do you look at a whole crowd of people and not see anyone?

I thought of that walking into a grocery store this afternoon to get milk. Also I have to give Mr Smith credit for my new -I dont know-description thing, "Wrapped in Sunlight waiting." He wrote it when helping me with my poem, and I was like WOW! I didn't use it because I would always think that I didnt write it- like I was stealing it from him- but he said in class on Monday it was ok to do, so since I didn't use it in my poem, I'll use it on here.

Today was wierd. I thought it would be a fairly "normal" day but of course it wasn't. I had a fairly normal day on Wednesday, so I was like, "I can do that again!" I got to sleep in, but I still felt tired getting up. It took me longer than usual to get going and I didn't start my school until 9:30. I got a lot of work done and Mom said we would be driving seperately to tutoring today so I decided not to leave until 12. Usually we leave at 11:30, but we get there right as the kids are eating lunch, and theres nothing to do. At first when we would go to tutoring I felt like I was doing absolutley nothing, but then for a couple of weeks- we actually sat along side the kids and helped them in their work. (There are six kids, ages 9-14). But today there was no structure and the kids did whatever they wanted because they were already finished by the time we got there. So I got the feeling of "uselessness," and not being help the kids. rrr..

Then I drove home and for the first time put Dieasel fuel in the truck and I couldnt figure out how to do it! Thankfully there was a nice guy who came over to help me, or I think I would have been stuck there a long time. Why are girls not wired to operate big trucks?

Then the "Literary Ladies," had their fourth book discussion tonight at Mrs Kirsch's house. It was great- for this time we read the book, "The Good Earth," which was about a chinese man. It was cool because my Dad is now in China and the book was a real eyeopener to the Chinese culture. I mean I knew like, "the people were poor," and, "women were oppressed," but I never really fully understood what that meant to average every day people. It makes me thankful to be an American and be able to have some say in who I'm going to marry! :-)