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doing it. Still he never would. O’Toole wants us to tell the truth in our stories. But that is way ambitious of him. You’re not going to tell the truth in a storythat the whole class might read. Just in a diary (ha!)
Anyway, Tommy and Declan got my ‘Write what you know. All experience is relevant’ immediately because that’s O’Toole’s famous catchphrase.
Declan said, ‘Yeah, Tommy, they could be like Sami.’
Tommy laughed.
I said, ‘Who’s Sami?’
Turns out Sami is a Turkish blogger who got an astronomical number of hits. He is a cult, and all because his blog is so boring. All he does is write about what he has for tea and what his mother-in-law says and things like that. I thought this was a pretty insulting comparison because our adventures are better than that but anyway I laughed to show I was a good sport. And then Declan said, well, if we were really set on it, he’d help us design the blog! I gasped. This is incredibly kind of him!
T HURSDAY O CTOBER 15 T H
Another Karmic duty! Maybe the whispering campaign worked in our favour because at break Gita came up to us and she isn’t even in our class. She’s a First Year, like Justine. So our reputation is spreading! She is the daughter of someone in the Indian Embassy. Our school gets a lot of embassy kids, I don’t know why because it’s not top of the league for Leaving Cert results or anything. Maybe it’s because our school is mixed boysand girls, when most secondary schools are single-sex. Even though we wear uniforms, our school looks a bit more like a school on American TV than other schools in Dublin. We can wear jewellery and boys can have long hair and sometimes you see kids kissing. Maybe embassy kids want their schools to be as close to America as possible? Anyway, Gita said would we do something bad to Jayne O’Keeffe because she was saying racist things to her. Anna went nuts over this! There is nothing worse than racism for a person with a strong social conscience.
F RIDAY O CTOBER 16 H
Declan said to check out as many blogs as possible and see which ones we liked the look of and then he’d help us design it. Thanks to Declan we’re gonna have a really cool-looking blog that will avoid all the clichés. But I’m worried about how to blog about the Instruments of Karma because we can’t really admit to it, but on the other hand it is too good not to put up. This is a Conundrum.
We are taking our job for Gita very seriously. In fact we considered not charging her because this is a question of Justice, but then Anna pointed out that Robin Hood stole from the rich to give to the to poor but Gita isn’t the poor – no way, she wears designer shoes. To school! So we are charging her €10.50. We haven’t decided what to do yet. It is a very serious crime that Jayne is committing and we think this time she needs toknow why she’s being punished. For something as serious as racism it’s not enough to leave it to Karma.
S ATURDAY O CTOBER 17 TH
Back from Conor’s – he is the five-year-old whose birthday we organised. Now I can say with complete assurance that little boys are much easier and nicer than little girls. Little boys – at least little boys of five – don’t like being dumped by their parents. They are mad clingy! So there were all these parents chatting with us trying to organise games and nobody was too bothered about anything. If a little boy started acting up all you had to do was speak in a stern voice, and he would totally collapse and promise to be good. Amazing! I am worried about these little boys in school though – they must be bossed to bits by the little girls.
Anyway it’s good that the party was easy because we are not nearly as exhausted as last time, but it’s also bad because there’s no good story for the blog. I think I would rather be wrecked. I really would. I am ready to make this sacrifice for the blog.
S UNDAY O CTOBER 18 TH
Anna came round to mine and we worked out what we were
Anyway, Tommy and Declan got my ‘Write what you know. All experience is relevant’ immediately because that’s O’Toole’s famous catchphrase.
Declan said, ‘Yeah, Tommy, they could be like Sami.’
Tommy laughed.
I said, ‘Who’s Sami?’
Turns out Sami is a Turkish blogger who got an astronomical number of hits. He is a cult, and all because his blog is so boring. All he does is write about what he has for tea and what his mother-in-law says and things like that. I thought this was a pretty insulting comparison because our adventures are better than that but anyway I laughed to show I was a good sport. And then Declan said, well, if we were really set on it, he’d help us design the blog! I gasped. This is incredibly kind of him!
T HURSDAY O CTOBER 15 T H
Another Karmic duty! Maybe the whispering campaign worked in our favour because at break Gita came up to us and she isn’t even in our class. She’s a First Year, like Justine. So our reputation is spreading! She is the daughter of someone in the Indian Embassy. Our school gets a lot of embassy kids, I don’t know why because it’s not top of the league for Leaving Cert results or anything. Maybe it’s because our school is mixed boysand girls, when most secondary schools are single-sex. Even though we wear uniforms, our school looks a bit more like a school on American TV than other schools in Dublin. We can wear jewellery and boys can have long hair and sometimes you see kids kissing. Maybe embassy kids want their schools to be as close to America as possible? Anyway, Gita said would we do something bad to Jayne O’Keeffe because she was saying racist things to her. Anna went nuts over this! There is nothing worse than racism for a person with a strong social conscience.
F RIDAY O CTOBER 16 H
Declan said to check out as many blogs as possible and see which ones we liked the look of and then he’d help us design it. Thanks to Declan we’re gonna have a really cool-looking blog that will avoid all the clichés. But I’m worried about how to blog about the Instruments of Karma because we can’t really admit to it, but on the other hand it is too good not to put up. This is a Conundrum.
We are taking our job for Gita very seriously. In fact we considered not charging her because this is a question of Justice, but then Anna pointed out that Robin Hood stole from the rich to give to the to poor but Gita isn’t the poor – no way, she wears designer shoes. To school! So we are charging her €10.50. We haven’t decided what to do yet. It is a very serious crime that Jayne is committing and we think this time she needs toknow why she’s being punished. For something as serious as racism it’s not enough to leave it to Karma.
S ATURDAY O CTOBER 17 TH
Back from Conor’s – he is the five-year-old whose birthday we organised. Now I can say with complete assurance that little boys are much easier and nicer than little girls. Little boys – at least little boys of five – don’t like being dumped by their parents. They are mad clingy! So there were all these parents chatting with us trying to organise games and nobody was too bothered about anything. If a little boy started acting up all you had to do was speak in a stern voice, and he would totally collapse and promise to be good. Amazing! I am worried about these little boys in school though – they must be bossed to bits by the little girls.
Anyway it’s good that the party was easy because we are not nearly as exhausted as last time, but it’s also bad because there’s no good story for the blog. I think I would rather be wrecked. I really would. I am ready to make this sacrifice for the blog.
S UNDAY O CTOBER 18 TH
Anna came round to mine and we worked out what we were
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