Following on from yesterday's post, I thought I would share one of Boy #2's diary entries for earlier this week with you...
Tuesday
I went to Greece. in the morning I saw an ant in the bath.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
wen I was in the bath I saw red ants
So that's it, Greece. A 7 year old's take on one of the oldest civilisations on earth reduced to an encounter with an insect...
Please note: All spelling and punctuation is diarist's own.
More may follow.
Tuesday
I went to Greece. in the morning I saw an ant in the bath.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
wen I was in the bath I saw red ants
So that's it, Greece. A 7 year old's take on one of the oldest civilisations on earth reduced to an encounter with an insect...
Please note: All spelling and punctuation is diarist's own.
More may follow.
I saw an ant in the bath when I was in Greece too. Doubt it was the same one though... do ants live for over 12 years?
ReplyDeleteWe get similar kinds of comments in the boys travel journals - having an ice cream for instance is much more exciting than the fact they saw alligators in the wild....
ReplyDeletePippa - well, it was pretty big. Could have been twelve, I suppose...
ReplyDeleteNVG, THAT's why I gt them to write the diary. So they remember the gators (or whatever). I had of course been assuming they would include in the diary in the first place, tho'.