Hockey on my Birthday - by Danica

Yesterday was my 11th birthday. When I got up in the morning I had breakfast in bed which was croissants with butter and jam. Erin gave me an early birthday present which was a jar of Nutella and I loved it a lot and I ate it on my croissant. I took of container of brownies to school to share with my class because my mom is so fabulous and baked them for me! During chapel they called me up and gave me a sucker that I gave to Erin. I got out of school at 1:00 so I could go to my hockey tournament at the country club. It’s not the same kind of hockey as in Canada. We play it on grass with a funny looking stick and a hard ball. We have to wear shin pads and gum guards for safety reasons. I’m on the “B” team and we played against Nelspruit Primary. We played very well and had scored one goal but at half-time someone noticed that our team had 11 players and the other team only had 9. Ooops. We had to take some players off and in the end it was a tie game.

For supper, my fabulous Dad made me perogies from scratch with Oma’s sauce. No one here knows what perogies are! There were very yummy. For my birthday presents I got the Zoo Tycoon 2 that I had been wishing for and Sims Deluxe Edition and a bunch of other things. Erin and I got to have a Silly String war with the new cans that we got, it was lots of fun. Erin’s can stopped working so I won the war, ha, ha! I had a really great day and lots of emails from home. Thanks everyone for thinking of me!

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