Halloween and the Pageant

The towns putting on an agricultural pageant and I was chosen to be a ham. Mrs. Crenshaw made it looks just like a real ham. I couldn't wait for my family to see me in the play, I be the staring role. But Atticus and Aunt Alexandra told me that they were too tired to go, so Jem had to take me. Before we left for the school I put on my costume to show what a beautiful ham I was, and they couldn't believe their eyes when they saw me, I just looked SO fantastic! 

They pageant took so long that I fell asleep and misted my queue to go on, but that didn't stop me from going out, when I woke up I walked across the stage and took my place. 

While walking home with Jem, he kept making me stop and listen, thinking that Cecil would jump out of the bushes and try to scare us again, but that wasn't the case. I heard a noise to. When we stopped it stop. If was really starting to freak me out, but I couldn't see anything since my outfit covered my vision. Then all of the sudden we started to run, I almost had a heart attack, felt like I jumped right out of my skin I tell yeah. I lost my balance and fell right onto the ground, which now I have a bruise btw, and something sharp cuts into my costume. All I could think of was how hard Mrs. Crenshaw worked on this. They had no right to wreck it. Anyways, my heart was still going 100000000 miles per hour when Jem pulled me toward to light, but then I heard fighting going on and I thought that I was inside one of my nightmares. just wanting to escape back into reality. I saw my house and ran straight for Atticus. 

This was a Halloween I will never forget. One where my dreams did come true in meeting Boo Radley, but a scar in my life that I will always have. 

First Time to a Colored Church

Atticus has gone away to the head of the state for a couple of weeks, so me and Jem we left with Calpurnia to take care of us. Since it was Sunday, Calpurnia decided to take me and Jem to her church, First Purchase. Calpurnia told me that the church had got its name from the free slaves that had built with the money that they had earned from working. I found that to be mind blowing. These people have been through so much and has still managed to have faith in God. Like I mean they spent all of their savings so they would have a place to gather and pray!

Once we arrived to the church I noticed how Calpurnia changed her personality, I mean that she went from a polite woman, to acting like every other black women there. She was speaking in a way that I have never heard her talk. Atticus never changed when he was in public. He always said that he wouldn't do anything in public then what he does at home. I wondered why Calpurina started to act like them, I felt like I was completely out of place. Me and Jem met quite a lot of new faces, like Lula, she told us that two white children had no business coming to a church like this and don't belong here. That's when Calpurnia got all defensive. Anyway, we even met Reverned Sykes, he knew Atticus and said that he was helping out with the Tom Robinson case. 

After the mass was over I was in complete shock. Everything they did was so different. They sang a lot; Calpurnia said that's because them people don't know who to read. And when they were collecting donations they wouldn't let us leave until they had enough money for Tom Robinson's wife. 

Anyway when we got back to the house, my day just went downhill; Aunt Alexandra came to live with us.

First Day of School

Summer has officially ended. Dill my future husband has gone back home to his mother and newly step father, and I'm starting the beginning journey of the first grade. I woke up this morning feeling like a brand new person. Calpurnia, our maid, made me my first day of school breakfast, but I didn't have time to finish, Jem had me rush out the door, so we would not be late. When we first arrived to the school ground I was surprised by what Jem had told me. He said that I have to stay with the first graders and not to bother him, like I would do such a thing. My first grade teacher, Miss. Caroline is not from around here. She looked really foreign, dressed like a peppermint, red and white from head to toe. I just wanted to pop her into my mouth. As we started to do our first lesson Miss. Caroline wanted us to practice our reading, but I already knew how to and she told me that I need to stop reading at home because Atticus was teaching me wrong. But how could that be I have been reading since I was 3. But that's not all as lunch came around my day had went from the top of the hill to the bottom. Miss Caroline is completely oblivious of how things work around here in Maycomb. I mean, doesn't everyone know that the Cunninghams don't accept anything that they can't pay back. It should not be my fault why I got in trouble; I was just trying to help Miss. Caroline so she doesn't get embarrassed. I was going to teach that Walter Cunningham a lesson; not to get me into trouble when I was helping him out. But I guess I was the one who learnt the lesson, not to fight people physically when they do something to me that I dislike.

Walter came over for dinner tonight and he acted so weird. At dinner, he poured maple syrup all over his food and when I questioned him what he was doing; Calpurnia pulled me into the kitchen and told me that it was not polite to do that to your guests. Everything that I do, I get into trouble...