Last night my family went over to my friends house.  In the beginning we played Minecraft then we ate dinner.  I ate a grape fruit.  There was beef stew with rice with cooked carrots.  We had grape juice mixed with seltzer for a drink so it was grape flavored sparkling water.  We had rice crackers, cheese and olives for a side.  For dessert we had homemade strawberry flavored ice cream ((in small portions) I had one).  There was also chocolate truffles that we brought (36 of them).  After dinner we played a little more Minecraft then we played a board game called Settlers of Catan.  The board and tiles are shaped like hexagons.  The object of the game is to get ten victory points.  There are 5 resources: Ore, Sheep, Lumber, Brick and Wheat.  You start with 2 settlements and 2 roads.  Each settlement gives you one victory point and cities give  you 2.  It costs one Lumber one Brick to make a road, one Sheep one Wheat one Brick and one Lumber to make a settlement and 2 wheat and 3 ore to upgrade a settlement to city.  

My fencing lesson

Last week I had a fencing lesson.  It was different from the other one I wrote about. It was different from the other one I wrote about because it was more learning than practicing.  It was different because I didn't fence against him.  I learned about check steps which is when you make a small step to try to make them attack you and then you parry them and riposte.  I also learned about the 4 position which is when your foil is up, an 8 position your foil is down and if your in a  6 position your foil is a tiny bit up.  

Last Monday I went sledding at Baldwin  hill with my brother.  In the beginning of the hill it was really steep and in the end it was almost horizontal.  On one part of the hill  it would turn me sideways and then backward and then backward and upside down so I had to roll off.  On another part of the hill it would make me get off balance but most of the time not upside down and some of the time backward or sideways.  It was sort of fun.  It wasn't fun because I crashed and because it was very cold.  It was fun because I went really fast.