I jiggle from foot to foot.What will it feel like to use a superfast top quality computer? I have no idea.

"Almost there," Dad says as he installs Google Chrome. Soon I will be sitting at my computer; soon I will own the best computer in the house!

Finally Dad is finished. He hands the computer over to me.

"Thank you so much Dad," I say, putting the computer down so I can give Dad a hug. 

There is a bit of time to play around on my computer, before my movie dinner. I open it up and turn it on. At once I am struck by how fast it is. It is like a rocket.

"Wow!" I gasp as I explore my computer from top to bottom. It is all so exciting.

"Dinner!" 

I put my computer down and go and sit down for dinner. All through the movie my mind wanders to my computer and how wonderful it is. I am the luckiest girl in the world.

It is a few days later. I am sitting at my computer watching an interesting online video on Joseph Priestly's glasses. (He was a chemist.) For once the movie isn't always stopping to buffer and plays right through. I once again think what a wonderful computer it is.

Thank you Mum and Dad!

Two of my favourite poets are Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. I love Banjo Paterson's Man From Snowy River. It is so exciting. My favourite poem by Henry Lawson is Andy's Gone With Cattle. I liked it so much I memorised it. It is the only poem I have ever memorised.

Today we looked at a poem called The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It wasn't a ballad but it was still very good. 

I sometimes wish I could write poems. It would be so much fun to write stories in rhyme. It must take a lot of talent to get poem writing down to an art.

One day I am going to learn how to write a ballad. I have a feeling writing poetry must be almost as much fun as writing novels.

What is almost as good as being able to say you have written a poem though is to say you have memorised one.

Do you like poetry? What is your favourite poet?