Yesterday we learned a poem about fourteen hundred and ninety-two when Columbus sailed the ocean blue and Mr. Welsh said that Christopher Columbus is such an important guy for discovering America that we get off from school because of him and that his holiday is coming on next Monday and when Mr. Welsh said that I felt like I had to talk to him right that minute and I got up from my chair and ran to his desk and he said, “Lucy Rose, do you have an emergency?”
And I said, “Yes.”
And he said, “What is it?”
And I said, “Can I take Jake home for the three-day weekend of Columbus's Day?”
And he said, “No.”
So I said, “But otherwise he will starve to death.”
And Mr. Welsh said, “Lucy Rose, Jake will be fine because he is going to stay with Kathleen Sullivan.”
And then he said I should go back to my table and sit down so the class could do some more talking about Christopher Columbus.
I already knew about him and his boat and his holiday from second grade so I double did not care.