Keena Ford and the Field Trip Mix-up by Melissa Thomson Page B

girl has a journal, but mine is the only one with clouds on it. And I am the only person who takes my journal everywhere, like to music class and to time-out class when I get in trouble.
    Now Ms. Campbell is telling us to close our journals. She smiled right at me. I think I might be the champion!

4 P.M.
    I am not the champion. Royann is the champion, and I am the runner-up. I was a little bit sad, but not too sad. I was happy for Royann. I want her to make new friends so she will like our school. And I am just glad that Tiffany did not win after she copied Shay’s speech. Plus, I might get to help with the bake sale if Royann gets the flu.
    When I got home after school, Mom told me she was very proud of me for being runner-up. And Brian gave me a high five!

8 P.M.
    Tonight Mom, Brian, and I had Family Game Night. Usually when we have Family Game Night it’s on Thursday, but Mom is not going to be here on Thursday night. She is going to North Carolina for three days because her friend Carolyn is getting married. My uncle Jay is staying with us tomorrow night, and on Friday after I go on a FIELD TRIP, I am going to Dad’s for the weekend. And then after that it will just be my normal schedule, so I won’t write it all out.
    Brian and I have to take turns picking the game for Family Game Night. Tonight it was my turn to pick the game! We used to try to decide together, but sometimes we would end up arguing. That is because Brian always picks games that I will lose. He picks Jenga or Don’t Break the Ice! and in those games if you drop the game parts or make them fall, you lose. There is not a winner, there is just a loser. And I am always the loser. So I do not like Brian’s games.
    The games I like are card games, like Old Maid or Go Fish. The only card game I don’t like is 52-Card Pickup, which we played one time when Mom was out and Mrs. Carlito from next door was watching us. Brian came into my room and said, “Do you want to play 52-Card Pickup?” and I said, “Sure!” because like I said, I love card games. Then Brian took the cards out of the box and threw them in the air and they went EVERYWHERE in the room. And then Brian said, “Okay, now pick them up.” And I was VERY mad, because that is not a game, it is a TRICK. And it’s not nice to trick little kids. That’s what I said to Mom when she came home and I told on Brian. And he got in a little bit of trouble for that one.
    Anyway, tonight we did NOT play 52-Card Pickup, we played Uno. I picked Uno because the rules are not that hard to follow, and you get to yell “UNO!!!” when you have only one card left. We played the game three times. Brian won one time and I won two times!! That meant I was the QUEEN CHAMPION of Family Game Night! I was very happy. After the game I went to my room and got a piece of paper out of my art box. I drew a picture of myself in a beautiful queen dress. At the top I wrote, “QUEEN CHAMPION KEENA,” and I hung the picture on my bedroom door.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

10 A.M.
    Tomorrow my class is going on the best field trip EVER. We are going to the United States Capitol! The United States Capitol is a big white building with a rounded then pointy top like a scoop of ice cream with a spoon sticking out of it. When we go to the United States Capitol we are going to meet a representative, which is even more important than a student council delegate. A representative is a lady or a man who makes rules for our whole country to follow. A representative is kind of like a president, except there are 435 representatives and only one president of the United States. And the president has to live in the White House, but representatives can live in whatever color house they want.
    The representative we are meeting is named Representative Thomas. I am very excited to meet him because I have some ideas for new laws. One of my new laws would be that in schools all over the country, kids have to take turns being at the end of the