Blitzball

Today Finny discovered a new game. He made it up. He got the idea from picking up a medicine ball and saying that that's how all games are, you just start with a ball. The game is called blitzball. The rules of the game are:

• Everyman for himself


• Run away from everyone


• tackling--> NO ARMS! you must keep your arms crossed on your chest, and you butt the ball carrier. No elbowing allowed either.


• If knocked down illegally the ball carrier still has possession of the ball.


• If knocked down legally the person who had the ball now looses possession of the ball.


• Throw it to someone. Do not hog the ball.


• Okay if ball touches the ground when being thrown.


• The receiver can refuse a pass if he happens to choose to. This is called the Lepellier Refusal.


• The person who has possession of the ball is refused three times in the course of running from the tower to the river, you go all the way back to the tower and start over.

The first day Finny came up with this game i naturally had the ball all the time and i was getting out of breath. Blitzball though, was the surprise of summer. EVERYONE played it.

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TEA PARTY

Today, Finny and I went to have tea with Mr. Patch-Withers' wife and himself too. Finny had on a fairy looking type shirt. You had to pull it over your head and the shirt does not even button all the way down. He also had his head slicked backed. that took me by surprise. Also, i never had noticed his ears until now and they were some what small and close to his head. In addition, with his hair combed back it gave his nose and cheekbones a very sharp look. Finny discussed the bombing on Central Europe, but no one else had happened to see the story except for him and he could not recall to exactly what had happened. While during their conversation i just sat there and listened end to them. Then Finny decides to take off his jacket and i could not believe what Finny had on as a belt. It was our tie. Our school's uniform tie, and he had it on as a belt. Mr. Patch-Withers' face turned a brilliant shade, and so did Finny's. Or maybe Finny's face was the reflection off his pink shirt. But anyways, i could not wait to see what was going to happen next. Finny then explained that he wore the belt simply because it goes with the tie and it all ties in together. He also said that it didn't mean to be a pun and he doesn't even thinks puns are funny anyways. "It all ties in together with what we've been talking about, this bombing in Central Europe, because when you come tight down to it that school is involved in everything that happens in the war, it's all the same war and the same wold, and i think Devon out to be included. i don't know whether you think the way i do on that." Mr. Patch-Wither seemed somewhat please. And this shocked me too, because Phineas was going to get away with this too. Phineas had got away with everything, and all this made me disappointed just because i wanted to see some more excitement.

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Remember When

I came back to Devon- a boarding school i had once attened 15 years ago- and i remembered alot of great memories. But what i noticed was that the school looked newer. It had narrow windows and shinier woodwork, and a coat of varnish had been put over everything so everything will be preserved better. Also, the school had a glossy new look. This look made it look like s museam which i hated. In addition, i decided i came here to see some memories. Most of them is what i feared and thats why i wanted to go and see them. I went to see the tree. That day was great. I went with Phineus and a couple other people. We were Upper middlers, well, not exactly yet. We were more lile Lower middlers and we wanted to climb the tress because only senoirs had done it and none of us did. So Phineus climbed the tree and he only had his underwear on and actually he was the most athletic kid at our school but, he wasn;t that very built. Then finally when Phineus got to the branch he had to jump off of a did it and landed in the water and was so excited. I wsa next and of course i did it. It was great i loved it. And that day me and Phineus became bestfriends. We were the only guys who did it that day, no one else did.

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