Dear Diary, 

Right now I am sitting in my room doing basically nothing. I am at home because I’m sick and I really wish I had a dog. I keep asking my parents and telling them that I will do anything for them if

they let me get one. Diary, do you have any ideas for any plans I can use? I’m going to go play a board game with my big sister. Her name is Larny. She’s sick at home too.

About 15 minutes later…

I’m back! The board game we 

played was called “monkey fun!”. Well I didn’t win you know, but Larny did. It’s this game where you have to do mathematics like division and the first to get 20 right wins and you also can be a blue or a yellow monkey as your character. Mum said we should play this board

game because today we are supposed to be at school but we are home sick. And in case you were wondering, at school I am in year 4 and Larny is in year 8. I don’t know what kind of virus I have but Larny has it too. 

After some planning…

I couldn’t think of any plans. Fortunately, Larny had an idea.

I will now go in my room and see if I can make any plans to convince my parents to get me a dog.

Well, I bet you want to know what Larny’s plan was, don’t you? Well she said that maybe we could write a persuasive text together and give it to mum and dad. I agreed to her plan straightaway. So we started making it and Larny’s just finishing it off now. 

   I will now see how she’s going.

About 30 minutes later…

I’m back! And guess what? We showed it to mum and dad and they finally said yes!

Well, that was after a lot of convincing. Unfortunately, mum and dad said we have to get it tomorrow. Well it kind of works because tomorrow’s Saturday and it’s a weekend. I’m now in bed, and I’m so excited!

Saturday, in the morning…

We had pancakes for breakfast! Yum, yum! I had extra maple syrup on mine. Whoopsies! I hope mum doesn’t notice that some is missing!