Today was a special day for a couple of reasons. First, Mr. Guy said that he and lots of people other than me were wearing orange shirts today for a special reason. He told me that there are many places in the world where women and girls are treated very badly. Sometimes they are even beaten! I told him that I think treating women and girls like this is terrible! I can't believe it. I can never see Mr Guy hitting The Lady, or Offspring 1 or 2, or the girl four-legged monsters at our house, or any other girls. And if he ever wanted to hurt any of them, I wouldn’t let him! I know that that would never happen in our family, but that is not true in other places.
Mr Guy explained to me that the United Nations set up a group called “Just Say NO” where people could get information about how to help stop these terrible things from happening. (http://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/take-action/say-no)
As part of what they do they set aside one day each month as “Wear Orange Day”. http://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/take-action?utm_source=Say+NO+%E2%80%93+UNiTE+to+End+Violence+against+Women&utm_campaign=f0374f1cdc-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_713f7be9fc-f0374f1cdc-71144005
On that day everyone wears orange to show that they do not like violence against women and girls. So Mr Guy and I wore our orange shirts all day long to show that we do not think anyone should be violent with women, or anyone else for that matter. I don't understand why anyone wants to hurt someone else. We should all be kind to each other!
The second reason that today was special is because I got to go visit Mr. Guy at school. He usually teaches about computers, but now he is a school librarian until he retires. I like his old classroom with all of the computers, but I like the library better. It has lots and lots of books!
Mr. Guy showed me the great big dictionary. It is a book that has lots and lots of words but it doesn't tell a whole story. It just tells the story of all the words. Sometimes I get my words confused. Mr. Guy said that the dictionary will help me to figure out how to use words correctly and it will also help me to learn new words.
A dictionary is advantageous if an individual wishes to ameliorate and optimize his proficiencies regarding the avoidance of improper and erroneous locutions.
Using the dictionary is a lot of work for a blue and orange furry monster!
Mr. Guy also showed me another big book called an atlas. It didn't have as many words as the dictionary. It had pictures of places all over the world. Mr. Guy told me that there are seven continents in the world. I asked what a continent was. He told me to go look it up in the dictionary.
"A continent is any of the world's main continuous expanses of land (Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America)."
We live in North America. Mr. Guy told me today that this summer we are going to visit another continent. We are going to England, which is on the continent called Europe.
This is all too much for my little monster brain. No wonder Mr. Guy and The Lady are always so tired when they get home from school. All of this learning stuff overburdens my the capacity of my cerebral function.
After all of this new stuff, I just wanted to find a comfortable cathedra in which to read a gratuitous periodical.
Get me away from this dictionary!!!
Finally I had to just go sit in Mr. Guy's lap and let my brain rest. I always like it best when Mr. Guy holds me and I can be his little monster and he can be the smart one.
A dictionary is advantageous if an individual wishes to ameliorate and optimize his proficiencies regarding the avoidance of improper and erroneous locutions.
Using the dictionary is a lot of work for a blue and orange furry monster!
Mr. Guy also showed me another big book called an atlas. It didn't have as many words as the dictionary. It had pictures of places all over the world. Mr. Guy told me that there are seven continents in the world. I asked what a continent was. He told me to go look it up in the dictionary.
"A continent is any of the world's main continuous expanses of land (Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America)."
We live in North America. Mr. Guy told me today that this summer we are going to visit another continent. We are going to England, which is on the continent called Europe.
This is all too much for my little monster brain. No wonder Mr. Guy and The Lady are always so tired when they get home from school. All of this learning stuff overburdens my the capacity of my cerebral function.
After all of this new stuff, I just wanted to find a comfortable cathedra in which to read a gratuitous periodical.
Get me away from this dictionary!!!
Finally I had to just go sit in Mr. Guy's lap and let my brain rest. I always like it best when Mr. Guy holds me and I can be his little monster and he can be the smart one.
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