6:45 am 6:40 am 6:35 am Just enough time before breakfast to plan my day
1 I sat on my thinking swing which hung high above the stairs in our apartment and stared out the window I pushed my foot against the wall and swung back and forth The hot breeze coming in ruffled the pages of my notebook I tapped my pencil against the blank page How much longer will summer holidays last I counted on my fingers There were three weeks before school started again Three weeks was 21 days I scribbled a few sums in my notebook That was 504 hours Or 30,240 minutes Or over a million seconds That was a lot of time to be lonely and bored I was writing lists That’s what I did best That and solving problems The pages of my notebook 1
