Item 34

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Folkestone, February 21
Now we are all sitting and doing our
homework. I have a poem to
learn by heart and it is terribly
difficult, particularly because half
of it I don’t understand.
Today I will
take the book up to bed with me and
memorize it. I will also take it to the
playroom.
Today we had hair-washing.
It was really high time, too, for
me, namely because my head
was already almost stinky.
I am letting my hair grow,
because I want braids. It reaches
all the way down to my
collar right now, and then my collar is
always black. My neck is
always black anyway.

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But I don’t care.
Now, when writing the
word [“]now,[”] I tried to turn the book
around and write with it like this.
It is quite easy.
Now I had better learn my
poem, otherwise
I will probably get
a punishment tomorrow.
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[The entry for May 10 is in English in the original, unless otherwise noted.]
Summer [previous word in German] Term. May the 10th 1939
I am going to start writing in English in my Diary.
I hope I will get on with it. I think make more
or about the same number of mistakes in german
as in English. I have forgotten a bit of my
German, but I think, if I talked together with a
German person, I would pick it up quite quickly.
I like English very much. I am meant to be doing
Prep now, but I have done it this morning. Our
Preps are Geography and Grammer. The English