Wednesday! On Wednesday!

So, one of the neat extra-curricular activities at Hogwarts is a Sock Kit Swap. I'm pretty into it, as you can probably tell by the banners and posters hanging around my room. And as it turns out, this is where the 5 assignments that I thought were for school are actually from! So, I not only have to do those, but schoolwork as well! Luckily, these extra-curricular activities (the Sock Swap, Quidditch, and specifics pertaining to the swap packages and blogging) are staggered around school itself, which starts on the 21st of this month. So I still have some time to prepare. The sock swap involves pairing up with another student secrectly--and we may find out as early as Wednesday! I can't wait! I do hope that my partner is also a blogger!

For the first time, I'm finding myself more excited about the extra-curriculars than I am about school itself! I went to a muggle school for most of my childhood and always had lots of fun there--learning to read and write and do math and color! The extra-curriculars in those schools weren't very much fun at all. Who in their right mind enjoys running around hitting a ball with a stick? Brooms are much faster. Not that I would know from experience--first years are not allowed their own brooms. But I've seen some of the older students playing Quidditch, or even just flying, and they go far faster than anyone I've seen run.

I can't wait for the Quidditch games associated with the swaps! Apparently they are much more complicated than normal Quidditch. They involve trivia and scavenger hunts along with the normal hunt for the snitch! I've always been very good at trivia--did you know that the muggles have a trivia game based on Harry Potter? Even before I was accepted at Hogwarts, I always won.

And as for the swap itself, I've taken a look at some of the previous kits made by students (as part of Enchanted Kit Planning Course and I'm very excited to get started on mine.