Dear Diary, 21.4 We got our Finnish tests back today. I got a 2!! It's so annoying, it doesn't matter how hard I try I never get anywhere with my Finnish. It's mum's fault, why did they have to make me bilingual?? I'd rather know one language thoroughly than speak two languages so that I can't call either of them my mother tongue. Dear Diary, 28.4 Granny Julie just phoned! She wants me to go over to her …showed first 75 words of 617 total…

…showed last 75 words of 617 total…to be hard work but I guess I have no choice. I don't want to fail school because of my Finnish, and in the end I'm happy that my parents brought me up the way they did. I guess mum just should have worked a bit harder on my Finnish when we lived in England but there's nothing you can do about that any more. And I can use all those English lessons for reading...