Hey everybody, sorry I haven't written anything for a pretty long time, got to caught up in school work and stuff. :}

Yesterday I competed in a chess tournament in my class. I'm not very good at chess and I got 7th place out of 8. But it was really fun. I liked it the best when I played with my friend Nikita, he knows English really well so we talk in English instead of Russian and we've become really good friends. It was fun. The worst game was with this girl.

There were 8 of us all together. I had to play with 7 people. Each time I won I got a point. After I had played with 6 people, I had 2 1/2 points. My opponent had 3 or 4. It was our turn to play with each other. Well since I wasn't going to get a good place, she decided I could just let her win. Call me selfish that I didn't let her win, I don't care because it was selfish of her to try and cheat and to try and guilt me in to letting her win. But I didn't let her do either. In the end I won, she got mad at me of course, but if you don't play fare, why play at all? Nobody's making you play. The point of any game is to have fun and if you don't have fun, you might as well not play at all!

Love chocolate4ever :)