Progress Report Week 8
I stayed up late reading and was so tired I could hardly get up for work this morning. But I was so happy at how much I am able to read now that I just could not stop. And I am getting better at writing, too. I still have some problems with spelling and punctuation, and I still have trouble organizing my thoughts and putting them down the way I want them, but I am feeling so much smarter. I think I will start thinking about the stories that I want to write. For now, though, I need to keep up my progress reports. Princess Twilight says that I do not need to put Progress Report at the top of each page, just the day. I think I will keep doing so, because it just seems better that way, so they all look the same. I look back at the old progress reports and I am embarrassed. I want to go back and fix them so they have better spelling and are easier to read and understand. The princess says I absolutely should not do that because that is how we can see how much I have improved. I don't like to look at them, it makes me feel stupid. Like when I found out what "derpy" meant. I guess the ponies at the post office I thought were my friends were just making fun of me and laughing at me.
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I don't work inside the post office any more after today. They called me weird behind my back when they thought I could not hear and said I was creeping them out. I am not sure what that means but it doesn't sound good. I got done delivering mail early and went back to the office. Quick Line had not finished sorting the parcels, so I said I would be happy to help but he just walked away from me. I heard him say "freak" when he was walking away. I don't know what that means, but the way he said it sounded like something bad, so I was too scared to ask anypony about it. Everypony in the office looks at me funny now. Even the boss; though he still treats me nice. I think he heard what Quick Line said, because he called him into the back room and closed the door. I could hear them yelling. The boss then called me into the office and I was very scared. He said that he wanted to keep me delivering mail, and that I didn't need to come into the office except to pick it up, and things would be better if I didn't talk to anypony else. That made me very sad and I said I like working in the office. I talked to Princess Twilight and she said that she thought it would be better right now if I didn't work there at all and just concentrated on my studies. I said I like my job, because I like talking to the other ponies while I deliver the mail.
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Princess Twilight asked me to move into a room at the castle. She said that that way she could keep a close eye on my progress and help teach me. She said not to worry about my job because she would take care of everything i needed, and I would get paid a small stipend for helping with her research. I did not know what a stipend is, so I asked miss Cherilee. She said a stipend is like an allowance that is sometimes paid to ponies like me who are helping with research, or studying things, or stuff like that. Princess Twilight said it will be more than I get paid at the post office, but I don't need very much if she is going to be taking care of me like the Lacuna Heart Home For Special Ponies did, just enough to buy ink and quills and paper and muffins. And besides, I like delivering mail. I wrote a letter to my dad and let him know I will be moving into the castle. I haven't heard back from him since last Hearth's Warming Eve, but I know he is busy a lot, and even when I was little my mom and me wouldn't hear back from him for moons while he was away working. I kind of miss him more now since he is the only family i have left. I wish I knew what it was like to have a big family. Maybe I will have a big family one day when I am smarter and can get a better job. I hope any foals I have are smart like the Princess, not slow like I was, but I will love them very much no matter what, like my mom loved me.