Today was a bus tour today. It was really cool because we went all over Washington just to see the war and president memorials. I thought the memorials in Ottawa were cool. The memorials here are many and great. After the tour I took the round 1 test. I can’t give any details but I will tell you how it works. You get 50 words to type into a computer but only 25 of those count. Each of those 25 words is worth 1 point. For me, there were some really easy words and some very difficult words. Afterwards I went to the spellers’ welcome supper and I signed my name in lots of people’s books (a special book called Bee Keeper with all the speller’s bios in it). It was a good way to meet some of the other spellers.