Chatterbox: Chirp at Cricket

Hi!

I'm Leila, and I'm new to Chatterbox (and I like it so far), but I've been getting Cricket for five months and I absolutely love it! 

Here's a quick introduction:

My favorite sport is gymnastics. I'm a competitive gymnast. I also like running and swimming, although I can't swim very fast. I've played harp for 3 years and something months, and I'm going to start trumpet for middle school band. But if I were to pick a different instrument, I'd pick either piccolo, cello, or saxophone. For the past couple of years I've been on an OBOB team, where you answer questions about a set of 16 books. 

I like to read and write. I hope to publish a book series someday. My favorite books are The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Halfway Normal, The Next Great Paulie Fink, Three Keys, Last in a Long Line of Rebels, Eventown, It Ain't So Awful, Falafel, and The Thing about Jellyfish. Writing is the thing for me, because I can write A LOT. Once, for a contest, I was supposed to submit a paragraph. Well, that paragraph turned into a page! (I'm working on being less wordy and more concise. I'm a total grammarphobe too. So I flip out over grammatical errors. Really, I'm like Aunt Josephine in The Wide Window.)

I have two parakeets, who'll turn one this summer, and my family also has two goldfish we got for Nowruz, Iranian new year. My favorite food is either sushi or kebabs. 

So what about you? Do you play/do a sport or instrument? What's you're favorite book? Favorite food? Are you a grammarphobe or "walking Grammarly" like me? 

That seems like a good intro for now. 

Leila out!