Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Book Series (11 page)

"Thursday

A+ school today, they announced that Student government elections are coming uy. "To be honest with you, X’ve never had any interest in student government. But when I started -thinking about i+, X realized (jetting elected Treasurer could TOTALLY change my situation at school.

A>vJ even better ...

Mobody ever thinks about runhing for Treasurer, because all anyone ever cares about are the bigticket positions like President and Vice President. So I
-figure i-f
I sign up tomorrow, the Treasurer job is pre-tty much mine
for
the taking.

Friday

Today, X went and put my name on the list to run
for
Treasurer. Unfortunately, this kid named Marty Porter is running for Treasurer, too, and he’s real brainy at math. So this might not be as easy as X thought.

X told Pad that X was ruhhih^ for student ^overhmeht, and he seemed pretty excited. X+ toms oo+ he rah for s+odeh+ government wheh he was my a^e, ahd he actually woh.

Pad do^ through some old boxes ih +he basement ahd foohd ohe of his campaigh posters.

HONESTY

KNOVJ-HOW

VOTE

Frank Hefttey

FOR
'

SECRETARY

X thought +he poster idea was pretty ^ood, so X asked Pad +o drive me +o +he s+ore +o get some Sollies. X loaded up oh poster board ahd markers, ahd X spent +he res+ of +he night makihg all my campaigh s+off. So le+s just hope these posters work.

hohdav

X krooni ny yos+ers ih +o school ioday, and X Have +o say, +Hey cane ou+ j>re-Hy ^ood.

I started hanging my posters up as soon as I got in. But they were only up for about three minutes before Vice Principal Roy spotted them.