My Best Freind...

I have known my best friend scince 8th grade, so just over a year. He is asian, with glasses, and is an incredibly smart student who easily got A's in all of his classes. In 7th grade, he was in geometry, and was the #1 kid in his class, even though he was 3 years ahead of grade level. he wanted to move on to honors algebra 2, in 8th grade, but Mr. Clarke didn't want him to be 4 years ahead in math. So, instead of taking algebra 2 during 8th grade, he did it over the summer. He was then taking pre-calculus, and he was only 13 years old! This year, he is in a super-nice prep school in Massechusettes, and is by far the smartest guy I know.

This guy is a very encouraging person, and he will always be thinking about what you want to do, not what sounds fun to him. I would say he is an ambivert and an altruist. He may sound like a nerdy guy, because he is so smart, and he didn't have any video games, or anything, but I definitely thought he was very cool.

Any guesses on who it is?

Point of view memories

One of my earliest memories is when I was only 14 or 15 months old. I was staying at my grandparent's house for the afternoon, and I faintly remember one part of the time I was staying there. Grammers and Grampers (which is what I called them since I couldn't say grandma and grandpa) had a tiny rocking horse that you sat in and just rocked back, and forth, back, and forth.

Another thing I used to do in that old beat-up horse is to scoot it around. "Scoot, scoot, scoot. wee," I thought, as I scooted around the ground. Grammers and Grampers had to tell me to stop, otherwise I would scrape their floor. But who cares about scraped wood floors? I was less that a year and a half old. I would scoot forward, and then I would scoot back until I hit a wall. This was so amusing for me, and I would spend most of my time at their house just rocking in the horse. Here's the horse (and me)...

 

Catcher in the Rye: irony

I think the author chose to make irony one of the dominant literary features to show how Holden, the main person, messes up his life and is very hypocritical to others. One example of this is when Holden is talking about how he hates cars, and people with nice cars are phonies and all, yet rides in taxis and buses all the time. He also says that all movies are bad and the actors are phony and are never life-like, yet often refers to the movies and took a date to a show.

More irony is that Holden goes to really nice schools, even though he flunks every subject except English. For some reason his parents keep trying to give him an education, probably because they still have hope for his success. That is why the author used irony so much, do describe how depressed and messed up Holden and his life are.

Something entertaining.

Check out this video!! Make sure you listen carefully. Sorry about the black and white, it's an old TV show vid.

So what do you think? 14 or 5? I almost thought it could've been 14, but no. Here's another one for you:

Q: How can you tell that a blonde's been baking chocolate chip cookies?

A: There's M&M shells all over the floor.

Ha Ha Ha!!!