Now that I've gotten my complaints about school out of the way, I can blog about happy things. Yesterday to celebrate the half-way mark through our Sophomore year (wow that's wierd)! My friends VaNeta, Crystal and Tori came over to eat pizza, watch Bridge to Terrabithia, and laugh and talk. My parents, like you didn't know already, are the coolest parents ever. My mom loves to have parties and knows exactly what to do with teenagers; give them yummy food, let them know you're there, and then leave them alone:) Crystal cried the most during the movie which was awesome for me because I'm usually the best crier:) We were all kind of emotional with sleep deprivation, stress, and relief with the end of term, so it was good to have a good cry:) We laughed a lot and told lame jokes after it was 11 pm and we all wanted to keep partying, but we were so darn tired! Today, I will go to ballet; tonight, we'll go to the regional dance; tomorrow I'll have 9 am ward choir, church and a Presidency meeting, Monday and Tuesday I will put on a drama camp and Wednesday I have a Symphony performance. Oh and I'm giving a talk in sacrament meeting and I'm the new Mia Maid President and oh yeah, we have Ruby's Birthday party. Life never stops, but I'm glad because that's what makes it exciting!
The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Help is a great book for young adults and mature teenagers. It is education, funny and insightful. It is 444 pages, but a definite page turner. I rated it 5-stars because it is such a great book. It is basically about how unfairly African-Americans were treated in the 1950s and 60s. It changes perspective about every chapter, but it's fairly easy to follow along. It is from the point of view of 3 women from Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960's. Aibileen, Minny and Miss Skeeter are the narrators. I thought it was unique that it had more than one narrator and it allowed you to understand the story much better. Aibileen (my favorite character) is a black women who is "the Help" to Miss Leefolt. She is kind, wise and smart. Throughout the story she develops a strong bond between Miss Leefolt's little girl, Mae Mobley. Miss Leefolt is very strict and rather oblivious to Mae Mobley. She doesn't really know how to raise her, so Aibil...
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