Well I thought this was a pretty cool date, dontcha think? And it was Lexie's birthday (Happy late Birthday Lex!) but the surplus of ones and threes just gave me an excuse to do something fun. Ballet was fun. Check. Dropping something off at Lexie's house was fun. Check. Then, I had been craving a Magnum bar all day and so my mom made a deal that if I practiced and did my homework, she'd take Ruby and I to get one. So she dropped Ari off at basketball then Ruby and I went in to Smith's alone and looked at the prices. They seemed a little high for just three (but deliciously magical) ice cream bars, so we got two gallons of ice cream instead for only a few extra dollars. When we got into the car we told her they seemed too pricey and my mom said 'Oh that's not that bad." Ruby and I looked at each other thinking Why didn't we just get them? So my mom turned around, handed us a $5 bill and said YOLO! Go get them. So we did. And they were amazingly delightful. Thanks mom! Happy 1/31/13! The end.
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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