Hermione Granger

When I was little, I wanted to be like Hermione. She was a bookworm, like me, and did very well in school, like me. I strived one day to be as brave and as clever as she was. On my eleventh birthday, I cried like a baby when I did not get an owl with my acceptance letter to Hogwarts. Yeah, I knew it was a fictitious story, but there was always a little part of me that secretly hoped it was real. I wanted to go to Hogwarts and be just like Hermione. Not only was she one of the most clever and knowledgable witches Hogwarts had ever seen, she was also very brave. She faced every danger she was every confronted with and never ran away. She loved books, just like me, and loved the idea of studying and getting good grades, all things that I aspired to do. I still aspire to be all those things, and hope that the little witch inside me that wants to be her will help shape me into a great person.

Happy Memories

My friend Michael has always been there when I needed him. After every breakup, after every major catastrophe of my life, he has always been there to console me and make me bounce back. One of my wildest memories was of him and I driving to a Blink 182 concert. I was driving my rickety little Plymouth Neon, which was on it's last legs. The road we were traveling down had been under some construction lately. I don't know if the sign had been blown down or removed or what, but there was a point in the road where the new pavement ended and there was about a five foot drop to where the construction works had stripped the road down to the first layer of pavement from the road's first construction. I was going about sixty miles an hour when my car flew off the edge of that asphalt and was airborne for about two and a half seconds. The car slammed down on the original pavement and Michael let out a huge whoop when we landed.

"We just Dukes of Hazzarded that!" he exclaimed.

After I allowed the car to come to a rolling stop, he had to pry my white-knuckled hands off the steering wheel. I was a little rattled to say the least. But I can safely say that's one of the closest things to an adventure I've ever been on.