So my little brother had sumtin-sumtin syndrome. One leg is much shorter than the other. His doctor told my mom that the best thing to do is to put him through surgury in two years. They want to kill his growth plate in one leg. The surgury is very painful. I am very worried about the surgury because my brother is a sensitive boy who is in many sports. I worry that he may not be able to play sports like baseball again. I know that I am over stressing, but he's my brother and I stress over him too much.

I find it kind of funny that history, the one never changing subject in which we study what was rather than what is or could possibly be, is by far the most biased subject studied in school by children. I have reached that point in the school year where we study the American Revolution. I learn of the Americans avercoming tremendous hardships to defeat the British tyrants. But, being a very philisophical thinker, I spend most of my time wondering how my British counterparts are learning these lessons. Are they learning of George Washington as a traitor and King George III as a benevolent ruler who tried everything to keep his country together? In Social Studies, my grade was set the task of holding a debate in which half of us would play the Loyalist party and half of us the Patriots. I was given the role of Margret Shippen Arnold, who's husband's name has become synonomus with traitor in the U.S. I had to tell the Patriots that breaking away from England was the act of traitors. When placed in the spotlight I found myself coming up short. I could simply not argue this case. It is so branded into my psyche, this idea that we are patriots in this country, that I could not abandon those thoughts for a mere second. I wonder if those in Britain have the same problem as I, or is it just in America that we are so biased?

That was the best 2 weeks of my year. sighs