My Favorites:
Color: Red and Colbalt
Site: www.legolas.com
Language: Japanese and my own made up one, Dragonic
Shape: Diamonds and stars
Animal: Shark
Pet: Ferret
Pet and Animal rolled into one: Dog

Kind of Dog: Bearded Collie
Show: .hack//SIGN
Movie: Lion King and LOTR: The Return of the King

I was born on June 12th, 1990 in Tennessee and am thirteen years old now. My best friends are Colleen, 13, Tennessee; Amy, 14, London, England; Yazmin, 19, Chile; Rachel (beagleBLOOMerz), 13, Tennessee; Jennifer (Riley), 13,Tennessee; and Bridget, 29, Orlando, Florida.
My mom is Laura, and she is a Vision preschool teacher at Pennington elementary. She adopted my sister (Joanna Eun Joo) from Korea in 1986. My sister has cerebral palsy and is now twenty-four years of age. She has a boyfriend, Kenneth, whom we all consider to be part of the family.
My dad is Richard Kent Jr., but everyone just calls him Kent. He is a freelance recording engineer, and he is a self-employed database designer. He teaches me in home school, although Mom does most of the planning.

Zero Through Four

I do not remember much from these ages, so a bunch of it is just stuff that Mom and Dad told me.
A few months after my mom was pregnant with me, we moved into the house that I am living in today.
Mom and Dad did not what gender I was until I was born, so they bought to little outfits for after I was born; one for a boy, and one for a girl. So when I was born, they had to return the outfit for the boy back to the store. If I had been a boy my name would have been David Kent.
Throughout these years, we attended a Mennonite church (only one where I live) that then took place in UNA elementary, which was going to be my school later. It was also the school that my mom worked at with multi-handicapped kids.
My first best friend was Jacob, who also attended the Mennonite church, but he doesn’t anymore. I only see him at retreats, but I know someone now who is in the same class at him (beagleBLOOMerz), so I hear about him time to time now.
If there was one icon I remember most from my young childhood, it would be Puffy, my very first stuffed animal. Resembling a dog, I got two of these accidentally when I was born and would take them everywhere with me, exchanging them every now and then. I lost one of them at one of the Mennonite’s houses.

Five Through Eight

My elementary years were not so sweet. My first day of Kindergarten was bad for me because it was the first day I ever went without Puffy. And I believe that by the end of my first week I was named “crybaby”, and quite a few people made fun of me.
First grade was pretty awful too. At that point I had learned that the worst part of the whole day was going to the after school program called Fun Company. I also learned that I would much rather go to Mom’s class after school than there, but sometimes that just did not work out.
Second grade was just a teensy bit better, but then again people were teasing me because I could not see the “new” movie “Titanic”, which was all the rage that year.
Third grade was one of the worst years of my life. My worst enemy was a girl in my class named Elizabeth, who spit on me, poured juice down my back, threw hard things at me (words and actual objects), and even choked me. There were quite a few other people who made fun of me, including the now famous Buddy Jewel’s son, Buddy Jewel Jr.
Also, I had a diary that I lovedlovedloved and I kept it at school. One day, someone (I still don’t know for sure who) had written that “f” word in the back of my diary, and I had never seen that word so I asked the teacher and showed it to her. The teacher thought that I had written it, and took it away from me. I never got it back. That is how I learned about the “f” word. VERY bad memory. I still believe that Elizabeth wrote it.

Nine

This year was the best and longest year of my life, so I am forced to write a whole chapter about it.
This was definitely a huge turn around from the year before this. It was my first year of home school, and it was Mom who home schooled me. School-wise, we studied Mesopotamia for a long time, and then Egypt for even longer. I made an “Egyptian mural” on a large piece of paper which I put on the wall while I painted it.
One of the most memorable places, which I still go to today and hope to keep on going to, was a place we call Park Day. It is a place where a bunch of homeschoolers meet and the parents talk and the kids have recess. One of the families there (the kids being Jojo and Eric) introduced us to a Christian home school choir, which I joined. The teacher there was Ms. Karen, and is now a missionary in Africa, and she was one of my inspirations to someday become one. That is also where I met my best friend for five years, Alexander.
There was another place where a bunch of the homeschoolers from Park Day met and we learned Spanish from our teacher, whom I called Ms. Robin (Miss Robeen).
Also, at the end of that year, we were in the Smoky Mountains, and we had just been to the Information area, where I got one of my very favorite Stuffed animals, Smoky (a Black Bear). While we were going through the mountains, my ears started to really hurt so I decided to draw so that I could get my mind off of it. That’s how I created my comic strip called “Smoky N’ Friends”.

Ten through Twelve

The preteen years. Nine was defiantly a gap between bad and bad.
When I was ten my dad started homeschooling me. I auditioned for the Blair Children’s Chorus and made it in.
In 2001, I went to a summer camp called Circle YI where I met another one of my best friends, Ashley. I did not receive her phone number or anything, so I have lost her and am still looking for her.
My Grandfather died in that same year in February. And that was also the year of 911. So we call it a year of tragedy.
The following year I went to Girl Scout camp at Sycamore Hills, where I met my current very best friend Colleen. One of her good friends there was named Katie. Katie looks almost exactly like me, and the freaky thing is that we are often swapping personalities. When I’m hyper, she’s calm. When she’s hyper, I’m calm. There is a funny story that goes with the whole “twin” thing. Once, I was late getting to my cabin group, and I was talking to Katie instead. One of the members of my cabin found us and went up to Katie and said, “Leah, where have you been?! The whole cabin has been waiting for you!”
There was another camp I went to that year, but this time it was a day camp. It was the Blair summer camp, and there I met Julie and Rachel (beagleBLOOMerz), and the three of us became a friend trio.
Later that year I invited Colleen to Blair choir and she joined it.

Thirteen

This is my last year of homeschool. Next year I will be going to an arts magnet high school.
I am currently, as most thirteen year old girls are, very interested in boys, ESPECIALLY Orlando Bloom!
My most favorite site in the world is Legolas.com, where many of my best friends are. My username there is *sweet_dreams*.
www.legolas.com