Helen: "You are me!"

Helen sits next to me in three classes: AP Government, Physics, and English. She also sits with me at lunch.

I remember the first day I met Helen. It was the first day of school, freshman year. I knew about four people in the entire school. I didn't know anybody at lunch, but I had met Helen in my third hour class, so at lunch I sat down next to her. I talked to this about her like, Thursday and she said that she didn't remember this. Anyway, we ended up being partners in Biology.

Soon enough, Helen and I began to discover that we, in fact, shared about five million of the same thoughts, like, if we are in the same room together we are generally thinking the same thing about what is going on. I don't remember freshman year very well, but Sophomore year Helen and I went through similar life experiences together and we ended up sharing most of our lives with each other.

This year, Helen and I could definitely call each other a "best friend". Helen knows every thing about me. Every thing. Anyway, on to the actual assignment.

Helen is one of those people that when she stands up, she is a lot smaller than you picture her to be. Not that you imagine her as fat, but definitely tall. She has a very large presence, despite the fact that she is most often quiet.

"We are always the same age inside." Gertrude Stein

It's on the red wall that I catch Helen staring at intently. We talked about it once in Physics. We decided that Helen is actually 35 inside. This may sound like an insult, but it really isn't. Helen is mature, hard working, and extremely driven. I never see Helen idle (unless she is chatting with me). She is always working on something, a debate case, her math homework, Spanish, what ever, but she never does nothing. Helen always has her work done while I sit next to her scribbling to finish.

I don't know if it because we have such similar personalities, but I find Helen to be one of the funniest people I know. We laugh until we cry about once a day. Either about annoying, pretentious people that sit in front of us, or about annoying people beside us (not you Neha), or about the coolest kids ever who are somehow so cool and we really can't pinpoint why. Or of our life experiences, including the most awkward of moments.

Once, in an English essay, she wrote "the possibilities are very old." She didn't notice it at first, but after 85 people proof read it, she was the only person to notice, then she left it in there as a joke. That's not funny when you read it, but it was hilarious.

Helen is always timely when we do group projects.

We do "group work" together, that's generally not really group work- she will gladly answer the question, "What did you put?".

Helen is the color blue. Speaking of that, Helen is really a HUGE sports fanatic. She really loves UK basketball, so does her cousin, but apparently not enough to please Helen. And she really cared about the Olympics. (Haha, Helen)

Her car is a stanza and it has really awesome seat belts. She always parks in the same spot in the student parking lot.

We go to AP Gov at 8:15 every day.

She orders a double cheeseburger and french fries and a diet coke at McDonalds.

She loves movie theater popcorn and diet coke, that's why she goes to the movies.

Helen looks in her little green Clinique mirror in between classes. I still don't know how to get it open.

Whatever Seventeen says, goes.

And she loves tuna and egg salad.

Her favorite movie is Election. She likes all the same music as me, but her radio sounds like crap and she only has a dis-functioning tape player.

She loves to run, she is great at it.. She is on the cross country team. I still have her red soffe shorts.

She is president of the Culture Club. And is really jealous of Nishant's bagels in Physics.

I really could go on all day. I know so much about her, but I've spent like thirty minutes on this and I need to finish Slaughter House Five.

And Helen and I are going to move to Australia and open up a smoothie shop with really Americana smoothie names like "Obamarama", "Cherry Pie", "Superbowl Sundae", "Red, White and Blueberry", and "George Washington Banana".

Until we meat Dave and Congressman.

Thanks for everything, Helen. :)