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Marvelous Light--Charlie Hall

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

8:57 PM

Today was a pretty ordinary day. I read in the morning, and didn't do much in the afternoon, but I get to work tomorrow YAY [: It's really fun working at Krispy Kreme...except the drive thru. That scares me to death because I can't understand what they're saying most of the time, and you have to work fast. I get to work nine hours tomorrow with Cindy.

Anyways, dinner today was pretty fun. My dad ate early and left for volleyball, and I helped my mom study for the naturalization test. She's testing to become a citizen in September but she still has a lot of work to do (like learning American history for example). The test was really easy (probably because I took APUSH this year), but it was really hard for her. They get to choose whether they want to take the old test or the new test. The new test was made harder so I think my mom's going to take the old test. Well for one, the new test asks things like "name one author of the Federalist Paper." Easy for APUSH kids. John Jay, Alex Hamilton, or James Madison. But it was hard for my mom because she didn't even know there were opponents of the Constitution :p and she thought the Constitution was ratified in 1776. Oh dear.

Some things I learned about my mom today:
1. She doesn't know the American flag has red and white stripes D:
2. She thinks the capital of Pennsylvania is Philly (Understandable because I thought so too when I moved here from Bama)

Conversation about the 13 colonies:
Me: "Okay mom. You have to name the original 13 colonies"
Mom: names all of them except New Hampshire and Delaware
Me: "Think mom! What's beside Maryland"
Mom: "North Dakota??"
Me: "..."
Mom: "I don't know )':"
Me: "Delaware"
Mom: "No silly! That's by California!"
Me: "...okay moving on. There are three states beginning with "New" in the 13 colonies. You named New York and New Jersey. What's the other one?"
Mom: "NEW HAMPSON!"

Yeah...we're going to have to do a lot of work on that one. And sadly, my mom knows more than my dad so even more work there.

4 comments

4 Comments:

You made me laugh with this post. ^^ I love your parents. :D Haha, Delaware's next to California, silly, doesn't everyone know that??

By Melissa, at August 6, 2009 at 10:13 PM

Hahaha my mom's kinda ditzy...

By Connie, at August 6, 2009 at 10:32 PM

aww! haha this made me laugh. i remember taking that test in the last days of APUSH! most of it was easy, but there were a few questions that really stumped me, i can't imagine how they would expect someone who didn't grow up here to know them!

By Sophia, at August 7, 2009 at 11:44 PM

I remember that test! The governor one stumped me...even though it shouldn't have because I was really mad about the whole gov school being canceled by him thing :D

By Connie, at August 9, 2009 at 7:39 PM