Nothing important has happened to me...nothing important has happened to me...

Tonight I would like to explain to you the joy that is the music of Sonic the Hedgehog
Whoever came up w/ these tunes has to be some sort of musical genius, because they spark something in my mind of innocent behavior, of reaching your goals...fighting robotnik...figuring out that in helping Sonic, you indeed help yourself.

I have downloaded all the levels (except Green Hill, it's downloading right now) and it invokes something that I have only wanted to grasp, a feeling of what it was like when I had sega genesis...I was 10 and I was just figuring out what it was like to be growing up, to understand that I can't be the way I am...and still today, as I listen to the Star light Theme (my favorite level if you must know), it makes me remember when I would hear this melody after school and cry because I just thought it was so beautiful. I had a really hard time in fifth grade because I couldn't be who I was. In Darien, showing your true personality resulted in making you the meat in a locker sandwich. My laid back style of tomboyish attitudes had a few teachers telling me I would'nt amount to anything...that it was important to "be a girl"...wear pink, look pink, think pink...I just wanted to play video games.
Now that I'm at Bard...I realize that nothing has changed. You can be who you are at Bard, but with a price...Bard's a sheltering environment...where the kids who were the meat of the locker sandwich converge and discuss...and being around their own kind is comforting...but when it's time to pack up and go into the real world...will Bard be ready?
As for Sonic the hedgehog...he was different too, and he fought Communism (come on...with a name like robotnik?) and he didn't have any friends except in the 2nd one when they gave him tails (who i thought was a wuss) and then they gave him knuckles (who i hated). Sonic was a loner like me...who had great theme music and the will to go it alone. So Bard kids, be Sonic...just don't try to roll yourself in a ball and roll down hills like Sonic did.

Wow Emily, that was very meaningful...somewhat