Going on the internet on my phone, is a problem. I would use the internet to buy games that I didn’t ever play, or even to check my email when I was sitting next to a computer. It cost way too much, but I didn’t know that. My parents had a few ways to solve this little problem. The first one is, they grounded me until I stopped using the internet. This worked very fast, but I kept using it. The other solution they found was to simply shut off the internet on my phone. That was the solution to that problem.

The next problem was that I made calls on my cell phone that I could make on my home phone. I chose not to because my little sister would always get another house phone and eavesdrop on my conversation. My phone plan only gives me seven hundred minutes, and I went around six hundred over that. My parents threatened to take my phone away if I went over my minutes again. I found a solution to this problem, and it was texting. But like most solutions, this one had some problems.

Texting for me is a big thing. It is one of my main ways of communication. If I’m not talking on my phone, I am texting. The problem is, though, I only had two hundred and fifty texts. When I first got my phone, it wasn’t a problem at all to stay under two hundred and fifty texts. Now, it’s a bigger problem. I’ve got more friends that have phones and they love to text all the time. One of the bills I had to pay for my phone said I went over by about four hundred texts. Again, my parents found an easy solution: They got me unlimited texting. Another problem solved.

For any teenager really, those are the main problems with having a cell phone. Getting unlimited texting and shutting off internet on your phone can really lower your bill. I still owe my dad two hundred dollars, but it was my fault for going over, so i’m fine with paying it.

I’m going to stop going over my minutes by: Limiting my phone calls on my cell phone, and use my home phone if I’m at home, make sure I keep unlimited texting, and restrict my internet usage.

In this book, the main character, Holden Caulfield, does many helpful things. One thing he does is he donates ten dollars to charity. Why bring this up, you may ask? You don’t see a lot of people donating to charity anymore, really. If you’re asked to donate you usually say you don’t have any cash on you or something like that to get out of donating your loose change. If everyone donated a dollar or two then we wouldn’t have as much of a problem with homeless children. I’ll admit that I don’t donate every time I get the chance to, but I still do donate every now and then. Reading this book helped me realize that people don’t donate enough of their loose change. This book has a lot of bad situations in it, but it also has its good parts too. The good parts can show how Holden is actually like and how he is around people.

There are many good things about this book, but the one I find that sticks out the most is that the book is realistic. What I mean by that is that some of the stuff that Holden does, almost anyone could do. Anyone could do something helpful like donating money, just like Holden did. Holden donated ten dollars to some nuns and that was helpful. Anyone could donate some money, so this book isn’t all bad. It can actually teach anyone who reads this some good morals. Is it true that Holden paid a man to send him a prostitute. There are a few things wrong with that: Holden is underage and shouldn’t be able to rent out a prostitute for the night. We don’t want kids to think it’s okay to buy a prostitute, so why should we let them read this? We should let them read this book because like I have said before, this is a great book and people should overlook all of the bad stuff in the book. If they don’t want their kids to read this book then don’t let them. You shouldn’t try to take the book away from people who want to read it.

I’ve talked about a couple of reasons why this book should not be banned. There has been that he donates money to some nuns, and this book is pretty realistic. So why ban it? So our children won’t have the chance to read such a great book? I don’t like that idea, but then again, that’s not my idea.

            When I heard I was going to the dentist to get my teeth checked, I wasn’t really happy about it. They would probably say I needed to get a couple more teeth pulled. I’ve gotten almost all of my baby teeth pulled because I was too much of a wimp to do it myself, I really was. When I got to the dentist, we waited around ten to fifteen minutes or so just to sign in. There were some kids playing on this little playground type thing in he office. There was a room connected to the waiting room that kids could go into and play in. Most of the parents were morons. They just left their kids in the waiting room while they ran to the store real quick to get some god damn cigarettes or whatever.

             Anyways, I finally got called back after waiting around twenty minutes or so. They told me to sit down in this chair that reclines. Once I sat down they examined my teeth and said some numbers and lousy stuff like that. They left and said they would be right back……I waited another ten minutes for her to tell me the dentist would be right in! Some dentist office, it’s pretty lousy if I do say so myself. The dentist finally came in, checked my teeth and all, and then he put some crummy mold in my mouth. The mold was purple and very cold. It felt grand, it really did, since the office was really hot. He told me that he would be right back, that he needed to check the mold to see if it came out right.            Once more I waited, but this one was a shorter wait than the last few times. When he got back he said that the mold turned out fine and that I’ m going to have to get braces…Lousy guy, he was treating me like a kid most of the time he was in the room and now I have to get braces. What a way to spend a day, in a dentist office getting told you have to get braces. I didn’t mind the idea of getting braces, it’s just that I don’t want them really.

            A couple weeks later I came back to the dentist to get my top braces on. The waiting room was the same as the first time I came here all crowded and all. The wait was a little bit longer than last time but I finally got into a chair and the checked my teeth to see if I had any plaque or all that lousy stuff. I brush my teeth twice every day so they shouldn’t have anything on them and luckily they didn’t. The dentist came in and said what I was getting today. He said I’ m getting my teeth cleaned, getting my top braces on and picking colors for my braces. They cleaned my teeth and that stuff they clean your teeth with smells disgusting and it tastes extremely bad. After the cleaning, the lousy dentist came back in and was getting ready to put my braces on. It took around two hours to get my braces on it really did then I got to pick the colors for them. I picked dark blue for my braces and it looked grand on them.

            Now you know about my god damn lousy dentist story. Hopefully you haven’t had to go through the same crap I had to go through.

Andy likes to take notes on everything he sees. He made this river sculpture out of ice on this rock and that just amazed me. Andy also got a bunch of flowers and put them in a hole in the side of a cliff by a waterfall. It was a very bright yellow and there wasn’t a single hole in any of it, it was perfect. Another thing he’s made is an egg-looking thing made out of rocks. Andy’s made many of them. He made one on a beach to see if it would get swept away by the rising tide. While he was building it, it broke 4 times and the tide was coming fast. Andy finally finished it, just in time, too. Andy also made a chain of leaves connected by some type of needle, and I would say it was a couple feet long and he let it go down a river. One of the last things he made was a large stick circle made of sticks and thorns connected to a tree. I don’t think he finished it but it was pretty sweet looking before it fell. He builds so many things that are just crazy looking and he lets them get destroyed by the tide, the current of the water, or just wind blowing. When he builds something he knows it’s going to get destroyed but he doesn’t care. He makes it for the joy of it. It’s his job and he loves it.

I like to make stuff like he does but probably not as much as Andy does. When I was twelve, I think, when it snowed and ice formed on the roof or under cars I used to get icicles and stick them together to make a bigger one, then break off part to make it even bigger and better. I also love to build stuff out of lego’s all the time. I made something that looked really cool and it fell and got destroyed. What I build was this awesome looking plane out of lego’s, it took around an hour, I think. Then I thought if I threw it down my stairs it would fly, instead it made a crash landing. I was mad about It, but I just chose to build it again. That has happened many times to me before. I hate it when stuff I’ve made gets destroyed and I have to redo it and it gets ruined again. I’ve learned to not let it bother me that much anymore. When something gets ruined that I’ve made I see it as a sign to make it better than it was.

Andy and I are alike in a way. We both like to make stuff just out of natural materials that we find and make something pretty cool out of it. It’s just the thrill of making something cool that makes me want to do it even more. Andy made a river sculpture out of ice and a rock, and in the end it was a pretty sweet looking sculpture. It takes him a while to finish just one project but in the end it looks amazing.

Andy has made many things, and I have also, but everyone is connected to each other in some way. I’ve told you about the cool things that Andy has made and some things I’ ve made.