Aaron Drake: Icarus Academy

7th Grade

In Grade 7, I arrived a week late, and I met Ms. Fauna. She was our homeroom teacher, and also the English Language and Literature teacher. She was such an amazing teacher, around her mid-20's, I always looked forward to her lessons. Thanks to her, I became friends with Silica. She's a tall, fair girl with the most stunning eyes. We met through common love of anime and same music taste. Ms. Fauna is a big fan of Death Note, and recommended it to us all, and Silica and I, both being anime fans, watched it together and talked about it non-stop.

We chatted endless hilarious chats on Facebook, and mocked people with abysmal English and had a joke where we roleplayed as two people with excessively bad English who would "slavofay da wurld n maik vry1 r slaivz n v wud bild a big haus palis n trap r favooreet silebriteez laik silena gumiz n draik" (Incidentally, I have the same birthday as Silica's favourite rapper Drake).

Ms. Fauna had strange but effective ways of teaching. Our class had a habit of writing "Me and _____" rather than "_______ and I", which is correct English. Her exact quote was "You don't put yourself first, you arrogant little pricks". That was the quote which helped me easily remember the proper way to write it. Ms. Fauna only taught our year, and left after that. She moved, got married and went back to school. I hope she always finds happiness and moves on to greater and better things, and always remembers she has a place in my heart as one of my best teachers ever.

Silica and I, meanwhile, stayed friends and we still are in contact with one another since we go to the same school. Silica is an awesome person. You can talk to her about literally anything. She has lots of friends but she's mostly an anti-social person, or at least she tries to be. She's not very good at it. And on that happy note, that's all I have to say for now.

I've gone to Silica's house twice for projects. The first time was quite interesting. I formed a team with Silica and another girl in my class, Nami Kakashi. She's really pretty and nice. During the project at her house, the project was about nutrition, we searched up pictures of "peach" for our project, and Google gave us pictures of Princess Peach from Super Mario.

This, for some reason, made me laugh a lot. Just the the thought that she was more popular than a real life fruit was very humourous to me. You don't know this, but whenever I laugh hard my face gets red (since I'm so white) and I start tearing up like a faucet.

My laugh is contagious for sure, it made Silica and Nami start laughing. The project, if you're wondering, was a HUGE success. We made it entirely out of memes. The troll face at the end told everyone that if you eat too many delicious fats you gain weight.