Hello!

Dear Reader-

Hello! My name is Yasmeen Musthafa, and welcome to the first phase of my AP Language and Composition summer assignment! It's all very exciting, I know. So, in this blog, I will be regaling you, the reader, with tales of my perusal of the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. Hopefully, I won't bore you all to death. I'd like to graduate without a criminal record, thank you very much.

And now a little bit about me:

I am a female member of the human race. However, as "Fe" is the chemical symbol for iron, and "male" is a synonym of "man", I am also Iron Man.

I transferred into Uprep from RSA for high school, and this coming year will be my third year at Uprep.

I enjoy math and chemistry. I'm sure all of you are very surprised.

Despite what some of my classmates might think, no, I actually don't have a height complex. I just find it very annoying when tall people make short jokes. I mean, what do you say to people who are genetically predisposed to developing diabetes or cancer? Were you born in June? Because then your zodiac sign must be cancer!  I think not.

I enjoy eating, reading historical fiction, reading in general, writing fiction, and public speaking.

I also enjoy playing harp for hours on end. Screw modesty: I'm really good.

I am allergic to dairy, eggs, nuts, raw tomatoes, grass, and cats.

I am a liver transplant recipient. I was born with biliary artresia, meaning that I was born without bile ducts. I used to have a perfectly functioning liver, but then I took a drainage problem to the abdomen. The tissue started to die, and my skin started to turn a pretty golden yellow color. Apparently, I was complemented on my skin tone during this time. "Oh, what a pretty baby you have there!" "Thanks. She's dying."

But anyway, after some very exciting family drama, a girl with meningitis died and I was lucky enough to receive her liver in transplant. I recently found that I had been calling her "Holly" when her real name was "Halley". I now feel very guilty.

I feel that my strengths lie in my perseverance, adaptability, natural learning and leadership abilities, and protectiveness. I do well under pressure and have a wonderful poker face. Seriously.

My weaknesses are that I'm stubborn, self-centered, egotistical, and condescending to people who I don't see as my equal. And bossy. Let's not forget bossy.

I am anti-social and very introverted. Many of my classmates say that I never shut up. This actually because I feel so uncomfortable with them that I can't stand the silence. I hate large parties and have been known to go temporarily mute afterwards.

Anyway, that's about it. I look forwards to doing whatever I'm supposed to be doing.

Yasmeen