I have dedicated this page entirely to my friends! I know that you are the only people reading this anyway!

I met Meghan on the first day of school my sophomore year in French class. It was only by chance that we'd both taken French-she'd tried to take Spanish and I wanted to take French as a freshmen. As I surveyed the classroom, I knew then that Meg was the only person I could talk to, however, it took us both a while to not be competitive with each other and to talk to one another. Now Meghan is one of the dearest friends I have ever known. Surprisingly, we each have the same personality type according to the keirsey, but are very different. I respect Meg in that she stands up for her beliefs, even though I do not always agree with them and yet manages to keep the peace. She is a devout Catholic-I have never known a Christian less hypocritical...I think Meg understands that there is room in the world for other religions and that that helps make it interesting. She is also one of the most intelligent and dedicated people I have ever met(plus she laughs at my jokes, even when they're not funny...) I would like to brag that Meg is going to be valedictorian in 2001-she is so modest that she would never announce this herself, so I did it for her. :) There are numerous other "braggable" things about Meg, but I won't embarrass her further. Although she dresses conservatively, she has a uniqueness about her which cannot be expressed(as well as the most beautiful golden tresses I have ever laid eyes on...) We really bonded over Bios, when Meg, Rachelle and I roomed together and had a blast!

Rachelle is one of the very few people I have connected to immediately. We met on Bios, a 16 day long science trip, and "insta-bonded". Mr. Hoke thought we'd been friends for years; afterall, we'd roomed together. Before I even met her, Meghan told me that I reminded her of Rachelle and that we'd probably hit it off. Well, we did! She is one of the loudest and craziest people I have ever met, although secretly she is shy. She is extremely smart, although I don't think she believes this because she lacks common sense. All of my close friends can write, but Rachelle is the only one of us who writes well in a humorous tone. She is cool enough to even go to Prom with me when I lacked a date and to have more fun at my Prom than at her own! She is creative beyond your imagination as well as hilarious. She has cooked up schemes beyond belief. Rachelle has the courage to be herself and not to care that others may think her "weird". She is; but she embraces her uniqueness. Rachelle makes me laugh when I feel that the world will end. The odd thing is that we shared several friends before we even met! I must admit that one thing I love about Rachelle is the way she really does make herself at home when she's at my house. She easily expresses herself when she's in the presence of friends and her words end up in the quotebook more than anyone else's because they're so funny. Go read some quotes from the quotebook

I met Emily through Meg and Rachelle, and suddenly the four of us became great friends, even though we attend different schools. Emily is your average Asian-smart, pretty, plays golf- only she is superliberal and is considered to be a bit odd(big surprise!). She usually has excellent taste in music(except for that 80s crap!) and "dresses up" with me. I love that she laughs and smiles all the time, even when she's got to be annoyed. She even seems to find annoying people funny! Like me, she's cheap and likes to go thrift shopping. Her favorite color is red, which means that she's exciting and adventurous. She dared to travel with me recently to the distant land of Austin for the Lilith Fair! We had a blast-there's tons more to do in Austin than in Kiwi...yummy vegetarian restaurants, hypercool vintage shopping, concerts galore and bunches of free stuff at Lilith. We also took our first ride in a cop car when we got busted for possession*snicker*, but you can read about that on Emily's site Skim Milk. Ha ha, just kidding...Emily would never do anything illegal....except maybe swim in a fountain...heh heh heh...She may look evil, but in reality, she's nice. She even admits that she's a dork! :)

I don't remember how long I've known Heather because she lived next door to my grandparents when I was very young. Eventually my family ended up in the same town as my grandparents. During my freshmen year of high school I had few female friends, and though Heather was a junior whom, at the time, hung out with the "in crowd", I decided to try to befriend her. At first she didn't want to be my friend because I was disliked by "Them" and a freshmen, however, soon we became friends once more. She is extremely intelligent and bizarre.....her intelligence seems to make her odd...but she never tried to be smart. During high school we wreaked havoc, laughed and argued and traveled to New York and D.C. and Austin together....but she graduated in '98. When her parents decided to send her to the local college she endured it for a semester and then left. Where did she go? She fled to New York City to live with her friend, Dave, whom she met over the net. I still can't believe that she has changed from that shy, Mormon girl who tried so hard to fit in, to the outgoing, crazy-and most of all-happy person she has become. I must say, we've had some good times!