My name is Kamilah. I'm starting middle school at the end of August. I have a younger brother who is six years old. When he was a baby I treated him like my doll. We are very close, but sometimes he bothers me. He expects me to take care of him all the time and do whatever he asks, but he doesn't always listen to me in return. Today he pestered me over twenty times to draw Captain Underpants characters for him.
My papa was born in Lyon, France to parents from Algeria. He speaks French, English and Shawiya (a Berber language). He likes to believe he also speaks Korean, I'm not sure if he does, he has a funny French accent. He is a culinary instructor and a French chef. He teaches at a Le Cordon Bleu Program culinary school.
My mommy was born in Seoul, Korea. She moved to America when she was five years old. She speaks English and Korean, and can read in a couple of other languages. She is a writer and also teaches extracurricular activities like gardening, science, art and civics to elementary school students. I like helping her when she teaches. I like younger kids a lot, this summer I had my first official teacher's aid job at my brother's school.
My brother is the least busy person in our family, but he is a genius. He is entering first grade already doing third grade math and reading fourth to sixth grade level books. He always liked numbers and counting in all his languages. Like a lot of boys he thinks bigger is better and he wants to count to absurd numbers like "quadrillion plus two hundred million plus ten more zeros". He's really talkative like me, so he didn't have any trouble learning three languages.
His favorite authors are Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl, Francesca Simon, Dav Pilkey and Andy Griffiths. His taste in literature began with the Japanese books about poop, fart and breasts. Now he is reading The Butt trilogy by Griffiths. It's funny to see a really smart six year old, because he can do so many things above grade level, then turns around and acts like, well, a six year old. I won't embarrass him by sharing the details. Let's just say they are typical first grade things.