Youth Mentoring

This semester I've signed myself up to become a youth mentor in a local middle school...So basically what have to do is to meet up with a young girl once a week and help her with home work, play games, chit chat a little.. and share with my girl some good old wisdom (hmmm...i think).

I never done this before and I'm thinking to myself the following:

I mean, seriously what have I gotten myself into:

Not that I've literally drowned myself, but it has made me think, when I was thirteen, what did I really need to know?

1. How to gawk at the unruly size of my own backside.
2. How to survive bra and dress shopping with my dad after being led into the maternity section.
3. How to avoid creepy old men in AOL chat rooms.
4. How to not embarrass myself.
5. How to not get laughed at by the cheerleaders by wearing a cow-spotted Gateway sweatshirt to school.
6. How to firmly resolve not to embarrass myself.
7. How to get out of swimming after having my hair relaxed.
8. How to dance.
9. How to be a high school freshman.
10. How to get the best possible score in the monthly Teen magazine quiz.
11. How to memorize my speech and not forget it in front of the whole class and fail miserably without a chance.
12. How to write notes to the boy I like.
13. How to not eat an entire bag of potato chips and three frozen burritos in one sitting after school.
14. How to lose twenty pounds.
15. How to write in my journal during class without being caught by Mr. Mouasher, English guru.
16. He wasn't really a guru. Just a middle-aged man with a mustache.
17. How to find the best acne solution.
18. How to wear makeup, including eyeliner application and finding the right shade of Covergirl powder.
19. How to apply a picture of Josh Hartnett to the side of my dresser.

I mean, these are just a few things, but . . . I just don't think that's what I'm supposed to talk about!