Story of Me

This is Alison Buchli. A typical teenage girl. Most days you can find her sitting in her lime green mushroom chair in her room, texting her friends about their plans for the weekend, oh, and reading her 100th vampire book. Literally her 100th vampire book, she keeps a list of them.

The first thing that strikes you about Alison is that she is a girl who comes across as being smart, like a nerd. Slightly clumsy, like a nerd. A girl who likes to read, like a nerd. A girl who is a complete perfectionist when it comes to school, like a nerd. A girl who does her homework, instead of copying it, like a nerd.

This is a story of more than just a nerd. It’s a story of a girl who tried to be something she’s not, just to fit in, and how she gave up on it. A girl who tried to fit into a clique, and ended up making her own version of a clique. A girl who is happy being herself, and no one else. A girl who likes the quote “you were born an original, don’t die a copy,” and made it her mantra.

Who is Alison? She is a girl who is proud of the few achievements in life she has made, such as winning her first medal in track, and completing a scholarship pageant. A girl who would rather read the book than watch the movie, because the book has more detail and room for imagination. A girl who would rather listen to an upbeat song than a slow song, because she doesn’t like to feel weighed down and sad. A girl who gets called a nerd, even when she says really stupid things.

However, this intellectual bad ass, as she prefers to be called, actually has a sense of humor. She can make almost anyone laugh. She says ridiculous things that her friends end up quoting later on. For instance, she and a friend went to the pool in the summer and some children, from ages seven to thirteen, would not leave them alone. The kids would splash them and ask them to play spin the bottle with them. Finally, Alison got tired and turned to her friend and said “Those kids need to grow up. Seriously, they need to stop sucking on their mother’s breast like an infant, and find some real lunch.”

Of course, what makes Alison interesting is that although she’s funny and has a so called “nerdy” side, she is compassionate and loyal to her friends. She takes life seriously. She is stubborn, and sticks to her beliefs and her friends and family. And although she makes light of situations by cracking jokes, she cares about the things she is involved in.