.."Yayyyy, I thought. It was a party in my head. It was Carrie, my pregnant roommate from last year. I looked behind me to see Carrie stand up. Just a...s I waved at her, I noticed a frowning familiar face sitting at a nearby table. It was Wendi. I smiled and waved at her. She shook her head no. I knew why she was upset. She didn't want me to be friends with Carrie. I turned back around to await the final name for cabin 4.The coach called, "And Amber Ryans."I got assigned to a cabin with the. "Ready to go Mark?" It was Mr. Andrews with his car keys.On the way home you remember the girl games you used to play with your sister.Being military brats you were always moving from place to place, never there long enough to make friends. After a while you both resigned yourselves to having only each other as exclusive playmates. You struck up a secret deal. One day you would play games that you liked. Like trucks, soccer, baseball, and other boy games. The next day you would play games that. Leah would often be the only white woman in the room at her inner city school. Leah didn't care about race. She wanted to teach children--but that didn't mean no one else did. She was accused by many students for being racist when she had to discipline them for even the most outrageous incidents. Needless to say at her first school she had to worry about students by passing the metal detector. At her current school she had to only worry about an occasionally skipper or the newest trend--a bold. “Look, I’ve heard the stories, I know what’s been said. I bought the election by throwing my money around to charities. I’ll admit I’ve given a lot of money to fire departments and emergency squads and police departments in my district, but it’s because that’s where I live. If you have some charities in your districts you’d like to see helped, then let me know. Or let Marilyn know. She’s the head of the Buckman Foundation. Just be prepared for the consequences.”“Such as,” asked Steny Hoyer.I.