HTMMA Vignette-Intersession

It’s called intersession. A fancy name for a two week, in school, spring break. My intersession was golf with Mr. Holmes. Here I was, in school about to spend two weeks attempting to play a sport I barely knew anything about. There’s a white ball, and a hole that’s to small, you are expected to hit the white ball with an oddly shaped baseball bat, into the little hole. I learned quickly that my biggest problem was not, hitting the ball in the hole, and it was not even hitting the ball in the right direction, my problem, was hitting the ball. For this reason, I really did not need to carry around a bag filled with ten different clubs. The different clubs only make a difference if they make contact with the ball. As I said, that was my problem. I slowly learned to hold the clubs the “correct” way, and I slowly got closer to hitting the ball. Then, all of a sudden, one bright and sunny day, with all my might I swung the club and the club hit the ball. At that moment the little white ball went soaring off the tee and landed about five feet in front of me. I figured, at that rate, it would only take about twenty more hits.

In Twenty Years

I remember, twenty years ago, high school. Since then I have had a busy life. I started out at Patrick Henry High School. After high school, I went to Harvard and studied math and economics so that some day I could work as a stock trader in New York City. That was a lot of fun! Some people have trouble getting into and finishing through a college such as Harvard, but I was determined and was finished when I was 22. Once I passed through Harvard, I decided to move back to California. As a kid I lived in Southern California, so this time I moved up the state and rented an apartment in the city of Humboldt (just off of a beach by the name of Agate Beach). While there, like everyone who has just graduated from Harvard, I became a basketball coach. I worked at the local high school as the freshman, JV, and varsity basketball coach. I even led the varsity team to six victories. As a coach you come across a lot of kids with different skill levels. At one particular tryout, there was a kid all alone in the corner of the gym. He was embarrassed because he said he did not know how to dribble the ball. I said I would help him out. I took him on my team and spent four long years teaching him the game of basketball. Kobe Bryant now contributes all of his skill and wealth to me. Since I had now coached one of the best basketball players to ever play the game, I decided to move on with my stock trading career. Because it was in the neighborhood, and they had been begging me for so many years, I attended law school at Stanford University. This is where I met my current wife of five years, Shaniqua. After two years of Stanford, Shaniqua and our two infants, Huckleberry and Keshana, and I moved out to New York City so that I could finally pursue my career as a stock trader. Because we knew we were about to become millionaires, Shaniqua and I bought and gave the Humboldt apartment to my parents.
It was tough at first in New York. I was not making a lot and Shaniqua had to stay at home with Huckleberry and Keshana. They're a handful. But after a while, I got the hang of it. I worked my way up the stock trading ladder and have been able to afford a 3.5 million dollar pent house. I offered a 2 million dollar house to my parents, but they like it at Agate Beach.
That's where I am now . . .