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Charlotte really enjoys a good book.  Fantasy is probably her favorite genre and she has been reading through Brandon Sanderson’s vast collection of books.  She has read The Stormlight Archives, Wax and Wayne series, Elantris, Warbreaker, Mistborn series, and The Rithmatist.  Her fandom led her to register for and attend DragonSteel (the comic con style convention for fans of Brandon Sanderson). She borrowed her friend’s homemade mist cloak and wore it proudly as she explored the exhibit halls and sat in on some readings.  

Charlotte is an aspiring author and has been working on writing her own book.  She enjoys discussing book ideas and character development ideas with her friends. She describes the book she is currently writing as a “Fantasy with complicated lore involving the 4th dimension.”

Charlotte’s other passion is drawing.  She doodles whenever she has to pay too much attention to something to read. She has been practicing her skill with digital art and does most of her doodling on her drawing tablet.  Several of her friends are also talented artists and they enjoy sharing their artwork with each other and discussing techniques and ideas.  Charlotte is currently working on drawing characters and developing her style and technique.

Charlotte recently discovered a love for history and historical time periods.  She enjoyed her history class so much last year that she signed up for additional history classes from the same teacher this year.  Her ancient world history class was her favorite class last semester.  She enjoys learning about the medieval time period and is particularly interested in medieval weapons and accessories. 

Charlotte aspires to have a collection of really realistic costumes and weapons. She is creative and ambitious in her ideas.  For Halloween she designed and made her own fawn costume.  She designed some stilts and commissioned her grandfather to build them for her.  She glued fur and moss to her pants, cut apart a shirt and turned it into a vest. She created horns and hooves from foil and paint and used chalk and glue to put it all together.   She proudly wore it to school and to her friend’s house.  It was a great accomplishment to take her project all the way from drawings to completion.

Charlotte gathers with her friends weekly for Dungeons and Dragons campaigns.  Her character for this campaign is a Tabaxi named “Horizon at Dawn”.  Which is a cat person who loves adventure and whose main weapon is a scimitar.   Charlotte’s friend group is very creative and share many common interests, unfortunately they go to a variety of different schools and none of the girls go to school with Charlotte. Luckily, Charlotte connected with a girl who goes to her school (Bree) in a creative writing class at girl’s camp. Charlotte and Bree have become good friends and enjoyed eating lunch together at school every day and working on several group projects together.

Charlotte is incredibly skilled with chopsticks.  She can eat (or drink) anything with chopsticks and usually carries a set of chopsticks with her everywhere she goes.  At Girl’s camp, over the summer, she ate all of her meals with chopsticks. The most challenging things she managed to eat with chopsticks were a cup of hot cocoa and an apricot.

Charlotte’s favorite food is sushi.  She also enjoys other asian foods like Thai food and Chinese food. 

Charlotte does not play computer games very often these days. She plays Terraria occasionally and enjoys jackbox games with the family, but she spends most of her freetime reading or drawing. She enjoys watching shows or movies together.  Her favorite shows are Stranger Things and Gravity Falls and she has enjoyed watching The Walking Dead with me.  I love having a show to watch with Charlotte.  She has a good sense of humor and it’s fun to have show related inside jokes with her.  

Charlotte is a junior in high school this year.  She succeeded in getting her Driver’s license on October 22nd.  I think she enjoyed the freedom of driving to school and to her friend’s house, until the car that she had access to was destroyed in November. 

Charlotte enjoys listening to music and says she likes “a lot of stuff” when asked about  her favorite songs/artists.

Charlotte is definitely still an animal lover, though she mostly expresses her love for animals through her drawings.  She is always trying to get as many cats as possible to sit on her lap at the same time.  She calls out to any cat who enters the room, trying to entice them to her lap.  She even anxiously invites cats to join her when she already has two furballs on her lap.

Charlotte’s main considerations in clothing are comfort and pockets.  She wants to wear the most comfortable clothes and be able to fit an entire bottle of soda and possibly a few knives in all of her pockets. She doesn’t care much for brushing or her hair and has no interest in makeup. She celebrated her first day of Christmas break by having her braces removed.  Although she has several months of additional treatment, she appreciates having her month not filled with metal and the opportunity to eat sticky things once again!

Charlotte is a deep thinker with a good sense of humor and I truly enjoy spending time with her. Here is what I wrote about her last year.