Monday, May 23, 2011

St John (Or, move over)




 As a fifth grader, St John Fortune was not only # 1 in chess in the State of Florida he was also # 1 in math in the State of  Florida.  And he was in the 94th percentile in reading.  And at the  the National Chess Championship Tournament, held in the State of  Arizona, he was undefeated.  His elementary school,  Toussaint Lourvature, finished 3rd in the tournament.  St. John, like I said, was undefeated in competition and he did all of this this stuff before he received a computer from Dwight's Computers for Kids.  
The next day, after he got his Dwight's computer, he called to tell me he had put a password in the bios and forgot what it was. 
When I went to the apartment to reset the password, I learned his oldest sister had an arguement with her boyfriend and they split.  She had just come home with her 6 month old baby to live with the rest of the family. The thing is, hold on to your hat, John was already living with 11 siblings in this 3 bedroom apartment. The answer to the question you are thinking, is: I don't know, but I'll try .
 
HGK, Benjamen, and St. John
The family gave her one of the bedrooms to share with one sister and that meant everyone else had to make room.  The bedroom I visited had the computer in the middle of the near wall and the chair fit in the space between two sets of bunk beds  Each was each stacked three high against the side walls with a stool on the floor between the beds. 
Everybody, even little Benjamen, who was always naked and running around wherever, and kept grabbing me by the leg and banging on the computer keyboard.  He, like everyone else behaved as if nothing unusual had happened. 
After his father lost his job, they all moved to a 2 bedroom apartment. 

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