Reuven

 Hello, my name is John Smith. I was born in an airplane that crashed to the ground after I was born. Both of my parents died. A super secret cult of ninja rabbis found me and raised me as one of their own. At the age of five, I had already mastered nineteen types of martial arts, parkour and wall running. Pleased with my achievements, the head Rabbi decided to send me off to school. Naturally I graduated college by age eight and had smichah by the age of eight and a half. I then took a loan from the bank, invested it in (at the time) flourishing stock market and made a killing (23 billion dollars!!!). With my new financial security, I decided to retire and travel the world. I went to Japan and slew Godzilla (that’s why you don’t hear about him anymore). Then I went to Russia, paid 20 million dollars, and went into space. It was amazing. I landed on the moon and did all these cool flips. It was really good practice for my martial arts. Once I landed back on earth, I took a jet to Belgium to go scuba diving in the world's largest pool. It had many different mazes under water. I got lost at one point but eventually found my way out. After the Belgian pool experience, I went to Israel and toured it in four weeks. I think I got about three hours of sleep each night. From Israel, I went to Australia. James King, another person on the trip, got lost on a trail with me, and we fell into a canyon. Coyotes tried to eat us, but we fended them off using spears we had made. We camped out in the wilderness for two nights eating whatever fruit we could find. A few snakes came our way, but they didn’t know what hit them. Finally a helicopter found us and flew us away. King and I became best friends over the trip, and we still keep in touch to this very day. From Australia I went to New Zealand. I went base-jumping, bungee jumping, sky diving, river rafting, horseback riding and skiing. Then I sat down, but sitting still was boring, so I returned to my house in America. I kept searching for something to fulfill the empty feeling in my gut. There was nothing I couldn't do, but everything I tried to do wasn’t fulfilling enough. F inally, one night at age thirteen, I realized what was missing. School. I had graduated, but I'd never really gotten the experience of going to school and making friends. So I enrolled myself at The Frisch School, a high school in New Jersey, and I love it so much. It is kind of boring, considering that I've learned everything already, but the fact that I get to make friends compensates for how bored I am in class. Since coming to Frisch, I've adopted the pseudonym Reuven, and I live in N.J. I've even invented an elementary school I attended, Yavneh Academy, and I tell my new friends I have 4 siblings, 3 older and 1 younger. Since coming to Frisch, I've discovered that I love to act and am currently in the Frisch drama society.