Assignment 10- James Gooding

I sit next to Tommy in English class, and I’ve actually known him since 4^th or 5^th grade at Ashland Elementary. I’ve been going to school with him ever since. Yet, even after knowing him for 7 years, I barely know him as person. All contact I’ve had with him has always been in a joking context. For example, when we had Mr. Davis for biology freshman year, we spent the whole class making jokes about breaking bad, and actually gave me a shirt with Walt Jr. on it for a secret Santa. I know he plays baseball, but outside of that I have no idea what his life outside of school is like. I’ve never had any deep or really meaningful conversations with him to know what he’s really like, so our friendship has remained just as two people joking around in second hour. All of my close friends aren’t even in the academy, they either go to college or take general classes.