Hello, my name is John Adams! I was born in the Bay Colony in 1735. I went to Harvard as a lawyer, and became a dedicated Patriot after that.

During the Revolutionary War, I served in France and Holland with diplomatic roles. I came back to the States after the war and ran for vice-President under George Washington.

When the second president was needed, I became the second President of the United States.

Sadly, I died in 1826 though, after I said my last words: “Thomas Jefferson lives.” Which, unfortunately, he did not.

I was standing in front of my mirror, reciting my speech for Revolutionary War day.

Lately, we had been working on the Revolutionary War and as part of a project, we had to write a three paged report and a half-page report. The half-page needed to be memorized. It was for the speech.

The most fun part, however, was this: we had to dress up as our chosen Revolutionary War hero.

Now, the first problem, my dad and I discussed, would be the clothing.

After digging in the closet, we found an old coat, and put on one of my mom’s fluffy white shirts underneath that.

I wore black pants that I already had. My dad and I went out and bought some long men’s socks for a dollar. I covered them up as much as I could with men’s socks. Finally, I wore my mom’s leather shoes. Perfecto!

Then came the biggest problem of all: the hair.

It had to be a light gray, but not white. It had to be puffy, but not fake. It had to be smooth, but not flat. And it had to fit on my head comfortably.

A wig would do, we decided. But how to make one?

The teacher had blocked us from buying lots of expensive things, and besides, what was the point of a fun project if it were ruined by buying things? Buying was cool and everything, but I wanted something homemade.

Finally, my dad saw it. He saw it first. On the table, inside the fruit bowl, and as well as the refrigerator, there were stretchy fruit nets. They were so cool, and perfect.

I popped one on my head, and for one second, I looked like a total nerd with a fruit net on my head. The next second, however, it had transformed into an idea.

Now, through the fruit net, people could see my black hair. So what could I do?

The answer was simple: as a swimmer, I could wear a white swimming cap, spray paint it a skin color, and then wear it!

At first, I could only find a blue swim cap, a red swim cap, and a green swim cap. None of the colors were suitable.

Then my dad found a white swimming cap. I love my daddy.

We went to the Home Depot and got some skin colored spray paint, and some light gray spray paint.

When we got back, we put the cap on an old stump, covered it up, and started spraying the cap.

So the cap was done.

My dad and I then experimented with some yarn as hair, but the sewing took too much time. Then we got the perfect idea: snow.

As a Christmas-celebrating family, we grabbed the bag of white snow and sprayed it gray. Sorry, snow. It was for a project.

Then we stapled it onto the net, which was harder than expected, since the staples could never quite grip the net very well.

Half a day later, our masterpiece was done.

One more day went by, and the next thing I knew, I was standing in front of my desk at school…

Hello, my name is John Adams. I was born in the…