Reasons Why My Little French Cousin Is Awesome

Amelie is ten years old. She’s almost as tall as I am, skinny as a stick, and a blonde to boot. She’s got a Cindy Crawford-esque freckle and is pretty freaking awesome. Why?

• When asked what her favorite musical artist is, she paused for a minute and then said, “Chopin”. Um hello, ten year old loving Chopin? Pretty sure most ten year olds are obsessed with Justin Bieber (whom my little cousin wrote off as “lame”).
• Thus, understandably, her favorite type of music is classical.
• She has a collection of images she likes from the web. There is a large amount of Google logos. She also really likes the Chrome logo.
• She also has a few lolcats.
• Selena Gomez > Miley Cyrus, according to Amelie
• Her email address involves cookies.
• Upon learning about the magic of Photoshop, she requested she ‘shopped underwater, being chased by Godzilla, and in a movie.
• Her new favorite site is Flickr.
• She is so far over me being an American, even if her friends were absolutely in shock and asked me questions like “what do Americans eat for breakfast?” and “are there cereals there?”.
• She doesn’t throw ten year old tantrums, which is incredibly awesome of her because when I was ten, I totally threw a lot of tantrums.
• She’s looking forward to coming to Poland because she “gets to be responsible for animals” here.
• Amelie can rollerskate 16 kilometers. I can’t even rollerskate a meter.
• When she was two, she hit me on the head with a strawberry bucket. This isn’t really a reason why she’s awesome but I mean, she was two and really cute so it was okay.
• She knows her way around Paris. And walks to school by herself.

I mean, is there a better ten year old out there? Because I’m thinking no.