Mather Resident You Should Know: Thienthy

Her name is Thienthy. It’s pronounced T-N-T, and she might even tell you it’s spelled the same way, but don’t ever tell her she’s “the bomb.”

 Thienthy is a spunky 10-and-3/4-year-old Mather resident who is headed to the sixth-grade this fall. She is also a straight-A, GATE student who recently completed a class at Sacramento State University through the Academic Talent Search program.

 “I kind of excelled through it,” Thienthy said. “It was pretty easy. I guess you could say it’s moderate to me.”

 As promising as the present is for her, her future looks like it will be even brighter. Thienthy plans on being a teacher and veterinarian when she grows up. Her future university, however, is still undecided.

 “I’m voting for Sac State,” she said, “but my dad will probably give me UC Davis or something.”

 When she isn’t working on her exemplary academic career, Thienthy is like most 10-year-olds in her interests: She reads a lot of manga as well as Garth Nix’s Keys to the Kingdom series, and her favorite TV show is X-Men: Evolution. What she most likes to do in her spare time, though, is hang out with her best friend Sabrina.

 “I kind of met her on the street while I was probably biking, and we just became friends,” she said.

 As for personality, Thienthy is overflowing with it. After hearing her family might go to Disney World, she warned her father that they’d be going during hurricane season. He told her she could stay home but he’d take the risk.

 She also says she got her Father’s Day present from an unusual place.

 “Not the Dollar store,” she said, “but the Dollars Store.”

 Until school starts in the fall and her academic life begins anew, Thienthy can be found talking to all the customers in the Marie Claire Salon on Sunrise Boulevard, which is where her mom Queendy works.

 “She’s a nail specialist,” she said about Queendy’s occupation, “but she only does pedicures and not nails because she’s allergic to the powder.” As for her father’s occupation, she only said cryptically that he is “a transporter of internet information.”

Thienthy’s smarts and personality will certainly take her far, but despite her accomplishments she still refuses to be called “the bomb.” One person even tried telling her that saying she’s “the bomb” is another way of saying she’s awesome.

 “Somehow that doesn’t make me feel better,” she said.

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