Thankful for a Classmate

The holiday season is coming and most importantly, Thanksgiving. What am I thankful for in life? The friends and family I have; especially the ones in the current class. I chill with the amigos.
First up, Vanessa (Va Nay Nay). I have known her since freshman year. She is one of my favorite Mexican girl. She always gets offended each time I mix up the rest of the Latinas with Mexicans. Yes, she thinks I’m racist. Its ok I still love her.
Next up, Jessica! She always is late to class, but it’s ok because when she does come it makes me smile. We’ve known each other for like two years now and it is just amazing to talk to her. She just makes me smile everyday.
ALEJANDROOOO! That’s my boo, all homo intended. Yeah sadly we just met each other this year. Why didn’t we known each other sooner? I don’t know. But he’s a cool guy and all and even though we only met this year, I can honestly say you are one of my favorite Mexican guys. Yeah baby I got you.
Shem! What happened? We used to take the train home everyday after school! After that, we lost contact bro. It is alright. We have two classes together. Man that physics be hard. There isn’t anybody to cheat off of! (Is that right because I don’t know.) But yeah, we should hang out sometime.
I can’t forget about Mr. Phil Banks. Did you know I used to think you hated me during tennis season? Well, even if you did, you love me now! Yes Phil, you are the pretty one out of the group.
Yes, this blog entry is personal so it isn’t all grammatically correct. But everyone makes the class fun and I love class thanks to that.

Open Letter to Cormac McCarthy

Dear Mr. Cormac McCarthy,

            Regarding your book, The Road, I would have to say you have an excellent insight of the future. But, is your vision really true? Will humans go as far as trapping and eating each other? Will our humanity reduce to only the need for survival? I am not saying that the book is not good, but the storyline is so graphic. The imagery that produces in my head is just so amazing. Sorry sir, I lied. Your book is amazing, besides the fact that I do not like reading. I actually enjoyed the movie though. I mean I actually stayed awake in class for you because I usually go to sleep every time a movie plays. Yes sir you are special.

            Back to the book, yeah it is pretty cool. The saddest part is that everyone is killing each other in order to survive. If I was in their situation, I would have just shot myself long ago. The story holds a deep meaning of love for family and the want for survival. The best part though is that they survived for so long and the boy lived life as though it was normal. It is a shame that they robbed the black guy. I mean why does the guy have to be black? Why couldn’t he have been white? Why would you rob a guy that already has nothing? Or was that just the movie?  Either way, I enjoyed the book and the movie. You sir, are amazing.

Defend the Poet! (Charles Bukowski)

Charles Bukowski. Who is this guy? Who is he to tell us that we are going to die? This Charles Bukowski is saying that we are going to go extinct like dinosaurs. Do we look like reptiles that are more than 10 feet tall and eat each other? I mean we humans have brains. Brains that is not just for survival. We use it to change our lives. Can dinosaurs do that? No, but we can. Why should I defend this guy that is telling us that we are all going to die? Sorry, I prefer to die of old age. I am not going to be in some apocalypse where I am going to die of starvation or some disease. See compared to the dinosaurs, we have technology. If the whole world works together, I am pretty sure that they can do something about an apocalypse.
If not, oh wells I rather get hit by a comet than suffer starvation and such things. It will go like BIG BANG! No sorry I don’t know what I am saying. I am just ranting on and on. Ok its 188 now. Back to Mr. Bukowski. Yeah, sorry I can’t defend you. I do not agree with you and I prefer to see a future in my life. So sadly, I am going against you. But you have a great philosophical approach by foreseeing the future. We all have our approaches in life and I believe that we will survive.

A New Direction

So tell me, why do we need a new direction? I believe that life in the classroom as it currently is, is fine right now. We may have a different approach to learn things but I like it this way. There are no right or wrong answers and everyone communicates to each other about their different perspective on things. The best part is, according to Phil and the Korean boy, the text book is dry. That book is so boring. Thank god we don’t have to read it. I prefer to discuss in class about the topics than read a book about some ancient history where the guy attempts to be funny but isn’t. I like when we argue with Mr. McCarthy. I like that we can say crazy shit and he doesn’t care because it’s our opinion and our “philosophy”.

The direction that we are going in now makes best use of the fifty allotted minutes in that class. Because there are no limitations on what we can talk about, we are constantly involved in the conversation because we can make it about what we are interested in. For example, if I thought that I got my girlfriend pregnant and I brought that up in class, there will probably be a discussion about pre-martial sex and if it is right or not. Yes, I am a pimp. But no she’s not pregnant so don’t be starting dumb rumors okay =] so yeah the class is good as it is.