Today was supposed to see a school sports gathering happen at a picnic ground south of town. It almost did happen, but it rained last night, and everything was in doubt from the get-go. We started at the school, all of the students gathered outside and the teachers all in the lounge. Then came 20 minutes of loud discussion over what should be done. The final decision came to walking.
So we walked, about 500 students all moving in a giant column toward the picnic ground. I went with some of my students from last year and remembered why I had such fun with them but also why they were so incredibly annoying a lot of the time. We'd be talking about something or other in English for two minutes and one of them would come up and say "Mr. Young, Gergana hit me. She's STUPID!" and I'd shudder. They're in ninth grade now, it's time for them to stop acting like prechoolers, in my humble opinion. Not that my opinion on that matters much to them, they take me thinking they're monkeys as a badge of honor.
So 45 minutes of complaining and moaning and volcabulary discussion later, we arrived at the picnic ground. It was soggy. Unusable. So we all turned around and walked back. Two of them started smoking when their class teacher was out of sight, and that led to me giving them a guilt trip the whole way back to school. When we arrived, everyone went their separate ways, the day was over. So, that's why I'm at the internet club a bit earlier than usual today. Good times.
Also making life better is the recent opening of a grocery store near the school where a person can actually hold and touch the food before buying it. And you can use baskets and everything else...It's not a supermarket. That won't open for another month or two, but it's better than the usual guessing game I have to play at the corner stores around here. "Is this the spaghetti you want?" "Nope! Try again!" "This one?" "Nope." Now I can just grab the spaghetti and go. Convenient.
Finally, today, the Young family is seriously peeved about Kerry's latest attempt to please everybody. I agree with Mom and sister that it's a little late in the game to start kissing the collective ass of Bush's base. He needs to remember that for every NRA good ol' boy he picks up by parading around with dead birds, he'll lose nine PETA vegans to Nader. Kerry hasn't really been on a roll lately, what with his wife going around cracking Laura's work ethic and his own gaffe about Cheney's daughter. If Bush manages to win this, Karl Rove will go down as the best campaign man never to have gone up against a good campaign. And we all know that Rove's legacy is what this election is really about.
Posted by Rob at October 22, 2004 12:13 PMDid you even see the third debate? The comment on Cheney's daughter was hardly a "gaffe", Edwards said something very similar in his debate and Cheney thanked him for the kind words. Also, considering Alan Keyes, a republican candidate, made comments far worse about Cheney's daughter without even a mention from the Bush camp makes one wonder, nay, realize, with complete certainly, that this is just another case of the "liberal" media making a story out of nothing.
Posted by: jimmy at October 30, 2004 07:51 AM