I never knew socialism would affect my high school GPA
I read something in a link somewhere ( I can't find it!) that China has an awesome budget surplus of a trillion (of what? I forgot D8) or more~ I kind of want this to happen because 1) they seem pretty reluctant to do so when I read the article and 2) wouldn't China be just so endearing like that?
Now that i've got my Daily Doodle down..
SO: 2nd period Chemistry class. We juuust finished taking an AP Euro multiple choice test (which, by the way, was totally made of fail, and in fail I mean EVERYONE GOT FAILS) and I was comparing answers to a classmate. She likes nitpicking on EVERYTHING (god I hate her so so much), and she needed justification on an answer choice I made, right?
Who would be most hurt by the policies of laissez-faire?
One of the choices was socialists, so she chose that one. Even though we haven't studied or read ANYTHING about liberals or socialists yet, she still wanted to find justification behind her answer in which she GUESSED on anyway (WHY DOES THAT GIRL ALWAYS NEED TO BE RIGHT) and so she asked our previously-mentioned chemistry sub WHAT IS SOCIALISM AND UGHHH THAT MAN DOESN'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO TEACH BASIC CHEMISTRY WHY ARE YOU ASKING HIM ABOUT SOCIALISM GIRL, WHY
The thing is about our teacher is: when you ask him a question, he has an endless reverie of examples so as to display the answer instead of just fucking getting to the freaking point already, and he explains it in a very long winding fashion. Unfortunately, she hit a topic that really struck home to my teacher, so his insufferable condition of long winding explanations were made 10x more worse! WORSE! I THOUGHT THINGS COULDN'T GET ANY WORSE! BUT THEN I WAS PROVED WRONG. (Czech Republic: I require an apology from you for producing this abomination and allowing him to escape to the US.)
Oh, but that gets to my main point-- because even though he came back to the table a number of 4 TIMES to try to further and "better" his explanation of socialism (someone fucking kill me)-- I really liked it when we got onto the topic of how he got to the US himself. During the conversation, he was all "oh, the government I came from was very similar to socialism" and then later on he goes "socialist countries are very hard to get out of, they don't allow anyone to move out, and when they find out you're planning on doing so they confiscate your passport". So, you know, I asked "How did you get to the US?" Apparently the guy pretended to be on a vacation in Spain, but he was really attempting to finalize immigrating to the US through Spain! I mean, I never knew moving out of countries were actually prohibited, but to know he had to go through such lengths/risks to try to gain a better lifestyle-- for some reason it just kind of sunk into me? My parents had to escape from Vietnam for being Chinese, then they had to escape from China to get to Hong Kong-- and it was only a stroke of luck that the Americans came, classified them as "refugees" and then shipped them off to the US!
If things had been different, I would have been in China, or Hong Kong, and I would definetely not enjoy the lifestyle I have today... fuck, I call this place ghetto, but I FUCKING LOVE THIS PLACE compared to what life I would have had if my parents didn't go through such lengths to immigrate! But even then, they had to lie and say they were from "south Vietnam" instead of China/North Vietnam (or their refugee status might have been invalid), and to this day, they NEVER claim to be North Vietnamese. They're too scared to. (It's kind of weird.. how does it feel to feel like a Vietnamese, only to be rejected by them later on for being Chinese? But never feeling at home at China because they weren't natives (and they didn't like the strict rule of communism)? Then them going on a shoddy boat to Hong Kong with very little idea of what was going to happen next.. And then the next thing you know, they're in the United States-- and that is so toootally different than a village in North Vietnam;;) <- I guess what i'm saying is, how does it feel like to not truely belong anywhere?
Well, back to my substitute teacher! (AND BACK TO MY FURY) so anyway, he said he got his education from his home country, and then got a job here. He says that 'cause of socialism, people aren't very motivated to do anything or to do a particularly good job at what they were doing.. so may this apply to his training of being a teacher? Therefore, his substitute teacher skills were lacking, and ONE DAY ON A NOT SO FINE SEMESTER IN ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL A MAN CALLED MR. ZICH WAS IMPLANTED TO TEACH ME BASIC CHEMISTRY IN THE 9TH GRADE. AND HE SUCKED. AND HE SAYS AS LONG AS YOU DO YOUR WORK YOU CAN FAIL YOUR TESTS AND STILL GET AN A. CAUSING ME TO FEEL SOOOO UNMOTIVATED so now I don't give a flying fuck of what I do in that class, and I now have a B. AUGH MY GPA
I guess socialism is contagious!
But aside all the rage I have for my dumb dumb dumb Czech Republic substitute teacher, I really feel more.. respect? Feel more inclined to be nicer to him? He DID risk his welfare, just to try to gain a better life..
When he explained socialism, I thought of how alien it all sounded. And isn't that kind of weird? (Since China still has a socialist government, and Russia has the Communist party?) And to see it affect him personally.. hmm..
UGH so what I guess i'm saying is, i'm really glad he was able to gain a better way of life in America. (I'm really glad America gives chances like this to people-- people like him, and people like my parents, and people like my friends' parents.) =__= Even if he sucks at his job. And after this post, i'm going to go right back to hating his guts (If I stringed his guts to be manufactured, would they make those nice rich European sausages i've heard so much about?).
Oh, but by the way ROFL, did you know that one example he fucking used to describe socialism and the apathy it caused was: "It's like me saying, oh, you can flunk the tests, but you can still get an A in this class!". I..just the irony.. just.. fuck.
Czech Republic? You owe me an apology.