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This is kind of cool. My parents are from North Vietnam! I never asked them how they felt about the war. A little while after the war, they were persecuted for being Chinese. Vietnam's so odd;
I guess I know what my next research is on~
My mom woke up really early today to buy banh cuon from Chinatown! LET'S TALK ABOUT FOOD. I love eating duck and cha siu (bbq pork) :D and youuu?
ANYWAY, THE TEST IS IN AN HOUR, I AM OFF TO STUDY MY BUTT OFF ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHES OF THE 18TH CENTURY. Next chapter is the French Revolution >:] also banh cuon doesn't taste good when it's not fresh, i'm off i'm off!~
Sorry for this boring post (with no UK doodles bawww ;_;) I just wanted to show the article haha;
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The test was ridiculous. Mesmerism?! GULLIVER'S TRAVELS UGHH I CANNOT BELIEVE I DIDN'T REMEMBER THAT TITLE. My.. my GPA..;
I saw everyone for the first time in 3 weeks, huzzah! I sat across the room from Lydia, and she SMIRKED AT ME wth and I smirked back. She then went "I FINISHED MY STUDY QUESTIONS @ 4 AM LOOOOL". Y-YOU IDIOT! I WISH I COULD INSPIRE RESPONSIBILITY IN YOU IF I WASN'T SO MUCH WORSE OFF
So, there were a few problems I didn't study for on the test ("What philisophical tale did Jonathan Swift publish" "The Tales of Jonathan Swift") ("What is Mesmerism" "...why am I failing this test my sister did better in this class than me didn't she") and uhh Rousseau* is kind of rolling in his grave, but I feel confident that I didn't fail the test. Mr. Wong collected the tests, and then he popped in the cassette so we can watch the History Channel's French Revolution! Lydia's in World History as well as AP European, so she's already watched the tape, and knows what it's all about (she is NO FUN to watch this tape with) so she made the craaazy OMG parts sound really lame.
The French people were hungry, hungry--raavenous. Funding the American Revolution had left France in some serious debt that was never resolved by the king, Louis XVI's dad because he passed away from smallpox. The one left in power, Louis XVI was.. supremely useless. He was described as a chubby, indecisive, dillly dallying dude who, even though he was educated with the intention of being king, deemed himself altogether not ready to rule France. What a cute man! He hired financial advisors, but then he fired them, and the people got pissed. They felt that the financial advisors were representatives of the people, and when they were fired "there was nothing left for them to do but to riot"
Then CRAZY shit went down. My favorite FAVORITE part is The Women's March, where these fisherwomen took up pikes and marched to Versailles, and NO ONE fucking got in their way or could stop them. Marie Antoinette only got away by a hair, and the mob tore her mattress apart when they got to her bedroom;;
The most CRAZIEST thing to me though, was that the people of France still held the royal family with some esteem/respect, even though all.. this happened. That was promptly ruined, after they caught Louis XIV & family trying to escape to Austria. Louis felt he lost control over his realm, and needed to escape to be able to regain control of it again. Everyone else felt he was a TRAITOR and was abandoning his own country. Thus, any bond the people held with the family dissipated-- they got really REALLY PISSED.