oh what the life to live
so my life has been in the past three days:
school
library
sleep
doing nothing much at all. but it actually hasnt been all that bad. i feel like im one with baldwin now. i really do live here. more than adrienne chan does. oh well.
so i guess i start with yesterday which was great, then sad, then traumatic.
we took little kids from a.l. holmes elementary school in detroit to the zoo. we (being congress) have visited the school many times in the past. its sad. the neighbordhhod it is in. crack houses. dirtyness. whores. devastation. going to 6 mile road and van dyke is like travelling to a third world country. or a ghosttown.
these kids are in school. that is a good start. theyre alive. they (currently) arent following the paths of their moms and dads. drugs. sex. prostitution. gangs. bad stuff.
the teacher always tells us stories about the kids and their families. their houses are bare, they hardly ever eat anything other than their government-paid lunch. mrs. rankin said that one of her kids saw her mom being shot and killed on teh front porch. what a devastating start.
here in birmingham we are offered a loving, nourishing life where we are suppsoed to be shielded from all of that. these kids arent. they see more than i have seen and theyre only five. i feel bad locking the doors and being scared when they live there every day.
anyways, they love the zoo. we drove them around in carts: me, emily, ryan, andjulianne. emily's gonna be a great mom. ryan's gonna be a great dad. julianne is gonna neglect her kids, but thats okay. i am going to be an awful father if i ever am. i was so glad to get these kids off of my hands. dont get me wrong, its a great experience and its sad leaving them. its just annoying i guess.
what does a staright rooster say?
"cock-el-doodle-do"
what does a gay rooster say?
"any cock-ll do"
lol. anyhoo, yah. at lunch, i gave one of the kids emily's purse to play around with. shayna gave the other one hers. apparently coach is favored over prada cuz these kids were fighting like all hell over emily's purse. it was so funny. the two boys and their purses. please tell me i didnt turn them gay. lol.
anyways, they were having like a bitch fight and they were like "i dont want that shit." yah, they were five years old.
its sad. its hard to know and see what these kids will end up being someday. when i look into the kids, i see potential. singer, author, songwriter, basketball player, intellectual, scientist, teacher. they can acieve anything. but their nurture (not their nature) will determine what these kids will be. and their nurture isnt good.
so we left them. i got lost on the way back to school and somehow got on coolidge. turned right onto catalpa, started driving. little did i realize the speed limit was 25. i was going 55. a cop saw me and immediatley pulled me over. he asked me, "do you know how fast you were going?" is said 45. the ticket was wrtten for 44, i dont know if that was because its only 19 over and not 20 (reckless driving), but whatever happened i got lucky. he gave me a speech about speeding near a school and how its bad. then he proceeded to tell me that, "surely your parents wouldnt be happy knowing that i was hot rodding around in their car." it was berkely. hahha, he was like "its a very nice car and im sure they wouldnt want anythig to happen to it, or you." i didnt wanna tell him it was my car, lol. cuz then id be a spoiled bitch and hed make my ticket more expensive. i lucked out. just a $125 ticket for "sudden acceleration" and not speeding. no points. no record. now i just have to find $125. not gonna tell the rents. hey, they dont need to know. and what they dont know cant hurt em right?
got back to school. went to library. stayed until 8 and then had dinner with marc and greg. got home at 9. watched real world. which was great. the gay guy simon, whos really hott, prolly wont be seen much, cuz hes quiet, but it is now my personal goal in life to be that hott. siiiiiiigh. im envious. anyways, good show.
today. school. thats it. i proved ms. stoner wrong on a chemistry problem. lol, that was funny. an E student showing teacher shes wrong.
now i gotta study for the redox/battery test on friday.
fuuuuuuuuck.
okay.
breathe.
school
library
sleep
doing nothing much at all. but it actually hasnt been all that bad. i feel like im one with baldwin now. i really do live here. more than adrienne chan does. oh well.
so i guess i start with yesterday which was great, then sad, then traumatic.
we took little kids from a.l. holmes elementary school in detroit to the zoo. we (being congress) have visited the school many times in the past. its sad. the neighbordhhod it is in. crack houses. dirtyness. whores. devastation. going to 6 mile road and van dyke is like travelling to a third world country. or a ghosttown.
these kids are in school. that is a good start. theyre alive. they (currently) arent following the paths of their moms and dads. drugs. sex. prostitution. gangs. bad stuff.
the teacher always tells us stories about the kids and their families. their houses are bare, they hardly ever eat anything other than their government-paid lunch. mrs. rankin said that one of her kids saw her mom being shot and killed on teh front porch. what a devastating start.
here in birmingham we are offered a loving, nourishing life where we are suppsoed to be shielded from all of that. these kids arent. they see more than i have seen and theyre only five. i feel bad locking the doors and being scared when they live there every day.
anyways, they love the zoo. we drove them around in carts: me, emily, ryan, andjulianne. emily's gonna be a great mom. ryan's gonna be a great dad. julianne is gonna neglect her kids, but thats okay. i am going to be an awful father if i ever am. i was so glad to get these kids off of my hands. dont get me wrong, its a great experience and its sad leaving them. its just annoying i guess.
what does a staright rooster say?
"cock-el-doodle-do"
what does a gay rooster say?
"any cock-ll do"
lol. anyhoo, yah. at lunch, i gave one of the kids emily's purse to play around with. shayna gave the other one hers. apparently coach is favored over prada cuz these kids were fighting like all hell over emily's purse. it was so funny. the two boys and their purses. please tell me i didnt turn them gay. lol.
anyways, they were having like a bitch fight and they were like "i dont want that shit." yah, they were five years old.
its sad. its hard to know and see what these kids will end up being someday. when i look into the kids, i see potential. singer, author, songwriter, basketball player, intellectual, scientist, teacher. they can acieve anything. but their nurture (not their nature) will determine what these kids will be. and their nurture isnt good.
so we left them. i got lost on the way back to school and somehow got on coolidge. turned right onto catalpa, started driving. little did i realize the speed limit was 25. i was going 55. a cop saw me and immediatley pulled me over. he asked me, "do you know how fast you were going?" is said 45. the ticket was wrtten for 44, i dont know if that was because its only 19 over and not 20 (reckless driving), but whatever happened i got lucky. he gave me a speech about speeding near a school and how its bad. then he proceeded to tell me that, "surely your parents wouldnt be happy knowing that i was hot rodding around in their car." it was berkely. hahha, he was like "its a very nice car and im sure they wouldnt want anythig to happen to it, or you." i didnt wanna tell him it was my car, lol. cuz then id be a spoiled bitch and hed make my ticket more expensive. i lucked out. just a $125 ticket for "sudden acceleration" and not speeding. no points. no record. now i just have to find $125. not gonna tell the rents. hey, they dont need to know. and what they dont know cant hurt em right?
got back to school. went to library. stayed until 8 and then had dinner with marc and greg. got home at 9. watched real world. which was great. the gay guy simon, whos really hott, prolly wont be seen much, cuz hes quiet, but it is now my personal goal in life to be that hott. siiiiiiigh. im envious. anyways, good show.
today. school. thats it. i proved ms. stoner wrong on a chemistry problem. lol, that was funny. an E student showing teacher shes wrong.
now i gotta study for the redox/battery test on friday.
fuuuuuuuuck.
okay.
breathe.