I spent the first 13 years of my public school learning in Roseville Community Schools. (Incase you are unfamiliar, Roseville is a small city just two miles north of good old Detroit). I was always told by teachers and school staff that I had serious potential to do something with my life. It wasn’t until college that I realized everybody else did to. But, in any event, while in high school, I managed to pull off taking 15 credits worth of college courses and AP classes, only 12 of which counted. I took the college courses at Macomb Community College, also referred to as 12 Mile High, given its location on 12 Mile Road.
While being educated growing up, it has come to my unprofessional conclusion that good writers are the ones that people willingly read. In school, we were forced to read “The Scarlet Letter,” a boring novel about God knows what. This isn’t to say that Nathanial Hawthorn isn’t a good writer, but that this particular writing, for a lack of better words, sucked. On the other hand, during that same school year, I willingly picked up “The DaVinci Code.” To me, that is the work of a good writer, because it was something I read on my time without being told or asked to do so.
When it comes to foreign languages, my skills are limited. I took four years of high school Spanish, and as good as you think I should be, I’m not. Four years of high school Spanish is roughly one and a half semesters at a university. I do also know some German. My grandmother immigrated to this country from Germany during the late 1950’s. So, naturally, I picked up a few phrases over the years listening to her and my mother talk.
As for networking sites, you can find me on Myspace.com, Facebook.com, or Livejournal.com. I mostly use Myspace though, and if interested, my link is www.myspace.com/rock_charles_world. This being said, it is a fair statement for me to make when I say that most of the writing activities, reading activities, and computer activities that I do on an average day, are all Internet posts… this one included.
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I had to laugh at your statements about The Scarlet Letter because I felt the exact same way when I read it in high school. It was absolutely horrible. Worse yet, the teachers at that school seemed to think we should all see the exact same symbolism in every single book we read... pretty much the only way to pass their papers was to read the Cliff Notes and emulate what you found there rather than coming up with your own analysis. Needless to say, I prefer coming up with my own stuff than copying Cliff Notes. Sheesh.
I'm actually trying to learn Spanish now, completely on my own, for a translation exam I have to take next year. I had two years of Spanish in High school, but our classes were pretty terrible because the teachers kept on getting pregnant. Teacher A was good, but got pregnant and left. Teacher B came in, who wasn't any good, but also got pregnant and left. They bring in Teacher C, who doesn't know Spanish at all to sub (she taught us Latin instead) and then Teacher A came back for awhile, got pregnant again...
..in two years. Yeah, I'm pretty much well screwed on that test.
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