What do I expect from college?/en la tele...

Books. Grants. Skilled professors who will show me the "right way," so that I can chose which way I want to do it. Interaction. ((Meal plans? jeje :D)) I expect the cultivation of individual independence. So...? ¿qué puedo decir? That's what I think. Ah, decidí usar los tildes por un rato, para probar que puedo :P College is a tool to get what I want from it. It's the first time in my life I've been able to chose what I want to learn and be given time to study it and draw my own conclusions----((Have you ever wondered, if there are so many very different people reading the same essays, books, pieces of history, that are all leaving with very different ideas of why things are as they are and what really happened (bla bla bla) if all those realities exist somewhere? Obviously in the person themselves, since reality is a relative concept (jaja! Can't get over that sentence...) it does. So... if each of those people has their own reality and everyone's realities are running parallel to one another in some strange way do they all exist? Does every possibility exist? Whoa, wait... What was my question? Ah! Has anyone ever read "A Crack in the Line"? by Micheal Lawrence?))----Ha, I totally just used a hyperlink (vínculo, me gusta más esta palabra :P)
Anyway, back to my point, which was... Right, what I expect from college. The point to that stuff at the beginning is that I don't expect college to give me anything. I don't necessarily expect for it to give me knowledge, that's something I take. It's just that simple. I thought it was so strange today, during forum, when everyone was talking about getting an education v. getting training, why do they keep talking about education as schools and colleges and universities and etc.? Well, obviously we're in one, but it's not like being in college is going to give us either an education or training. We get that by doing things on our own. Our professor doesn't put the information into our minds, we do... am I making sense? Erghs, it's late, but I figured if I waited 'till tomorrow I'd have forgotten what I wanted to say.
Oh! There was something I wanted to say: My grandpa grew up in a very small town, population in the upper 40s or so, called Gravois Mills (as of 2005 it 225, in case you were wondering) and after WWII he remembers the town gathering to listen to the one radio they had, where they heard of the mass extermination of millions of Jews. Well, this man grandpa had barely every seen, an honest-to-english-muffins hermit, remarked, "That must have set their calendar back." I know I'm not quoting it like Grandpa did, but... Anyway, later when he figured out what he meant he told me about how amazed he was at what that man knew, living in the country (more country than Gravois Mills, even.) The point of that is we give schools money so that people who want to show others things they haven't seen before can. We pay for everything they need, and more than a bit extra, and it's our "job" to get all out of it we can... At least it's mine.

Ay, ¡me encanta la salsa! ¡Pero Florencia Villagra! ¡Patricia Sosa! ¡Miranda! Nunca vivíamos sin música... y esa es la verdad!! :D Oye, olvidé! Vi a dos pelis maravillosas por el fin de la semana, "En la puta vida" (que es retriste) y "La última noche", que no puedo describir con más que "sorpresante." Y más cerca de la tele, soy adicta de "La fea más bella" y no puedo parar de mirarla... Y no puedo creer lo que está sucediendo!!! De verdad Don Fernando un desgraciado si no puede ver el amor que tiene Leti para él y la belleza de su alma!! ((y conoces la actriza que hace el papel de ella?? bonita!!!)) Bueno, sea que otros sepan mas que yo sobre lo que ha pasado ultimamente, no hay univision acá...-_- Pero mi querida preciosa mamá me las está grabando! Qué amor debe tener por mí, jaja!

Can anyone here write 1337? Just wondering...

Being a hostage/primera impresion...

y empezamos... First off it must be said that I did not understand my character's personality. It was hard to resign myself to be someone so radically different who I am, but we managed to get into it a bit, with the help of a few serious players. I think if we had been more prepared for the whole situation (truly, it was a strange way to start the day, it was hard to quit laughing and get scared!) Not like our guard helped in the process :P! We got into it after the shock of the whole situation had worn off, and were pretty indignant for a while there. Unfortunately, the lack of abuse, physical or otherwise made it difficult for us to ever feel the fear o.o If, for any reason, I ever fell into a situation like that I'm not sure what I would do. Probably shut up fast! I thought I would have really been able to get into a "terrorist" role, but as a hostage the only thing we could do was sit tight and freeze (AC...) I didn't really see them as terrorists, though, even though that's what they were supposed to be in the simulation. I think of terrorists as being unpredictable--you don't know where they'll come next, what they'll do, and that's how they get their power. Which is surprisingly effective since the terrorists are usually small groups of people. This just seemed more like a kidnapping, which doesn't seem like a terrorist action to me, unless they were threatening the people with torture or something. Though they would become a threat to the government from which they took the people because of the public's opinion (it could just as easily be anyone else, right?) and general fear/outrage.
I was actually thinking, if a group just looking for recognition, acknowledgment so that they receive support from people who didn't know of their problems before, managed to take a large group of hostages and make their demands reasonable, probably playing up the compassion that should be shown to every person, not just those under the protection of a certain nation, would get it their way. If they declared that no one would be killed or mistreated, simply held from their people. If they made it clear through a public broadcast (possibly to another country in mass, so that their message could not be witheld from the people by a government trying to spin the situation) that their only goal was to call attention to their plight and help their people I don't see how it would be too bad a thing. I wouldn't mind being a hostage, at least. It would be a good chance to see a different perspective of things...
Wait, was that what I was supposed to write? Ughh...

Y tengo que hablar como yo, no como quiere la escuela, porque siente tan raro, tan extraño, tener que escribir lo que me piden sin decir lo que son mis pensamientos verdaderos! La gente en esta u. aun me dan miedo, hombre! No, de verdad, no siento comoda ni segura de mi lugar aqui, siento como... je, que puedo decir? un cocodrilo en fabrica de carteras? si me conozcan que diran, que haran? sere una extraterrestre? Nunca ha sido facil pa mi hablar con otros, y ahora me asusta decirles lo que creo y siento de verdad. Ya nadie me conoce aqui, siempre miro mis palabras por el temor de decir algo completamente... extraño? bueno, algo que no le gusta lo demas. pero se que va a pasar alguna vez... -_- Pero voy a aguantar, puedo vivir... Voy a encontrar a alguien que le gusta a mi por quien soy, no por lo que quieren ver! ojala... espero... :´p