"I'm naught daed!"

...hopefully some of you have seen monty python's search for the holy grail...if not you'll be missing the humor in the title of this here blog...its been a few days i guess,since last i rambled on and on...so you must be thinking I was waiting around collecting a myriad of amazing stories for your enjoyment....well you're probably going to be dissapointed,and utterly crushed to learn that I have nothing of the sort..what I do have well..here it is..
...monday was nice, had an early start with a pit of "fat camp" PT around 6 am..I say around because nothing happened until 6.30,so much for structure,organization and all that jazz from the Army...oh well i didn't sign up to learn time management,it was more for the outside stuff, and thus far its been decent..today was actually a drastic improvement, a very well organized affair with the same "fat camp" participants as before, but a few others who either are reserves or in the Guard, either way they seem to have a clue..while I would openly confess to know nothing about marching, or specific commands of formation, I can at least follow the simple instructions of "don't quit"..its quite alarming the number of people who can't do a push up, or jumping jacks...i keep referring to it as a "fat camp" because a majority of the freshmen cadets are not used to any sort of physical activity..what i dont get is, what did they think they signed up for? anyway, its a growing program and there is a lot more emphasis on numbers at this point than other things..as long as they are here its a good thing..
...this school is pretty much a community college, there is very little that shares anything close to universities back home..in a discussion with a great guy who i met in rotc, he said that there is really nothing different between the education he's getting here and the one he could get at harvard..i was glad he mentioned that often quoted statement, made at most any university that isn't the caliber of a harvard or a yale, but the differences are many. for starters,as i sit in the library surrouned by three seperate groups of people standing around talking, not in a hushed tone, and with no idea that they are in a library,where people come to study..everytime i've been in here its been the same way, one person on a computer with a crowd hovering around...not to say that it doesn't happen everywhere, but it is somehow different here..there just isnt the sense of study here...another thing he mentioned earlier was the lack of class participation in discussions,even in classes such as caribbean history or other "home hitting" courses..the glaring problem is that people don't care!! they don't want to be in the classes, dont care about what the professor is saying....can't seem to understand that of course the guy may seem a little weird to them,but heck if I devoted 8 years of study to indigenous peoples of the caribbean, i think i would get excited about "Carib indian lecture day" (not a real holiday) but yeah...as opposed to say a harvard where one pays a huge amount of money to sit in a class with others who can 1.form a decent opinion to be backed up with something close to reasons, instead of "just because i think that" ..and 2. care about their education..
...again down here,its a very sad and unfortunate thing that, education is not what excites the masses...
im not saying that there isn't anyone who cares about a decent education,thats not the case,because there are a good number who are doing amazing things down here, its just been my observation up to this point, in the classes that I'm in, both "grad" level and intro level, that there isn't a lot of excitement....part of this stems i believe from the state of high schools on the island,as most of the students at UVI have lived their whole life on St.Croix, which serves as a disadvantage in a couple of ways..im tired of goin on this, im sure I'll pick it up later, but I dont want it to seem that I'm unhappy or anything close to it...so here's some other news
saturday im heading out early to get to the ferry docks in st.croix, and head to st.thomas to catch a ferry then on to st.john....so besides that its pretty much a straight shot! why would i want to spend a few days on beautiful st.john you ask?(home of kenny chesney's get away house,by the way)just to run in a little race they are having, and take advantage of the free night in the beachside cabin they are offereing to all racers...like many of the things im taxed to do down here, its going to be tough,but i'll find a way to do it...somehow..i think that about does it..this wooden stool is killin me so im gonna seek the comfort of a nicer chair elsewhere...today is inca movie day! aaahhoora!