Boring Week

Coming off a short week/long weekend, it didn't really feel like all that much actually got done, with half of my classes only meeting once (friday classes don't exist,sorry kids) the slightly apathetic mood of the student body slid down the drain into near worthlessness..and the professors seemed to adopt the same mentality..except for freakin dr.capriola who talked for 1hr and 15 minutes strait..what amazing subject, you may be longing to know..(?) wait no more, for i shall tell you(all the hoopla in my writing today means i don't have much of substance to say,mere words to take up space..alot like dr.capriola) ...he spent the entire class,which is in a room they keep at record low temperatures,cold enough to hang meat, possibly because its a nursing classroom and i think they keep dead bodies up in the rafters,but that could be just my thinking...but when the guy basically reads back to you what you have read in the book and analyzes each elemetary concept like :racism, bias, critical thinking..all by using very simplistic generalizations in an effort not to offend..it gets real boring, real quick...he's a big fan of the rhetorical question, as in he loves to ask a simple question and then elaborate for at least five minutes with his own personal story to answer..the class isn't really there to him..and my god,its soo painful!...on a similar note, both my carribean history and latin america class(taught by the same lomarsh roonparine,from guyana) are less than a hoot and a holler...a majority of the kids in there are from the carribean, if not st.croix and st.thomas specifically...it is a video confrence course,he is here, st.thomas kids see us on a screen and vis versa...anywhoo...basic colonization history of the colombus guy,and those pesky spanish folks who came over and did this and that, yeah, that doesn't seem to matter to them/they don't seem to know much about it..and the sad part is that i wonder why it is i should try and care about "their" history when they don't even know it,or show much of a desire to...dr. roonparine is a cool guy, but he is a little dry, classroom participation is a must!! since i have him 4 days a week,ill pretty much have the A in a bag...but it seems an awful sad commentary on the attitudes of some of the students down here...enough about school,thats not really why im down here anyway
..why does 4.30am on a Saturday not seem like a good time to be waking up?? what could that mean? probably that you have some huge plan to complete, or just that the rest of your day is going to crash down around you at no later than 3pm....rotc ruck march(run) 3mi out to the armory this morning for some gung-ho training..it was good for the most part..other than the 3 girls who are physically unfit to be army rotc cadets..the program is new down here, so it is very loose,as far as standards go, captain bell is trying to get numbers up, but in that effort,it comes at the price of having very few fit members...some girl who was 45 min. late, and showed up in pt uniform, not bdu's with a pack and the ever versitile jump boots(best running shoe NEVER!) ha, anywhoo..she couldn't even do 1 quarter mile lap...whatever..so thats a little dissapointing,but the extra training is for the ranger challenge team(army rangers that is)..we've got tryouts over on Puerto Rico here in a month or so, and the competition is a combination of a PT test, 10k ruck march in the sand, land navigation, rope bridge construction, and m16 assembly and disassembly...team of 12 per school,but we aren't a full fledged batallion,still under PR, hence the tryouts...but im looking forward to it..never been to ft.benning before,could be fun...its pretty "high speed" (jargon for advanced, harder..etc)
...on a much lighter note, i found kssn96's online radio thing the other day...now i can get my fix of arkansas country...thats almost as unknown down here as snow...or promptness or a myriad of other cultural differences haha..but alas its time to head out to the beach, and then to sharkys sports bar to catch some football!