math class

I unwittingly took the scenic route all the way up to north campus to find out that my teacher had already left office hours and I had two minutes to get down to my math class in south campus. This is why I walked into math seven minutes late and got the bad seat against the wall.

Our room is more like a wide hallway and to accommodate the 50 students that sit in there, the seats are in the shape of a rainbow so that there are seats that have you sitting with one shoulder against the white board. Let me tell you, whoever though that this was ok didn’t understand that white boards are designed to be viewed by an observer who looks straight ahead and sees a board running from left to right. The seat that I sat in gives a view that looks down the board as if you were looking for a warped in the wallboard.

Getting a bad seat soon became an insignificant detail after listening to the teacher for five minutes. You see, I’m in a M W F class and my teacher had a sub fill in for M and W. The sub was fantastic and I felt that this time through the class I was really going to get it so I settled down with a clean sheet for notes and began listening. My confidence that the teacher knew what the hell he has teaching disappeared faster then doughnuts on my kitchen table. The more that I listened to this guy (dare I say) ‘teach’ the higher my blood pressure got. By the time we had fifteen minutes left the class had disproved two of his proofs, corrected him on numerous computational errors, incorrect signs, and a misstated theorem. We felt so bad for the guy that we didn’t even start on his notation. I realized that this was equivalent of having an ESL student teach a 300 level English course. My thoughts were running wild, ‘Oh god, this is going to be an independent study course for me’ ‘Should I even come to class? What if I can’t tune him out and what he is saying subliminally gets into my head?’ At ten minutes till the bell he let us know that that was all he had prepared for the day (‘WTF? You aren’t even using our limited class time effectively’), he asked for questions, …….. and then it happened, the moment that made me walk out of the classroom looking crazy with tears streaming down my face, smileing and laughing. He said, “that’s all for today then I guess. Lets hope that your teacher feels better next time and you will not have another sub.” He was just a sub, oh thank you Jesus, he was just a sub.

ratty 

I don't have internet at my house so i have to walk to the library (10-15 min away).

yestarday i was walking over and i saw a body lieing on the groung (just the feet at first) and i thought that i had just seen my first dead person. as i got closer i saw that he was a bum and that he was probably just sleeping something off. he was in the freaking street though with his head proped up on the side walk as a pillow. i walked past and wondered about if i should have kicked him awake and told him to get out of the street so he wouldn't get run over. I didn't and the library was closed.

last night i went to church (first time i have gone to easter servis in like 5 years) and as i got on the bus a bum grabed my hand and introduced himself as john peter and would not stop talking to me and ale. that was the second time i had seen John peter that day, weird hu?

ratty

Currently Reading Mathematical Thinking: Problem-Solving and Proofs (2nd Edition) By John P. D'Angelo, Douglas B. West see related

i really miss you mom

and nae

Currently Reading A Midsummer Night's Dream (Signet Classics) By William Shakespeare see related

pizza

I love makeing pizza. SM and Ck help me and we pretend that we are on Iron sheff. We can make pizzas, set the table and clean up the kitchen in 30 min and we even make our own dough. Pizza tasts so good. i wish Ap and AA were here ( i just want to see them for a little while, they don't have to move back in or anything). Ap i like to cook for you alot.

i’m done with german now. although I can’t speek it yet I can read and write some.

Johann Gutenberg ist in vierzehnhundert Geboren. Er ist am dri Februar, vierzehnhundertachtundsechzig gestorben. Johann Gutenberg is aus Mainz. Mainz ist eine Stadte im Deutschland. Er macht den ersten Drucker.

Ich studiere dieser Mann denn Ich lese ein buch wann ich bin eine Schüler. Auch meine Schwester Nadia sieht einen Gutenberg Bibel. Sie seiht es in eine berühmte Bibloithek.

Ich habe nicht beschreibung denn Johann Gutenberg is so alt.

Nae and I left an ice cream cake at a birthday boys house today. She rang the doorbell and ran to me in the get away car and we zoomed off. We are practically like that ‘good gang’ on adventures in odyssey called the Israelites who went around in secret and did good deeds for people but never told them who did it.

ratty