Jordan's English Blog

 

  I slept in today until 4 p.m. I wasn't even tired, I was just...not in it.  I never really am in it.  I slack off a lot because I don't feel like doing anything. I don't even feel like doing the things that I'm interested in.  Today, I spoke with someone I have a strong feeling of admiration towards.  I don't think I can call it love because I don't believe in genuine love at this age.  This person always expresses their love for me and I tell them I love them back.  My love may be different than theirs, but not so much because they're both based on our admiration for each other.  I want to clarify that we've communicated this a couple of times too.  Anyways, we spoke and decided to stop speaking to each other for a period of time because we had too many issues in the way.  I learned that I couldn't be selfish to not let them go and I also learned that this doesn't mean the end. It's just a bye bye for now. A see you later.  And I...

   I had a trip with ROTC to New Orleans today.  The trip was like six to seven hours I believe.  We had to share a bus with Druid Hills where they sat on the left and we sat on the right. The ride was okay.. I expected it to be longer, honestly. We got to stop at a gas station because someone wanted to use the restroom and we couldn’t defecate in the bus’s restroom.  At the gas station, we took the opportunity to buy things. I bought this skull keychain and I bought a friend a bullet keychain.  As far as the rest of the ride, it was okay.  I had snacks from home that I brought so I wasn’t worried about buying any food. Later, we went to the hotel and dropped our bags off.  We had three to a room and I was roomed with people I got along with luckily.  Commander and Petty Officer as well as Senior Chief had us all go to Walmart to get whatever we needed.  My roommates and I decided that we wanted to by disinfectants and cleaning supplies ...

 I feel like we should get a free day for these reasons. The first reason being that it’s Friday.  Who wouldn’t want a free day at the end of the week?  My next reason is that we’re all tired.  A lot happened this week and some of us have things to do later today.  Lastly, some of us have harder classes next and we need to refuel our energy for those classes.  

 Today we didn’t do anything because we had this thing going on for drunk driving awareness.  We had to go outside and watch this set up scene of a car crash and people acting out this scenario.  My friend was one of the actors in the scene.  This lasted pretty much the whole class period.  Before the bell rang, I left because I had to go change.  I had to change out of my ROTC uniform.  I definitely wasn't gonna wear it all day; those shoes hurt!

 Today was the first day back from break. There isn’t much to talk about because there’s not much that we did. We got 15 vocabulary words and had to write original sentences including them. Then we had to do exercises 1 and 3. Exercise 1 was filling in the blanks of scenarios with certain vocabulary words. Exercise 3 was two multiple choice questions. Throughout that time, my friends and I were talking and joking around but I finished my work on time. I’m proud of myself for that because I know I usually can’t talk and do work at the same time.

 In class today, we talked about being called something that we considered offensive. Everyone in class shared their word and mine was “stupid”.  I don’t know why but whenever someone calls me that, even if it’s just a joke, I get slightly triggered. I feel like just because I’m goofy or sometimes I might take longer to get things doesn’t make me stupid. After we all discussed that, we read a short narration of a boy who was called an offensive slur. The slur was the “N word” with the “er” at the end. Our assignment was to write a diary entry as if we were the narrator that had experienced that. That was pretty much all we did besides takes notes which I forgot to mention.