Last week I met up with friends Bill, Jessie, Meredith, and Andrew on their Western conquests. It was a great adventure, both enlightening and inspiring, and provided an unexpected perspective to look at life from.
Guys, thanks again for letting me tag along, it was a blast. A few photos from the journey are here.
I found out about Blackalicious my sophomore year of high school, in math class, from a guy named Steven. Listen to a track by them here.
sarahgoodreau: i outlined all of the light switches.
This is super neat. Imagine how a whole room like this would look.
Around the time schools start to have final exams, ever since that thing happened, I get a handful of emails like this one:
Hello, my name’s Florence and I live in France, in a little town near Paris. The other day, I had an oral exam in English, and a part of the exam was the analysis of an “unknown document”… which happened to be the poster you did on November 4th, 2007 “I saw the girl of my dreams…” So I analysed it and everything, and in the end I said “it’s probably a fake document” and the teacher said “Actually, I think it’s real…” So I checked it out for myself, and I must say I’m really impressed ! I didn’t know guys still knew how to be romantic and respectful to women. Anyway, my mom’s an English teacher too, and she found your poster pretty great, so she’s going to give it to her pupils in class to study it…
It’s very bizarre, crazy, cool to think that the story is being taught as a lesson in other countries. It’s also interesting to see foreign perception’s of Americans and the sort of lessons chosen to represent the English language.
