Esperance Blog 13

Media Pledge-
Nothing really special today. Regular routinue, although I again felt very bored without the computer. There were many teasers, and sometimes not having near instant access to the info/entertainment that I want is quite... well, it requires some patience.

General Blog-
We were on a knitting on the go field trip, which meant that we rode on public transit for the entire school day, knitting. Of course, the field trip was also meant to increase our awareness of Vancouver's public transit system. Well, I thought that some of the people who needed this knowledge the most chose not to go, while those who least needed went without any complaints. Many of my peers used the supreme court of BC (I think) decision (saying that all mandatory field trips must be free, meaning that all field trips which will be tested/marked on must be free) a couple days ago as an excuse, since this field trip was apparently a not-mandatory one. They totally detested and hated the thought of spending the entire day doing nothing but riding on public transit, apparently. Some of their excuses were...not that reasonable. But anyways, they made the decision.

Now, going on the field trip was another...not so great experience. I remember we were talking sometime ago about punishment, whether it should be individual, collective, etc. Well, I find that shame and embarassment tends to be quite collective, even when the individuals who do it totally don't think that way. On the bus home, there was a person who used strong language filed with expletives (well, not really filled), saying that we'll poke people's eyes out when we knit on a bus. I heard quite a couple of other passengers nodding, and murmuring comments in agreement. He had a point. Our responce was...not that great. Upon leaving the bus, a certain individual (or a group, I don't know) chose to respond in a extremely disrespectful way. The individual chose to throw a bottle of water right at the window next to the person who told us not to knit on board. Sigh. I guess I was quite naive about MY8's. I used to go to classes (in elementary school) with people who demonstrated respect for everybody and were reasonable. Now, those certain individuals were terribly...disrespectful. Although the person who said it did not demonstrate that much respect to us either, it does not make a difference. And we MY8'ers probably use more expletives than that person ever did.

The MY'9s were... another thing. Overgeneralizing, I would say that I thought they, in general, were immature. Nevertheless, I'm sure they have many other positive qualities that I don't know, or experienced yet. However, from this first impression, I did and do feel that I was lucky I am in MY8, not MY9.

After typping out my thoughts about the day, I wonder about whether I did something similar? I think I may have, though, given the Lake Wobegon effect, and my personality, I tend to forget instances where I was not nice towards some people. And then become a hypocrit and blame other people who are doing another version of what I did. Sigh.