OH MY GOSH

Okay, so it's been awhile, But! my New Year's resolution is to update my blog more often, so here goes: (and what's more, I'm dying to vent to somebody about this)

If people from other countries hate Americans, I can understand why. They teach them just n'importe quoi, just whatever whatever they feel like about the United States. I just sat through a class where the teacher made me stand up and say the pledge of allegiance. Which! I can understand, to those who don't do it in this countries, this is a very strange cultural phenomenon, and merits discussion, and what's more, I'm sure it's interesting for students to see that on command, I can stand up and say this pledge by heart. Okay, so that's fine.

But then!! This teacher turns and twists everything about the United States! She sees the pledge of allegiance as this militaristic thing, and she kept saying how the United States thinks sees it's mission as one where they have to save everybody and make every other country democratic! And she kept talking about God and Manifest Destiny because she picked the "Self-Reliance" text written by Emerson, which has a lot of biblical references. Because of this, she has decided that all the Americans are crazy, militant, religious nutters who feel it's their duty to convert everyone else. That we supposedly all think (as she said, it runs in our blood), that we each have a divine destiny and that we're going to convert everybody to Christianity and democracy. She took the self-reliance, like, listen to yourself, you know what's best for yourself, trust your intuition, and made the conclusion that that meant: I'm only going to listen to me because I know best and I know better than everyone else!!

BAH!!

Anyway, I'm getting a headache thinking about all this/hunger is setting in....so lemme know what you think about this, because, I dunno about you all, but I just thought it was all a bunch of backwards, uninformed crazy talk.

pffffffffffffff...

But don't worry; everything else is going well!!!!!