I decided it would be a good and fruitful exercise to try and watch all of the Matrices (The Matrix, Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions). So far I've only watched the first one, and its a nice throw back to the nineties. My favorite part was seeing that nokia phone that looks as big as a damn sidekick with an iphone attached, no color screen, no music, no nothing, and we all thought that was the coolest phone every invented.
Today in school I was teaching a class where a great deal of converstaion and a great deal of work was going on, so I did not stop them from talking. The kids talking were all girls and they started talking about drugs. It was the conversation that you always wonder if you should let continue (mostly because you are afraid they will turn the spotlight on you and ask if you've ever done any drugs). Instead they started talking about how many people they know that would be out of a job if marijuana selling was legal. Yeah some people would make money off crack, but apparently they all know someone who sells, drugs, one girl even accompanied her cousin on a pick-up. Another girl mentioned that her boyfriend used to deal drugs and is in jail for shooting someone. Another girl mentioned that she had a boyfriend that is in jail because he had a gun that had some bodies on it. By the end of the class we found out that every girl had an ex-boyfriend who was in jail or has done jail time for something drug related. Even they thought it was kind of messed up.
2 comments:
bjane has the same experience. "how many of you have been stabbed?" all but 2. "how many of you have been shot?" at least 1/3 of the class, with the scars to prove it. the other day some girl got jumped by a bunch of other girls and only escaped after hiding in an abandoned ice cream shop.
I think the weird part is that they all know that it is not right, and not how they want to be living and they don't know what they can do about it, and we don't have any answers for them either
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