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This English class has been a lot of fun. We've done things that usually don't happen in classes at De Anza. We went on a poetry walk, a play, acted out a play, and a trip to the movies. Most of those activities were fun and enjoyable. Made class a lot more fun. Especially the poetry walk where we got to go hiking for english class. Sucked that I was wearing sandals at the time. Of course the expressive weren't fun at all. I didn't know what to write about. But it's near the end of the quarter. All we have is the final. So once we get that done with, we're done with English 1C. A memorable class for the activities you won't be doing in any other class at De Anza.
Posted by Simon Huang on 6/22/04; 3:21:18 AM
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There has been a lot of speculation of the draft being re-instated ini 2005. I really doubt that it's really going to pass anyways. Politicians at Washington DC don't want their kids to be sent off. Only one of the US senators has a son in the Armed Forces. 1%. No way will it pass or else that percentage will sky rocket up. My view on the War on Terror. I'll support it IF the evidence is there. We were right to go into Afghanistan but i'm not entirely sure about Iraq. But hey, what's done is done. We don't have a time machine to fix all of our problems.
Posted by Simon Huang on 6/22/04; 3:15:07 AM
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Since I've started De Anza fall quarter, I've been in English 1A, 1B, and 1C honors which fulfills the honors program requirement. I'm a bit concerned about what i'm going to do next year. I don't need english anymore and i really doubt that there will be honors classes for programming, calc 1d, or physics. I really want to stay in the Honors Program, but i'm not going to take a class that i don't even need. My schedule is already packed as it is. So i'm hoping that there will be more COHORT or Honors classes available next year. I'm sure the Honors Program coordinator is reading this because he's the English 1C teacher.
Posted by Simon Huang on 6/22/04; 3:06:42 AM
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My favorite book that we read this quarter is Maus. Its a book that once you pick it up, you can't put it down. It's short and there are pictures in it. It was fun and enjoyable to read as they depict the Nazis as Cats and the Jews as mice. I read Chabon and that book was so long.... I couldn't believe how long it was and at such a small font. It got boring too. Not a kind of book i really like. Midsummer Nights Dream? Shakespeare*bleh*. Odyssey was enjoyable. All that graphic detail in describing the slaughter of the suitors was interesting. Don't think that was necessary. I think we all know what a slaughter is.
Posted by Simon Huang on 6/22/04; 2:58:08 AM
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I'm really curious why De Anza ends a week later than the other colleges. I remember UCLA started their spring quarter the same day on April 5th. Somehow everyone is already out for summer vacation except De Anza students. Why is that? Do we have an extra week in our quarter? If we do, why do we have an extra week in our quarter? It's just really getting to me right now since one of my friends who just got back from UCLA is leaving tomorrow before i'm even done with finals. I barely got to see him as well as my friends who had to go back to their UC to attend their summer school. We're all on quarter system, right? Oh well, I doubt that we'll change our quarter schedule anyways.
Posted by Simon Huang on 6/22/04; 2:52:09 AM
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My brother's friend just got back from 14 months at Iraq. Pretty scary finding out that he actually fought at Fallujah during April. That's where nearly 200 American Soldiers died in April alone. He had many stories about what he went through. He's part of the Military Police so he wasn't really used to people firing at him. So he did fight with the Marines during that firefight where a explosion caused him to lose his hearing for three days. But that wasn't the worse. He had to experience another firefight chasing down a group of militants planting road-side bombs. Hiding behind armored vehicles from a sniper. It's scary to hear about this happening to someone you know. You thought that they would just be doing base guarding than going out and experiencing firefights. He just wanted to get the hell out of Iraq. Refusing the $120,000 offer to stay in Iraq for another year. The fortunate thing is that he didn't get wounded at all and that his worse injury came from a football game while at Iraq. I really hope the situation in Iraq gets better come June 30th with the transfer of power back to the Iraqi Government.
Posted by Simon Huang on 6/22/04; 2:40:16 AM
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So I went to watch Arcadia on Thursday where Kash, Adriana, Kaitie, and myself had fun sitting on the balcony. We were really wondering why nobody wanted those seats. Those are the cool seats and we actually saw the drawing the girl made(i forgot her name already). No one else in the theater had the angle to see it. She can really draw. But to the play. I was really confused at the beginning. I understood the past and present scenes but I didn't understand how certain things came up. Like all the sudden they started talking about gardening. I'm sure it's also my fault because I was falling asleep during the first half. I had no sleep that week. I thought the play was over when it was actually the intermission. During the second half I actually stayed awake. Don't know how but somehow I managed to stay awake. It was an enjoyable play. The second play I've ever been to by professional actors. They did a fantastic acting job. Knowing the perfect moment to pick up a piece of paper that wasn't suppose to fall off the table. I was very impressed. It wasn't like acting on film where they can edit out the scenes where the actors screwed up. If they screwed up on stage, there would be a lot of stuff thrown at them.
Posted by Simon Huang on 6/22/04; 2:29:49 AM
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On Thursday, our English Class went to the Sunken Garden to perform a scene from A Midsummer Nights Dream. It was a lot of fun, especially Austin who was playing an interesting role. I've seen Austin do some pretty weird stuff like in English 1A when he acted as a gay father. Yeah.... Anyways. I had a lot of fun "acting" out our parts. Never noticed how hard it is to read lines since I read the wrong lines twice. Oops. Had a lot of fun and I enjoyed people walking by who starred at us with the "WTH" look on their face. So our last class for English 1C was enjoyable till we had to watch the video of us "acting." I hate listening to myself speak.
Posted by Simon Huang on 6/22/04; 2:20:34 AM
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