Thursday, April 2, 2009

Reading alter your world

Chairs... who cares.
Students, are they mutants?
Frustration.. I wish I were Haitian.
My head pounds and all I hear are hounds.

What a week. The week behind in retrospect couldn't have even been scripted, my "langweil". My extreem "Kopfschmerzten" and the "kinder und Eltern" who got on my "nerven". First, the flu hit. He gusted in like a sneaky old spy, stayed a long while until Penicillin shewed him away. My weekend was a long somber slumber. I nursed away the realities of the day. I remembered those skills from long ago, moved by the illnesses.

Arbeit is far from bright. The goal is worth the pain, the solitude is motivating my outlet to write, write, write. The students I teach reflect my vision, my goal, my personal legend "that every student will read, and go to college". My personal legacy is to invoke a light within my students that reading opens a new wondrous world of opportunities and possibilities. Literacy determines your life. I know and have seen the realities of illiteracies. Illiteracy leads to ignorance, inviting expensive experiences.

The world is full of ignorant people who make decisions concerning unreal realities. The world if full of caring, helpful, and engaged people who generally do good. The world is full of beauty and misery. The world is made up of whatever we choose to see; yet reading can alter our realities, can lend a path to a brighter future. Change our reality, almost change how we engage, talk, and speak. Critical thinking comes through engagement in reading and reading that magically enlightens, informs, and allows one to enter and alter their world. Reading changes your world.