blogvid

I went to my Reach the World school today. It is in Brooklyn. If I do not get shot going to the school in the Bronx, I will defintely get shot here. Okay, I don't actually think that, but I definitely didn't feel super safe walking the five blocks from the subway stop to the school. I think it was mostly due to the characters I passed by, most of which probably aren't dangerous, but I've been conditioned to react this way just by growing up in america. hopefully these experiences will allow me to feel safer in these situations. anyways i get to the school and the woman who runs the program is late- stuck in traffic. so i go to the teeachers lounge where the meeting is supposed to be. I walk in and there are six teachers eating lunch in there. The three 'ethnic' teachers were eating in the far corner and the three white teachers were eating in the near corner of the tables- too small a sample to really say if there was a trend here. The folks in the far corner were way cooler and nicer. they notice my visitor pass and say "visitor pass." i tell them i'm here for the Reach the World program, which they have heard of, but they ae not a part of. so i sit and listen to the conversation they are having. two women and one man. the man is well-groomed, wearing a suit, but something just isnt sitting right and I cant figure out what it is. i knew somehting was strange but i couldnt put my finger on it. its like graduation dinner- my tea cup looked just like everyone else's, but it was like 10% bigger. took me 20 minutes to know why i felt something was weird. so then it hits me- the guy has one leg! but that isnt exactly what made it weird. because he was wearing a suit his far leg (the one he had) looked normal, but where his other leg should have been there was no leg, so his jacket fell straight down- as if he were standing up. it was really weird. stnading and sitting at the same time! hence Mr. Escherpants. i was finally at ease. everythign went very well from then on.