Let me just start off by saying that today was pretty great. Got up early and went for a run. Had a good breakfast. Later in the day played soccer with the fellas and got invited to a weekend trip to wine country. Things were really looking up, until I got home that is. I don't know if I've made my disdain for all things Miley Cyrus related on this forum but let I can say that the disdain level is at an all time high. Yes part of the reason for this dislike is that the 10 year old boy I currently live with likes to play her songs on repeat so there's that. I'm not saying I don't like miss Miley as a person. I'm sure, ok I'm definitely not sure, she's a decent person and is talented in some ways. Hey it takes some talent to act and sing despite popular opinion saying that her ability in those categories is lacking. Let's just say I'd take Hannah over Miley any day.
But I'm getting off topic. My day was going quite nicely until I come home to see headlines of Miley leading the running for person of the year in Time magazines annual selection process. First of all, "Time WTF" I mean come on isn't there a clause in the selection guidelines that would provide countermeasures for scenarios such as this. I'm not doubting the impact Miley has had on the world this year but unfortunately 99.999% of that impact has been negative or spawned many a hate filled retort to her twerking activities. I'm not sure if the bigger shame is her leading the voting for this distinction or that twerk and selfie were among the candidates for word of the year. Anyway you can imagine my confusion when I heard this news and I feel only an Urkle gif can accurately depict my stream of emotions.
I don't know how all of this will turn out, but given that she already has a sizable lead it most likely won;t end well. These are some trying times for Time magazine's reputation and America's to boot. I mean it's basically saying that the criteria for being person of the year in this country is twerking, making obscene gestures daily, and wagging your tongue at people for no reason. Just think for a second America, if this plays out like it probably will next year we'll be saying "Hey remember that girl who rode the wrecking ball naked and gave a fellatio to a sledgehammer? Yeah, she was the person of the entire freaking YEAR." Wonderful. Can't wait.
Had to get that rant out of the way. The news actually set me back a few mental paces while I contemplated what was happening in the world. Life is pretty good in Spain. I can successfully differentiate between Spanish and Catalan and I'd say I'm learning at a pretty good pace. Now granted I've got a lot on my plate and no one really speaks spanish here, I'm noticing the progress.
I realize that being a teacher is fun but grueling. You have to lesson plan and prepare for the unexpected knucklehead child messing up your plans and also performance reviews when the higher ups come to town. All of these are things that I witnessed this past week at Secondary. Luckily I'm not a fully on teacher and can learn from a far while seeing some of the hardships that teachers have to go through. I never put much thought into parent teacher conferences from the perspective of the teacher. Not fun in the least.
As I look on from the periphery and see the maelstrom that some teachers have to walk into every day I can't help but happy dance in my mind.
Next week I'll be back at primary but more on that in the Update Video. I'll leave you all with this as I once again send my thoughts to Time magazine hoping they making the right choice. Option: Choose Miley. Answer:
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