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Ode To Community College Students
Yes, I know. This video doesn’t apply to every community college student, lol. Only to those who are in their first year, don’t have much going on, and live with their parents. This will be how you feel most of your first year at a CC and, well… if it IS your first year it might not’ve hit you yet (it’s barely September, after all). But it will… once they start posting pictures on their Facebooks… and when they tell you all those cool stories about roomates, getting drunk, going to parties, school traditions, etc. Beware.
For those of you watching that don’t know what community college is, here’s a description: public institution of higher education. Community colleges are characterized by a two-year curriculum that leads to either the associate degree or transfer to a four-year college. The transfer program parallels the first two years of a four-year college. The degree program generally prepares students for direct entrance into an occupation. They are also referred to as junior colleges.
I always told myself I wouldn’t end up at a community college. Specifically, the one I’m going to right now. Though it feels like a giant bowl of suck a lot of the time, it’s not that bad at all.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Movie Review (sort of)
You can either watch the video:
… or just read it here if you don’t feel like listening to my obnoxious voice:
So I finally saw HBP. I wasn’t fully satisfied with it, but not too disappointed either. I guess this is the part where I talk about a few scenes, and tell you what I thought about them movie in general.
Fred and George’s joke shop was exactly what I pictured it to be inside. So colorful, noisy, and fun. It was just… perfect.
During quidditch tryouts, Ron Weasley le daba unos cabezasos a esa quaffle! He swears he was playing soccer! It was funny to watch, though.
What the hell? They burned down the Burrow? I mean, it didn’t bother me as much as it did other people, but did they really have to? If they wanted more action in the movie, they could’ve added a lot near the end with all the death eaters. But whatever. (more…)
Libros.
Since my second session of summer classes got cancelled… I’m gonna need something to distract me. I figured, why not start reading again?
12 Seconds
I decided to update my 12seconds.tv account just for the hell of it… and now I’m posting here on WordPress for everyone else to see. Haha, I think you can hear Hot Air Balloon playing in the background. I’ll post a YouTube video sometime later this week, though… I hope.
Super quick blog before I begin my essay
Not much to say, really. Finals week sucks. I think I did good on my final for Journalism 105 (mass communications). It was just a scantron thing and a few essay questions. Journalism 101 was fairly easy… I think. Apparently I’m getting a B or C in that class. I didn’t think I did that bad during the semester. I guess I was wrong. I’m not sure how I did on my Geography final, though. Some I knew the answer to right away, while others I had to sit there and think about. I hope I did okay, though.
Yesterday was pretty fun. Went to the movies with Zachary and Daniel. We watched Drag Me to Hell and Terminator Salvation. Drag Me to Hell Made me laugh so much. Talking goats FTW! I’m very jealous of Alison Lohman. She had blonde hair with dark eyebrows, a face that isn’t very skinny, small lips, tiny boobs, but she still looked beautiful! Gosh! Anyway… Terminator would’ve probably been cooler if I’d seen the movies more recently… or at least remembered the one I saw. Hahaha.
In other news… I am a total lesbo. Just kidding. My online friend Enmanuel made a little collab video with me and some other online friends: Jason, Athina, and Veronica. I don’t know if you’ll find it funny or not. It has a few inside jokes. But I rofl’d. Here it is:
Also, I’m gonna fix the categories section of my blog once I’m done with finals. I don’t really have the time to sort everything out right now.
In regards to my “You know how I know you’re Mexican?” video…
A lot of you already saw my most recent YouTube video. (If you haven’t, click here and watch it before reading the rest of this post.)
I was in a good mood, so I decided to make a fun video. And I did have fun making it. I even asked my dad for ideas, and he gave me a few. He found it funny that I would talk about common occurrences within our family and culture.
Somebody with a similar ethnic background as mine commented on it asking why I would “make a video with that many degrading comments.” They also said that a lot of the situations I mentioned applied to many other hispanics/latinos and that not all of them are Mexican. Of course I know they’re not all Mexican. I used the word Mexican because it is the one that applied to me and the community I grew up in. Of course, there are Central Americans and people of other nationalities in the area too, but I hate having to sound so politically correct sometimes. It’s like “you know what I mean! jeeze!” The person also said that calling them all Mexicans was degrading. I do it for the lulz, not for the respect. People shouldn’t think something like the fact that I didn’t make a conscious effort to be PC is demeaning and just learn to tolerate it.
Maybe it’s just the way I grew up, though. It used to bother me too when people would say little things like those, whether it was in regards to a certain ethnicity, activity, book series, or anything. Then I learned to get over it because really, what’s the point of trying to change it? People will say what they say and think what they think. If they’re not part of it, it shouldn’t really make a difference. After all, I know who I am and how I am perceived by others. That was the reason I made the video to begin with. To have some fun with what society thinks of people like me (Mexicans… or hispanics/chicanos/latinos).
But not everyone’s the same. Maybe the person was at one point given a bunch of crap for who/what he is, and finds little generalizations like those insulting. Perhaps he has a lot of pride in who he is and where he came from. If that’s the case, I still don’t see why one would feel so strongly about little corrections. I don’t know how they see it as something demeaning. I dunno about you guys, but I think that if you can’t look at yourself and the person you are without finding something funny, then there’s something wrong with you.
Perhaps this is because I was made fun of a lot during elementary and middle school. Mostly middle school. It was such a hellhole. I hated the people there. I’m not gonna lie, I did cry about the things they told me sometimes. After a few years, I decided that I was stupid for caring so much about the crap people back would give me. They did it for the laughs, and I was the only one that wasn’t laughing because it was at my expense. I learned to have this mentality when people made fun of me where instead of feeling crappy about it, I would just think something like “haha, that’s true.” I’d rather laugh at the person I am than feel crappy about it. Sure, I always bitch about how I’m fat or how ugly my teeth are, but fuck. I know that if I really wanted to change that much, I would make a greater effort.
I think that he and I just see things differently because we grew up in very different communities. Anyone who went to Garfield High School could probably just laugh at the things I said or say something like “omg, I do that too!” Let’s face it, a lot of us fit the stereotypes whether we want to or not. And because we as a whole can relate to them, we don’t find it all that insulting.
A lot of people get the idea that I’m not proud of who I am and where I came from because I make so many jokes about it. Of course I’m proud! My parents didn’t bust their asses off to come to the states for nothing. They didn’t have much money back in the day, and decided to risk a lot to make a better life for their their family. I have no idea what motivated them to go through so much crap, but I definitely respect them for it. I love it in the states. I’m glad my family has come a long way (both literally and metaphorically). I make little jokes and comments about beaners because I like to laugh. In fact, I can laugh about a lot of things that people don’t usually find funny. As negative a person as I can be, I know that laughter can always make me feel better about a situation.
