off to a bad start
Today is Brandon´s birthay. He is 25. That is quite an accomplishment, considering the life he has lead. I am happy for him.
In other news, the day has not been off to such a good start.
Last night at 7 PM I was trying to call Brandon at midnight in Jakarta to tell him happy birthday. After 30 minutes of getting a combination of a Spanish operator telling me that "the line didn´t exist" to an Indonesian voice saying something I didn´t understand, I gave up. I tried calling again around 2 AM, but still no dice. All I wanted to do was wish my boyfriend a happy birthday and I couldn´t! I have no idea why because I have used that particular phone card to call him before, and this time it just was not working.
This morning I went to Anthro and FINALLY got everything clarified as to what I had to do. It is about time! We watched a movie called "Promised" about the conflict in Israel in Palestine. The movie was VERY well done, but thoroughly disturbing. I was listening to the kids of each culture talk about how they hated the other, and that they felt mistreated. It was horrible. In one Palestinian school there was a teacher asking all the kids, "Who does Jerusalem belong to?" They all said, "The Palestinians" Then they had to draw pictures on the board about how they felt treated. They had people throwing stones, and brothers and sisters getting killed, and killing Jews, and people being mistreated by the Israeli guards. Then they switched to Israel. It was not much better there. They both just hate each other so much, even the KIDS. As a Jew, it made me sick to watch both ends. The hatred they possessed for each other was unreal, and in my opinion, unnecessary. At the end, all of the kids decided that it was peace they ultimately wanted. That was a nice ending.
After class I had to deal with the biggest asshole on earth, who thinks it is funny to insult people every waking moment of the day. He goes to UF. Enough said. He was commenting on a situation in which he had no previous knowledge, and was bugging one of my friends about something that he and I did collectively. No biggie. Then this kid starting ridiculing my friend, and telling us that FSU was a joke and that he basically was better than we are because he goes to UF. He said, "When I graduate, I have to show my transcript too." When he graduates, he also has to take job interviews and show what a true asshole he actually is, so it will pay off in the long run. I am sure his future employers will shit on his "better diploma" from UF and kick him out the door.
After this I checked my email to see what Brandon had written me today. He forwarded me an email from a friend of his in Amsterdam, and what he wrote about me was rather offensive. I think Brandon must have thought his asshole of a friend was funny, but I felt rather the contrary. I don´t want to write specifics, I just merely want to state that it made me feel like shit. I hate it when people don´t think before they do things. Because then they hurt other people´s feelings unintentionally. If the situtation were reversed, I am sure he would not be happy.
Right now I am in the midst of having my 30 page Spanish "mini thesis" corrected by some teachers, then I have to put some musical examples on it, and turn it in by next week. The last part should not take long. I still have my 15-page lit paper in Spanish pending, and each time I sit down to write it, I am so burned out that I have no desire to do it. I suppose at this point I just have to. If I hear another person complain about how much work they have here, I am going to scream. Writing one-page reactions is nothing compared to 45 pages in Spanish!! Get over it people.
Honestly, I have had it today and it is only 11:00.