Student Journal

I've written in the past how students have to write journal entries every day. Most are so awful in their grammar, spelling and overall format that they rip the very fabric of time and space, while others are straight up ripped from magazines or newspapers. ("Last night, my husband Mark and I were able to watch our beloved Padres take on the Anaheim Angels and win 5-4 in one of the best pitching duels I have ever seen." This came from one of my guy students, who is apparently gay and has developed a way to get to California and back in only a few hours.)

However, every once in a while you get a good one. Such is the case with Adam, who is my oldest student and been teaching for 25 years. The assigned topic was "If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?" He wrote:

If I could go anywhere in the world, I would go to America because America is the most advanced country in science and technology as well as economy which is not only the biggest country in making and producing but in creating and inventing as well. The people of America are wise as well as intelligent and hard-working. They are active and brave. They confront the evil and protect the hurt peoples of the world. They have full of the spirit in challenging and I know from our facilitators, even the elders are the same.

This spirit affects me deeply. This is the spirit of America.

The culture of America has been spread throughout the world. There are many famous writers in America. I read the story of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn when I was a child by Mark Twain. I give them to my child to enjoy very much.

It was the creative spirit of adventure that makes the United States of America become stronger and richer and going forward ahead of the world. I am proud to be member of a country that is ally with America.

The history of America is not long but is full of instructiveness. That is, in the country in where everyone can be after and worship freedom and peace. The scientists are respected and fully available in their fields. I would go to America because I want to see and know much more of this mysterious country.