Day 201: Arby’s Bad, In&Out Good.

 

July 20th, 2011Day 201, and I continued my daily prospects at both EH&S and ThinkTogether. I got some breakfast at Arby’s though, the worst decision of my life because the food on the value menu did not at all look like the picture expressed. For starters the roast beer was not pink and crisp as seen by the picture but rather gray and terrible-looking. Afterwards, was my last day of teaching at ThinkTogether. :'( At lunch we all around signing each other’s yearbooks (which were pads of paper stapled together basically). It was super funny cause some of the comments these kids wrote were pretty hilarious, and yet at the same time very very very very sweet. In my first film class I showed the kids Despicable Me (Group 7), and in my last film class I showed the kids Tangled (Group 6). I think they were mildly entertained by the Pixar/non-Pixar movies. Math class was a challenge, but I was able to get the kids of group 8 to successfully take their math test, after doing a scavenger hunt for key terms to review right before the test. Afterwards, we played Jeopardy and they failed at Presidents’ Jeopardy, and succeeded at elementary level Jeopardy… so easy that almost anyone can win. Field trip tomorrow to SDSU, and celebration day Friday. It’s all coming to a bittersweet ending.

When I got back to my place, I started doing video editing for a couple hours until Alex called me. I was proud of myself for completing 5 movies, and celebrated with Alex as we went to In&Out. While there I snapped an amazing picture, realizing the disgusting Arby’s I had in the morning pailed in comparison to the California In&Out I had for dinner. That same In&Out is featured on the second episode of The O.C., a classic American television series. Anyway, we talked at dinner and caught up before hanging back at my place for a bit. When Tyler and Lauren came back respectively, we watched Memento (which they both fell asleep during). GREAT MOVIE THOUGH, YET AGAIN, even though Lauren didn’t seem to get it at all. Fail on her end, not mine. I ended the night finishing the last 5 movies, ultimately being done with all 10 video projects. I subtitled, captioned, and made transitions on every video, and let’s just say I’m proud of myself for doing it, with a day to spare.

At 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion people listening at home: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon. The American effort to send astronauts to the moon has its origins in a famous appeal President John F. Kennedy made to a special joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961: “I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth.” At the time, the United States was still trailing the Soviet Union in space developments, and Cold War-era America welcomed Kennedy’s bold proposal. In 1966, after five years of work by an international team of scientists and engineers, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) conducted the first unmanned Apollo mission, testing the structural integrity of the proposed launch vehicle and spacecraft combination. Then, on January 27, 1967, tragedy struck at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, when a fire broke out during a manned launch-pad test of the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn rocket. Three astronauts were killed in the fire. TRUE AMERICAN MOMENTS.

President Barack Obama held separate meetings Wednesday with top congressional Democrats and Republicans as part of ongoing talks on a measure that would raise the nation’s debt ceiling by August 2 to avoid a government default. With time running out to reach an agreement, the possibility of a comprehensive deficit-reduction deal sought by Obama appeared less likely, with the president and Congress instead being forced to focus on a narrower goal of increasing the government borrowing limit in the next 13 days so it can pay its bills after August 2. OH GAWD, they’re gonna drag this on forever.

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