The ASVAB!

Tuesday in my american government class we had 2 guest speakers One was the crypt keepers wife, who spoke about the importance of college. It was really boring since I've heard the same speech since 7th grade. Once the teacher left for a moment, she went on a quick mini-rant about how the military doesn't help you at all and how its a lie and they'd never really pay for your college. The reason that she had to wait for the teacher to leave was becau Ms.C (Short for Crockam, everyone calls her Ms. C because no one could spell her name right.) is a loading captian in the airforce (the only black female one which she proudly braggs about alot) and used the GI bill to help get into college. The other one was a NAVY recruiter who talked about the ASVAB test. For those who dont know its a test that checks out what careers you'd be good or bad at basically. The cateories they test you in are General science, Arithmetic reasoning, mathematics knowledge, word knowledge, paragraph comprehension, electronics info, auto and shop info, and mechanical comprehension. I did pretty good in gen science, excellent in word knowlledge and paragraph comp as well as mechanical comp. I did o.k. in electronics info but where I really dropped the ball is math knowledge and arithmetic reasoning because frankly,I am math retarted. I also did pretty badly in Auto and shop info because I dont know how the hell a car works, all I know is gas makes it go, brakes make it stop, and big engine = big horse power. After the test they printed out personal dog tags. The people that were monitoring the tests were all military recruiters from all military branches --except coast guard, so once I got out the test room freinds bombarded me with so many draft jokes it compared to the devistation that godzilla brought to tokyo. We also got some sweet NAVY mouse pads and ARMY coffe mugs (both of which I sadly left in my 6th period classroom and more than likely will never see agian.) I saw Mr. Griffin in the hallway and stopped him, and asked if he reported mr. Vela ( a.k.a. ignorant-racist-jackass, schmuk of a teacher) and he did, and Vela was once agian fired today. The navy recruiter is stationed at the crenshaw plaza, a short bus ride from my house so this weekend I'm going to go visit him and try to get info on how I can possibly become a pilot in the navy, the only obstruction is dad who is agianst me joining the military and thinks job core is a better oppurtinity.

I'm still hoping that mom, jazz, and me can all visit teresas for christmas, though I do think its going to suck that right after a 4-hour flight were going to go on a 4 hour drive, this time without infinite peanuts, cokes, random junkfood, pillows, blankets, nice sky veiw and with a possibly screaming toddler and first grader in the back... ya know the more I think about it I wonder: Is it really worth it? *sigh* I guess I'll just have to find out.

well thats all I've got to write about right now, so this is Adrian- anxiously awaiting the inevitable American/French war, signing off.