Thursday, November 1, 2007

Illegal Immigration and Inglish as an Official Languge

I know, I am awful cynical today. Sorry, it is the way I fell be at the moment. I currently am sitting in my flat (dorm) and am listening to my flat mates and their friends eating dinner just down the hall. There are Germans, Polish, Finish, and Scottish people in my flat. In addition there are those from Italy and the Netherlands here tonight. I and the Scottish kid are the only ones that can claim English as their primary language. These students are here for two purposes. First to advance their education. That may be in mathematics, engineering, history, ext. Their second purpose is to learn English. They greatly respect the fact that they are in an English speaking country. They never speak a foreign language while in my presence if they can help it. The only exception is if one of them discovers what I am trying to say and uses his native language to explain it to someone else present. They greatly value their own culture and they respect mine. I only wish this were the case when I arrive back home in the United States. The reality is that those who illegally (I call an act of war) cross our borders, in hundreds of thousands every year, don't come here to learn our language or respect the rest of us. Instead they merely come to gain financial gain and send it back to there native land. It must be stressed I am referring to illegals and not those who do care and have taken the time to prosper legally (those I much appreciate and welcome with open arms). This topic really became interesting to me when I was talking about it in my counseling course. It was the first time the two people I was working with (who were from Scotland and the Ferrel Islands) had ever heard that America did not have a national language. They couldn't believe that was true. Well, I know it and I still can not believe it is true. Well, I will finish here and simply say Huckabee is the man.

FOOD AND TOILETS

I have not written anything for a while and decided to just put up something random. First, I tried to make one of my favorite desserts the other day. It ended up tasting fine, but looked like a disaster. This was not my fault. If you can believe it, I can not find chocolate pudding or cool whip in Scotland. This made my dessert a bit more difficult. Also, I am yet to meet a Scottish person who has had a smore before. They are so deprived.
Now onto the topic of toilets. I need to get a picture for you or something. Anyhow the toilets in public restrooms make me laugh. In an effort to hide the plumbing and I guess make the toilet look more visually stimulating they plaster and tile over all of it except the toilet itself. This includes the tank. This is great until they have problems and need to fix it. Then they have cracked tile and a mess on their hands. I don't know, I just find the whole idea of trying to conceal necessary plumbing in a public restroom a bit over the top. Well, those are my thoughts for the day. Also I have installed a new program so I know when and from where people access my website. In the last day someone from Germany, California, South Carolina, and Frankfort (I know this one) have all gotten on.