My reactions..

I will start off with King's "Letter From Birmingham Jail”. This letter made a huge impact to the society. It was long but it was filled with dreams, desires, anger, concern, and mixed feelings about how the white society has been treating the colored people. He was right about how the other countries have already dealt with this issue; the Asians and the other countries cared less about racial differences, so why can’t the colored people. In his letter, he expressed his anger with the policemen who didn’t treat colored people fairly. Even in his jail, he said that the letter would have been shorter if he could write it properly. All he wanted to express and show to the society is an equal treatment among the colored people because they too have feelings and emotions, and therefore, are people too.

King’s “I Have A Dream” was a powerful and meaningful speech for it abolished racial segregation completely in that era. It is said that everyone should live with freedom because everyone has equal rights. The message wasn’t only addressed to the people in that time but also to the future generations.

Snack and lunch break!

I personally had an experience on how a public high school cafeteria's was. The food was cheap and definitely affordable. All you had to do was to buy the tickets. For only 25$, you get not one but two 8x11.5" colored paper; it has been divided into the number of the weekdays within a month. Two papers: one for snack, contains 35 cents, and one for lunch, containing 2,50$. Sure you do save a lot for 25$ a month in school; but there are consequences. The snack ticket could get you a deliciously dried-up tasteless cookie and small cartoon of milk. You can't get anything else except for those two; unless you add another 10 cents, you'd be able to get a cartoon of chocolate milk instead of the other one, which eventually will make your stomach pretty comfortable for the rest of the day. As for the lunch ticket, you get a meal and a carton of juice instead of milk. The meal would vary each day but it would be the same for the following week; for example, you would have fish fillet on Monday's, then fried chicken on Tuesday's, cool looking vegetables on Wednesday's, chicken nuggets on Thursday's, and not so oily pizza on Friday's. It's exciting because the routine actually changes every month, pizza on Monday's then fish fillet on Tuesday's and so on and so forth. Again, if you want to get a better drink than your thirst quenching juice just add another 75 cents to get a canned drink. Pretty cool isn't?

In addition to the cookie during snack break, this goes on for the rest of your stay in that school. I was thinking that the cookie was actually fed-up seeing me each and every day that god created. I imagine the milk and cookie getting mad at me for taking them and not trying to bring my own snack in school. All in all, this was a very impressive idea and you would actually save tens of dollars every month with this routine; and no worries at all because you and your stomach will eventually get used to it.

the journey of my education or how i got involved with computers

One of my main hobbies while growing up was drawing. I have been drawing ever since I can remember; all I needed was pen and paper. That hobby continued as I was going through my life: watching cartoons, playing with the other kids, going to school, or just being home. I remember inventing, drawing or copying a cartoon or an animation character that I have seen from a scene. I was drawing wherever I was, in school and at home. Most of them were drawn in pencil because I wasn’t good at coloring them; they end up looking like colored by a bunch of infants, who got bored and played with the colors, when I actually put colors in it. I have entered contest, poster making for example, and have won and lost. This was until the 3rd grade and the 4th grade started computers, in which I am particularly a beginner.

Upon entering the fifth grade, a class called “Arts” became one of our subjects for the year. This subject involved anything that has to do with colors. I guess this was the time I had the chance to practice my coloring skills. This class also included painting. Some of my coloring and painting exercises were exhibited; they were considered some of the best in the entire 5th and 6th grade level. At the same time developing my coloring skills, we also did have exercises with computers, but mostly on typing notes and pages of stories only to improve our typing skills and make us comfortable with it. Since I didn’t have my own personal computer at home, I never had the chance to improve it.

High school was a different level; the subjects “Drafting” and “Computers” are now some of our main classes. We would have both of these subjects throughout high school. Since drafting was about using pencil and paper, I was having fun and making the best out of it, from “ISO” lettering to “3-point view” design of a certain object. And again, not to brag about it, some of my work was exhibited as some of the best and neatest among the level. I guess I have the passion of doing it. The term computer was not really that common to me. All I new about them back at high school years was to play online games and barely done research on the computer. I used books instead. Computer programming was one of the main topics in this subject; I didn’t much attention to it. I remember paying the smartest kid in class to do my assignment or project. I never realized this was where I will end up. I still remember the programming language that we used back and every time I look it up, I always tell myself how advance I am when it comes to computer programming. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to finish high school for it was time to move out of the country.

People said that: “There’s no place like Montreal”, which actually convinced me. Only, this statement is true if it’s not the winter season; the upcoming season when I arrived in Canada. My family and I arrived in mid September and the weather back then was pretty fine. Around this time, I haven’t drawn anything neither touched a pencil and paper. We were busy with all the family reunions and outings since almost all of my relatives are here. Then, winter season arrived. It was boring and I had nothing else to do. I started school two weeks after our arrival and I received my first personal computer in mid October, and acquired internet in mid December. In the span of three years of school, I only draw in class whenever I get bored. I used the computer from home and mostly tried to discover it. I learned how to and also learned how to download different sorts of things through the use of internet as well.

To be an architect was actually my one and only choice as a program in college. Ever since I was a kid, I have always dreamed of being an architect, just drawing and sketching for the rest of my life. But everything changed when I realized that I have to take Physics, which would take me another two months in adult school, and submit a portfolio prior entering the mentioned program. And so I made a quick decision; take “Computer Science”. I took this program although I knew my knowledge about it is really weak. Well, I learned most of the things I know today: for example, building a computer, reading their specifications, programming, and learning commands. And ever since I entered this program, I have been involved with computers so much that it also became a hobby and passion.