Another April

April has started and it's getting closer to summer. Recently there has been a lot a talk about people going to summer school and initially I did not plan on doing anything for the summer because I wanted to hang out with all of my friends. But all of them are planning on taking summer classes and getting jobs leaving me out in the cold. So I have been thinking about taking a class or two in the summer or get a job. Hopefully I can work at this summer school type thing for kids and that my friend showed me. There is also a trip to Mexico to help build houses that I plan to go to. It didn't really sound appealing at first but I've decided to go and I hope it turns out well.

In my communications class I had to do a 2 minute speech by telling a story, reciting a poem, or a song. I told a story about my freshmen year when I was taking the bus to track practice...

It was a lovely day and my two friends and I decided to take one bus all the way to city college instead of transferring to the underground bus which is usually faster. So we got onto one of those longer buses and one of my friends decided to sit in the very back since the bus was empty. So we sat in the back where two rows face each other and it was a smooth ride. After awhile the bus stopped on 16th street where the Bart station was. I look out the window and I saw a bunch of black guys just going crazy. They were swinging at each other and there were others cheering each other on and I thought it was a brawl. I was hoping the bus driver would hurry up and go and I was watching the doors close in slow motion. Just as the doors were about to shut, one of the guys caught the back door and all of them rushed on. Apparently they were just messing around, cause you know everyone likes punching their friends in the face, and so about ten of them all decided to sit in the back with us. I remember one of them looked at us and said, "We could take these n*ggas" And from there it went downhill. They didn't physically hurt us or anything but they just kept on harassing as we pretended they weren't messing with us Ha. One of them even stood right in between the two rows that faced each other as if we weren't even sitting there. There were these two cops that were riding their bikes along side of the bus and one dude said, " F the police, I don't wanna go back to jail." and another one said, " yeah man, the only difference between them and us is that they got badges." Ah man once I heard that I saw my life flash before my eyes. I finally pulled the string and got off at a random stop with my friends. We were so parnoid that they were going to follow us or wait at another stop so we waited for two buses to pass by until we got on. We got to practice safe but man I won't forget that bus ride.

The class seemed to like the speech but towards the end they expected me to get beat up or something so I think it was anticlimatic. I kinda told it bad too but whatever. Oh and as I was telling the story, there was an earthquake but only half the class felt it. So people were like, "Whoaaaa." "whaat the heck." and I thought they were commenting on my story so I felt pretty good telling it. When I finsished the teacher said, "Good job Matt. That's how you're supposed to do it. When there's an earthquake just keep on going." Ah that kinda made me feel stupid but whatever I thought I did alright.