Just Tuesday

    I'm going to start being completely honest in my blog posts from now on. Today I was more engaged in class than most days. The poem "We Real Cool" I thought was really interesting. I wasn't into it at first because it's boring always having to analyze and break everything apart so I just wasn't interested, but after a while of listening and actually understanding some more, I thought it was really cool and I actually liked it. Especially the video that went along with it with the different style of animations.

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