InsaneJournal

Current mood:	giggly
Current music:	Vandals--Fucked-Up Girl

fun with world history (starring john thiel, the best history teacher evar)
"And those people who have Confederate flags in the middle of Northern Michigan, rrrrgh--I'm sorry, I've learned I shouldn't show my political feelings in class. Yeah, I...I may have said in my class this morning that Sean Hannity is the Antichrist."

"Yeah, those are just a couple of little stories to put the Huns in perspective, 'cause sixteen-hundred-year-old people, it's just...plbbbbt. But they were real people, they ate kids, they had fun!"

"So in the Middle Ages we're going to start seeing the 'My God Is Cooler Than Your God' Syndrome, we'll be getting to that in a bit..."

"What are Columbus' ships? ...that's right, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, and I HATE the Santa Maria, 'cause I stapled myself to it when we made it out of construction paper in second grade. Then the teacher asked what happened, and I had to make something up about catching a staple out of the carpet 'cause I didn't want to admit what I did, so she had all these little second-graders on the floor looking for staples...although they did find a few, so I was vindicated."

"So are you guys planning Columbus Day parties? You know, make huge punchbowls shaped like the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, and spike 'em with rum...ohhhh, that sounds great! I should try that! And I wouldn't staple myself to the Santa Maria, unless maybe I had enough punch."


And in the middle of it all, we played a rousing round of Viking Quest, and when I mentioned it was no Civilization 3, he went "YES! EXACTLY! It's not even Civilization 4!" I fucking love this class.