Day 1 over in the belly of the PC beast....

Day 2 is just begining.

My religion teacher was the one who pitched out "tolerance" and "pluralism" and "post-modern" and other buzz words to train young minds to be politically correct.

worse and In my mind more absurd her T.A said we live in a "Post-Post Modern World."

What the devil does that mean. Ok I always thought that Post modernism is like how we build up some new form of modernity in the future.. but P-P Modernism... thats just silly isn't it. We are by that rational two steps ahead of modern but we are in the present day

modern means this

mod·ern Audio pronunciation of "modern" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mdrn)
adj.

1.
1. Of or relating to recent times or the present: modern history.
2. Characteristic or expressive of recent times or the present; contemporary or up-to-date: a modern lifestyle; a modern way of thinking.
2.
1. Of or relating to a recently developed or advanced style, technique, or technology: modern art; modern medicine.
2. Avant-garde; experimental.

post modern is a really stupid art term meaning this

post·mod·ern Audio pronunciation of "Post-Modern" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pst-mdrn)
adj.

Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes: “It [a roadhouse]is so architecturally interesting... with its postmodern wooden booths and sculptural clock” (Ruth Reichl).

we will also be talking about religous issues in a "post-colonial" world... really neat stuff.

He tried to equate the rise of religous pluralism in europe to an end of religous wars. When I pointed out that even in the big "we are the catholic church days" wars were about money and power more then religion.

He agreed with me then continued with his silly line of thinking.

My Arabic class was awesome. It made me feel tons better as I learned that Classical Arabic is very hard for people speaking modern arabic dialects. Equated by several people int he class who had serious trouble.

This took a whole bunch of my language anxiety down a notch.

We started out with vowels but the way he threw them into regular english words made them a whole lot less intimidating.

he then taught us a few conversational phrases.... which i seemed to do ok with.

another intresting surprise... he was very cool with the 3 or 4 army guys in the class who want to learn arabic for their work in the service.

Day 2 starts in one hour...