Really really long blog entry

I left and am now back from " the other side of the world" as my cousin put it. No I was just in Guatemala. It was such a wonderful trip! I miss the food and the culture so much.

First of all I missed 4th of July. I will admit I am not very patriotic, so I kind of made my fb status a joke the day after. I said something along the lines of, " 4th of july? what's what? When was it? Yeah I don't think they have that down here...I don't think I missed out." As you may or not may know alot of my friends and I share the same rather liberal political views, so I was hoping they would understand that because I was in a different country at the time they would get the joke.

Apparently one person was not so understanding, as he has more conservative views. So he tells me that I am anti-american. Which really made me feel bad. So I talked with my friend who is from Guatemala and she related to a discussion we had had earlier that same day.

To refer to the US as America isn't really the most correct way. The continent is America. So that includes Canada and Latin America. The better way to refer to the US is well to say The US or United States. Then I remembered in Intercultural Com class sophomore year that the correct term to refer to people from the US is 'US Americans'.

So later I saw that person who said that I was un-American was on fb chat. I just asked him why he thought I was anti-American. What ended up happening was that he took the discussion further than it needed to go and I ended up really upset because of what he said.

-First I explained the whole refer to us as the US not America, it's a little more correct.
- Then he went into this whole thing about how I was ungreatful and if it wasn't because of the US we'd all be living in bamboo huts and eating leaves.
- I said I was very greatful and that while he was born into the ' All American life' I was born in a country where I wasn't born in a hospital and I was sick and I am very greatful that my family wanted me to have a better home and put me up for adoption. I also added on that if I wasn't greatful I wouldn't want to go and learn about other cultures.
- He didn't respond to that comment and continued to talk about how the US is the ' Free world'.
- While I agree that in the US there are many many opportunities that other countries do not have when I think of the term ' the free world' I think of the Cold war.
- I then pointed out that the US hasn't always been nice to other countries especially Central America.
- This kid then said he didn't care what happened to Central America in the 1980's and that what a certain president ( not going to name names) did was for the best interest and that he was a great leader( I had previously told him about what that president had done to Guatemala during the 80's)
- I then replied with, " So violating human rights is ok with you?" (in the 80's this particular president was signing documents sending in military supplies to Guatemala to fund the 36 year civil war in Guatemala and the genocide of thousands of innocent indigenous people.

So after that I really though this kid had taken this farther than it needed to go. I just gave up and said, " I'm really disappointed in you I'm going to go." So I haven't talked to this person since, and I don't plan to. I think I did a good job at defending my point but I think he took it too far.

In other news:

I worked at my new rink job yesterday and this rink worker was there, selling tickets for open skate. I guess he's been with the rink for 5 years. I was in charge of the rink and all was fine, somehow we were talking and I dunno what's with this kid, he either has no social skills or is a complete ass hole. He told me he's been trying to get my job for 2 years and he rudely gave me congrats for getting the job. I just don't think that's very polite. The he went on about how he didn't understand as to why he didn't get the job. Before he came my boss had been at the rink and told me that the kid wasn't showing up yet and that I shouldn't be surprised if he doesn't show because he tends to do that alot and that yes he's driven the Zamboni but has no real formal training.

I thought about that when this kid was boring me to death as he bitched to me about how much he deserves to get paid as an ice arena worker. Through more random talk I could see why. He not only pointed out that he likes to do the bare minimum amount of work as possible. He had some interesting facts about the rink and stuff but he just came off to me as a rude know it all, and to be honest he was very condescending. Personally I can see why they didn't hire him in this supervisor position.

In my opinion this position does not require the bare minimum it requires one to think logically and be prepared for any situation and deal with different people. This is alot of responsibility and not to be taken lightly. Plus I don't think that's a very nice way to treat your supervisor especially if you're looking to move in the job you don't talk to your supervisor like that (no matter how new they are). If you're rude to anyone higher up than you, I'm pretty sure the boss is going to hear about it no mater what. There's a way to help out someone who's new without being condescending and rude.


Anywho that's all I have for now.