Texan and Atheist

[thesummerqueen]

Hmm, I'm not familiar with IB classes. Is that like something similar to AP but with a broader scope?

Yeah, pretty much. I guess the best comparison was in the art classes - if I talked to anyone in AP art, they sounded like they focused much more on the technical aspects whereas in IB we were encouraged to look through the entire globe for styles and history - technique was supposed to be secondary. In my case, she didn't want me just sitting behind the pottery wheel, she wanted me looking up styles from all over history and the world.

And that it's named for one hell of a general.

I wreaked a lot of my own havoc in his battlefield while growing up.

Yeah all it took was one read for me to ... and those words pretty well describe my feelings as well. I had a good gut-turning, draw-dropping moment that only literature provides upon reading the last few stanzas for the first time in that Poetry 101 course.

Ain't it grand? I think the kicker for me was when the teacher stopped and said "what do you guys think he means by 'Do I dare to eat a peach?' and no one had an answer. I was waving my hand around so much I think she thought I was having an epileptic fit.