Kevin Li observes the stupidity of the modern world.

I am not unique in the fact that I am bilingual. Most of the people I know are bilingual or trilingual. I can speak both Chinese and English, and even though I have taken a few years of French I don't consider myself fluent in it. I respect people who enjoy learning and speaking new languages, even though I personally don't enjoy it. I have traditionally struggled when it comes to learning a new language, I even struggle fantastically when it comes to English. In this blog post I will be discussing how I feel about Foreign Languages. Back when I was child, my father decided that I needed to learn Chinese. I absolutely hated it. I had Chinese Sunday School, and memorizing all the individual characters gave me a headache. I tried to learn at first, but after feeling virtually no progress, I gave up. However, despite the fact that I stopped trying to actively learn Chinese, I still became fluent and literate from my occasional trips back to China. Spending even a few weeks in...

Most public schools have a school bus system. Buses go out before and after school to transport kids to either the school or their home. This is very helpful, especially for families who don't have the time or means to transport their kids to and from school. However, I personally came to hate school buses over time, due to a few years of bad experience. I used to enjoy the bus rides in elementary school, I got to know my bus driver really well, and she often gave us snacks to eat. My bus only had around 8 kids in it, so everyone was friendly with each other. The bus rides home were always quick and fun. For some dumb reason I also thought that riding the yellow bus made me "cool".  My impression of the yellow bus changed dramatically when I entered middle school. I present to you, bus 156. All of my friends who lived in Champaign now got to ride the MTD bus, which I thought was vastly superior to the yellow bus. I, on the other hand, had to ride bus 156. A singu...