Blog #5- Serena Cecere

Prior to this year, I'm not sure if I was really curious about anything.  I didn't watch the news, I never asked questions. Nothing really inspired me to wonder. That was until English my Senior Year of High School, I had the most amazing teacher: Mary Dakin. She taught us less about grammar and essay structure and more about life and society and the way its evolving. She taught us about freedom and creativity and why there's never a wrong answer.  She was a little woman from New York, probably the most intelligent, woman I've ever met; she had this range of extensive knowledge about every thing you could ever imagine, and she held a very loud opinion, in which she would use rhetorical questions and public embarrassment to encourage us to speak ours.  There was one speech that she gave in class I remember distinctively.  She gave us an assignment to look about the Drudge Report and highlight articles that we found interesting just by their titles. I had never once in my life, as sad as that is to say, looked at any sort of news prior to. From there she went on to speak about how there was this six year old boy, somewhere in Europe-I don't remember the exacts- that wanted a sex change. Six years old! And his parents literally let him change himself into a female! At the age of six, they let their kid, make a life changing decision, like he was knowledgeable enough to do so! She then went on to explain how there are people everywhere now in our society that are pushing for Co-ed bathrooms because single sexed bathrooms are "hurting the feelings" of the transgendered. I will never forget this day, because this is the first time I really questioned our society. I was in shock as to how that's even up for debate right now. Therefore ever since this class, I pay more attention to societal issues, I don't check up on Drudge Report--or even read the news everyday like I probably should, but these kinds of things evoke a sense of curiosity from me. It makes me ask around, do some informal research by talking to mostly my dad, about these things before moving on to go do some investigating research of my own.  

There are also shows like Criminal Minds and Scandal that will forever evoke curiosity in me. Make me question people. Make me scared to live on my own. Make me seriously question our government and the basis on which that's operated. But those things I never look into. Not because I'm not interested, but honestly, I think I'm too scared to know the truth.