Blog #5 Josh Warner

Prior to this year, I took a special interest in current events.  I took a class my senior year of high school called I.P.L.E.  This stood for the institution of political and legal education.  This class consisted strictly of current events that were going on in the world.  Why there was such a fancy title for a class with such a simple curriculum was beyond me.  Basically in this class the teacher would have a list of about 6-8 current events that were no more than a week old and we would have free discussions to talk about anything that had to do with these current events.  I didn't start watching the news until about my sophomore year of high school.  My dad is very worldly, and constantly knows what is going on in the world.  By me taking a special interest in current events, it allowed me to have educated conversations with my dad.  I would go to school, go to IPLE, and then come home and discuss with my dad what we talked about in class.  He would love when I came home from school and actually had something to tell him that I learned today.  I would watch the CNN news channel, and read articles on CNN.  CNN was a major source of my knowledge about current events.  My teacher also got a good amount of his video clips and articles off of CNN. I think the fact that my teacher was an awesome guy and made the class fun, as well as adding humor to it, really grew my interest in current events.  Today, I still try to keep up with the current events, but being in college with my workload and pledging a fraternity I rarely have time to watch any tv.