I know...

I know, I haven't written a blog in a long time, but can you blame me? Of course you can! Here is fair Massachusetts it snowed and it snowed a lot. I felt sorry for the kids. I mean, it must REALLY suck to get a day like this in a Friday! Perhaps if it were on a Sunday, they might have Monday off or at least have a delay, but oh well. I remember snow days, but my snow days were different than the snow days that my friends had in my neighborhood. See, I was a METCO kid, meaning that I lived in the inner-city and I was shipped to a suburb. The quaint little suburb of Lynnfield, Massachusetts. Usually, my friends who went to Boston Public Schools and lived about 1/2 hour from their schools were given snow days left and right while I, who lived 1 1/2 hours from my school had to go! Can you believe it? I know that I'm not suppose to be bitter, but you imagine having a bus without any heat, that sometimes broke down on the highway. We would have to get up at 5 am, hit the highway by 6:30 am only to arrive at school by 11:30 am. As we trudged into school wishing that we were home under our blankets, we had to hear, "The METCO kids have just arrived, please let admit them to class." As if none of our teachers and friends didn't realize that we were in school...I mean we were the ONLY minorities there. Imagine how grumpy we were only to have to answer questions about why were we late, why did the bus break down, and are we mad that we had to come to school. On a day like today, I would normally get home around 8 pm when we left school at 1 pm. I feel for any METCO kid. I honestly do. I don't know the purpose of this blog, but then again...most of my blogs won't make any sense. It's just random ramblings...are you enjoying them? Let me know!