Today I found that I’ve had the most interesting conversations.

Starting from after school, after I finished an hour to an hour and a half of intense calculus review, Van Grove decided to go on a tangent, when he said he was going to watch the last part of girls soccer, but held Calvin and I up for quite a while. I swear, Van Grove can talk FOREVER. He tells us we have to turn in our test corrections after it was only Calvin and I left in the room when I had one problem left, then after that, I just mentioned the word “liberal” then he gives me a story on the whole political spectrum and how liberal/conservative is related to republican/democrats, and how all that is related to Christianity. He also mentioned stuff about Maheu that shall not be spoken about to the public, but Van Grove was just going off and he told us a little about him that nobody really would know or pay attention too. He switches phases into a religion talk and poor Calvin is sitting there trying to not be rude and walk out while he said we were supposed to be out a while ago. And then we stayed there standing for 30 minutes listening to him.

After that we had a crazy boring college meeting, much of it I knew already, but I just  came there because extra credit was being offered for AP US if people attended and got a signature from the counselor. A lot of people needed it because they did pretty bad on the quiz, but I scored pretty high, I just wanted to get summadat extra credit since I would never know when ever it would dramatically drop.

Then we went to Target, and I had a good conversation with Noel. About Maplestory. And other things relative that we share. I swear, I feel that Noel and I have the best conversations and can keep talking on and on and on about either maple, (generally that) or stuff that doesn’t really matter to the average person, words can just keep flowing and time would fly by real fast.

And then after, my mother and I had the most intellectual conversation I’ve ever had with her. It was practically the only time she had open up to me from what I remember. Since it is the day before retreat for me she had been thinking about my religious life, and my future life, also because the college meeting was today, and we just began talking about my life and my future. I told her I never felt as much support from her as I could have, and that I was a self-motivated person most of the time who was never pushed to succeed, but tried to on my own. She told me she was never really the type of person to be expressive about things and kept her pride in my achievements to herself, although I kept feeling as if she never cared too much. She opened up and it surprised me how the way she thinks can be similar to the way I think, it just never really happens too often. She told me that I was a blessing to her to have as a child, since I was never the type of child to get into trouble a lot, and I never grew up ever gang affiliated or as a negative influence, no matter how many people have been put through the same conditions that I have gone through. It made me tear up a bit, but I tried hiding it. But  after all that, I got to know my mother a little bit more.

Interesting conversations I’ve had today, very interesting.