Every so often in life I have seen you will find a teacher that truly makes an impact in your life. Or they simply bring more to the classroom than is listed on the curriculum. Mr. Kecar has been one such teacher and his students have affectionately called taking a class with him The Kecar Experience.
Government in itself is an interesting topic but when you have a teacher that is a liberal (and very proud) arguing with conservative students the classroom experience shoots up to another level. Maybe it's because we're allowed to voice our true opinions and argue about controversial topics that the class is so interesting, after all, politics is one of the taboo subjects for teachers. Apparently when you teach Government its not because Mr. Kecar was never afraid to show his true Democrat colors! He wasn't (normally) overpowering or trying to "convert" you to his beliefs but when you would argue about the other point of view you had better make sure that you knew what you were talking about and had a strong argument otherwise Mr. Kecar would crush you. Such intense debate really helped myself and classmates think about what we as individuals believed and valued as opposed to what our parents, friends and the media have been telling us to believe. Thanks to Mr. Kecar I now know how I would vote on certain issues even though it might not have been what he believes in. But he respects that and is proud of how we have grown as citizens (I would hope...)
Which is probably why when we went to his classroom we found on a note on his door that directed us outside to the trailers. We as a class had moved out of the trailers earlier that year so I had no idea what was going on. When I saw the following you have no idea how happy I was to have Mr. Kecar as a teacher.
Barbecueeeeeeeee! There where dogs and burgers and drinks and even a cake that Cappy made in honor of Annmarie's birthday which was yesterday (Happy Birthday Annie!) It was such a nice gesture which reciprocated one of Kecar's most famous sayings: How are you going to help me to help you? Well we've been working our butts off all year and he decided to help us out with a nice relaxing day (that's not to say the last 30 minutes weren't spent studying but as a Dominican phrase says: barriga llena, corazón contento!)
The rest of the day was also spent nicely. I took my final notes for Algebra and have my last unit test tomorrow. In French I was a guinea pig for a standardized French Language test created by Fairfax County that was 100 questions long and I barely finished before the end of the bell (!) There was a reading, listening, grammar, culture and writing part, how crazy! After school though things slowed down really nicely. Cappy drove me (!) to Robeks for some delicious healthy smoothies and then we went to the pool. It was so relaxing to just dip in for a few minutes and then dry out with the sun's rays. We only spent an hour there pouring over the yearbook I picked up today but it felt like so much longer (I'll miss you when you leave for Guatemala Cappy!) It was a great day and I look forward to the chill half-days to come next week.
UYL,
Andre
P.S.
My dad just informed me that he ate GRASSHOPPER TACOS!!! Ahhhhh ew!
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