As a typical teenage party lover- cell phone addict- MTV watcher- shopaholic, I've enjoyed a fun and simple life thus far. Like most university students, I'm enjoying the transitional period between when your parents tell you what to do and when you actually have to decided what you will do. I'm neither lazy nor unintelligent, but I am not an over-achiever by any means.
It has recently been brought to my attention that I know basically nothing about world issues, politics, global news or any current events other than what happened on Jersey Shore last night. This realization is thanks to the women I work with who are all ridiculously intelligent and even more ridiculously socially conscious. My lack of global knowledge became alarming when one lady was telling a story of how her young daughter sketched a picture of Michael Ignatieff and I asked who that was. (If you are reading this and don't know who that is either do not feel bad. A- you are not alone. B - it is not your fault you have not read a newspaper in the past few months and this is nothing a simple Google search can't fix.)
So my task - to watch the news, read the articles, listen to AM radio stations (I think I'm already starting to doze off), and search for global knowledge!
For those out there who think it sounds easy and even enjoyable perhaps - that's great. For those out there like me who would only read a newspaper if you'd already gone through a stack of outdated magazines and still had nothing to do - you understand.
I will watch, read, listen, etc., absorb social awareness like a sponge, then translate my findings into interesting retells, reviews and reflections for the common being.
There's got to be a non-boring way to learn about politics, and I WILL find it.
