August 30th, 2012
Today
we read an article in class named "A message to Garcia" by
Elbert Hubbard. In this story, The Cuban people were having a revolution.
The American President, President McKinley asked Rowan to go
find General Garcia. Without any complaint, Rowan searched for Garcia
with 100% dedication. Rowan did something that I know I couldn’t do without
complaint. If I was told to do something like that, I would probably reply like
this “the whole Spanish Army is looking for Garcia and they can’t find him, how
do you expect me to find him”. But Rowan did his duty, with a smile on his
face. Anyway, while we were talking about Rowan in class I didn’t raise my hand
a lot, even when I knew the answers. But as soon as a reward was given, my
brain was suddenly giving me amazing answers. The attitude that I expressed in
class was not the attitude Rowan possessed. He would have worked hard in class
120%. What I really got from today’s
class is that working hard shouldn’t be a sometimes thing, it should be an
always thing because that’s what giving “a message to Garcia” is all about.
-Wilfred
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