Wednesday, October 12, 2011

The Half Blood Prince of Textbooks

Okay so you've had a hard day, teachers on your ass, friend drama, home stress, and stress in general. So you're probably pretty out of it when you have to open your Math, Science, French, English, etc textbook right?

But then when you do you get a flurry of messages and helpful hints written in lovely colours of pen on your textbook that you immediately start to feel better. This has happened to me numerous times. Maybe my days weren't as bad as my example above but I always feel a little joy when I open up a textbook for a boring subject and come to find that I wasn't alone because many people were also bored and took the time to make many games for you to do while working. 

My first experience of this was in grade 6 when looking in my french history textbook when I come to find a note written on then inside cover of the book. It was just a simple sentence telling me to go to a specific page in the textbook. Once I flipped to that page it, in turn, told me to go to another page. And then it repeated over and over again. After about 10 steps of flipping pages, you come to a random page that congratulates you on defeating your boredom and gave you a phone number to call. I was sort of curious about calling the number but I never did. 


It got me inspired to do that sort of thing and as the years went on I discovered more and more graffiti on textbooks. Yeah, my school was awesome like that. XD 


So basically what I want to say is that textbook notes are cool. Especially if they help the reader understand what's going on. Or help them not be bored and look busy at the same time. But don't go crazy with it. It is still vandalism.


Look out for the Halfblood Prince of Textbooks! Or make one yourself!


Until next time,


Jasmine