Back in the Day

As a kid I loved hip-hop and I still kind of do, but typically I'll take RadioLab, NPR or a podcast over tunes almost any day.  It shows my age, right?

Well back in the day I used to listen to Power 98, a station that my mom banned us from listening to and I can see why now.  For the most part it's the typical wholesome garbage that degrades the image of women, romanticizes thug life and does a spectacular job of preparing youth to be well cultured and productive citizens of tomorrow.  Thanks mom!

Why am I running on this tangent?  Well, they used to have a segment called, "Back in the Day" and  it would always start off with an tweaked version of the chorus of School Daze by J. Cole.

Yea, Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore 

But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again. 

Yea, I sit and wish I was a kid again, 

Yea I sit and wish.

Remember, this isn't the best of music so don't go youtubing or googling it.  I warned you :).

Ok to the point.  In a few minutes I'm going to hop on the metro to pick up Jeffery from the airport.  Who's Jeffery.  Well he's one of my old students that I taught back in the day of course.

I taught middle school sunday school from 17 to about 22 and within those 5 years I created some awesome relationships with youngins, families and parents, so it's so amazing to be able to host Jeffery for a few days down here.  He's just finished his semester abroad in Uruguay and had some down time afterwards.  It'd be silly to not take advantage of this opportunity.  I'll be sure to fill you guys in with pictures and post later.

By the way, I'm not hating on hip-hop at all, I still love when my shuffle picks Common, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Naughty by Nature or Black Street.  Just so you know :)