All Aboard the J Weezy Social Expedition!!!

Summoning sickness, tap, un-tap, swinging, flying, haste, artifact, mana, land, creature, sorcery, enchantment, instant, mana-screwed, mulligan, target spells, white deck, blue deck, black deck, red deck, green deck.
I didn’t understand any of this stuff the first day, I started my social expedition. I was venturing out to other social groups/ cliques. Trying to see what was different between other sub-cultures and social groups.
It was just a bunch of non-sense to me that didn’t make sense. But it made sense to them. So I sat down and watched and tried to learn. When I finally got up the courage to ask one of the kids that I knew to teach me, he said “He would be delighted to!” We sat down as he taught me how to play Magic. It wasn’t that bad at all it was actually pretty interesting and fun.
I had made new friends today or I at least tried. Some of them were even nice enough to teach me. Who were these new friends you ask? Well they were magic nerds. Yep I learned how to play magic and I even bought myself a deck. It’s not really that bad, unless you’re playing with magicholics, because they can become a little bit too serious, intense, crazy, hyped-up, angry, just a whole bunch of different, scary emotions.
The Magic nerds, they aren’t really that bad once you get to know them it’s just that they are somewhat socially awkward or self-conscious. I guess I shouldn’t say that, it’s that some people are not socially awkward/self-conscious, some are somewhat, and others are just completely self-conscious/socially awkward. Most people just think they’re socially awkward because they act weird or they dress weird but if you really get to know them some aren’t, even though most of them are.
Hanging with the Magic nerds, have made me feel sorry for all the kids who sit by themselves at breakfast, lunch, dinner. I’m making a statement and a purpose to try my hardest to become friends with some of them. I’m already edging my way towards two friendships. One with Max Frodge and the other with Dylan Carr but someone (they know who they are) is trying to make that really hard. We actually have some things in common, Dylan is a first year/first year and I’m a first year/first year. Dylan is part Puerto Rican and I’m part Puerto Rican. With Max he dislikes Alex Petros (A.P.) and I sometimes dislike A.P. but that’s just for fun. But I think Max actually has a strong hatred for Alex Petros. It’s actually quite funny how much Max hates Alex, A.P. tells us about it all the time.
Also my roommate and one of my best friends at the camp, Taylor, is starting to become a Magic enthusiast. It seems like he’s becoming addicted to it. We’ll be playing a card game like P and A or Rich Man Poor Man. Then if a couple kids start playing Magic, after the game ends we’ll ask him if he’s playing again and he says no and tries to get into the Magic game. Now it’s going to be even worse now, now that he has his own deck. But oh well, hopefully it will just be a stage or phase. Also Suzanne got a Magic Deck but Austin McMasters bought it for her.
Magic is really starting to become a craze now it’s like the new fad. But what can you expect it’s a nerd camp. I would have to say at the least half of the camp has at least battled once in a game of Magic. Me, myself has battled at least two times and I now have my own deck and so does Taylor so we’re going to be battling all the time and our room.
At V-Con 2009 there were a couple of different things going on with Magic, there was a draft and tournament and there was just a room to play Magic. I know Macauley was in the draft and tournament room. I watched Taylor and his “girlfriend” battle Nick in the just for fun playing Magic room. I believe Nick won that game, no-figure.
Jaquil, Jordan, Joe’docei, LaJuan, and Isaiah, I think they basically just walked around the whole time. They were mostly just floaters, they most definitely weren’t in any Magic rooms except I think Jaquil might have came in one just to shoot some random kid with the Nerf Gun he had with him.
The Magic people can be quite rude sometimes. There always like,
“Go away”
“You don’t even like Magic”
“Can’t you see I’m trying to do something here?”
“What do you even know about Magic?”
They can be quite harsh sometimes. I’m just trying to make friends with them and they’re just trying to blow me off at the same time. I don’t know but for some reason whenever someone who doesn’t normally hang with them or doesn’t play Magic try to talk to them. They start to get all defensive; I’m just like I’m not here to make fun of you I just want to watch because it’s somewhat interesting. But they’re just like, “Mhm, sure whatever just buzz off,” or something mean/rude like that, that makes me feel like a bad person even though my intentions were good.
Once you learn to play Magic you start to get upset with those people who don’t understand how to play Magic and know nothing about it and they try to make fun of it and laugh at people who play it, I used to be one of those people. Like one of my friends he tried to stop Taylor from buying a Magic deck, by taking his back-pack and wouldn’t let him get his wallet or get up the stairs to the book-store to buy a deck. He just kept saying all these unruly, not nice at all things and I was just like wow this guy can act like such a “jerk” sometimes.
I think that the people who play Magic wouldn’t get made fun of so much if they were more interactive. Most of them I know don’t really dance at the dances we have, they’re either sitting by themselves thinking of who know's what or playing magic somewhere, it would be so much better if they had a social life. That’s what I and my friends try to do with Max but he just wouldn’t give in. We tried to get him to dance, we even started dancing around him but that looked a little awkward and he still wouldn’t dance so we just left him alone, and let bygones be bygones.
But overall, I think the social expedition was pretty successful. I got to learn how to play Magic and even bought myself a deck so I can kick butt. I made some new friends and the Magic people got to make an awesome new friend who goes by the name of J Weezy. I think everyone got a lot out of this assignment and I think it’s a shame that we had to have an assignment to make us branch out to other social groups/cliques. We got a chance to hang out with people that we usually wouldn’t hang out, and we ended up having a great time or well at least I did.