While watching the Super Bowl this weekend, I could not help but to think of Shakespeare. This big game has a diverse audience with similarities to what a Shakespearean audience must have been like. Anyone and everyone, well almost everyone watched the game, however, unlike Shakespeare, there were no redeeming qualities, no attempts to educate or cater to such a diverse crowd. It was a mind numbing four hours filled with dudes and likes. A commercial brought me directly to class discussions. Godaddy.com had a commercial where a beautiful female model proceeds to make out with a computer geek for an extended period of time. This was no Fabio nor was it the Elephant Man. It was as if Helena helped create this commercial, "Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind" (Act 1 Scene 1 235).  It was the mending of two pure individuals and love was blind. During what I thought would be a break from school, I was drawn back to Shakespeare. There was a power outage during the game where the announcers went from doing their jobs to becoming The Mechanicals. It was as if they were fearing for their lives, explaining everything to the audience, that darkness would return to light. Even the players took off their masks in an attempt to show they were only people in costumes, do not be afraid we are only men in costumes. The fact remains that Shakespeare is all around us, for when I thought I was taking a break from school, I realized I was still "bathing in moonlight" with William Shakespeare. 
     It was nice to read other blogs to grasp where others are in relationship to the class. I am glad to see a couple of students wanting to teach this material at the high school level. Hopefully they can take what we discuss in class and offer it to their students in a similar fashion. Ask them to engage. I hope they are able to present the material in a different way than it was presented to me. This course will be very beneficial when attempting that. I see true love for the subject when I arrive in class which makes me want to find what I have never seen before. I hope you can allow to see Shakespeare in the same way we are viewing him in this class. They will truly be the winners if you are successful in providing a similar environment.