Ever Heard of Blind Leading the Blind? Haha.

In a spout of short-term memory loss (that happens to me a lot), I forgot to mention that Mr. Arkin was going to be away today! He left to go celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, with his family. Yesterday when class ended, we all wished him "shana tova", or Happy New Year in Jewish. He also gave us a lollipop, in the tradition of eating something sweet during Rosh Hashanah celebrations. So Mr. Arkin, wherever you are, because today is the actual Rosh Hashanah, shana tova!

Today was a nice, calm day at class headquarters, as everyone settled down to experiment with HTML and CSS codes. I was really glad for this day because we were able to finally settle down and work at our own pace. I decided to begin with HTML, because it seemed a little less intimidating than the CSS.

I was able to create a basic webpage about our first three days of class, with a main heading, and three subheadings. I then wrote a few lines about each day, to try out the paragraph tags. That seemed quite easy, I thought to myself. It was time to move on to the basics of CSS.

I got the general idea of CSS fine: you type in what you want to add stuff to, e.g. the body in general, or the heading(s). Then you can change a variety of things - the font, font style, or text colour. Oh, excuse me. The font color. Because CSS just has to be American! Hmm... guess the Americans are still a step ahead of us. -.-

Anyways, enough of that rant. After grasping the basics of CSS, I wanted to experiment with a little more - like making the paragraphs under each subheading a different colour (ahem, color). However, that idea - for some reason which I still don't understand - did not go as smoothly as planned. I tried changing things, moving around tags, but still, I just couldn't get that little bit to work. Even the CSS Validator said my code was perfectly fine, but it just would not generate what I wanted it to.

Before I could experiment some more though, however, I heard a cry of frustration as the guy sitting two seats to my left leaned back from his computer, exasperated. Being the OCD-ish person I was, I had to go see what was wrong, and whether or not I could help.

I recognized the HTML problem immediately: some of the end tags didn't have a slash in them! All was well a few moments later after adding in the slashes; the webpage opened up exactly as expected. I was glad that with my measly skills, I had actually been able to be of some help to someone else.

Returning back to my own work however, I still couldn't figure out what was wrong with my coding. That was when my neighbour turned to me for help. After helping her successfully generate her webpage, my other neighbour asked me a question as well! I felt like a blind person helping another blind person - I didn't understand this very well either! However, I tried my best, and was actually able to figure out what was wrong.

Helping out a few more people with their various HTML and CSS codes - some successful, others not quite - I returned to my seat, exhausted from staring at the white screen of Notepad. Just as I was about to go back for a final attempt on the most important webpage of all - my own,

BRRRRRRRRIIIIIIINNNNNG!

Oh goodness, the bell! ...With the last of my energy, I dragged myself out of class. At least the blind man - correction, woman - was able to help the other blind men/women... Hopefully, in the right direction.

20 seconds later...
Hmm, what's my next class?
*takes out schedule*
OH C*** IT'S GYM?!
*dies*