I love my class.  Let me repeat:  I love my class.  Last night, we discussed gun control and the North Korean craziness.  I threw in some info about Invisible Children lobbying to Secretary of State John Kerry.  They were very, very engaged and watching them tell a latecomer about Kim Jung Un was great.  They said that they have learned more from this class than any of their other classes.  All the students stated that they learned more from the classroom discussion than they did from the book.  A few students stated that if it was not for this class, they would not have known about the sequestration and budget cuts.  One student stays up half the night watching CNN (although I don't know if this is totally good).  They pick their reflection topic each week based on the classroom discussion.  This week, they are pretending to be U.S. Diplomats deescalating the conflict in North Korea.

I had already contemplated trying my hand at this.  I just found this website, which may be a key to things he likes.  http://kimjongunlookingatthings.com/page/2/

Dear Great Leader,
I would prefer to call you Kimmy.  Is that okay?  I can come over and play basketball with you if that would make things better.  I am from a land where basketball is a way of life, but stink at it.  You have a great, great chance at beating me winning.  I heard that your country has little food and natural resources.  If you put away the missiles, we can probably find some cheeseburgers here in this country that we could give you.  We all have a little too much to love anyway.  That is really what is saving us from formerly fatal car crashes.  So, if you hate us that much, slowly take away our diet of processed saturated fat and sodium.  Our bodies cannot handle the deprivation.  Besides, we are less cautious than ever texting while driving.  Therefore, we will die either way.  You may as well let us kill ourselves.  Besides, feeding your people just enough will allow them to continue to live to work for you and to keep the country in order.  We will forever revere you as fearless, even if you do not launch any more missiles.  You steal our cheeseburgers, we will say it was your idea.

Thanks for being awesome,
The American People

P.S.  Dennis Rodman says hi.