A man and his iPad

Like many people, I have always wondered how chocolate was made. I had heard it had something to do with cocoa, which I knew came from a bean, but how a delicious liquid such a chocolate could be produced from a plant and not in some secret lab in the middle of China seemed crazy to me.

This is why I became so excited to learn that we’d be doing a chocolate making class. Finally, I’d get to learn the truth! I was a little disappointed when we didn’t actually make real milk chocolate, but I still found the class entertaining and interesting. I’m not really going to talk too much about it, however, since I feel it’s been covered well enough by other people already.

There is one thing I want to talk about though: an old man and his iPad. You see, culture is weird. This complicated system of human reaction is composed of millions of arbitrary rules. If these rules are not followed, it can see weird to others, or even infuriating. One of these such rules is that iPad are not for filming. I don’t know why, but its just weird to film with an iPad.

In our chocolate class, a man filmed the entire class on his iPad, which was rather strange. This, however, was overshadowed by the fact that he decided that it would be socially acceptable to film everyone in the class. I found it especially disturbing when he filmed Andrew alone while he was stirring chocolate. No one else was in the frame. Just Andrew. A stranger. I would like to end this blog by asking you to imagine the image of this man sitting down to flip through his photos after the trip and watching a two-minute video of a strange young college male stirring a bowl of chocolate. Bizarre.