Looking for Alaska at My High School

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Read Looking for Alaska: amzn.to/9zcGjk
Indian Springs School: www.indiansprings.org It's a really wonderful place to go to high school.
In which John Green returns to his high school alma mater, Indian Springs School, to investigate its connections to his first novel, Looking for Alaska. (LfA is set at a fictional school called Culver Creek, but the physical place is very similar to Indian Springs.) Also, he gets stung by a bee.
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@inkliizii
@inkliizii 8 жыл бұрын
This was pretty eloquent. You should write books or something.
@karina24rd
@karina24rd 7 жыл бұрын
See what you did there 👏👏
@Victor-hx6oy
@Victor-hx6oy 4 жыл бұрын
Thats john green @inkliizii 🤣🤣
@rajeshbhutia5972
@rajeshbhutia5972 3 жыл бұрын
And be a professor in english..... Or something
@pppfan103
@pppfan103 7 жыл бұрын
"Those trampolines are just close enough to invite bad decisions but just far enough to punish those bad decisions" One of the most unexpectedly funny things I've ever heard.
@Joshhs2k
@Joshhs2k 4 жыл бұрын
facts
@KPopsicleSNSD
@KPopsicleSNSD 10 жыл бұрын
bitten by a swan, stung by a bee, all in the buttcheek... coincidence? i think not
@ozlem4923
@ozlem4923 9 жыл бұрын
I like you :)
@nickmuffin1722
@nickmuffin1722 6 жыл бұрын
Illuminati.
@LadyJaja2010
@LadyJaja2010 10 жыл бұрын
I'm watching this as I sit in an Indian Springs dorm.
@tashikamala6917
@tashikamala6917 7 жыл бұрын
Jahina Somo then please tell anyone you know who smokes to go and smoke in the smoking hole.
@trickytreyperfected1482
@trickytreyperfected1482 7 жыл бұрын
Tashi Kamala pretty much no one here smokes at the smoking hole anymore. It's used for mostly photography now.
@LucyPhillipsxlux
@LucyPhillipsxlux 6 жыл бұрын
That's so sad! I wish I hadn't read it :( I mean, it's good if it means less people are smoking, rather than relocating. But they could at least vape there or something.
@jazthespaz837
@jazthespaz837 6 жыл бұрын
+
@emmag938
@emmag938 5 жыл бұрын
@@LucyPhillipsxlux "they could at least vape there or something" has to be the funniest thing I've read this week
@vara202
@vara202 8 жыл бұрын
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed. And when I’m writing there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. For me at least, fiction is the only way I can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true. OMG, that is such a writer thing to say.
@elianna838
@elianna838 8 жыл бұрын
+vara vashtul i think john green would approve
@disfordumboo4411
@disfordumboo4411 6 жыл бұрын
I think he's got the write idea
@evol-yu4mu
@evol-yu4mu 6 жыл бұрын
sueycoo its what jg said?
@yessopie
@yessopie 10 жыл бұрын
Maybe The Eagle cultivated a colony of bees under the bridge to stop the students from smoking.
@aparajitaprabhu1947
@aparajitaprabhu1947 3 жыл бұрын
TOTALLY
@wintermute0296
@wintermute0296 8 жыл бұрын
If they ever do make a movie of Looking for Alaska, they'd better film the entire thing at this school. For authenticity's sake.
@Bozewani
@Bozewani 7 жыл бұрын
let's hope he can sell movie rights like he did for the Fault in the Stars also why doesn't anybody buy my books May 7 Hengduan Mountains
@meisawesome559
@meisawesome559 7 жыл бұрын
Honestly, I hope they never make Looking for Alaska into a movie. I have such a perfect idea of it in my head that I don't want anything to ruin it. And sure, I could just not see the movie, but frankly, I'd feel pressured to if one came out. Maybe it should be a movie so other people can see it. I'm not sure. All I know is that I feel as drawn to that book as John feels drawn to his old high school; it provides a sense of nostalgia that nothing else does and nothing else ever could.
@AnnieKonni
@AnnieKonni 7 жыл бұрын
I agree with that! The way I incision the book is absolutely perfect and I don't want it to turn out like paper towns where I find that they cut out a lot of the scenes. but at the same time so much time has passed I'm curious to see what it wold look like now.
@trickytreyperfected1482
@trickytreyperfected1482 7 жыл бұрын
Elwood Nighthawk They might not be able to do that. Especially right now. I go to this school and they are remodeling it. Currently they're painting over it again, and yes we still have those octagonal tables. That and the swan. Plus if they were to film there they'd only have a few months to do it, and the smoking hole has graffiti in it. so yeah, there's that.
@9_in_the_afternoon
@9_in_the_afternoon 7 жыл бұрын
Trey Atkins So people still use the smoking hole, then?
@WhiteAsianGurl
@WhiteAsianGurl 10 жыл бұрын
So not only is The Swan real, but it's STILL THERE? O.O
@adhamelghannam4475
@adhamelghannam4475 10 жыл бұрын
it's a scientifically proven fact that Swans are immortals.but i'm surprised it didn't run after John
@graceknowles1460
@graceknowles1460 9 жыл бұрын
adham elghannam It's still here
@madisonmccay1024
@madisonmccay1024 6 жыл бұрын
The swan is still in fact there. I work at Indian Springs and the swan’s name is Ron.
@namenam3
@namenam3 4 жыл бұрын
It died last year, but now there are 2 new ones, Serena and Venus
@black_foresst
@black_foresst 2 жыл бұрын
@@namenam3 Its legacy still lives on! I hope students stay away from them...!! LOL
@yuktika3901
@yuktika3901 8 жыл бұрын
damn that bee part reminded me of Miles n the swan 😂
@bookert5151
@bookert5151 8 жыл бұрын
Sameee 😂 it's weird how john and miles both got stung/bitten on their buttcheek 👌🏼😆
@yuktika3901
@yuktika3901 8 жыл бұрын
+RAY ikr xD
@incongruentinterrobangs924
@incongruentinterrobangs924 10 жыл бұрын
I went to a boarding school and I recently went back there to see what had changed and I found graffiti on a wall that said 'Okay? Okay' -John Green
@alannar.8701
@alannar.8701 9 жыл бұрын
Exactly how I imagined Culver Creek.
@cepuuher
@cepuuher 8 жыл бұрын
+Alanna R. Right? My imagination never matches the reality but this was spot on, especially the smoking pit.
@ginnydelorenzo3431
@ginnydelorenzo3431 8 жыл бұрын
I just finished reading Looking for Alaska a few days ago and this video is almost exactly how I imagined Culver Creek. Is it wrong that I was getting emotional while watching? It was like the book was coming to life right before my eyes.
@Animenite97
@Animenite97 8 жыл бұрын
+Ginny DeLorenzo No its not. I felt a twinge of pain when he was driving; Alaska never made it that far. :(
@kathyag.amador8146
@kathyag.amador8146 8 жыл бұрын
+Adam Collier (Animenite97) Ohhh God :'( My feelings
@Wildfire.
@Wildfire. 8 жыл бұрын
Me too! Well I finished it a while ago now but this is almost exactly how I visioned it.
@anushkasharma1111
@anushkasharma1111 5 жыл бұрын
You'll get emotional every time you come across even a lil thing that is related to Looking for Alaska. Impact of greatt books.
@giacomo.1574
@giacomo.1574 4 жыл бұрын
The hulu adaptation got it spot on
@rileytaylor3833
@rileytaylor3833 4 жыл бұрын
9 years later we finally have an adaptation. A TV series. And it’s great.
@Efflorescentey
@Efflorescentey 4 жыл бұрын
And it’s set here!!!
@SarahCuda14
@SarahCuda14 13 жыл бұрын
Oh man. That was beautiful. I loved when you said, "For a minute I felt like I was walking through a ghost town, but then I realized that I was the ghost." Poetic, John. Thank you.
@matthewgoodman7588
@matthewgoodman7588 10 жыл бұрын
I watched this video before I read looking for Alaska and it was not that great. Then after I read looking for Alaska this video became amazing.
@equalcharlie158
@equalcharlie158 10 жыл бұрын
it hits you right feels...
@Iamnemo1994
@Iamnemo1994 10 жыл бұрын
Actually, I've never read the book, but quite like the video
@jawadulkabir9120
@jawadulkabir9120 6 жыл бұрын
I am almost halfway through the book
@saaargummm1868
@saaargummm1868 4 жыл бұрын
Matthew Goodman same here
@Uberbabies
@Uberbabies 10 жыл бұрын
This is exactly how I imagined it.
@SerndipityMind
@SerndipityMind 9 жыл бұрын
same here !
@thisisrnation
@thisisrnation 8 жыл бұрын
Dylan Michael Me too, but it probably helps that I live five miles from Indian Springs and went to summer camps there.
@eloiseway8978
@eloiseway8978 4 жыл бұрын
who's here after the incredible series? it was literally perfection
@filipberes319
@filipberes319 3 жыл бұрын
It wasnt really perfection how can they announce that Alaska is death when we didnt see her dead body or full death scene i mean Han from Fast and Furious survived from car crash
@lilianaaustin5285
@lilianaaustin5285 9 жыл бұрын
I am in love with the way John Green speaks.
@Stephninichole
@Stephninichole 9 жыл бұрын
This is literally exactly as I pictured it I want to cry
@umatrivedi3630
@umatrivedi3630 3 жыл бұрын
not me crying about this literally ten years later why did this make me so emo
@michaelxiong5986
@michaelxiong5986 10 жыл бұрын
Wait... Stung in the left butt cheek? That's where pudge got bitten by the swan!! Coincidence?
@T1J
@T1J 14 жыл бұрын
i didnt know you were in birminghammmm a couple of my friends went to Indian Springs they are four or five years younger than you i wonder if you were ever there at the same time and remember some of the things you do
@ViridisArborem
@ViridisArborem 9 жыл бұрын
I really hope they film LfA there. It would be so awesome.
@ADailyDoseOfEverythingDDE
@ADailyDoseOfEverythingDDE 9 жыл бұрын
Viridis Arborem YES
@trickytreyperfected1482
@trickytreyperfected1482 7 жыл бұрын
Viridis Arborem yeah, but the school has been remodeled since then. it's possible that they may redesign the dining hall, but they've already remodeled classrooms 1-12. However they did keep classrooms 13-16 the same, but that because they connect to the town hall.
@marcofox444
@marcofox444 4 жыл бұрын
Oh but they did young one, they did
@sheaelliott942
@sheaelliott942 9 жыл бұрын
I love Looking for Alaska... Physically (through a laptop screen) being able to see the setting of the book is amazing. I have a sense of nostalgia even though I was never there, let alone in 1995 when there was not yet even a thought of my being. It's heartwarming in a way to see this, and to hear you talk your way through the school. I love it. DFTBA and Best Wishes Nerdfighters :)
@cRaZyGiRlGoNeMaD
@cRaZyGiRlGoNeMaD 10 жыл бұрын
i swear to god the view from the classroom windows is almost exactly the same as i imagined various scenes
@Graytune
@Graytune 10 жыл бұрын
This is the first vlogbrothers video I ever saw. My love was instant.
@anfrance
@anfrance 10 жыл бұрын
I haven't read Looking for Alaska but I am OBSESSED with The Fault in Our Stars. How does John Green speak so poetically about a bee sting and graffiti and everything? OMG LIFE AHHHHHHHH
@VivianJade
@VivianJade 10 жыл бұрын
"Motherfucker" at 2:44 ?
@heroesfreak1994
@heroesfreak1994 6 жыл бұрын
Deckerlink hahahah
@Efflorescentey
@Efflorescentey 4 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha it totally was!!
@BamaFanEdge
@BamaFanEdge 9 жыл бұрын
Did it ever occur to you that when you write a bestseller documenting the smoking hole in such detail, it can't stay a secret. The legacy of the smoking hole didn't just die; you killed it, John Green. Just like you killed...
@BamaFanEdge
@BamaFanEdge 9 жыл бұрын
Why are you missing a semi colon? Also, is the irony intentional?
@lovejblovepink
@lovejblovepink 10 жыл бұрын
Looking for Alaska is one of the best books I've ever read, and now this video made it all seem so real.
@SnigdhaKucharlapati
@SnigdhaKucharlapati 9 жыл бұрын
Deep. John. Real deep.
@clownsupreme
@clownsupreme 9 жыл бұрын
Oh my God John I read the book, thought I got over the, ahem, incident, AND NOW ALL THE SADNESS IS BACK
@britneylopez7170
@britneylopez7170 4 жыл бұрын
The fact that's it has been almost 10 years since this was uploaded and now finally Looking for Alaska became a TV show. Damn John, I'm so proud of you.
@VloggerWill
@VloggerWill 12 жыл бұрын
This is so chilling. I can envision Miles, Alaska, the Colonel, Takumi and Lara walking along where John was. It's depressing how the barn was torn down and the dorms were replaced. It's really eerie how I felt a weird sense of nostalgia as John was telling about his experiences at Indian Springs.
@WITFLITAAD
@WITFLITAAD 10 жыл бұрын
Watching this video before and then after reading the book is so different
@SK28th
@SK28th Жыл бұрын
This has been eerily well replicated in the Looking for Alaska show
@gib803
@gib803 8 жыл бұрын
There is a kind of desperation in these early videos that is no there in 2016
@WhaleManMan
@WhaleManMan 7 жыл бұрын
gib803 Well to be fair, he was in a nostalgic place.
@johnny-yz4mq
@johnny-yz4mq 3 жыл бұрын
Having just read looking for alaska its pretty beautiful to see that the world exists within imagination and outside it too
@cauthoncrazy
@cauthoncrazy 14 жыл бұрын
Hands down, one of my all time favorite vlogbrothers videos. Looking for Alaska is my favorite book of yours John and as I spent a lot (a LOT) of time feeling nostalgic some days you so excellently captured how it makes you feel. Big fan of this new series too.
@margotwiehagen4986
@margotwiehagen4986 6 жыл бұрын
This is possibly my favorite vlogbrothers video of all time. Thanks John.
@josh_miguel
@josh_miguel 3 жыл бұрын
Don't worry guys, I'm from the future. Looking for Alaska in fact did get an adaption (a series, actually). And it was awesome; the series did justice to its source material and added some flavorful twists of their own.
@apexlegends6727
@apexlegends6727 3 жыл бұрын
i switched on the filter for newest comments first and to my surprise not one but multiple people have viewed this video in the past year
@josh_miguel
@josh_miguel 3 жыл бұрын
@@apexlegends6727glad to be part of the crowd.
@mariam19554
@mariam19554 9 жыл бұрын
John Green? More like John Deep.
@9_in_the_afternoon
@9_in_the_afternoon 7 жыл бұрын
I read that as 'John Derp', and wondered what he'd done so terribly wrong in this video that I hadn't noticed
@jliller
@jliller 4 жыл бұрын
John Deep > John Depp.
@namenam3
@namenam3 4 жыл бұрын
Well geez, I'm still a student there and this video made me feel nostalgic for that place
@shahilkp4502
@shahilkp4502 2 жыл бұрын
Does anyone use the smoking hole to smoke these days?
@mariah013
@mariah013 9 жыл бұрын
Film it there. I love this video.
@sunnisezhiya
@sunnisezhiya 10 жыл бұрын
john green writes/says the loveliest things.
@noorm.1515
@noorm.1515 8 жыл бұрын
This is literally exactly how I pictured everything to look. My book is highlighted and written in and i always find something new every time i read the book. Definitely the best book i have ever read.
@nickfeiner9672
@nickfeiner9672 10 жыл бұрын
That was the most beautiful thin I have ever heard! Not only because I thoroughly enjoyed looking for Alaska with every being of my soul but also because of the clear romanticism in your voice john. Simply beautiful!
@CloveForay
@CloveForay 12 жыл бұрын
I feel that when I'm watching your videos, it's like I'm sucked into a favorite novel without a coherent timeline. As I come and go different titles pop up and where I was once set upon watching the sequel video, my mind diverges onto a new path of your lives. And the absolute best part is, while I'm learning your past, I already know your futures. I know that what you become and what you make are good. And you spread this goodness to others. And I guess I just wanted to say: Thank you.
@JustAPeachyt
@JustAPeachyt 4 жыл бұрын
Coming back to this video after watching the Hulu series Looking for Alaska and I just... I am so nostalgic for a past that never happened.
@amberwilliams819
@amberwilliams819 10 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure how anyone else may have taken this video, but 2:40 showed me that no matter what age, you still call for the person that you called for when you were younger and hurt. I specifically said "MOMMY" but apparently John said, "AH DADDY!"
@hannahwunder7739
@hannahwunder7739 10 жыл бұрын
this is one of the best videos i have ever watched. the beauty of John's words never cease to amaze me.
@guysimchony309
@guysimchony309 7 жыл бұрын
This is awesome to see! The shot of the swing actually got me a bit emotional. I'm almost finished reading the book, absolutely loving it is far
@sillystrings
@sillystrings 10 жыл бұрын
This is wonderful, seeing Looking for Alaska come to life (or revived? What?). Thanks for sharing this with us.
@ARTISTFUNNUGGET
@ARTISTFUNNUGGET 10 жыл бұрын
Oh my god im dying they have THE SWAN
@NickGreyden
@NickGreyden 10 жыл бұрын
Don't. That swan is evil and will attack people. Not sure if it is the same swan, but the headmaster of the school told us when we went to the TFiOS book tour it is just as aggressive lol.
@IncomitatusExcelsior
@IncomitatusExcelsior 10 жыл бұрын
NickGreyden Swans in general are pretty aggressive. We had a mating pair of them on a large pond a couple hundred yards from my college dorm. I watched one of them break both arms on a guy who taunted it. I had had prior experience of swans and knew better, and told him so, but he did not listen.
@cRaZyGiRlGoNeMaD
@cRaZyGiRlGoNeMaD 10 жыл бұрын
NickGreyden wait... there is a tfios book tour
@feliciaheath2139
@feliciaheath2139 6 жыл бұрын
I'm from Birmingham, Alabama but I am currently living in Australia and I have been sorely missing Sweet Home Alabama for a while now and seeing this video and getting to see how absolutely beautiful home is brought a smile to my face and a warm feeling to my heart. Thank you, John.
@ninalagarrigue4002
@ninalagarrigue4002 6 жыл бұрын
You have the most beautiful nostalgia i have ever known John, i feel honored to have watched it
@JBDazen
@JBDazen 3 жыл бұрын
KZbin presented this video right after I watched the one where you were here with Charlie and Kristine. You were talking so much faster in 2010! Also, on a nostalgic note, I can't believe it's been 12 years since I first saw you on video and 11 years since I met you on the Amsterdam Nerdfighter gathering. Time flies!
@ackamazing
@ackamazing 4 жыл бұрын
So you're telling me the same who guy who helped me through almost every class my entire college career is the same guy who wrote the Fault in our Stars and Looking for Alaska???
@blondiexoxojulze
@blondiexoxojulze 10 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite vlog brothers videos. I seem to always come back to it.
@steelvenom2003
@steelvenom2003 13 жыл бұрын
This is still my favorite vlogbrothers video. And I love it even more now that I've finished Looking for Alaska and I understand the significance behind everything you say.
@Lily-dv3qf
@Lily-dv3qf 3 жыл бұрын
I go to that school. I'm on a walk around the like where he showed miles and Alaska walking away. The old swans died but they have new ones. One of which is puffing out his neck feathers at me. He's just mad that I'm looking at him. I'm about to visit the smoking hole. At least before it rains. I got a sudden inspiration to go on a walk and compare the changes over the years.
@azeemquraishi5669
@azeemquraishi5669 3 жыл бұрын
thats great
@davidk6522
@davidk6522 3 жыл бұрын
How do you go to the school? Do u have to take a test or can you just attend? This is just for curiosity sake
@Lily-dv3qf
@Lily-dv3qf 3 жыл бұрын
@@davidk6522 you do. You can look at the website for more details.
@chansherly212
@chansherly212 10 жыл бұрын
wow, it's just like i imagined it! all those places
@maggiebookworm
@maggiebookworm 12 жыл бұрын
This has to be one of my top 10 favourite videos from John. It's just chock full of amazing-ass-awesome quotes. So much so that my mind can barely take it.
@theghostintheattic
@theghostintheattic 12 жыл бұрын
I wanted to read Looking for Alaska ever since I first discovered vlogbrothers,and last week,my best friend managed to find it and it is hands down,the best present anyone ever gave me.I read it in a day,and I cannot tell you how much I adored it.I laughed,and I cried,I just loved it. And it is amazing to me how I have been freely wondering around the channel and the ning for almost a year now,and I never came across any spoilers.That just makes me love Nerdfighteria all the more.
@emilymicah1150
@emilymicah1150 7 жыл бұрын
I love all thoughts from places videos but this one might be my favorite. At least it's in my top five.
@mustardsfire22
@mustardsfire22 4 жыл бұрын
Wild coming back to this video after watching the show and seeing just how close to real life the show rendered this place. I know it wasn't shot here, but they might have fooled me.
@Lyra557
@Lyra557 10 жыл бұрын
As a Venezuelan nerdfighter who just started to read "Looking for Alaska"... I love this video!! Also, I really liked what you said about nostalgia :)
@Sk8tersss
@Sk8tersss 13 жыл бұрын
gah ive read this book almost 2 times now, and i just love it.. i was so amazed when i found this video and even more amazed when i realized that everything from the school was almost exact how i pictured in my head... i just love this book and ur a great and awesome author!! keep on going
@blake.henderson
@blake.henderson 7 жыл бұрын
This is funny because this is virtually how i imagined the school and the surroundings would look like, right down to the aesthetics, a tribute to you as a writer sir. Eerily similar to what i had in my mind infact :0
@YogaBallzHuge
@YogaBallzHuge 10 жыл бұрын
You know, this book is a lot better if you can read it while on campus. Good thing I go here.
@Tefans97
@Tefans97 10 жыл бұрын
Do you actually go to this very same school?
@YogaBallzHuge
@YogaBallzHuge 10 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I'm in ninth grade, it's pretty cool, in fact I didn't even know about this book until I got here.
@spacejesusadventure
@spacejesusadventure 10 жыл бұрын
YogaBallzHuge What's the status on the smoking hole?
@jordansmith9176
@jordansmith9176 10 жыл бұрын
Patrick Bateman I was gonna ask that question if you didn't.
@YogaBallzHuge
@YogaBallzHuge 9 жыл бұрын
Patrick Bateman I don't know, it's still just some weird concrete bridge with graffiti. His wife came to visit last month.
@LuluShanaher
@LuluShanaher 10 жыл бұрын
The ending to this video is so unassumingly poetic and hopefully nostalgic, it's beautiful. Thank you John Green for sharing your gift of words with us!
@jadasmiles
@jadasmiles 10 жыл бұрын
i havent read the book yet and I already want to cry. how can both of you be such insightful human beings targeting my soul, AHHHHHHHH
@nekoalysssama
@nekoalysssama 10 жыл бұрын
This video was beautiful
@lilmisconduct
@lilmisconduct 10 жыл бұрын
If I feel this much nostalgia for LfA after 3 minutes of seeing the campus... THINK about how much nostalgia ALL nerdfighters will feel when watching the TFIOS movie?!
@westheriault3797
@westheriault3797 Жыл бұрын
I don't know why this was recommended but I needed it of all the vlogbrother videos I've seen recently because I am close to this John's age now and I miss my high school as I remember it, and not the building it is now
@TactownGirl
@TactownGirl 12 жыл бұрын
I'm still reading Looking for Alaska,( I got it on my kindle yesterday) and watching this video dramaticly changed how I will forever picture clover creek in my mind, and I like the new image. THANK YOU!
@notgotanamesorry
@notgotanamesorry 10 жыл бұрын
Exactly as I imagined it especially the smoking hole
@RileyLockeYT
@RileyLockeYT 9 жыл бұрын
OMG I go by Indian springs every day
@101wuzup1
@101wuzup1 12 жыл бұрын
I love how pretty much this whole video is John pretty much writing a book about his experience with nostalgia. I can just seeing him writing all of this down and it's really awesome.
@95GrBr
@95GrBr 12 жыл бұрын
I just got the book "Looking for Alaska" from the library today. It is driving me crazy that I have to finish my homework before I can read it. I've heard you and Hank talk about it and read alot of great reviews here and on your website. Can't wait!! DFTBA
@skylarbelden146
@skylarbelden146 9 жыл бұрын
I'm applying to go to this school for next year!!!
@nanomartinez4362
@nanomartinez4362 6 жыл бұрын
Sup I'm going in august
@mariawalker8442
@mariawalker8442 5 жыл бұрын
hey! I’m going to that school!
@SammieSoda16
@SammieSoda16 13 жыл бұрын
this video honestly gave me chills. i hope to be as wise and poetic as you someday hank green. and i also hope that i can be deep and existential without getting stung by a bee.
@aquaph0r
@aquaph0r 12 жыл бұрын
I love how in a matter of minutes John can have me laughing and then totally serious and thoughtful.
@maderawood2149
@maderawood2149 10 жыл бұрын
John Green, I shall day this one and only once, I hate you. But at the same time, I freaking love you. Why, you ask? "Looking For Alaska" is my answer, you gave me a book that I can completely relate to, the only problem is, is that I've read your book 3 times now, and I've cried all 3 times, sag pay is is that I don't normally cru in books or movies, I just seemed up getting that attached to you're characters. There are 2 major quotes that still stick in my head just because of their that artificiality in my mind. First one is: "I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane." This quote describes my life perfectly. And second is, "To be continued?" JOHN GREEN! WHY'D YOU HAVE TO GET OUR HOPES UP AND THEN JUST SHOVE US BACK DOWN THE STAIRS?!?! This quote, just UGH! It gives me nightmares now, due to the fact that this quote embodies disappointment, regret, love, hate, patience, etc... All in 3 little words. I'll never be able to look at those 3 words the same way because of you, and while I hate you for it, at the same time I love you for it. And that's how I shall conclude my rant. Sincerely, Your fellow nerd fighter, Stefan Wood
@bobblehobbit3931
@bobblehobbit3931 6 жыл бұрын
My favorite quote is "For she had embodied the Great Perhaps," It summarizes me and it will be my epitaph.
@vmgx
@vmgx 8 жыл бұрын
It wasn't as beautiful in my head :)
@solcarrera
@solcarrera 10 жыл бұрын
Oh my! This is so fantastic! I love this book, actually, it is one of my favorites, and I think it deserves to be read more than once. Everything is almost as I imagined, and now that I finally see this beautiful place I feel like the story was so real, and I can't keep me from fall in nostalgic with this :') Thank you John! If you want to know, you're one of my favorite writers as well.
@augustwogsland3309
@augustwogsland3309 10 жыл бұрын
I had no idea how based on John's life Looking for Alaska was. I feel slightly weirded out by how exactly I imagined all of those places. But then again, it means that John Green is, as we all know, a great writer. He is able to describe a place so well, that people who read the book can see the place and feel weirded out because it's supposed to be fictional.
@Dronebertios_World
@Dronebertios_World 9 жыл бұрын
Saying it's not the heat it's the humidity is a quick way to identify yourself as someone who has spent time in the south ha ha.
@horsegalri
@horsegalri 9 жыл бұрын
Or New England.
@laceyfrieden6896
@laceyfrieden6896 8 жыл бұрын
I really want to enroll in this school...
@riveravalon448
@riveravalon448 8 жыл бұрын
im starting school there this faLL AND I HOPE IT'S RAD.
@laceyfrieden6896
@laceyfrieden6896 8 жыл бұрын
+River Avalon JELOUS IF I CAN GO I CANT UNTIL 2017 IF I AM SEE U
@riveravalon448
@riveravalon448 8 жыл бұрын
YESS
@nanomartinez4362
@nanomartinez4362 6 жыл бұрын
I'm going nxt yr
@nanomartinez4362
@nanomartinez4362 6 жыл бұрын
Well August 2018
@TheChewinggumFreak
@TheChewinggumFreak 13 жыл бұрын
Something amazing happened today, I was in our towns' only bookshop. I live in a little town in the north of Sweden. So I was walking around and looking at books trying to make time pass, I was waiting for a friend. So looking through one of the shelves I suddenly see it. Right there, it was actually there, In our little bookshop, in our little town Looking for Alaska was standing. Thank you globalization!
@jessekieve885
@jessekieve885 11 жыл бұрын
As a Nerdfighter and an Indian Springs School student, this is my second favorite Vlogbrothers video. Besides sick Hank, of course.
@Jeanjellybean13
@Jeanjellybean13 7 жыл бұрын
I recently found out that I used to live 8 minutes from John's old school
@trickytreyperfected1482
@trickytreyperfected1482 7 жыл бұрын
Jeannie Weasly I found out 2 years ago that I go to the same school he did.
@Jeanjellybean13
@Jeanjellybean13 7 жыл бұрын
OMG that's ironic
@trickytreyperfected1482
@trickytreyperfected1482 7 жыл бұрын
***** I'm currently in 9th grade there. In fact, I'm going back on Monday. I have a few pictures of me there. _lh3.googleusercontent.com/4TZy3oKy1xlEwOaBMAKUfQQFvn8T0poDO_bu0wf9uk7IjqNOp5ON6ihrE2bp5wl4b83GKXqzeQ_
@trickytreyperfected1482
@trickytreyperfected1482 7 жыл бұрын
And I also have me on top of the hut; a triangular building at which parties are held, across the lake from the smoking hole. _lh3.googleusercontent.com/B8-b-iPknMcrWgwEnWZL27HeOSRkD3SZickKeaQ2-pQrp36nOtZYod_p_SyMsaMPl1qqY8cayw_
@trickytreyperfected1482
@trickytreyperfected1482 7 жыл бұрын
Don't worry John... we still use the smoking hole, just for recreational activities (like photography) and not for smoking.
@trickytreyperfected1482
@trickytreyperfected1482 5 жыл бұрын
@Steven Firoze Francis We don't. We all Juul there now! *Dabs* I'm joking. Most of us don't smoke. Some people do Juul, but we don't acknowledge them.
@maniactress
@maniactress 11 жыл бұрын
I feel like every word John says is a masterpiece, especially in vids like this. Must be nice to be so constantly awesome.
@chloeleerowlands
@chloeleerowlands 10 жыл бұрын
I love love love this video, it brings Looking For Alaska to life and adds an entirely new dimension to its existence. As a reader, I often forget the reality of fiction, that many aspects of a "fictional" story are in fact not fictional at all.
@scarlettrosewilson
@scarlettrosewilson 9 жыл бұрын
IM FROM ALABAMA TOO!!!!!
@paintinginshadesofawkward7905
@paintinginshadesofawkward7905 10 жыл бұрын
I love this video so much because your nostalgia is making me feel nostalgia even though I've never even been to Alabama.
@NioonYouTube
@NioonYouTube 10 жыл бұрын
I screamed the entire time he was at the school because when you read a book or just have to image the setting to a place and you do your best, based on the details, and there's this part of you that is just dying to see it to 1. See if you were anywhere near what the actual setting looks like and; 2. Just see it and have it in your brain so you don't have to think about what it MAY look like anymore because you now know. Well that is how I felt about Culver Creek while reading LFA because I had a hard time imagining it in some places, especially when it came to the smoke pit, so to now see it makes me just SO HAPPY!
@Momin_Azam
@Momin_Azam 2 жыл бұрын
Damn, this was 12 years ago 🤯?! Time sure does fly . . . I was not subscribed at this time, but seeing these videos make me feel a certain nostalgia 🥰!
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