Mbo, I thought you were "in college" - Are you working towards your education from home or what?

I also recommend a text on (called?) Cultural Literacy, about how if you don't have the vocabulary, and you don't get the metaphors behind a lot of the standard linguistic media in your surroundings, you won't understand what you read as well even if what you are reading about is the local news. Very interesting, wish I could recall the author.