Give a man fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime

Joshua Dula posted up this quote on my Facebook group: Support Universal Education Please!! and I found it very intriguing. It made me think about it again and again. I was thinking long and hard about it and thought it meant that: 1. If you give someone food directly, you'll only feed him for how long that food lasts. Teaching him to get his own food for himself (teach him how to fish, etc) will make him able to feed himself for the rest of his life. 2. Free hand does nothing for a person but sustain what they immediately require. It doesn't help them overcome obstacles they're facing. Taking your time to teach them that they have the necessary tools to do the job then they're empowered to move forward in life. 3. If you teach someone, it'll help them forever instead of just helping them once. Giving someone something he needs, will make him temporarily satisfied, it's better to teach/give him the ability to get what he needs on his own. For an example: don't do someone's homework. Teach them the skills so that they'll know every time. 4. If you teach him how, he'd manage to be independent and support himself (for food, in this case) for his whole life. Confucius is the creator of this quote.

"Change your default Facebook picture to a cartoon character from your childhood. The goal? To not see a human face on Facebook until Monday the 6th of Dec. Join the fight AGAINST Child Abuse, and invite your friends to do the same." Depriving children to receive primary education is a form of "abuse". Rizamel Ponce started this activity on our Facebook group for Universal Education. Honestly, I thought that no one would participate but infact EVERYONE did. I saw my cousin's from Vietnam who I added unto my facebook group do it and they told me they read the post and decided to do it as well. Yay Rizamel! This event was successful because people from other schools and Riza's friends from the Philippines did so as well. I put up my favorite childhood cartoon as well~

Another post on my Support Universal Education Please group is below here, just in case you've never checked my Facebook group for updates..... Education helps you strengthen your skills, learn your rights, and find your voice. Education is central to development. I can't stress how important it is. For everyone to have a more successful life, being educated it the best thing. We can lead our own lifes & be open to more opportunities if we're more educated. Being educated: * Lets us read, reason, communicate, and make good choices * We'll have more opportunities, earn more, and have a higher standard of living. * Each year of schooling up's a person's earnings by 10% * Skilled workers help a country develop and become richer, benefiting everyone! * A skilled labor force creates, applies and spreads new views, ideas and technology. Without education, electricity, medicine, cars, computers, video games, and much more wouldn't exist. OH MY! A LIFE WITHOUT CALL OF DUTY OR HARVEST MOON IS A LIFE OF GRIEF D:

Why does Social Class make me feel so depressed?

"No Education, No success" & "Education is not a preparation of life, it is life itself"

These teens above were protesting the rights for education in developing countries.

 I feel happy that people are trying to do something for this issue.

These are very true, how can children find sucess without education and how can they get somewhere in life. They can't get anywhere because they don't get a chance. The girl who's books got wrecked in a flood, and the boy who was born with aids, how can they create a success future for themselves if they can't learn. He couldn't have done anything stop it from happening. They were both helpless. That is why I picked this MDG, because I believe that this issue is so important. It can be used to change the world. It is key to all success. I believe it can solve anything. Now all these children can depend on is us. We as a community can help all these kids. If the richer world could just help those unfortunate... then the world would be so much happier. 

The left is the world pie chart of people with aids. The center in the percentage of people with aids in each region of Africa. The right is the result of the population having aids. The parents die because of aids and the children are left all alone, abandoned. Some with and some without aids themselves.

Mr. Alger said that if everyone in North American were to give a dollar to the African countries, their plate would be clean. Their debt would be gone. If everyone gave just a dollar. If you check my couch, I probably have $50 in change. I could easily give a dollar. But like Mr. Sauer said, it's not all easy to collect money for the countries. I wanted to have a bake sale but the authorities said I couldn't. The lunch ladies said I had to inform a week earlier. I couldn't do it anymore because no time was left, winter break was nearing D: Mr. Alger also told us that in many developing countries like Africa, people told the males that if the were to 'yenno yenno' with a virgin girl, then their aids would be gone. So a lot of males then went on to do their 'business' with a lot of girls and this went on and on for years.   Soon a majority of the population got aids. Many people are dying  because those selfish males raped some girls just to get rid of their aids. Frickin' heartless. We watched a sort of documentary in social and it was about this family with the father and mother having aids. The father couldn't do anything. He was helpless and so the wife had the assist him for everything. She had to feed the whole family. The family had quite a lot of children. The adult males of the family were useless. they couldn't do anything and the mother didn't have an appetite. She couldn't eat anything. Luckly the daughters weren't born with aids, but one of the daughters 'yenno yenno'ed and she had aids. There was one part in this documentary that showed how the people in the towns partied all night and this guy was talking about how he and his friends go party it up and later go 'yenno yenno' with some females and then he said 

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Why does it matter anymore? I'm slowly dying anyway.

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SO DAMN SELFISH not notify the females first and then the female's offspring would get aids as well. If all the kids turned out like Ah Long, it would be sad. They wouldn't get to learn and they'd all be rejected by doctors would could help them and they'd be like leopards. Knowledge is the key to all success. With a high education, you can achieve anything. Everyone deserves a chance to learn & make a better life for themselves. Sadly, lotsa kids today grow up without this chance. With knowledge, we can make GOOD choices, and provide for ourself & our families. The two men in the documentary were useless, they were uneducated and got an incurable disease, I saw them as a burden for this family.

A lonely Janie.....

Today is the day me & Monica Orozco did the honk for universal education. WAIT! I meant, we were SUPPOSED to do the honk for universal education. Ginelle Alontave wanted to go but she had plans this week and couldn't go. The rest of my friends didn’t want to go either. It probably was because Monica was there... But they should’ve gone because Monica decided to leave me hanging today. I was all by MYSELF at the mall. Like a loner. Monica is just the bestfriend eva (: I wasn’t really alone though ~ I asked my brother to come and get ocular proof so I could have something to blog about. The photo is right here, below this paragraph. I only stayed for about 20 minutes -____-“. I got too embarrassed because I was all alone and I STOOD out, so I left~ I just held up my masterpiece and walked around. Around the entrance of Sunridge mall. Not outside, I was beside West49 inside the mall :D Some people looked at me weirdly and others ignored me & tried not to look. Otherwise I hope many people noticed and read the poster. I hope my poster would affect everyone and maybe they’d think about the problems with other schools and how they can’t get primary education @___@.

Many children don’t have access to education because of reasons like: 1. Prejudice – They don’t want to go to school /others say they don’t need an education.  2. Cultural – cultural statements like:” They can get their education elsewhere” & “It’s more important to educate boys” display basically how different cultures view education. 3. Economic – They can’t afford going school or girls need to do housework at home & they need to earn money for their families. These statements explore how poverty restricts access to education. 4. Political – Some governments are unable to provide an education service for all because of obstacles like: there are not enough teachers and schools are not near their homes. 5. Debt – Developing countries need to use their money to pay interest on international loans. (With organizations like the World Bank) 6. Response from the World Bank – Money lent must be repaid. Is the World Bank positive that the money not being used is put to pay interest on loans are being used to educate children? 7. Aid – Developing countries have little voice in how international aid is to be spent. Richer countries should spend more aid money on education.

Today we conducted a three hour stress and management training session in hope of relieving any tensions which cancelled out math and science class. YAAAAAY! In the stress session, I closed my eyes and began to relax from the words spoken by our Psychology teacher for the day, who is currently on the quest of her phD. I began to feel at ease at our exercises and just fell asleep altogether. I found myself stressing even more because I was thinking about the homework due tomorrow and the 2 labs and test Monday and quiz Friday. I was going to explode. So maybe this stress management session wasn't so beneficial to me. I got a chance to review or what homework i would need to finish when I go home. But i guess I did learn so things, like how to effectively guess on a test. Hahaha, that's all for today. Bye bye for now~

This is just Heartbreaking

 I find that real life stories tend to strike a chord with me rather than statistics, so I hope this story hits you too. So, I found this off Tumblr, which is a site for people to blog and reblog. One day I found this on my friend's blog. I read some of the comments on this blog and it seems a few hundred people have read and passed it on. Some commented on it saying how now they're grateful for what they been granted~ Way to raise awareness for these world problems. So this blog crossed my path.

A six-year-old HIV carrier has been living alone since his parents died of AIDS. The boy, known as Ah Long, does his own washing, cooking, studying and he also rears some chicken. He lives in his parents’ house at the foothill Village of Malu Mountain in Liuzhou in Guangxi Province, China. Ah Long has an 84-year-old grandmother, who visits him quite frequently and cooks for him. The granny has also planted some vegetables near the house for Ah Long. He doesn't know what AIDS is. All he knew was that his friends never want to be near him, doctors did not want to treat his wounds and his only family member – his granny – refused to live with him. He was also rejected by the nearby primary school. The only companion the boy has is a dog called Lao Hei. MEANWHILE, MOST OF YOU HERE ARE COMPLAIN ABOUT BEING SINGLE AND LONELY AND WHAT NOT AND YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT YOUR PARENTS AND NOT BEING ABLE TO SEE YOUR GIRL/BOY FRIEND AND OR NOT RECEIVING A TEXT MESSAGE.

Wow. Just wow. His own grandma refuses to be with him and even the local school won't take him in. He does his own studying. He learns on his own. He can't learn to the best of his ability now. It's just so sad that this is actually true. That this boy exists. The school rejected him, the doctors, society and because he had aids. Aids can only become caught with transmitted by blood. It's just so sad that this is reality and it wasn't even his fault. It's heartbreaking. Everyday you hear people going FML (Fxck my life) but other people are so much worse. People go FML i got my cell phone taken away, FML i have a cold or FML this really pretty girl thought I was a stalker. I mean-- there's even a website for people to rant on about their "FMLs" which are pretty stupid things that aren't even that bad, based on the ones that I've read. http://www.fmylife.com/. I get really ticked off when people say FML. Because seriously, like STFU your better off than a lot of people so be grateful.

Bake Sale & excitment

So today Julie Le, Jovanna Rodney, David Nguyen and Robert Townsley had a bake sale. I was also planning to do one in December. I am still planning to do one though ~ Only Justinne Soriano, Shilah Marie Squires, Vanessa Dang and Julie Do would agree to join me ):  I don't think it'll be a great success, but just maybe... I long as I either raise awareness or make a lot of money for donations (: Anyway, I pitched the idea of making a cultural food fest where we bring foods from our country (the country that our classmates chose to focus on for the mdg project) and hand out pamphlets saying how beautiful this country was and how we should help it in the many ways it is currently struggling in, like getting primary education and helping children getting a decent meal everyday. These donations would go to my non-government organization, UNICEF.

This bake sale would be to enhance the beauty of their cultures and show that these countries are so beautiful and special and they need our help. I'm bringing Haitian fruit salad and I asked Jessica Naidu and Vanessa to bring some type of Indian and Pakistani food to sell, like maybe curry…  hahaha readers~ I’m being stereotypical NOT racist. I asked Shilah to bring nachos with guacamole and cheese... since guatemala has guatemole, i'm assuming? All 6 of us will run the best cultural food fest eva! So back on Julie’s bake sale…. It was soooo popular! So many people went and bought stuff! It really was pretty cool. I bet they made so much money. I contributed by eating their cookies & so therefore I advertised it and so I helped make it popular. The cookies and cupcakes were soooo yummy! <3 Julie said she didn't bake them though haha. She told me some strange lady went up to them the morning of the bake sale and gave her a huuuuuge box of cookies. Lucky D: I wish some strange lady would give me a huge box of cookies :3. I'm soo excited for my own bake sale Monday~ It’ll be the second thing I did to pursue~ I really DID plan on doing a lot for this pursuit but it IS getting really difficult ): I only made about 50 dollars with my bears & DIDN’T EVEN ADVERTISE IT :P Therefore I only raised awareness in my grade 10 classes. BUT some grade 11 girls bought a teddy as well~ I really hoped grade 12ers would’ve bought some though, because NO ONE knows about these bears getting sold. I’m happy it got sold out before we could even tell the school but sad because NO ONE knew about it O:


I am making a poster though! On the people who contributed to my MDG pursuit. I want make little cupcake paper things so that the people who contributed in my bake sale will get to sign it! I also forgot to include that I have started to make the rough copy of my little pamphlets already about the NGO I’m using, the purpose and the struggles of my MDG country in my bake sale pamphlets. I hope it’ll go well~ I have many friends in other classes so I will ask them to tell their friends to tell their friends and tell their other friends.  So hopefully I have no leftover baked goods .____. 

Awe Shoot. What can I do? D:

Here I am complaining, complaining that I have to do this stupid Internal Assessment assignment, complaining about school being such a drag. Whenever I open one my school books, I frown and complain knowing that I have to study… but then I see this…This little girl ... These books are her everything. She probably struggled and used all the money she had just  to buy these books for school and get an education we sometimes take for granted. At least we have the opportunity to learn. Yes the notebooks and textbooks we have might be a bore to look at and we grunt and occasionally think to ourselves “Man this shxts is boring, why do we have to learn/write this” But in the end we know why. So we could pursue our dreams, our hopes and ambitions. Even with the simple knowledge of knowing how to read and write, count and put words into a sentence, can take us somewhere, as silly as it might sound. We complain of the education that we DO have, but do we actually realize how lucky we are?

There are many children out like this little girl with the simple wish is to go to school and get an education, so they can learn to the best of their ability. We take our books for granted… but at least we have books to write on, text books to learn from. Most of this little girl’s books are ruined. It breaks my heart to know that some kids have to go through this, while most of us sit on our asses and complain about what we have/don’t have…. but look at this little girl.  More than 43 million children living in war-ravaged countries are left without the chance to go to school. 

While we always complain that we have to go to school and some kids are denied the right to go, no matter what! We don't realize how lucky we are, because we have so many chances to go. If you ask anyone, they`ll tell you that I am the #1 complainer in the world. I complain about school probably everyday. This article has changed my view. I realize and am extremely grateful for this education that I am granted. I will forever remember this and remember whenever I complain, I should actually feel pretty lucky because many other people around the world have it waaaaaaaaaay worse than me. I've told people I know to read this as well because without tumblr, i would've never known about this and I would've never learned that I am sooo lucky.

Whose Sam? I'm freaking Sam Yo.

Believe it or not, Dr. Seuss DOES NOT look like a cat with a red and white hat. He looks like a regular Joe.

The modern-est form of a poem is a song, well that's what my fellow classmates agreed on in ELA class and I most definitely think they're right! Everyday people listen to songs, which are poems so it is the most commonly present as songs in our daily lives. In class I see about 5 people with music on ALL THE TIME. I’m talking about Robert Townsley, Michael Felix, Justinne Soriano, Monica Orozco and George Canvas. Without the music, song lyrics become a poem that can be read more ‘like a poem’ (in the form of a poem). Different styles of poems are present in different styles of songs that really relate to specific teenagers. For example: An emo song would have depressing lyrics and people who feel that depressed & sad would be touched by the lyrics. I guess this is why so many people listen to the song’s lyrics instead of reading poems. Honestly, I prefer song as well. I'm just modernized :P But i really enjoy reading poetry as well. Actually! Scratch that! I prefer poems over songs because I can actually feel the deeper meaning. 

Theodor Seuss Geisel

WHAT THE?! WHO THE?! WHERE THE?! Guess what? That’s Dr. Seuss’s real name. Amazing huh? I never thought he'd have such a ‘normal’ name, let alone a first name at all. It never crossed my mind that Dr. Seuss was not a cat with a hat, but when I realized that he must be a person, I guessed that he would’ve been about 30-40 years of age, at most. What shocked me most was to find out that he was D . E . A . D, dead. I thought he was healthy and young but he died last century! There is A LOT I don't know about Mr. Seuss. I don’t think that there’s a soul on Earth who doesn’t know who Dr. Seuss is. We've all HEARD of him but is there really anything we KNOW about him? Like how he started his career or, why he wrote books the way he did. All I know about Mr. Seuss is that he writes children books, and I’m sure that’s how much everyone else knows as well. WOW! I am very glad that I chose this poet because not only can I learn new things, but so can my fellow classmates! Theodor Geisel lived from March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991. He was an American writer and cartoonist, most widely known for hischildren's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo, LeSieg and, Rosetta Stone. He published 44 children's books, often characterized by imaginative characters and rhyme. His most celebrated books include the bestselling Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Horton Hears a Who!, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Numerous adaptations of his work have been created, and he was also known as the world's first rap artist. ‘Read across America’ is an initiative on reading. It was created by the National Education Association. A part of this project was the National Read across America Day, an observance in the United States held on March 2, which is the birthday of Dr. Seuss. He was born in Massachusetts to Henrietta and Theodor Robert Geisel. His father was a descendant of German immigrants and inherited the family brewery one month before the start of Prohibition and later supervised Springfield's public park system and zoo. Mr. Seuss was raised in the Lutheran faith and remained a member to the end of his life. Geisel attended Springfield's Central High School, and entered Dartmouth College in fall 1921. He joined the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and the humour magazine ‘Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern’, and eventually rose to the rank of editor-in-chief. He was caught drinking with friends in his room and as a result, Dean Craven Laycock insisted that he leave all extracurricular activities, including the magazine. Geisel started signing his work under the name ‘Seuss’, in order to continue work on the ‘Jack-O-Lantern’ without the administration's knowledge. Six months into his work for the magazine, his first work signed ‘Dr. Seuss appeared (the Judge where his weekly feature Birdsies and Beasties appeared). Geisel’s professor of rhetoric W. Benfield Pressey encouraged him to write, whom he described as his "big inspiration for writing". Geisel enrolled at Lincoln College, Oxford, striving for a ‘Doctor of Philosophy in literature’. He met his future wife, Helen Palmer at Oxford. They married in 1927, and returned to the U.S without earning a degree. Following several years of poor health, Geisel died of throat cancer on September 24, 1991, in San Diego, California. He was cremated and his ashes, scattered. Four years after his death, on December 1^st 1995, UCSD's University Library Building was renamed Geisel Library. This action was to honour Geisel and Audrey for their devotion to improving literacy and contributions they made to the library.

The  Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden opened in 2002 in his birthplace of Springfield, Massachusetts; This Garden features sculptures of Geisel and his many of his characters. Arnold Schwarzenegger (Governor of California) and First Lady Maria Shriver announced that Geisel would be included in the California Hall of Fame, on May 28, 2008. Google temporarily changed its logo to commemorate Geisel's birthday on March 2^nd, 2009. At Dartmouth, it is a tradition for the students returning from the trips, to stay overnight at Dartmouth's Ravine Lodge, where they are served green eggs and ham for breakfast in honour of Dr. Seuss. Mr. Seuss`s  honours includ two Academy awards, two Emmy awards, a Peabody award and the Pulitzer Prize. Geisel's early artwork usually included shaded texture of pencil drawings or watercolours. In the postwar period he used pen and ink, normally just black, white, or one or two colors. Books like `The Lorax`used much more colour. Geisel's figures in his artwork are often rounded and kinda droopy. He enjoyed drawing architects and his endlessly varied and free-standing stairways his most common creations. Geisel evidently liked drawing outlandish arrangements of feathers or fur. Geisel's images often conveyed motion vividly, like how he was also fond of drawing hands with interlocked fingers, which looked as though the characters were twiddling their thumbs. He evidently had most motion using hands. 

AND THERE YOU HAVE IT~ A CRASH COURSE ON THEDORE SEUSS GEISEL

WHAT THE HECK?!

Someone didn't check ma blog. Ahem AHEM MR.SAUER. I completed all the blogs on time & they were all over 4 paragraphs and insightful. WHAT THE FUDGE?! But now reportcards are in & their's nothing i can do ): I AM VERY ANGRY. I will have a heated discussion with Mr. Sauer after school on monday ):< Oh wait... does that mean my 24 previously hard worked for blogs didn't count for anything.... even though i stayed up all night? 


Okay so in October I asked my junior high principal if it was possible for me to conduct a presentation for the ENTIRE school to watch, like in Period X. I asked Jessica, Julie, Jessica, Monica, Rizamel, Ginelle, Justinne and Shilah to accompany me. My principal said their was a very slim chance, but it was possible. That made me happy! Cause at least it wasn't a for sure NO WAY. She said that I had to send her a proposal firstly, therefore I asked the members I had recruited to make their part of the presentation. Me & Rizamel: Universal Education, Monica and Jessica: Child mortality, Shilah & Justinne & Julie: Poverty and Hunger, Ginelle: Gender Equality. We got started today~


 I was doing some research on Universal education and found out many things, like how 2/3 of women in developing countries are illterate and how some children cannot go to school because of lack of teachers and lack of supplies. This made me think. We students of Calgary have so much supplies! I mean just walk down a hallway and i'm sure that you could pick up at least 20 pens, pencils or erasers just lying around. We take it for granted, we really do. & others need it so much. I wish I knew where to start so I could help them. I'm tired of just feeling pity, I WANT HELP CHANGE THE WORLD. We have more than enough and some kids in third world countries have none! I want to make a donation box where people could donate school supplies and we could send them away. I told my mom about this plan and she told me it was better to just donate money since shipping the school supplies to haiti would cost a few hundred dollars. AWWWE ):


 I'll ask Mr. Sauer about this, but I'm pretty sure that high school children wouldn't be as excited to donate stuff like elementary students. OUR SCHOOL SPIRIT NEEDS TO BE HIGH! I would want to donate if it could fill up a classroom of supplies, not enough supplies to fill a box. That wouldn't do much. I actually think that we'll be spending more because of shipping. I think Mommy Huynh is right. I'll still pitch this with evil Sauer though. OH RIGHT! BACK TO MY PRESENTATION PROPOSAL! Okay, so I was researching and I discovered that girls can't go to school because of their periods! Since they have that 'yenno, problemoooo' they can't go to school since there are no bathrooms for the girls to clean their bizzzzzznatch. I also learned that the human body is built to live up to 190 years, therefore we all die young and people in third world countries die around the age of 30, they die even younger! This stat is so interesting! I'll remember i forever~ In the guinness world records, the longest a person lived up to was, 123 years. and wow. We're supposed to live until 190. That's just so cool!  Anyway, I told Shilah to add that to her slides. Everyone's working so hard <3 I'm so proud. Today I was just working on my part of the slides. I made 6 slides today. Since I had to cram in LA reading work as well. They're mostly photo because I know that I hate reading off slides & i'm sure the junior students do as well.

Internal Assessment! Pursuit!

Although I am of Vietnamese descent, I don’t have a clue about why our identity is what is today. I have to admit, I have zero interest in my IA topic. I really wanted to do something i was excited about. like child soldiers or stuff about Genocide. Sorry, but i'm really interested in those kinda things but i am not an emo! I had a time limit therefore I had to chose quickly. I assume Mr. Alger wouldn't be too happy if I chose child soldiers because it is the same topic and Monica's and Riza's Two people that I talk to very much. I'm not sure if it's such a great idea that I tell a teacher that I absolutely HATE my IA topic, but I really do. Well my excuse for this topic was that I wanted to decide on something I could relate to, since anyone would be more curious and interested about their own country. I hope I gradually become more inteersted as I dig deeper in my heritage. I hope I didn't become Americanized. Haha. I actually care very much about Vietnam but this topic sounds not as cool as child soliders T____T. I had chose the ‘Vietnam War’ as my Internal Assessment topic. I’ve visited Vietnam numerous times and visited many historical landmarks but never stopped to wonder why they were created.  
I generally know that the French tried to colonize us and is probably the reason why French is spoken in some small areas of Vietnam. The only other facts I know about Vietnamese history is that, ‘Ho Chi Minh Nguyen’ was our leader for a period of time and is the main reason why many Vietnamese people have the last name ‘Nguyen’, and that the ‘Vietnam War’ was a result of American and Vietnamese tension. If my research was accurate, then the Vietnam War was a Cold War military conflict  in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. It lasted from November 1, 1955 to May 15, 1975. This must mean that Vietnam was colonized by France but imperialized by the U.S. What I aim to discover is, because this war occurred on Vietnamese land, how did the result alter this country?  Does it somehow connect to Vietnam’s current economic situation?

I guess working hard really pays off ~ I have such  supportive classmates!! Maybe we'll make them bring their bears and show them off one day so that they can show off their supportiveness and raise awareness at the same time! They complimented and loved the bears, and that makes me very happy~. They said its so cute and soft. :D We have three bears left! When the green bears are sold out, I'll help the others (Monica, Jessie and Shilah) sell theirs. I hope to reach out to strangers too, not just my pals. Me and riza only made about 50 dollars each. I imagined higher but this will do, i really hope to raise at least 600 dollars on my own. I think that i will need to put up posters anyway, just for fun and so people know what HAS happened. There’s three more left, who knows? Things are really speeding up now though, I am putting a lot of projects into play at this time. The photo below is of me , working my ass off. seriously. I think I looked worse, because I pulled 2 all nighters in a row. Actually, I slept in Social class & was brutally scolded by Mr. Alger 4 times. ): The first time, he kicked my desk, the second time he stared for a loooong time, according to Justinne. The third time, he apparently yelled at me, and I was too sleepy to be aware and the last time, he looked like his forehead veins would burst. HAHA It was kinda funny. G'night! It's late and I really gotta sleep >_______<"

Dem God's must be Crazy 'cause they shook hands with dem Devils P:

 

This movie was hilarious~ It actually made me interested in social for once. I more deeply understand the difference in our societies now. This movie is a comparison between the western world and African bushmen tribes. It's a story about one bushmens journey to get rid of a glass coke bottle which he thought to be evil. Our reasoning for watching this video was because it connected to other novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. They both show a figure of westernization or colonization. It showed characters from the same continent which adds to the list. I thought it was going to be a boring movie, but turned out to be somewhat funny. Its about globalization, about how when the civilized world comes into contact with the non-civilized world. When the non civilized is expose to a cola bottle, a tribe of people started fighting about who should use it and such. Until someone of the tribe decided to throw the bottle away. This was an epic adventure of when a tribeperson meets the people of the civilized world. I recommend you watch the movie yourself, it's worth it (:

OH.MY.GOSH. This movie was just amazing. I'm so speechless~ I could go on forever about this movie! IT WAS FANTASTIC! When Mr. Sauer told us that Romeo Dallaire came to Father Lacombe, I was like "Big deal, why does it matter." But after watching this I was soo stunned. I completely take back what I said. IT IS A HUUUUGE MATTER. Romeo Dallaire is my freaking hero. How can someone be so amazing?!  I teared up so much times while watching this movie. It was soo good. I felt so sad and learn so much about the Rwandan genocide. I was heartbroken by this story. It was just so sad. I can't believe someone so evil could exist. It's horrible that some people would put money before people. Man's greed is really just a horrible thing. Honestly, if I was in Mr. Dalliare's position, I don't know what the hell I would do. I probably would've committed suicide a long time back. He's just sooo amazing. Having the guts to do so much and wanting to help strangers. He put others before himself. The world would be so great if everyone was like him. I should have been born a year earlier, then I could have met him. OMG, thanks mom ):< His story gives me the chills when I think about it. They're real and happened to people younger than me. This movie was about conflict between the Tutsi's and the Hutus. There we the rebels, which included child soldiers. The topic of child soldiers real interests me. Children waaay younger than me are taught to kill. I remember Mr. Alger saying how they put these children on cocaine and booze. I'm sure that child soliders can connect to education. But i'll do that another time. Romeo Dallaire is a peacekeeper sent to Rwanda for a peacekeeping mission. The movie is really graphic and it shows some disturbing scenes. It was a really good movie that kept you thinking. It was really sad seeing dead bodies and what Dalliare had to deal with. 

Between April 6 and July 16, 1994, 100 days - about 800,000 men, women and children were brutally killed in the country of Rwanda. Many horrifically hacked to death with machetes - were Tutsi, and moderate Hutus who supported them. A Canadian Lieutenant General, Roméo Dallaire was tasked by the UN to ensure that peace was maintained in Rwanda. He was unsupported by the U.N. headquarters and its Security Council in New York. Dallaire and the handful of soldiers with him were incapable of stopping the genocide. Ten years later of mental torture, reliving the horrors daily and more than once attempting suicide, Roméo Dallaire has poured out his soul in an extraordinary book, Shake Hands With The Devil. The top UN officials, expedient Belgian policy makers and senior members of the Clinton administration chose to do nothing as Dallaire pleaded for reinforcements and revised rules of engagement. He was convinced that, with a few thousand more troops , he could have stopped the killings. His impotence, at that time of extreme crisis, preys on his conscience still. Shake Hands With The Devil is the most powerful documentary produced about Rwandan genocide. Hard-hitting. This is for viewers throughout the world who care about human rights and international justice. I`m still in love with this movie and forever will be. The fact that it`s true, just scares me ): He is forever my hero <3 The first ever Canadian film that was good. I really need to find this DVD.

OMGSH HAITI! ARE YOU OKAY?!

A man uses a shovel to clear mud and water from his house, dumping it into the street in the older part of the flood-damaged city of Gonaïves, Haiti.

A summary of an article I found on the conditions of Haiti's school district prior to disasters that have recently struck the area. Haiti’s flood-damaged schools struggle to reopen. Four successive storms covered homes, streets and population in mud. The results were so devastating,the start of school was delayed by a month throughout the country. Education can act as a stabilizing force for communities both during and after a crisis. It helps to rebuild countries after emergencies. A new national deadline fast approaching, makes it unclear how many students will be returning to school. About 200 schools need to be cleaned and 100 to rehabilitate and over 20 to rebuild entirely,” said the Departmental Director at the Ministry of Education. “We are starting all over again.”

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Education brings hope to Haiti’s children. ‘Let us not lose any more’ - Edward Carwardine

In the picture above, kids gather a L'Institution Sacre Coeur for the starts of lessons, as schools in Port-au-Prince begin to reopen 3 months after the earthquake that shattered much of Haiti. Physical and human loss is still apparent even three months after the devastating earthquake hit Haiti. Hundreds of thousands remain homeless, scared of returned to their homes.Tents and shelters fill the few open spaces available. Children lost their schools, teachers, friends, possessions and pets. UNICEF faces enormous  tasks: retrieving safe water and adequate sanitation, safeguarding the health and nutrition of affected children, and protecting those who have lost parents or are at increased risk of harm. An important step is being taken – a step that may give some hope to more than a million children touched by this disaster. This week, many schools around Port-au-Prince are beginning to reopen their doors. About 50% of school-age children in Haiti didn't attend school prior to the earthquake. But many children here, even those who hadn't attended school before say they want nothing more than to receive an education so that they can help to fix their country. For the generation of children who will mark time by this natural disaster, it is important that they remember the post-quake era as one not just of recovery, but of development. -------------------------------------------------------------------

      

Children walk from a UNICEF-supplied school tent at L'Institution Sacre Cœur in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.

The process of returning children to schools has required weeks of effort, involving the Haitian Ministry of Education, UNICEF, other NGOs such as Save the Children, and local school directors, teachers and parents. 3,000 school tents have been made available to provide interim classrooms. School supplies have been delivered to learning spaces in camps and former schools ready to begin classes again. Teachers have received rapid orientation on a new curriculum to help kids back into the learning process. Unemployed Haitians have begin recruited to clear rubble for tents to be erected. At the Institution Sacre Cœur, one of the schools destroyed on the hillside, about 1,500 students are coming back to classes including, 300 children from other schools in the area that cannot be brought back into use. Sacre Cœur is a fee-paying school. But, for these new students, fees will be waived. Parents contributed to costs of wooden classrooms, which will supplement the tents provided by UNICEF. Water and sanitation facilities are being established, in a partnership between UNICEF and Technical Cooperation and Development. The school building razed during the earthquake, stands today a symbol of Haitians helping Haitians, the international community collaborating with the Haitian people, for the betterment of the nation’s children. The opening of the school is a symbol of hope to those children who've lost so much that efforts are being made to restart the path to some normality, some degree of confidence and security, despite all that has happened.