Texting Ted Talk

I recently watched the ted talk about texting. It talked about how they ran a company that helped schools with campaigns. At first they would contact the students via email. Then they switched to texting and the found it much more effective, in the way that students actually replied and more students got involved. But then they started getting students texting them about their problems. So they decided to make another hotline for distressed text messages. I think this is very helpfull because teens feel a lot more comfrotable and I think that a lot more problems will get talked about or solved with this texting hotline.

V for Vendetta

I really loved the movie V for Vendetta. I thought it was really cool how one person can have such a big impact on one country. One of the themes of the movies is Government. I've been really thinking about the movie and the government. One of the things I came to realize is that there is no best form of government. I mean no matter what way people rule a country, there's always going to be a group of people that are un happy. For example if you had a total didcatorship, the leader could be a total ass and nobody would like him. But if you had a pure democracy, some people may make stupid decisions and a group of people would be unhappy. However both of my examples are polar opposites. So maybe somewhere in the middle would work? I really don't know.

KCI Outreach

I'm planning on taking the KCI outreach course next year and I am really looking forward to it. I like the whole aspect of helping third world countries. I mean we have so much money and they have so little. It doesn't seem fair that we have so much money to waste on things and they barely have enough to live off of. I'm really looking forward in helping out in Chile and locally too. People often overlook that there are also very poor people locally too.

FFP

I really enjoy being in the course. There is not much that I would change. I like that we have the freedom to choose what we do for our projects. It's very assuring that you can choose because you know that you won't have to do a really boring project or a project that you don't understand.

How Do Men and Women Love

I think women love differently then men because men are a lot more simple then men. Women's love is different because they like all the small intimate things that men don't understand or see. When a guy loves a girl he just wants to spend time with her, he doesn't care what their doing he justs wants to be with her. Girls want it to be romantic and like they always had dreamed of, but what they don't realize is the most romantic thing for a guy is spending time with his love regardless of whether or not it's "romantic" or not.

Music

To me music is a way of getting away. When life gets hard nothing feels better than tuning out the world and listening to say some Nirvana while you just forget about all your troubles. When your happy and life is going good then it's fun to listen to some warm happy music. Making and listening are the best things to express your feelings

thoughts

I hate it how just cause I'm a teenager everybody thinks I'm bad. Whenever I got into a corner store or something with my friends they follow us around to make sure we're not stealing or they will make us take off our bags at the front. I feel like I've been labeled just because of my age and it's not fair.

dude, let us sleep

I think that sleeping in msip should be allowed. Msip is a period where you can do your homework and get caught up. But when you are done all your work there is nothing to do. Whenever I'm done all my work I just like to rest and lay my head down, but then I get yelled at! you need the most amount of sleep when you are a teenager. Since most people in highgschool are teens, let us sleep in msip if all our work is done.

Grand River Hospital

I think it's really low that the staff at the hospital made those videos. The people there that are ill can't help that they're that way. And it is deffinetely unacceptable for the staff to make fun of them. In my opinion all the staff held responsible should be fired.

French in Highschools

I still think we should have to learn French in highschool. Regardless of the history behind Canada, fact of the matter is we are still right beside the french speaking Quebec. So it's beneficial to know french for visiting. Also it's one of our National languages. I know that in the Southern States they have to learn Spanish because they are so close to Mexico. So it makes sense that we learn french.

Peter Braid Visists KCI

I kind of feel bad saying this but I have to admit when Peter Braid spoke at KCI, some of the things he said made me lose some respect. Well not really what he said but more or less what he didn't say. Whenever someone brought up a question he didn;t know the answer he would just ramble on about something else or change the subject. The same goes for when someone said something he didn't agree with.

Carrie Snyder

I think it was really inspirational to meet Carrie Snyder. She wrote a book about a child whose parents went to Africa to protest a war. and it's really cool because she was that child. I think stories are even better when they are stories that actually happened to the story teller. I think being a writer is a very hadr job. You have to be very creative! Also you  have to a have a lot of patience because it's a very long porcess writing and publishing a book. From my understanding it is somewhat hard to make a living from Writing unless you  are really good.