Been a while since i've posted on here and a lot has been going on in my life.

However, the most important I want to share with everyone is - my charity website.

www.mycharitywater.org/dropoflife

I set up the site to help bring awareness to 3rd world countries and the children starving on clean drinking water.

I hope to raise a suffificent amount to reach as many kids as I can.

So far, I've reached 20 childrean and raised $405/-.

I sure hope anyone reading this will check out the website listed above and donate - no matter how small or big.
It is my gift to the world for my 25th birthday.

I hope this works!

B

.7.

HAPPINESS

What a great word! what a great feeling!

The definition of happiness can only be defined by each and every individual based on their life, their struggles, and their successes and failures.

A good friend of mine is testing this theory out through her new blog space at

http://thehappinessproject.blog.ca

Not only is it an innovative idea, it is psychologically the best medicine one can offer another individual in their every day lives.

So check it out! You'll never know what inspiration it may bring to you =)

.6.

YAY!!! I graduated! =)



Ten weeks later! I've finally completed the first CLC Course. The most thrilling aspect of the whole journey was becoming President of the executive team and organizing the graduation event. It was definitely something to remember and cherish for years to come.
I'm patiently waiting to sign into CLC 2. However, with the long waiting list of previous students, lets see what happens!!

.5.

This past week I was privvy to a conversation with a mutual friend from our education system. I was completely baffled by the feedback. It seems the system has now different segments than just applied or academic and special-ed. There is vocational, and basic. Vocational where I believe teachers talk for 76 mins per class and basic where everything is pretty much dumbed down to even perhaps get a student to escape by reading at textbook (IEP? method); they can get their teacher to read to them!

Now apart from this, it seems that politics is a never ending battle in every aspect of life, including education. There are favoritisms and bump-ups. Whether a lot of us like to admit it or not "networking" or as I like to think of it as "kissing ass to earn a job" method is actually successful.
However, the education system overrules anything and everything because kissing up can also correlate to many years of hours of service being put in, which plays a great factor.

Then we have the bump-ups. Sad to say that teachers/principal/counselors/the entire education board does not really care about the future of our kids. All they do care about is continuous success in staying open. I mean there some kids who are possibly on the brink of failure every single time but principals/counselors/etc. will encourage teachers to "bump-up" the mark for them to pass and leave high school. Sometimes, teachers get over-ruled and the change in grade is automatically made.

Now, there's the education board as stated above and then we have the student aspect. Students are getting dumber and dumber by the minute. They cant spell, read, or write to save their lives. How is it that they advance to universities/colleges. In fact, the education system also has a format for students to simply get a Certificate to pass and leave high school, but it gets them nowhere but to the front line of manual labor work at factories.

On top of that, students have the attitude of a bull. They are ridiculously stubborn and mouthy and have no respect for themselves or their peers. Students seem to believe that they come first in everything without any effort or focus, but all they really are as my friend says is "a waste of space" in a classroom environment.