Help for Hati

That song was beautiful. It showed how passionate the artists are, and how much they care about the people of Haiti. I would love to help in any way I can, and donate, but I never seem to have the time, and it's my own fault. I love caring for others and helping them, but it seems like Haiti is just to far away for me, and I forget about it until I see things. I know they are in pain, and I would donate a lot of money if I could, but I spend to much on myself. I recognize this and want to change, and maybe when I'm older and out on my own, I'll help causes like this when I can. But right now, I care about the tings kids care about. Passing school, playing games, talking with friends, avoiding chores and so on. Its just how a lot of teenagers are.

If I really could help, the one thing I would love to do is go over to Haiti and actually help cleanup the city and help people make it through the day. Not as I am now, it would be to much for me. But if I were older, and more settled, like 24, 25, I really would love to go over and help. But sadly, I can only donate, and even that is forgotten in the routine of my life.

Gradebooks

On Friday we got our gradebooks, and it was wonderful. I am currently sitting at above ninety in every class, with my highest mark being a tie between science and social at 94. These are the marks I am most proud of because I thought that science at least would be a bit lower. I struggled a bit in both classes last year, science the most, but I pulled my marks up by the end of the year, made the honour roll, and am aiming for the same thing this year.

What I find strange is that my favourite and best subject is math, yet its only at a 90, 91. While this would be enough for most people, I feel I can do a lot better and am wondering why my mark is where it is. I'm pretty sure its because I make stupid mistakes and don't check, but I don't recall that many.

Overall though, my marks are excellent. I've all 90s, or all As, which every way you want to see it. I don't care how there represented. Marks are marks, whether there experience points, numbers, letters, or stars. Getting high marks secures not only some self-confidence that you can do things, but it also opens up lots of job opportunities.

Spring Break

I didn't do much over Spring break. I stayed up late, slept in late, and played video games in my free time. Sometimes I had to take the dogs for a walk with dad, or go shopping, or some chores, but it wasn't that exciting. I had pizza, drank pop, basically just sat around the house all day, every day. The most exiciting thing that happened was my dad getting stomach sick (woohoo...). Hes recovering slowly.

My mom couldn't eat for two days for a doctors apoitment, and she was severly lacking in energy by the end of it. There were some good things for them though. Saturday night they had a mini party, and I got my favorite pizza cooked. Played more video games, stayed late, etc. It was actually kind of boring in terms of what happened, but the break was a lot of fun.

Students need breaks like this, in order to recouperate, or think about hwat they've learned, or to plan outings with friends they havn't seen for a while. Going with no breaks save Xmas and summer would be just grueling day in day out. Having breaks gives students something to look forward to. It might even make them work harder so that they don't have homework over the break.