Gainers

“It feels natural to be fat” Donna Simpson. How is that possible? You weren’t born fat, so how can that feel natural? Is feeling natural not being able to stand up, or not being able to look after your kid because you are too busy eating you life away? Everyone is different, but I don’t think that it is possible to feel natural and be fat. I don’t think that there should be anything done because you can eat as much as you want.

Donna Simpson doesn’t look after her health anymore. Instead she spends her life eating to become the fattest person ever to live. At the age of forty two it is not the most responsible thing to do when you have a daughter that needs care and support. It is not fair for her daughter to watch her mother eat herself sick all for a title of being the fattest person ever. Honestly I don’t see the point from all of this gaining weight, what is so great about being the fattest person ever? What does she gain from this, other than weight?

Day by day, more people are becoming morbidly obese and it is not a healthy thing for them, or their families. Through their experiences with their parents becoming fat, more and more children are becoming overweight too. Kids are now faced with an unhealthy future. “A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.” Norman Reilly Raine

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I commented on Fabe's blog

Too much homework????

Kids spend most of their days at school. Everyday they work their tails off learning knew things. Their lives are full of tests, quizzes, and TONS of homework. Now as an adult, you must remember the work load and how stressful it was for you. I personally, as a young adult, think that children shouldn’t get as much homework as they do.

Seven hours and forty five minutes we spend at school. Is it really fair to have all this time PLUS hours worth of homework? Young children can’t be expected to cover this much material and then have to go over all of it at home again. In 1999 nine to twelve year old's spent five and a half hours doing homework each week. Don’t you think that is a little much for developing minds? These are just kids and the amount of homework they are getting is at an all time high. For adolescents, they spend up to fifteen hours a week doing homework instead of enjoying time with buddy's.

To me this is such an unfair amount of pressure that has been dumped onto children. How are they supposed to go outside and get fresh air, or hang out with their friends? They can’t do that and their homework all in one night. We have to stop and think about how much kids are missing out on because they are too bust studying for a test, or doing another boring worksheet. These kids are our future.

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I commented on Alex Garcia's blog.

Everyone has the right to their own religious beliefs, but why are we being forced, as SJK students, to attend this chapel service every Friday afternoon? Singing hymns and praising God is not everyone’s belief. Maybe it is because our school is Anglican, but not everyone has to be Anglican to attend this school. I would like to know why we don’t have a choice.
Its not fair to those people who are not believers to have to put up with Evensong because it could be offending to them. People who are Muslim, Buddhist practice differently and they shouldn’t have to practice this too.

Young adults are usually undecided about which religion they are. I am sure that there is some Athiests in our school and they have to put up with our Evensong and Religious Knowledge classes. How is this fair to the youth of SJK? I know your thinking, well its just a chapel service, but it’s more than that. It’s that us as kids attending this school are powerless against chapel. There is nothing we can do to have a choice against whether we, as individuals, want to take part in it or not.

If you are a teacher reading this, think about when you were young. Did you believe what we have to believe? Think about how powerless you were and how much you wanted to have a choice whether to attend this chapel service.

“What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand.” ADLAI STEVENSON

Best City Ever

The excitement of traveling to a new place is almost unbearable. As we entered the plane to fly to a new and unfamiliar place, I was almost overflowing with excitement. What will this new place be like? The plane finally takes off and my family and I were set on your adventure to New York City. Waiting on the aircraft has always been dreadful. The awful smell of the food is discomforting, the humidity is almost overpowering, yet, we manage to sit through it.

Oh the time is here. After and hour and a half it is landing time at last. The sharp downward turns are exhilarating, and the descent is stomach turning. The wheels of the aircraft sweep the runway and soon enough we were back on solid land. The seatbelt light dings off and you are free to exit the plane. The first whiff of the New York air sent goose bumps running through my body. Every day, when we would walk through the city, I smelled the same thing...hot dogs. I will never forget that mouth-watering smell.

At the end of the week after seeing the Empire State Building, cheering for Canada at a hockey game, shopping at Macy’s, sauntering down 5th Ave.., going to a musical, being shoved around walking in Times Square, spotting the Statue of Liberty, learning at the Museum of Natural History, remembering the tragedies of 9/11 at Ground Zero, having an amazing dinner in little Italy, hiking through central park we were in terrible pain. There are two great things about New York City. One, it gets you into good shape because you have to walk everywhere, or if your lazy you take a cab. Two, you get soo tired from walking everywhere.

In all my life I have never seen such an amazing city. There is no word to describe how much fun that trip was. If I were to recommend an educational and entertaining holiday, New York City would be number one on my list.

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I commented on Lauren's blog