Service

The community service project really stuck with me. I never really was interested in partaking in community service but im really glad we had this project. Going to winchester house really showed me a different type of person. I have never really been around elderly people..other than my family members. Seeing how they acted around eachother was very intersting. One lady wasyelling at a man because he kept hitting the ball before it got to her in table ball..and seeing the competitiveness of bingo was interesting. I will definatly continue doing community service!

Poverty

The movie with we watched this week really has had me thinking. I've been thinking about how good we all acutally have it here. We dont live paycheck to paycheck and we get buy food whenever we are hungry. Morgan Spurlock (i think thats his last name..) and his girlfriend's experience has really opened my eyes. The past couple days I've been concentrating less on the matieral things I have. Ive really thought about how lucky I am to have 5 computers in my house, when many dont even have one.

Also, our discussion about drugs was very interesting. I do agree with Sal on his frustration on not understanding why weathly middle class teenagers feel the need to do drugs. We have everything. I myself have never even thought about ever doing/trying a drug or even smoking. I think its all very stupid and pointless. I think the students at Stevenson who use drugs are just wasting their parents money that they have worked for and using it because they are selfish and want the high.

Location

I am blogging about my experience at the badminton state tournmant from this weekend. When I was there, I was looking at the various teams school names. I realized that every single team was from northern Illinois. For this competition to be the "State" tournament, you would think there would be teams from all over the state. A strange example is my teammates played their semi-final game against buffalo grove. So we had to travel 4 hours to play a team that is 10 minutes away from Stevenson. I guess this means that badminton is acutally only located in northern Illinois. There has to be some sort of sociological explaination to this why badminton is only played around here. Why arent there teams in southern Illinois? It just doenst make much sense to me.

money

I think what we learned about with the social class was very internesting. I always knew that buffalo grove was weathly, but I never would have guessed it is in the upper 90% of the nations money. That really makes me think about how poorly people live. I dont think of my family as rich at all, but we do live comfortably. We never think about the price of our dinner check. But around the country, people have to. I guess we really are lucky for where we live and what are parents do to allow us to live without any fears of not having money tomorrow.