I finished my math and psych classes this weekend. I think I secured A’s in both though it’s hard to tell with my psych class. The last test I took was lost by a third party. My instructor is trying to locate it but if she doesn’t find it she said she will figure out my grade without it since I took the test and it’s not my fault it was lost. These last two weeks have been hell. I don’t know how or why I’m so busy lately but I haven’t been home much and it’s starting to wear on the kids. After this week, things should get back to a somewhat normal state. My next two classes, Sociology and Lifespan Psych, start on the 12th of April. They should be fairly interesting but they both have a lot of reading and writing. I’m also taking 4 summer classes so I can start the Social Work program in the Fall. I love being in school. Being a student makes me feel like such a productive person although it can be overwhelming at times.
I watched Thomas Friedman’s “Searching for the Roots of 9/11” last night. It was so good and made so much sense. I really wish every American would watch it. We need to become more aware of how our foreign policy effects how we are viewed by the rest of the world. Americans like to be ignorant and believe that people hate America for all these superficial reasons when it’s really not true. The real problem is the double standards we set. We expect every nation to fall in line the U.S. yet we won’t even meet them half way on issues that are important to them. So now we know and understand the problem how do we correct it? First get rid of Dubya! Then we have to start educating people on what goes on around the world. I have heard people ask why we would even want UN approval of this war. Basically, saying screw the rest of the world we are the almighty U.S. and we will do what we want (which we’ve sadly done). We need to educate people to understand the reasons for the UN and what it means to be a member of a global community. All American’s need to make educated and informed decisions when voting. We need to help people to understand not to vote based on one issue. If we truly want to be safe then we need to be involved in what goes on not only at home but internationally.
I love Spring! I took Jaycie and Max to the park. Mostly because I need to pull myself away from the war coverage. Also because Jaycie was so cranky I thought I would cheer her up. Jaycie befriended to little girls and of course played princess with them. Max was desperately trying to befriend everyone. Every child he met he screamed, “Hello! My name is Maxwell!” It was quite funny. Then I was forced off the swings by the kids. I had to squash my resentment for not being able to be selfish about the whole thing. I had to swallow back screaming, “I was here first.” So I was a big person about it and gave them all pushes on the swing while Max screamed, “That’s my Mom. Her real name is Ericka.” It was such a good time. The only part I don’t like is having to talk to other kids’ moms. I have such a hard time dealing with other parents at preschool too. I don’t know why it freaks me out but it does. I think I’m out of practice with dealing with new people since everyone I talk to I already know. I’m just terrible with the whole small talk stuff.
34 Million Friends Campaign- Two women working together to raise $34 million to cover for the $34 million dollars Dubya took away from the UN Population fund. True Majority is also involved.
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A CITIZENS’ DECLARATION
As a US-led invasion of Iraq begins,
we, the undersigned citizens of many countries,
reaffirm our commitment to addressing international
conflicts through the rule of law and the United Nations.
By joining together across countries and continents,
we have emerged as a new force for peace.
As we grieve for the victims of this war,
we pledge to redouble our efforts to put an end to the Bush
Administration’s doctrine of pre-emptive attack and
the reckless use of military power.
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Yesterday, I watched Thomas L. Friedman, a New York Times columnist, on Oprah. He has made a documentary called “Searching for the Roots of 9/11″. He reports from several different middle eastern countries and asks regular people why they think 9/11 happened and why they think there is so much hatred towards the U.S. It’s going to be on the Discovery channel starting Mar. 26 and then a couple of times after that. From what I saw from the clips on Oprah it seems to be a very thought provoking film. Hopefully a lot of people will watch it and we can really start thinking about how the U.S. is viewed from the outside. So many people think it’s ok to just go busting into countries regardless of what the consequences are. So many people don’t care about the innocent Iraqi citizens who are going to be killed or the other countries we are endangering by invading Iraq. We don’t care about any country but ours. We don’t care if we aren’t a member of the global community because we will just use force whenever things aren’t going exactly the way we want them. We want our allies to join us in this war/conflict but yet we don’t back them on the environment or on ABM treaty. Dubya wants everything his way and screw the rest of the world. It makes me sick. It makes me ashamed.
Here’s a brand new site Jodi sent me.
Peaceblogs.org is a site devoted to making connections between bloggers who oppose the impending war against Iraq. Regardless of your ideology or political affiliation, your nation of origin, or the size or scope of your site, if you oppose the war and use your weblog to express that opposition, your site is welcome among our listings.
“The Chippewa Valley area is becoming known as the “Silicon Valley” of the Midwest because of the many computer related industries in the area.”
I seen this on the Chippewa School website. Funny stuff…but probably only if you are from there. Trust me…it’s funny!