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Talking about AIDS -> Facilitation Friday

I decided to pick the topic of AIDS because I felt like it was something I knew a little bit about, but could definitely stand to learn more. Although we’ve come a long way, AIDS still has a stigma because it is a disease transmitted mainly through sex. On top of that, it has always disproportionally affected gay men more than any other demographic. When I was growing up, AIDS wasn’t something that the general public felt it really had to worry about anymore. With increased sexual education and more awareness on how to combat STDs, most people believed that AIDS was a thing of the past. With AIDS being a “non-issue”, a sex issue, and an LGBT issue, it wasn’t something 21st-century kids like me were talked to about. Even growing up in a socially liberal household, I don’t believe I knew what AIDS really was until high school.

On top of that, I don’t think I knew the issues behind AIDS until a year ago. I’ve gained small bits of information over the past year, but the majority of what I know about AIDS I have learned in the past week, both in-class and through a couple documentaries so that I could better understand my topic.

It was hard to choose the questions to ask my class about AIDS, because I knew I couldn’t just ask them “was it wrong to ignore the AIDS crisis?”. There were a lot of really basic questions like that which came to my mind, but I knew those wouldn’t come up with any real conversation. I wanted to make the conversation polarizing, so I had to find questions that would rely on people’s perceptions on history rather than moral dilemmas that most of us would probably be on the same side with. I eventually ended up with these five questions, and with each question, I’ll go over how well it went.

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Wikihow: How to Understand a Historical Event in 6 Easy Steps

For the past 6 classes, we’ve been preparing for our History portion of the year. Of course, our teachers were chilling in SoCal for these 6 classes, so we had to teach ourselves. To be fair, we were actually teaching each other, and then playing a kahoot to make sure we got it. (shout out to the one group that didn’t make a kahoot for following their own path). We proved to each other that we understood, but now we have to prove it to our teachers that we understood (or at least took notes).

I decided that to show my understand, I would make a comic. I’ve been reading a lot of comics lately, so it seemed appropriate. I’ve mostly been reading Spiderman comics. As a tangent, I will rank all the Spiderman series I have read so far. I added links so you can read them, if you want to. (Disclaimer: I haven’t read every issue of every series, but enough to know how much I like it)

  1. Spider-Man (2016)

This is the current “Spider-Man” comic. It features a teenaged Miles Morales, rather than Peter Parker (who still exists in this universe, this takes place alongside The Amazing Spider-Man (2015), and is very relationship driven. It doesn’t have as much action as some of the other comics, but it’s interesting as it’s very different from a lot of the other comics. Probably because it has a different main character who, while has many of the same mannerisms and goals as Peter Parker, has a different backstory that allows for the character to work outside of the limits of orphanisms.

2. Spidey (2016)

Spidey is fun. It’s very classic “teen Peter Parker” and has the same basic storyline as people expect from Spiderman (i.e the storyline from the Tobey Maguire movies). The difference is that this one is modern, which is basically why I like it the most out of all those basic storyline Spiderman comics. It’s not dated, and there’s a lot of jokes that are actually funny. It’s very humor based, and it doesn’t get too serious.

3. Spider-Man/Deadpool (2016)

This one is just funny. It does get a little dramatic, but it’s mostly just funny. I don’t think I would say anything insightful about this comic. Deadpool makes a lot of sexual innuendoes. But don’t worry, Peter Parker is an adult here so it’s not weird. It exists in the same universe as The Amazing Spider-Man (2015) and Spider-Man (2016).

4. The Amazing Spider-Man (2015)

This exists in the same universe as a lot of other Marvel Comics, and because I usually only read Spiderman ones I sometimes get really confused. This is Peter Parker where he’s basically Tony Stark in that he owns a massive company, but nobody knows he’s Spiderman. And he has a complicated relationship with the Avengers. This is a really good comic, but it gets to be in the middle because I get confused a lot.

5. Ultimate Spider-Man (2000)

Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) is incredibly iconic. It’s basically the Tobey Maguire movies in comic form, with a lot extra. I guess I just don’t really like Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker, or maybe it’s too dated for me. This comic is dated in the worst way. It’s like when you watch a sitcom from the early 2000’s and can’t stop cringing cause it’s kind of offensive. Nerd Peter Parker is just so boring to me, and I don’t like reading it.

6. Spider-Man 2099 (2015)

This comic is very different from any of the others I read. It’s like….the year is 2099 and…it’s very science fiction. I don’t really like science fiction in comics. Sorry, not my thing.

7. Spider-Verse (2015)

There’s like, a million spidermen (and women) in this one. It was only two issues, but I still don’t really understand it. Cool concept, though.

Okay, now that my tangent is over, I can show you the comic I made. Although I tried my best, I stuck with very basic art, because I am not an artist. I thought about using clipart, but I thought that stickmen were more authentic and easier to make emote. I think I got across all the information. I didn’t want to go into too much detail because I thought that would be boring and nobody needs that much. Anyways, here is my comic.

Although, now I have to show that I can actually apply these concepts to an event. I picked Columbine because I think it’s an event that can be applied to everything and I find it to be interesting and decently specific. Columbine was the tragic shooting of Columbine High School on April 20th of 1999. Two students when on a shooting spree, killing 13 people and wounding more than 20 others. The students then killed themselves, making the total death toll 15 people. It made a huge impact on America, and fuelled a national debate about gun control that continues to this day. Below are pictures of the two students who carried out the attacks.

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The Columbine school shooting was historically significant in way of culture, politics, and economics. It sparked a national debate on gun control, both in and out of politics. Columbine changed how schools ran in many parts of America, turning many schools, mainly middle schools and high schools, into places of incredibly high security. Culturally, it marked a shift in teenager’s views on certain subcultures. The grunge and goth cultures that grew to prominence throughout the 1980’s and 90’s were now criminalized. Columbine could be pointed to as one of the reasons for the shift of teenager subculture towards a more preppy style in the early 21st century. At the time, the 15 deaths marked it as the deadliest school massacre to occur in modern history (often considered the deadliest, as many people discounted the Bath School Disaster in 1927 due to its nature and lack of historical significance). In 2018, Columbine is the 4th deadliest school shooting in modern history. However, it is often considered to be the first domino that fell in the ongoing struggle that is American school shootings.

The evidence from this event, at least the evidence prevalent at the time of the massacre, is varied in its factuality. There were many factual errors in the New York Times article published after the attack, such as claiming there were “at least 25 deaths”. As the days went on, more evidence came out that was backed up by witness recall and the school security camera footage. The evidence we have today is considered very trustworthy, as it has been backed up by both hard footage and the accounts of dozens of people who were in the school at the time of the attack. The events that occurred on April 20th, 1999, are rarely disputed and widely accepted. I have included the footage in a video below. The video is very graphic and highly disturbing, so watch at your own risk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCqlcG_ZmwE

America has both changed greatly and been at a standstill since 1999. While preventative actions have taken place such as high security at high-risk schools, America has stayed at a standstill for the actual issue of gun control. However, many people believe America’s stance on gun control was cemented in 2012 when a school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary killed 20 first grade children and there was nothing more than a continued debate on gun laws. While some actions have been taken to stop school shootings, 4 shootings similar to the Columbine shooting have taken place within the last six weeks.

What caused these two young men to massacre their own classmates has been disputed since the day of the event, and because the shooters killed themselves on the same day, the causes will likely never be fully understood. At the time, many people but blame on goth culture and violent video games, however, that narrative quickly turned to bullying and mental health. The type of people that the perpetrators were, their reasoning, and simply who they were as people continues to be disputed, and many people believe we will truly never know. However, In some class photos they can be seen pretending to shoot the camera with their friends, which has indicated this attack to be a highly thought out plan.

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To put myself in the shoes of the people of 1999 receiving this news is both difficult and incredibly easy. I will never be able to understand the horror of such horrific events happening in my own country, as they rarely do to the scale that these events occur in America. However, I feel that I can understand the horror of seeing the events unfold. The five worst mass shootings in American history have occurred within my lifetime, two of those being school shootings. Of all these shootings, I remember all but Virgina Tech. While the shootings in 2016 and 2017 have had less impact on me after each one due to the frequency of these events in past years, I do remember the horror of Sandy Hook in 2012. At 12 years old, and a student in an elementary school, I could not help but wonder if this could happen to me. This reaction, I would imagine, was fairly similar to how many children, teenagers, and parents would have felt after the 1999 Columbine shooting.

It is obvious that this event was not ethical, there is no debate on that, and any sane person would tell you that they are horrified by the mere idea of a school shooting. The more important ethical discussion lies in the issue of gun control. I am fully and completely opposed to guns on an ethical level. I believe that a higher amount of gun control is always the best option. While I understand that this is a combination of where and how I was raised, I also believe in looking at the facts. The countries with the highest gun control have less murder and suicide per capita, simply by removing the easiest option. While I understand that there are other arguments for the allowance of guns, I believe that none of them compare to the need of having a safe country for everyone.

UPDATE: ONE WEEK LATER

The attacks on Columbine high school have shown to have an incredible amount of significance carrying through to today. In the past week, there has been a highly deadly massacre at a Florida high school, very similar to the attacks on Columbine. Many students across America feel unsafe, and want to take a stand against gun violence.

Whether it will happen or not, an idea of students walking out of schools on April 20th, the anniversary of the Columbine attacks, has been gaining traction online. Although it is an ambitious plan, and may be more effective in some areas than others, it looks like it may very well happen. Even CNN is reporting on it.

This proves that this event has lead us somewhere. Columbine changed America, in some way. Hopefully, it’s memory can help be the thing to repair the state of gun laws in America.

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I Am Your Host Julie Chen. Welcome To The Big Brother House.

Before I start this post I want to mention that my geography class takes place in the same room as my English class, and today we were sitting in geography when my friend pointed to these projects taped to the wall and said they creeped her out. When I told her that they were made by grade 12, she was seemingly even more creeped out.

That’s all the proof you really need that my class isn’t really full of artistic types.

Anyways, for this assignment, I worked with Stanfield, Spencer, Maria, and Luciano. When tasked with picking a character to do our metaphor man on, we picked quickly.

And then other groups picked our top 3 choices, so we got stuck with Mr. Charrington.

We actually had a benefit in this project, that both I and Luc had already read 1984. That means we should have avoided the second mistake that we made in originally building. We made two large mistakes.

I’m not really sure who to blame the first one on. Basically, we used green paper for a green screen project. Although we didn’t know it was a green screen project yet, so…. more on that later.

Anyways, we when we first started this assignment, we hadn’t finished the book and didn’t know Mr. Charrington was actually a member of the thought police, so when we had the second class period, we had to erase everything and start again.

What we ended up with was splitting Mr. Charrington in half. One side shows his fake “prole” side that we see for most of the novel, and the other side represents his secret identity as a thought police member.

What Each Part Represents

Cane: Mr. Charrington is passing himself off as a frail old man.

Outturned Pocket: He has no money.

Patches on Clothes: He cannot afford nice things/they’re not available to him.

Cutout on Hand: This was supposed to be the blue antique paperweight Winston buys, however, we had to use a blue screen so it cut out.

Cutout of Heart: This has a few representations. The heart is on the wrong side of his body because his heart is “in the wrong place”, and Big Brother is peaking out because his heart shows his true self.

Tears: Mr. Charrington is lonely because his wife died.

Ball and Chain: Like the rest of Oceania, Mr. Charrington is trapped in his boring routine of life.

Red Fist: The red fist of oppression.

Face: On the left side, Mr. Charrington has a kinder face, and on the right, it’s much more stoic and somewhat resembles 1940’s and 50’s dictators.

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The video is shaky and kind of awful, but it’s because we had to make a tiny blue screen….I am sorry.

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This Post Sucks! No It Doesn’t!

Public speaking is a weakness for some people and a strength for others. When it comes to myself, I can’t decide if it is either. I’m not afraid of getting up in front of people and giving my opinion, but that can almost be a weakness when I’m not carefully thinking about what I say before it comes out of my mouth. Although, with this specific assignment, that was probably a good thing, because you probably didn’t have to time to think before you spoke anyways.

The way this project was presented made it nearly impossible to prepare like you would for a normal debate. We didn’t know our questions beforehand, and we had to think up all our examples and answers on the spot. Oh, and who won was pretty subjective. It was based on judges who didn’t truly understand the assignment and an audience who just voted for their own kids.

When it comes down to it, these were not debates. They were informal arguments. I’m pretty sure the point of the assignment was to assess our public speaking, and not our debate skills, so the actual project seemed to suffer. Anybody who had any fear of public speaking would not go up and say anything because they didn’t have much time to go off of. It is because of this reason that my group’s first and only debate ended up just being a screaming match between me and Matthew Seed.

I still believe that my team should have won because my arguments were better than his, and he contradicted himself at least three times. However, he took advantage of the audience vote by delivering zingers instead of actual points. This won him the argument because I got caught in a loop of trying to derail all his random points while he just threw out more.

The same issue occurred in the second debate we did. In the “losers” debate, my team again lost because we got attacked by zingers and those debates were decided only by audience vote. What I can say is that the team that won the whole thing did win by actually debating correctly.

My point isn’t that I’m mad that I lost because we didn’t deserve to win those debates in those formats. Although, they were not debates, and I’m pretty aware that being debates was not the point of them. It was for an exhibition, therefore it was designed to be entertaining. However, if the teachers were to do this same assignment again, I would hope they would take these concerns into account. I don’t like the idea of teaching these as debates because they are not. They are not debates in the same way that the 2016 presidential election didn’t hold a single debate.

Although we see it all the time in our class, and on YouTube, and in politics, I am appalled at the fact that anyone would be taught that a roast counts as an intellectual debate. If you want to teach public speaking, teach public speaking, but do not use it to create a world where we are brought up to believe that anything like that should be okay in a formal setting. If we decide we believe in that, we have truly lost our democracy.

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Here’s My Canada: My Story

I had a completely different plan for this video. Although, there is a problem with my brain. If I have a vision in my head, and I cannot make that vision come to life…well, then I can’t use that idea at all without thinking it’s absolutely terrible. So after an hour of filming and realizing that idea is never going to work, I had to think of something else. Fast.

The first thing I did was try to get inspiration from my footage roll. I figured I must have some video of Canda somewhere, so I dug out my hard-drive.

As it turns out, I have footage of every place I’ve ever been that’s not in Canada. I have Disneyland, Disneyworld, Seattle, NYC, Honduras, Oregon, The South. I even have Alaska! But I literally never film anything in Canada, because I don’t feel the need to remember anything here, because why would I?

Then I remembered that I actually do film my life, and so does nearly every single person I know. All the best bits of my day-to-day life are saved right in my Snapchat memories folder. So I went looking through my Snapchat memories to find the best things I could that would represent my life. It was simultaneously easier and harder than I thought. I put all the stuff I thought was good into iMovie, except I then learned I had picked over 5 minutes of footage for a 30 second video. To fix this, I first axed everything that was only funny because of the audio, or said anything even slightly bad in it (there wasn’t a lot of that, because my life isn’t very exciting). Then I just had to cut down and rearrange the video until it made sense.

But then I really wanted it to feel like you were watching my Snapchat story, so I wanted to do a screencap of my phone. I didn’t know how to do this and I panicked for a second when I look it up and it said that I would have to jailbreak my phone. But then, I realized all that I had to do was plug my phone into my computer and use Quicktime. So that was a LOT easier than I thought it was going to be. The other thing I had to do was put my name and “2m ago” in the corner of the video, which was easy cause all I did was download some video making app called Vont and use that.

Originally, I wanted to put voice over over top of my video, but I decided that wouldn’t make as much sense with this kind of video, as I felt it kind of spoke for itself. So instead, I decided to find some creative commons music and put that over top. I think I found some that more or less expressed the mood I was going for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTcZnTEt1qo

I don’t really think this video will win, because whoever is judging this might not like it very much.

Then again, even our Prime Minister uses Snapchat.

Although I honestly really don’t care if it wins, because I like it a lot and think it really expresses what My Canada is.

UPDATE: Here’s my video on the site!! Go vote for me!

http://www.heresmycanada.ca/videos/heres-my-canada-my-story-2/

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The Concept of Intuiton

Surviving a war can be based on a number of things. Strength, luck, and circumstance can be major factors in living through rough times. Over that, there is one thing that helps us all yet is hard to explain. Human intuition determines nearly everything we do, even if only indirectly. We sometimes aren’t able to recognize this in our lives, because of the way it is viewed in our society. We are taught to not trust our instincts and use logic instead, although there are times when instinct is all you have.

When WWII veteran Helmut came to our class to tell his story,  he talked about a few things that related to the power of intuition. Everything from turning right instead of left, and staying still instead of running boils down to our instincts, because they are our immediate response. There is even a mixture of instinctive thinking and deliberate thinking. Because of Helmut’s intuitive thinking that his mother needed him, he made the decision to go find his mother. This instinct to return home changed the course of his own life and his mother’s life forever, as when Helmut made it home, his mother was quite sick. She truly did need her son in that time, and

Human instinct is based on recognition of patterns, which is something that is often picked up by our unconscious mind and body before it appears in our conscious thoughts.

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SLC 2k17

Okay, what do you want me to say this time?

I’ve done four of these, and I know that there are certain things I am expected to say. I’m supposed to talk about things I could improve, and things I’m doing well at. I’m supposed to tell you my goals and how I am going to go about achieving them. I can’t do that again because it wouldn’t be real, but I can’t defend myself because I know I can be better. I know that I technically could do better. That’s something that goes for everything.

The difference is that part of me can’t do any better. I don’t know how to describe it, but I can try really hard and still fail really badly and a lot of the time it seems like I’m the only person that happens to. Everybody I know seems to have so much talent and intelligence that they always just know what to do to succeed and I’m just not there. Which sucks.
If I’m being honest, I feel like I’m the only person I know who can try my hardest and still fail. Statistically, I know that’s obviously stupid and cannot be true, but to me, it seems like when anyone else tries really hard, they always do well. That doesn’t always happen for me. Sometimes it feels like the only solution to this is to

This song actually really represents my feelings a lot of the time, especially the line “it’s not really failure if you’re not even trying”, because although a lot of the stuff I do is like, fine, that’s all it ever seems to be. It’s especially discouraging when I try really hard on something and it still doesn’t show. It’s discouraging when all I can say about my work is that I handed in it.

I don’t want it to sound like I’m defending myself, because I’m really not. I think that if I slept less and stayed home more that I might start making stuff that was better, but I’m worried that if I did that I would sacrifice my happiness because I need sleep. I think I tend to get sick when I don’t get as much of it. Except I don’t know what to do at this point because all of a sudden my grades matter and I know that they’re not good enough, and all of a sudden I have to care about my grades. I’ve always said that grades won’t define my life but all of a sudden it feels like they will, which I think is stupid. I think they shouldn’t. And the fact that I have to stress myself out over these numbers and then pay people to learn the things I’m actually interested in makes me equally angry and terrified.

So I’m at a crossroad here. I would sell my soul if I was able to get good grades and still take regular naps, but I don’t think that’s possible anymore. Which sucks, but I think that I can do it. I worked at a place that caused me emotional stress for two years because I cared about being a good employee and I needed to prove to myself I could do it. If I could do that, I can do this.

I can do this. So I’ll set some goals. Whatever. There are some goals I have that I think will actually improve my work a lot without being weird and deep personal goals.

I want to get better at video editing. I’ve found that this is something that is holding me back by an insane amount. I can put my heart and soul into something and still not have it look as good as some people in this class spending half an hour on stuff. I also always manage to somehow screw up my video projects in multiple ways simply because I don’t have the technical skills. I know that it kind of looks like I’m not trying very hard on these things because they really do look half-assed, but it’s really just that I am lacking the skills needed to make them look good. It’s a huge knowledge gap for me that I’ve realized isn’t going to come naturally. Because I know that it will actually help, a lot, it’s something that I am willing to commit more time to.

I want to have better ideas, and be more creative. It seems to me like part of the reason that my work is never very great is that it’s not interesting or funny and it doesn’t always have personality. Of course, I find this hard to do because I don’t find all of the same stuff funny as a lot of my classmates. I have a lot of different opinions on what’s good and what’s not, but since everybody else’s seems to always work better, maybe I should stop trusting my instincts.

I hope that wasn’t too depressing. Soz.

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The Power of Being Uncomfortable

History was made in the deep south during the 1800’s with the civil war, and again in the 1950’s and 60’s with the civil rights movement. When I was standing in the places where the history happened so long ago, I could feel it. The air was heavy (with both humidity and history) and the ground felt packed with stories and riddled with purpose.

I learnt a lot on this trip. I was taught about what’s important and about change and told dozen of stories. This trip to the south showed me resilience in it’s true form. I met incredible people and left very inspired; but I also left feeling changed. The funny part is, the change and the inspiration didn’t come hand in hand. The inspiration is something that came from the big picture of where I was, and who I met. The change in perspective came from something else entirely.

There were a few things that I noticed down south that were very hard to swallow. The first was that they don’t recycle. I’ve been to place that had no recycling system once before, and it was very close to where I was this time. About four years ago in Florida, my family had separated our garbage from recycling for the two weeks we had been on vacation. When we went to go dispose of the bags, my sister and I were both mortified to find only trash bins. I don’t remember a world without recycling, it’s always been something that’s been drilled into me at both school and at home. My parents tell me they’ve recycled, in different ways, their whole lives. In my mother’s childhood, they didn’t have weekly pickup, but everything was reused. Their pop bottles were glass, and they would get them refilled at the store. It seems like these southern towns, both big and small, don’t have either the reuse method my parents grew up on or the recycling one I’ve been taught. They progressed past the reuse and went to the one time use without learning the proper disposal methods, and it makes me wonder how much southern children are taught about keeping our planet green.

In small town Mississippi, I wasn’t necessarily as uncomfortable more than I was amazed. We made a pit stop at a gas station, and the minute we stepped out of that van we were all completely out of our element. I could see two confederate flags from the middle-of-nowhere old gas station, there were two stray dogs hanging out in the sun, and a horse ten feet away from us. There was an old unoccupied building stating it was a laundromat and had video games (fancy). The man who owned the horse then came out of his house to greet us, and said the only thing that made me think I hadn’t time traveled back to the year 1978, and it was that his horse had a facebook page.

The environment I experienced in that short pitstop was unlike anything I had ever really seen before. I didn’t think places like that actually still existed, but a horse and a shirtless 70 year old man had proved me wrong. Although this might all fall in within the stereotype of the small southern town, nothing that I saw there was anything I expected. I had no idea that places like that still existed, and that made me realize that not all of America is like Washington and California, or even Vancouver. Somehow, it’s almost if Mississippi is 40 years behind.

In Selma, I met my next uncomfortable topic. In a tour off the town headed by a woman who grew up there, Joanne Bland. I saw a world I had never seen outside of fictionalized stories. And for the lack of a better word, I am going to use a word that makes me very uncomfortable. A word I am aware is stigmatized and I probably should avoid, but it’s still the first word that came to mind when I entered the area. So for the sake of honesty, I had entered the “ghetto”. The ghetto or projects or whatever you want to call it was scary for me. When we drove in, Ms. Bland told us not to “act like tourists” or we’ll be shot. I know she was joking (or at least, I’m pretty sure), but gun violence isn’t something that people in Vancouver joke about, so it caught me a little bit off guard. It was scary for me to be there, I had never been in a place like that before. I guess the closest would be the downtown east side, and I’m not afraid of the east side.

Not until about a day and a half later did I realize the true uncomfortableness of the “ghetto”. What’s bad about the ghetto isn’t the reasons I was afraid when I was actually there. What’s bad about it is the fact that it exists. Or, that it had to be created in the first place. Those people in those small apartments didn’t chose to be there, they’re smart people. In fact, Ms. Bland told us that the school that takes in all the kids from those buildings has the highest testing scores in the whole state. People in those projects aren’t stupid, but once you’re put in there it’s hard to get out. Really hard. Then I realized who put those people in those projects. It was my people, the white people, that put them in such bad situations.

Maybe this shouldn’t be such a shock to me. Maybe I should have thought about this long ago, but it was something I didn’t realize until I saw it with my own two eyes. I felt bad about it, and then I felt some kind of weird guilt about it. I’ve gotten over that now because guilt solves nothing, and nothing there was directly my fault. However, that doesn’t meant I want to ignore it. The uncomfortableness of all this was a good thing, because everything that really happens happens because people are uncomfortable. White people being uncomfortable with black people brought oppression, but black people being uncomfortable with how they were treated brought civil rights. It’s the same thing with the transgender bathroom laws right now, or even veganism (which seems to be a big controversy right now).

Being uncomfortable was what made me realize what the problems are, but if I don’t deal with my uncomfortableness the right way, I could end up on the wrong side of history. I have to be okay with being uncomfortable and learning from my experiences, or nothing will change. And the more I accept what’s uncomfortable, the more I know what needs to change.

A small collection of pictures from the trip:

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“I Love Sexy Men”

The blue sky projects are done, the exhibition is over, and I never have to try to draw crying children again. What joy has come into my life. I ended up with only seven write ups instead of ten, because rhyming is about 83% harder than I thought it was going to be. Overall, I wasn’t overly impressed with my project but I finished it,

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and at this point in the school year, that seems to be good enough for me.

One thing I learned from all of this was that I should have put more thought into the presentation of my project. I wanted to make my project into an iBook when I was done, but by the end I only had the time and energy to stick my printed out stories on a corkboard.

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Looking at this is kind of sad.

In other news, I kind of regret not doing a project on High School Musical, just so I could call it the “corbin bleu sky project”.

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