Tests

I am so glad the test for 1984 is over.  I hope i did well I liked the the help you gave us with the video.  Is there one for the one we are reading now.  It would make a great reinforcement for the test.  Sometimes it jusst was easier to understand some of the things we are reading.

writing with style

Professor I do not know where to locate the article can you please send me a link or the instructions.  Things like this make me feel so hopeless.  That is why I am just begining to take a computer class.  Hope it helps me si that I am not looking for your help always.

Half the Sky Movement

I liked the video about Edna Adan who wanted to train 1000  midwives so that they can help women during child birth.  The Samaliland women have the hardest time during child birth in the hospital she is able to save 3 out of 4 women who would have died.  Every 90 seconds a woman dies during child birth.  The woman is the pillar of the family, so why not save a woman you know you are saving a baby.

Prop 30

Wow !!!!!!  What devestating numbers.  They read alot of numbers about where the money that we voted for in other elections was suppose to be for lausd and it ended up in the retirement funds of the lausd.  It was a way that they receiived that money and then spent it on something else then the education of our children. 
My truth is that every one should be notified and that we should not have to wait for years to help our children in school.  All of the colleges will have to finish teaching our kids and we should know at a high school student.

Who really should be mayor?

I went to the debate at Monarch Hall it was just really funny how they all liked to point finger at each other and make indirect comments about each other.  How do we ever can believe in which one will do what they said they will do.  Do they really care about us or is it more that they care about the prestige of the position and the money they will get?

Sleepy

     Sleepy yes sleepy.  That is how I feel.  I guess it is time to go to sleep.  Do you ever feel sleepy heavyness in the eye lids and the feeling of exsaustion in the neck.  I sometimes feel like I do not whant to move.  If I stay awake too long then I will not be able to fall asleep.  So goodnight.

Becky

    Becky just graduated from high school.  She is going to Glendale Communiity College.  She wants to feel very independent and a young adult on her own.  She just finished telling me she is thinking of moving out with some friends or to her older sister's house.  There goes another one that decides to leave home.  It is getting lonely, out of my seven children she is the fifth one to leave,  I thought that by now I would not care to try and stop her. 
     No matter how many decide to move away I still have not learned to act like I do not care.  It is hard to see her packing up her things and seeing that there is a empty area in the room.  It has been some time that she has been leaving and staying at someone elses home.  I thought it would get easy but I was wrong.  It still hurts to see them leave. 

My autism

     My autism is alive and living with me and in my son.  He suffers fom this learning disorder eversince he was a baby and had a convulsion.  This was after a vaccine and a high fever.  For years I looked for someone to tell me why my son was delayed in so many areas.  No one had a answer for me.  I looked for doctors, teacher anyone that would give me a chance to ask a question.  There wer no answers.  Finally at 13 he wa diagnosed with frontal brain disorder or disfunction.  He can not remember some things. 
      Everyday it is a struggle and the school system do not have trained teachers to help him or any other boy with autism.  The number of boys diagnosed with autism is growing but the teachers are not trained. My son has no hope in ever getting the complete education that the system says it garantees.  What will he have only a midiocur education with no real opportunities to even be ab le to complete a job application or remember what are the steps to doing something. 
     I just found out that he lost his lunch card in September it has been almost three months and no one has helped him find out what he can do to get another one.  Three months without lunch, and they plan to tell me he is going to be okay and graduate in two more years.  REALLY?????

Influence on fitting in

     There is so much power in the people that surround you every day in your life.  My daugheter is in middle school and is going through such hard times.  Everyone is out to brag about what brand of pants they are wearing.  The shoes they have if it is the latest brand and how much their parents spend on their things.  It is so hard to have to be surrounded by this kind of pressure they even talk about what brand and the style of undies and bras they wear.  They are only thirteen and twelve years old. 
    It is so hard to try and help her be strong when she can not join in and show off her clothes or shoes.  It is so sad that so many parents are out there buying only things that are name brand and not teaching their childrenn that there are other things in life that are more valuable.  It is so hard when you have to choose between having food or electricity or buying those 100 dollar shoes.

Lost my memory

I think memory does go as you get older.  I have been noticing that I do not remember things as easily as I did when I was younger.  I am struggling to remember alot of the information  from my classes.  Is it true that if you do not use it you lose it?

V Cap

I just finished the vcap program for math 112.  It went so fast and I felt like it just flashed
by in front of my eyes.  I hope I can remember everything!  Now it is on to math 115.  I hope I can do it.

Sunday BBQ

     It has become a tradition that every Sunday we BBQ.  Sometimes I do not feel like it but the children have got used to it.  My step children usually call and ask me what I need them to bring and my children start cleaning and prepareing the chips and plates for dinner.  It just seems like I am never done cooking. 
I need to feed my boyfriend and his five children plus two daughters in law and four grand children.  On my side it is my seven children and one daughter in law, three sons in law and nine grandchildren.
     After they all go home with their tummies full I am glad I have one week to recuperate before I get to do it all over again.

A life long lesson

     A life long lesson we learn and teach to children in the first year of school.  Sometimes its in preschool that they learn it others it will be in kindergarden.  What is it, you ask?  It is waiting in line.  The teacher's first lesson as they begin the first day of school and walk in make a line.  Children are taught to stand and wait and walk in a straight line.  As you grow and continue school you stand in line to get your lunch, to go to the restroom, to get inside the classroom, even to walk out of school. 
     Hope you learned your lesson well because as we grow up we keep on having to practice this life time learned lesson. I was in line for three hours at the Department of Motor Vehicles today.  Everyday,  you encounter different places where you still have to stand in line.