Some more AWESOME songs. Maybe this will become a regular thing.
Thursday, 27 February 2014
Music [February (Yes, again...) ]
Hey guys,
Some more AWESOME songs. Maybe this will become a regular thing.
Some more AWESOME songs. Maybe this will become a regular thing.
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
The Reason - Judy Chae
Hey guys,
My friend wrote a poem the other day for school and I was just so amazed by it that I had to share it with you guys. After getting her permission I've finally had the chance to post it.
It is about Saint Sebastian the patron saint of archery (I guess because of how he was martyred).
Well here you go...
My friend wrote a poem the other day for school and I was just so amazed by it that I had to share it with you guys. After getting her permission I've finally had the chance to post it.
It is about Saint Sebastian the patron saint of archery (I guess because of how he was martyred).
Well here you go...
The Reason
Judy Chae
I’m
standing on the ground and tied to a tree.
The
ground is cold like thin ice. A bird is giving me a caution.
I’m
going to die now!
Everybody
is watching me like a wild animal.
Arrows
are coming to me.
While
the arrows fly towards me
I
think,
Do
you know why I’m about to die?
I
execute my job
And…
I just close my eyes.
Sunday, 23 February 2014
Bullying (Prayers for Charlotte Dawson)
Hey guys,
I haven't made a post in a while but lately I've been thinking a lot about bullying these days. Cyber, Verbal, Physical. They are all equally horrible and i've experienced the second myself. These days bullies are bigger cowards than ever, quoting from a Macklemore song "Call each other faggots behind the keys of a message board." I believe what he means by this is that these people who are bullying people online are cowards they don't have the courage to face these people in person, they sometimes don't even know the person! These people face their own demons everyday but still think it's ok to bring this plague of pain to other people. Recently TV personality Charlotte Dawson committed suicide after receiving messages on social network saying that she should die. It was a well known fact that she was already suffering depression but these people still decided to say all these things. Now they swat away the comments to them that they have killed a person by insisting that it was her decision to commit suicide. And they do not take responsibility. That's basically spelling out coward.
Now on to verbal bullying. All through my primary school life I was bullied for being "fat" and "ugly". Society's messed up version of beauty made me the looser. If I tried to join a group I'd be pushed away, if I tried to talk to people they'd ignore me. What do you think that does to a kids courage?. Like any other person they went to school the first day a little nervous but excited for the possibilities held in front of them. But when they got there they were told to get lost. I myself went from happy to miserable. Not wanting to go to school, hiding in the bathrooms to try and avoid the terrible life I had. "It would be so much easier if I was not even alive" I thought. It feels like you've hit rock bottom, nobody wants to look at you in fear that they will be pushed away and plummet in popularity. But you don't know that when it is all happening. You think that there is something wrong with you! That they are right and you should just be dead for all your worth. What do you think that does to a kids confidence? Now not all kids deal with it as I did. I am so lucky that I was pulled out of the situation before it was to late. Maybe a couple more years and I would be like Charlotte Dawson. Dead. Alot of people who wern't pulled out of it like me, have committed suicide or spent the rest of their lives facing depression and never really letting the wound heal. I believe a saying once went "If you nail holes in a fence then take them out again the hole will never be fixed it will always stay no matter how hard you try" this is a metaphor for how if you bully someone you may say sorry but the pain is always stuck inside of them they always remember it and keep the scars.
I'll leave you all to think about it and maybe reply if you have your own thoughts on the problem of Bullying these days and in the past.
Emma Kate
I haven't made a post in a while but lately I've been thinking a lot about bullying these days. Cyber, Verbal, Physical. They are all equally horrible and i've experienced the second myself. These days bullies are bigger cowards than ever, quoting from a Macklemore song "Call each other faggots behind the keys of a message board." I believe what he means by this is that these people who are bullying people online are cowards they don't have the courage to face these people in person, they sometimes don't even know the person! These people face their own demons everyday but still think it's ok to bring this plague of pain to other people. Recently TV personality Charlotte Dawson committed suicide after receiving messages on social network saying that she should die. It was a well known fact that she was already suffering depression but these people still decided to say all these things. Now they swat away the comments to them that they have killed a person by insisting that it was her decision to commit suicide. And they do not take responsibility. That's basically spelling out coward.
Now on to verbal bullying. All through my primary school life I was bullied for being "fat" and "ugly". Society's messed up version of beauty made me the looser. If I tried to join a group I'd be pushed away, if I tried to talk to people they'd ignore me. What do you think that does to a kids courage?. Like any other person they went to school the first day a little nervous but excited for the possibilities held in front of them. But when they got there they were told to get lost. I myself went from happy to miserable. Not wanting to go to school, hiding in the bathrooms to try and avoid the terrible life I had. "It would be so much easier if I was not even alive" I thought. It feels like you've hit rock bottom, nobody wants to look at you in fear that they will be pushed away and plummet in popularity. But you don't know that when it is all happening. You think that there is something wrong with you! That they are right and you should just be dead for all your worth. What do you think that does to a kids confidence? Now not all kids deal with it as I did. I am so lucky that I was pulled out of the situation before it was to late. Maybe a couple more years and I would be like Charlotte Dawson. Dead. Alot of people who wern't pulled out of it like me, have committed suicide or spent the rest of their lives facing depression and never really letting the wound heal. I believe a saying once went "If you nail holes in a fence then take them out again the hole will never be fixed it will always stay no matter how hard you try" this is a metaphor for how if you bully someone you may say sorry but the pain is always stuck inside of them they always remember it and keep the scars.
I'll leave you all to think about it and maybe reply if you have your own thoughts on the problem of Bullying these days and in the past.
Emma Kate
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