For my Inspire Week I got to go with Soul Dog Rescue. In Towaoc there was a little house with 13 dogs, 4 puppys and 2 dogs. Our plan for the three days of working was to make a puppy play room, a cat room, and a room for easy access to their food plus we got to socialize some of the dogs. The first day we made the cat room, we cleaned out all the poop from each kennel and painted the room, we walked and got to hang out with the doggys. The second day we cleaned out a room with a bunch of random kennel materials to make the puppy room and then painted it. Sadly I missed my ride to towaoc on the last day but i heard my group just got to put the puppy room together and just got to hang out with all the animals.
One thing that really struck me was the condition of the house they were making those dogs live in. I'm glad we got to spice it up, because in every corner of that place had a pee puddle. We gave some of the dogs beds, there weren't enough towels and blankets for them to lay on. Before this week my mom was going to give my dog tinker away to the pound, after that first day of being there I convinced my mom into not giving up on her. I saw the sadness in the animals eyes, not being able to come out of their cages to come and say hello to all of us. I could not do that to my own puppy. The only thing I took from the school is that I knew the people that were doing the same thing. My Inspire eek was more of human decency, more on how you would respond to a situation like the soul dog rescue. One thing I brought back was my experience and to share what it's really like for those poor dogs and how I got to make some new friends because I never got to talk to some of the kids in my grade and this was a good opportunity too. When working for Soul Dog Rescue there was a girl named Deb who runs the program, when we got there she told us what she wanted to get done that day and the first day we worked on the cats room which we almost finished on the first day being there. So after there were enough people doing one room Deb would tell us kids to walk a dog, or clean a room or simply just start doing some things we thought would help too. Then the next day,same thing but instead it was the puppy room and we helped as much as we could. The first couple days before we actually went to Soul Dog we were planning a fundraiser for their animals, we got a couple sponsors for it. For a future Sophomore choose something you're interested in, something you think you would kinda have fun at. If you get into one you didnt like, take that experience and make the most out of it. |
The United Nations and the international system I think have a good temporary solution but they stick to the surface. They have the NPT and IAEA that have truly shown they are trying to help disarm, but still after 50-60 years there's still not a disarmament.
During this project I really learned that I need to do my work on time and use my class time. Definitely I grew in knowledge during this but mostly I turned my school work around, last semester I didn’t have my school work together I didn’t have time for it and I got really behind and that left me with some bad grades. This semester I have been making time to do it and now it shows. Something I will keep with me forever is that everyday our world is just getting worse and worse. I'm scared that my generation will be the ones that see world war. I'm up to date on the nuclear situation. I know my country's side and the country I'm actually living in. It makes me think that today could be the last day I could be on this world. I'm glad we had this time to really step back and look at the overall problem nuclear weapons have affected world wide peace. The first MUN conference we had I wasn't really into what we were learning, so I slacked off and didn't really try hard. This last semester I really stepped it up and did everything I needed to do. Because of that I don't think I would go back into the past and change anything. I learned what I was supposed to and because I did so bad last semester I got to learn from it. |
Learning mostly about the Venezuelans I was shocked that people living in tents for years and not having enough food to survive the day. It opened my mind reading that an egg would be 35 dollars in there currency, a dollar of American money is 9.98750 there. We are privileged to all extent. I grew in the fact that I have everything that I'll ever need in my home, I'm grateful at the fact that I can go to my sink to get a fresh glass of water and I'm grateful I get the chance a life millions would kill for.
I could've been a lot more prepared, I was absent a bit which put me behind. At first, I thought my speech was valid but soon after I watched my peers do there speeches and I realized I should have used my peers as a resource to revise my speech. For my next MUN speech I'm going to be more mentally prepared, I'm going to use my time a lot better. I know it will benefit me in January. |
During our project “The work of adolescents” I was proud to say that I finished. Starting out I didn’t know what I was doing, it didn’t give me confidence that I could do good. My final results gave me room for refinement, I didn’t show as much effort as I've had in the past, I was stressed about two big assignments in other classes that distracted me, I didn’t have the mind space to give a good essay. If I could do anything different I would focus on one thing at a time.
The Start, at first I didn’t know what I was going to do, I got stuck for like 3 days didn’t know what I was doing or how I was going to do it. When we refined our essays that’s when I know what I was going to do. Everyone helped…. A lot. They gave me a place to think about what I needed to do and I busted it out in two days. If we didn’t refine our essays with our class I wouldn’t have to piece I would right now. The most important thing I learned was the adolescence of my step dad (Geoff). He was very rebellious and just straight up didn’t care about anything, compared to him now he’s so different and actually cares a lot for things. I didn’t really know the past of my Geoff and he’s very quiet when it comes to his past. I'm glad he opened up to me about his adolescence because now I know that he wasn't this mechanic that wasn’t mister perfect like he is now. I'm definitely an 8-9, because I do get started quickly and im usually always engaged with the topic in class. But I do use my class time… alright, I totally should work on that. I just get distracted easily and usually when that happens I get back on track but sometimes it’s difficult. |