proposal

Campus Outreach is a wonderful organization and ministry that I have gotten involved with
What I propose to do for my group is to make fliers to promote the weekly meeting time, which is Wednesday nights at 9:00 pm. The meetings are really fun, and it always great to have new people come. BRING FRIENDS! it is a great time. There is always great teaching of truth, and then there are snacks afterwards.

I am also planning on having some of my friends involved in Campus Outreach help me as well and get their input in what I should do to promote CO to the best of my ability.

a time of public discourse

We have recently been asked to be thinking of ideas for our second assignment, which is telling about a personal experience we have had with public discourse.

I would say that the first thing that comes to my mind, is whenever I was a junior in high school, I had job at a TCBY. It's a yogurt/ice cream place. My mom knew the owner from my little sister's softball or basketball team, and they were talking one time about how I have a certain learning disorder. The owner knew I was looking for a job, and she ended up giving me a job there, knowing that I have this learning disorder. At the time, I did not know that she knew about this. So, after about 2 months of working there, she calls me in and tells me that it is not working out. She had told the other workers there about my learning disorder without notifying me beforehand, and they said that they didnt think that I was learning fast enough, so she told me she was letting me go. The learning disorder that I have did not affect my work there in any way, and so that was what really upset me the most.
my mom and I went and discussed it with her, but I did not take it further than that because I was so upset. I know now, that I could have easily taken it further than that in terms of the legality of that and other things.

The other situation is something that happened with the show choir I was in my sophomore year. It was a crazy situation as well. There was a lot of dishonesty done to me, and my parents and I had to get involved again. It was a very hard time, because I really wanted to be in show choir at the time, and it just didnt work out.

I have thought about picketing, or doing a walk out of some kind, but I would rather go with something that has actually happened in my life.


I think that I am so glad now that those things happened to me, because I learned a lot about myself through it, and to not fully depend on these things to make me happy.

making comments.

In class today, I commented on the blogs:
student christian fellowship,
a place of diversity: the multicultural center, &
really rough draft.

i really enjoyed getting to read these and see where everyone was coming from. all 3 talked about things that I am interested in as well, so that was good.

Compassion.

Rough draft Blog Analysis on the blog http://blog.compassion.com/

Compassion.

This is a word that we hear all the time. We know that it is a good quality to posess. We want to treat others with compassion. Well, there is a ministry out there called Compassion International. It is an organization dedicated to getting all of the children out there in impoverished countries the essential items that they need. They ask people here in the United States to be willing to sponsor a child from any number of countries. I was searching for blogs, and I came across this blog from the ministry. It is such a great way to learn more about what is going on in the ministry and around the world.

This blog is interesting because there are lots of different people that can post their experiences on it. In a post from February 10, titled Colors of Compassion, the relationship between compassion and Dayspring is discussed. A percentage of the profits from Dayspring are being donated to Compassion. This is so great. Seeing companies give back this way is really great. This contribution will end up saving children's lives. The money will be going to getting the children clothes, food, healthcare, and many other things.

In the post titled A Picture of Poverty, Amber Von Schooneveld discusses how in India, whenever she would be with families, and they would have our verison of nothing, they would lavish her with meals and treated her with such hospitality. We can all learn from that. We so often forget that even in our worst circumstances there are people out there that have it worse off than we do. Amber did interviews with the familes, and she said "the children typically put on their best clothes, the outfits they got for Christmas from their sponsors".

The kids that are sponsored through Compassion really do get their nicest things from their sponsors. If it were not for this ministry, lots of kids would not have close to what they do have.
This blog has opened my eyes to a lot. It is just a picture of how lives are changed through this ministry, and it is updated almost daily. I know that as I am reading, I am reading the truth as well, which is not always the case for things you find online.

What I Care About

So, for exercise 10 in my english workbook, we were asked to list some of the main issues going on that we care about. it is supposed to be both personal things going on, and the issues going on in the world that affect us all.

here is my personal list:
*the way my grandpa treats my mom. and wondering if he is saved or not.
*my aunt and uncle, and what they are going through right now.
*my roomates, and where I am going to live next year.
*succeeding in school this semester.
*what I am going to be doing this summer, and that I am prepared to go back to Orlando.
*my job
*i love tv... but i wonder if I have been watching too much.

*and trying to keep all of that in perspective.


and as far as stuff that affects us all,
i would say
*abortion
*faith
*having truthful people in government
*smoking laws
*the education system
*the media, and how Hollywood has such a hold on us.
*gas prices
*the war
*missions
*prayer in schools
*the food that is served in schools
*nutrition in general, and how it is promoted in the media
*family, and how it is viewed
*adoption
*finding a cure for AIDS, and cancer
*treatment of special needs kids
*the nation of Africa

*the middle east


and i'm sure a lot more. these are the main ones though

Public Spheres

So, for English class we had an assignment where we had to think of all the kinds of places for public spheres. Here is my list.

the local news
bulletin boards
billboards
newspaper
grafitti
sidewalk chalk
decals on cars
windsheild paint on cars
tv
movies
facebook
myspace
other websites
classrooms
work offices
phone chain
email chain
fliers
commercials
infomercials
blimps
major news channels
music
concerts
churches

:) that's pretty much all i could think of.