21. Basic human needs

 Everyday I wake up at 7:30 and put on the clean clothes I normally organized the night before. I put on a comfortable outfit like jeans, a shirt, sweater and a jacket. I walk to school alone at around 7:43, normally half a sleep still. I go to my locker first, then to my science class and text my boyfriend that I'm at school. I do all my notes in science but I get distracted by texting on my ipod. At lunch I go home and shower, because I'm to lazy to shower in the morning. I have a spare after lunch so I'm back at school for 4th block. After Comm class I try to get on the 3:40 o'clock bus to Langley with my boyfriend or we go to his house in Delta. I normally go out for dinner with him and his dad, to either white-spot, Mcdonalds, subways, boston pizza or little Caesars. I then get home around 9:30 or 10, I organize my clothes then I go to bed. I enjoy everyday but sometimes I wish I wanted to get a job or get my license, but I just have so much fun everyday, going to new places, restaurants and meeting new people. I don't really have lots of homework or any classes to study for so I don't really have any work to do because when I do, I normally do it in my spare or in my art class.

(Fun) Eating at restaurants, getting home late.
(Survival) Going to school, being able to learn.
(Freedom) I don't have a curfew.
(Power)
(belonging) My clothing belongs to me, my own group, called comfyness.

I don't think my choices are negative, maybe go to bed earlier.

20. Human behavior to hotel Rwanda

Kids at Sullivan Heights have some similarities with Rwanda kids because they have groups and they get judged. At Sullivan there are the popular groups and non-popular groups. The popular groups judge the non-popular groups.

For example: As soon as you see someone wearing glasses and a button shirt, you automatically think they are a nerd/geek/smart. Or if someone wears all black and converse, you automatically think they are emo or gothic.

People are so quick to judge, what if those people who wear all black just love the colour black and they are very happy, get good grades and loves life, you don't know until you give them a chance.

Or like a hot tall blonde with a lot of friends, you automatically think they are a slut and dumb. She could be a straight A student that has never had a boyfriend and is waiting to have sex till marriage.

19. Poem

My poem is based on a real experience between my mom and I.


    Tonight is December 28th 2005, we didn't know she was addicted all this time. My brothers and I were way to young to understand what was going on, we don't cry. Before my dad sat us down to tell us what has happened, I run to my room to get my blanket and Kurt and Kyle are fooling around. I come running back and jump on my dad bed and he says in calm voice with his head down. "Kids your mom has past away." We didn't understand, we saw her the day before, December 27th for the first time in 6 months, she looked fine. In grade 7, I then fully understood her passing.

  

Drugs.

To young to understand, we don't cry.

Were fooling around why should dad even try?

She looked fine the day before?

How can mom not be here anymore?

The day of her funeral her sister screams!

I'm sorry, I'm sorry!

It's all my fault

and she gets escorted out of the scene.

I understand now.

She had died from an overdose.

God dammit!

There was more left in her heart shaped locket.

Why do people even do this?

People ruining their lives all over the world because

they just can't get enough of it?

Doing drugs doesn't make you cool.

It makes your life a cruel

place.

That no one should face.

   I think this relates to hotel Rwanda because some people are forced to do something they don't want to do. When you do drugs you loose the ability to learn. The hutus didn't care for the tootsies therefore when you do drugs, you loose ability to care. The people in Rwanda that killed others, were on drugs. 

18. Song, poem, or story that relates to Hotel Rwanda

There is book called Fahrenheit 451 which I think relates to Hotel Rwanda because it relates to the topic of noneducational circumstances. It's about an fireman who burns books in a futuristic American city. He start fires rather than putting them out.