Reference

As I have begun my research here in instructions class, I am beginning to doubt my topic. There is so much to say and I don't know what the basis of my paper should be, like what should I focus on. Following is the assignment for Cheri.

Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. 2003.

pgs 218-220. DT 29 .E53 2003


It's apparent that poverty is definatley a concern in Africa. The combination of environmental and political instability has effected all aspects of living in the nation. The food scarcity leaves devastatingly large death tolls.

I finally got my net ID. yay!!! For some strange reason getting a net ID makes me feel.....official? I don't know if that's the right word to express what I am feeling, but that sounds right.

I have not started doing any research for the topic I have chosen, but I hope to start that soon. I actually saw an interview with Angelina Jolie on CNN with Anderson Cooper that was pretty interesting. (Felicia I think it's the one you were telling me about). She is truly a remarkable and inspiring woman. The work she does is something I aspire to do one day.

I have exactly an hour left of study hall. Felcia and I have made plans, so I'm looking forward to that. Oh yeah I got my debit/ATM card in the mail yesterday and today was the first time I used it....that was exciting. haha...okay I think I should stop now, I have nothing left to say...except for THAT'S ALL FOLKS!

Felicia you are A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!! Thanks for a gRrreat time at the gym.

So I'm actually enjoying coming to work. In the beginning I thought that work was considerably boring, but it's not so bad anymore. I like the people I work with--everyone is extremely kind--and I really like being involved with this program. I am learning a lot of interesting stuff that I know will benefit me in the future--the web course on maximizing the abilities of google was pretty cool.

Now off to help my mom in the kitchen...I love cooking!

Today has truly been an exhausting day. I managed to get myself up for work after a restless night, listening to my brother and his friends playing halo. I really don't understand what the fascination is with that game. I tried playing it once but I guess I just wasn't as excited about it as my brother. Ah well. Off to work I went. I worked with Tina in preservation and instead of sewing books we scanned barcodes. For some odd reason Tina and I were having an unusual amusant scanning barcodes. Don't ask. Needless to say we had a good time.

At lunch I found out where La Fortune was. It was an amusing adventure considering I was walking the wrong direction for a good 5 minutes untill I decided to ask someone if I was headed the right way.

In web course I started on my webpage which was kind of interesting. Then the rest of the day kind of flew by.

After work I went home, made some salad and a killer dessert for a few friends who came over for dinner. We played an intense game of BS and the night ended.

Later!

I am currently in study hall and I'm not quite sure what to do...so I decided to blog. Well after I got home from work last Thursday, I started chatting with my sister. She was telling me about something she saw on CNN that really depressed her--CNN was documenting on the poverty in Somalia. A father of six boys, five of which died of starvation, was now losing his last son for the same reason. In such destitute circumstances the old man still attempts to put on a brave face for the cameras. He has maybe a cup of water or less than that. With what little water he has he tries to decide whether he should use the water to wash the body of his last son before the burial or if he should save the water to drink for himself. After hearing this I was reassured that my topic for the research paper would be famine in Africa, Somalia particularlly. What has this world come to when a father has to make a choice like that? Life is too unfair.

Research Paper

I just got done with my first instructions class. Quite interesting actually. I have been assigned to write a research paper on a topic of my choice. As of now I am thinking about writing something on famine in Africa. To narrow the topic I will focus on maybe a particular region in Africa and discuss the reasons why poverty may exist in that region. To further the discussion I will talk about the efforts being made to help those that are living under those conditions.

Feel free to give me any suggestions on how I can elaborate on my topic.

Peace.

Commencement

I graduated from high school this past Sunday and let me tell you, I am so happy to be out. FREEDOM!!! Well somewhat, right? I started working this week--my first job too--and I'm not going to lie, it's difficult. I am a night owl and getting up at 8 in the morning hasn't exactly been a walk in the park. I am however, enjoying the experience of working in the library. I had no idea how much work had to be done in the library before and now that ignorance is slowly being replaced with knowledge and I am grateful for that.

I remember when I was first interviewed for this job I was asked what I thought librarians did. When I think back to my answer I can't help but think of how naive I was. All I knew before was that librarians help answer questions and file books, but there is so much more that is done. So far I've learned that the library functions sort of like a factory. There are several departments that take on specific tasks. Without each departments efforts the library probably wouldn't function as smoothly as it does.