Wal-Mart Stampede Reaction

To be honest, I was very disturbed that this could actually happen, but it didn't surprise me too much.

Buy Nothing Day Reflection

When we had been talking about Black Friday in Andy's class, it really made me think.

Meaning? In Thanksgivng?

This past week(end) we had Thanksgiving. I was really looking forward to it for over 3 weeks. I was going to see my cousins, my aunts, my uncles, and my friends. But mostly I was looking forward to eating. I had been ready for a week to eat alot. I could already see it: the turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberries, desert. I seriously couldn't wait. So I get to the party and after a little bit of shmoozing the food comes out. I really wasn't thinking about if it was meaningful or not, I was just stuffing myself. After about an hour, after the food settled in we started playing music, and I thought back to what we had been talking about in history class. How we sort of have this ritual. We say hello to our family, all the guests who are there, hang out for a little bit, eat a lot of food, and play some music. I knew what was coming up next, it was when we all went around and said what was meaningful to us. I decided to bring up the genocide topic. We all went around and said that we were thankful for family, and for good health, and for food etc. and I was thinking 'this is all really nice, but no one really knows the true meaning of this day', and I was actually excited for my turn to come up. It finally did and all of a sudden I got nervous. I realized that by bringing up the genocide topic, I was kind of giving the middle finger to all the people who had showed up today who actually had stuff to be thankful for, so all i said was "I am thankful for school". The night after Thanksgiving I threw up about 15 times, losing all the food that I had eaten, and a good memory. I took it as God's punishment for being thankful.