Exam week

Exams are all about the movies. Not really though but you need to take breaks and get ride of some stress. So here is what I watched between studding, packing, cleaning and exchanging gifts with friends.

Sweet November
Brokedown Palace
Queen of the Damned
Love Actually
Tristan + Isolde
Hollow Man
Accepted

Funny?!

So what is funny to you? It is watching someone trying to keep up with their friends and when they ask their friends to slow down you laugh at them? It so you very wrong. This happened to me tonight and I feel pretty bad about it. It hurts but I have had worse things happen to me the hard part is when it involves my friends. They never know what to say or do and most of the time it only makes them feel worse if I talk about it. Still it bugs me that doesn’t anyone have manners anymore. It was worse when I was little but its not getting better soon enough for me or any other child with a disability. I’m doing what I can, I speak to groups about the importance of appropriate language and lecture about what its like to live with my disability. I try to educate other people maybe one day things will get better, but on days like this it does not feel like it.

Silent Solidarity is...........

Silent Solidarity serves to draw attention to the voiceless - the poor, the persecuted, etc. By using such a unique method, Silent Solidarity promotes curiosity. During the day participants are asked not to speak from 9am- 5pm. This is to give the students a taste of what it like feel and be different from the majority. While some did not seem to understand the purpose of the event importance most people treated it with the respect it deserves.

“What makes a successful event IS NOT the number of people that attend, or the amount of money raised, but rather the impact it has on those participants who really care about the cause.

There were a great many students involved in Silent Solidarity because they consider themselves to be one of the many silenced minorities represented in this year's day of silence.” While that may or may not be true it made me feel good when I saw people where stickers saying I’m silent today to support people with a physical disability.