Orthodontist

Today I am going to the orthodontist. I am going to the orthodontist because my 2 front teeth are a little crooked, and I have a little bit of an underbite. I must admit I am a little scared.

Today I am also welcoming a reporter to my school to ake pictures of the Penny Drive I am participating in.

Last weekend my mom came up to my house from her house in Idaho. (To say "hi" to all of the family). This weekend I am going to have to fly down there, I am excited to go down there!

Interveiwing

Last week I talked about going to a meeting for the drug coalition meeting. Well this week I went to another one and they told us that we could break out onto our own and could start interviewing people on our own. So the following post is all about the interviews I will be doing.

Today at S.S.R I am going to have to go around the school and pluck students from their classes to do an interview with them. I will be asking them 23 questions, and the questions aren't easy. Some of the questions are "Do you feel adults lie to you about drugs and alcohol?" "Does school teach how to deal with peer pressure?" As you can see this questions are not easy and are all about dealing with drugs and alcohol. I am doing this project with a handful of other kids, and are school counselor Sarie. I think what the school is hoping to get out of this interviewing is to see how much kids really know about what is going on!

Meeting

Today I went to meeting on how to elminate drugs and alcolhol at my school. This is a group of adults who meet weekly and discuss how to resolve this problem that they are faced with. Once a month they ask a handful of miidle schoolers, and a handful of Highschoolers to discuss the problem at hand. I am hoping that the veiws and discussions that we made will change the way that kids in general look at drugs and alcolhol. I hop that I taught the adults a little about what goes on at my school.

Penny Drive

Over the past two weeks, I have been participating in the school wide Penny Drive. I am what I guess you could call the vice president of operations in this drive. Everything in this Peny Drive goes to a great cause, saving the people of Darfur Africa. The group of people that I am working with decided on this cause because the people of Darfur have been, and are, being harassed by the Janjaweed. The Janjaweed are evil people who will steal sons out of their mothers arms and will recruit him into their group. The Janjaweed will also rape many women and girls. Therefore I am hoping that my school will spring into action and donate money. So far my school has raised over $230.00. I think tht this will help the sudanese people amazingly. And I push you to start one in your school too.