Christmas

CHRISTMAS! Anybody who doesn't get a little excited hearing those words, there is something wrong with you. Christmas is my favorite time of the year. It is a time that I get to see all my family, people are in a happy mood, and seeing a Christmas tree in my living just makes me smile.

I will talk about what I normally do on Christmas Eve and Christmas day. Generally my family travel down to my grandparents house. My three other cousins and aunt join us. We have a nice family dinner of either homemade chicken and noodles, or a Christmas ham. After dinner we head over to the church for the Christmas Eve service. During the service, they give us candles and I always end up playing with the wax. When we return home, we sit in the kitchen playing card games. As it rounds time for bed, we go upstairs to go to bed. All six of us sleep in the same room. The boys normally get the feather beds on the floor, while us girls get the two beds.

The next morning when we wake up we have to make sure that everyone is up. We round everyone up into the living room and open our presents and stockings. In our stockings are lottery tickets. I never win anything thing but they are still fun to scratch off. After all of the presents have been open we go to the kitchen to have the traditional breakfast. Cinnamon rolls, homemade fruit cups, and hot chocolate.

Christmas is the best and always holds a special place in my heart.

Blogs

Why are we forced to write blogs? Blogs are ways to express what you are feeling or have feelings about. If we don't have anything to write about, why are we suppose to write about something that we are not passionate about.

I don't want to sit here and talk about politics. I have opinions but it is something that doesn't really interest me and I'm not informed enough to write anything about it. I could write about other people, but still, I don't really care about them.

I believe that is you have nothing to write about, not passionate about, we shouldn't be forced to write blogs for a grade.

Darfur

Many of you may not know this and I didn't know this until little over a year ago, but there is a major civil war happening in Darfur. The Dardurians were tired of poverty and not having their voice being heard, so a rebel groups rose up against the government in 2003. The government retaliated with the  scorched earth campaign by using a group of militia known as the Janjaweed to displace and kill the innocent civilians of Darfur.

The killing of the Darfurians is refereed to as genocide. Each day, over 100 people die and every month, 5,000 people die. Since the beginning of the war 400,000 people have lost their live and 2,500,000 were displaced.

The genocide in Darfur needs to stop. Even today it is still going on and the only way that this war is going to stop is if someone intervenes. What I personally believe is that the United Nations should step in and say something to the government and if need be use armed forces to help save the lives and help rebuild the country of Darfur.