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     This March break my mom threw a baby shower for her best friend, Andrea. Everybody was very happy for her and she seemed excited for her baby but very tired. While Andrea was opening her gifts my aunt, Sue, told me a story. The story was one night when my aunt was in grade 1 or 2 she had to go to the bathroom and in the house they lived in, the hallway to get to the bathroom was perpendicular to a hallway to get to the kitchen. When she was passing the
hallway leading to the kitchen she looked down it and saw something that ran behind the fridge. It was short and moved very quickly so she thought it was an elf! She ran back into her room that she shared with my mom and said “I just saw
an elf in the kitchen!”. Of course my mom didn’t believe her and told her to go back to bed but my aunt was certain there was an elf behind their fridge. When I heard this story I thought it was hysterical, it brought tears to my eyes and I
have never cried from laughing before. As I was wiggling in my seat, bouncing the whole couch full of people, I was laughing so hard my laugh turned into the one that you can’t hear and your left sitting clapping with your mouth wide open looking like an idiot. Just imagine someone came running into your room in the middle of the night saying “I just saw an elf!!”. It always feels great to have a good laugh.

 
    Today we are having a lockdown drill and it got me thinking.... after all these school shootings, I just want to know why. I just cannot comprehend why someone would go into an elementary or high school and just take innocent lives. I feel horrible for the kids that are scared for their lives everytime they go to school and I think that it's ridiculous that people actually have to think "Am I going to come back to my home after my day is done?".  I feel safe in my school because we are all very friendly and i feel like no one would do that to one another but it could still happen. I want to move near Toronto for work when I'm older but I'm hesitant because there have been shootings in Toronto and I do not want to put myself or my future kids in that kind of danger. On the other hand I think maybe I should not be so afraid. Maybe I should focus on the positive things that could come out of moving there rather than the negative. Maybe I should just live my life and let whatever happens, happen. Just the fact that it is a possibility scares me.
-Kelsey
 
We watched a documentry in my FFP class entitled "Generation Jobless". Here are my responses.
  
      The documentry affected my field of interest by making me rethink pretty much everything. I was almost certain I wanted to go to school for cosmetology or interior design buy now I'm thinking I might doing something mechanical, like a technition or something.
      The specific jobs I am interested in are make-up artist, hairstylist and possibly a stager. My back up plan if cosmetology doesnt work out is a stager and real estate agent.
      You can gain experience by volunteering your time at a job that has to do with what you would like to do. You could also do an internship or get a part time job that is relivant to your long term job of choice.
       I could build my creative skills, my people skills, my working with my hands skills (hand-eye maybe..?).