Water!!! :)

I believe water is something we take advantage of and we expect to have it every time we turn on a tap. Water is the most vital thing that we need to live and without it we would die.
How far do we have to walk to get clean water? To the sink? To the bathroom, even? But imagine walking miles over hills and across barren lands in 45 degrees heat for seven for seven a half hours to get DIRTY water. This is what a women in Sudan has to do daily! In the first world, each person on average uses 466 liters daily. When we brush our teeth with the tap left running we waste 5 liters. Brushing our teeth twice for two days with the tap running.. wastes enough water for a women in Sudan to do all her house hold chores (washing clothes,dishes..) for her family.
Next time I turn on a tap to brush my teeth i will think about the women who walks for one hour and 50 mins just to get the amount of water that gushes from the tap and the next time I will turn off my tap straight away.
We walk for less than a minute to get clean water and that women walks for (est.) 420 mins to get dirty water.. how is that fair?

English Class :)

In English this year we are creating a play. Our play is based on a road crash that has outstanding affects on the teenagers that were involed in it. The play shows just how peer pressure and under-age drinking can have huge affects on the lives of others. The play convies this by the death of one of the main characters, her one innocent death led to life changing results for the other people who were invoved.
Whilst this play is dealing with a very serious topic, we are having great fun acting it. Our class has been spilt into two, so our group practises in the meditation room. When we are reciting our lines we are constantly trying not to laugh, we try hold our toungues but it is challenging. I am playing the Father of the girl who died, my character has to come to terms with this and to accept that no was to blame. He also then changes and sees every day as a gift. We have great fun rehearsing but I know that as soon as we stand on the stage in January there will be no laughing.

Around the World Trip!!!!

At the start of the year, we were assigned a Geography project. I had to pick two countries from the first world to present my project on. I chose Spain!! As I researched this country I found out that there was more to it then the gorgeous weather and golden beaches. I found out that in Castrillo de Murcia they hold a Baby Jumping Festival!!  Thats right and it is real festival!!! Every year newborn babies are dressed in swaddling clothes and put on a mattress while grown men dressed in a devils outfit jumps over them. The idea is a scary one for all the babies parents concerned but many people flock to the event to watch this exhilarating event. The idea of the festival is that when the men (dressed as devils) jump over the babies they rid them of any wrong doings that they may do in their future life! Heres a picture ->


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