Friday Speaker continued

The most interesting fact that he made was that FREE insurance is available for children ages 0-21 if family’s income is less than $21,000, which is not that low. The insurance is called Coverkids and is trying to make its way across Memphis. Coverkids covers up to 200% of poverty level ($53,000.) It is said to be a safety net those who are not covered by TennCare. The capacity of Coverkids is 75,000 children! That is an unbelievable amount! So why are all the children in Memphis not benefiting from this? The answer is, they just do not know about it! I really believe this would help out immensely in Memphis because then parents would not be afraid to take their children to the doctor because of extremely high hospital bills. Now knowing they will be covered, they will not wait until their child is deathly ill. Hopefully more and more families will spread the word and join. Right now only 16,000 children are enrolled under this insurance. I could not understand why there are not a ton more! Then he stated the fact that Coverkids was just established in may 2007. If they can keep the enrollment increasing as it has been then the future of Memphis may be off to a great start!

Friday Speaker 1

Urban Child Institue!
As I listened to the speaker last Friday I was intrigued by MANY awakening facts that I had no idea occurred and still are to this day! Well Friday I could not decide whether I was going to attend the speaker because it was FLOODING rain and freezing and I was on the total opposite side of campus but finally I decided I would go and I am glad I did because there was just two of us in there! I could not remember his name and I felt bad to ask him after he started but he works for the Urban Child Institute. They focus on children ages 0-3 because they feel that if brain growth is slowed during those ages, the “tool box” of life will be messed up so he says. A child’s brain is 80% hardwired by age 3! In Memphis alone, we could fill up the Liberty Bowl 3 times with children of ages 3 and under! He and his company want to help children get started on the right foot that way they are not hurt for life. He stated that the 4 main influences on children are: age of mom of first birth, mom’s education (not father, oddly enough), income of family, and family structure. He also stated the fact that breast feeding is very important! It helps increase babies immunity. Oddly enough though, the largest supplier of formula is food stamps….? You think they would just convince families to breast feed and that would be less money spent by government.

depression of the ggame

So last night I was so excited so I watch the game, I had waited all day. The moment of truth arrived it was tip off time. Memphis was behind almost the whole game , but we are Memphis and we could come back so I was not really nervous. Finally we were up by 7 with 2 minutes left in the second half, everyone on campus was running around , on the streets , through the halls and on the side walks chanting we won. But in actuality we didn’t win we had lost. We had worked so hard all year and we lost. No one knew what to say or how to act at this point. But after the press conference on T.V and watching how our players reacted to the loss, which surprisingly was not bad at all. We knew and they knew that they had a awesome year and were proud to have gotten as far as they did. Today at school was depressing even though the weather was awesome. Students walked around with there heads low, you would have thought they played in the game and lost it for us. But this basketball season brought our school together and we all had new found pride in our school and it was over. I just hope that next year we are this good and our school will once again come together and support our school and make people remember who we are and we mean business!!!!!!!

Boysssss......

I hate boys I really do! Uhhhh they make me so mad! Okay not all of them. Actually it is just one and I hate it because I really do love him but he just makes me so mad sometimes. I do not understand how you can love someone so much that they can actually hurt you and not even realize it! I am just tired of putting up with it! It is not like it is a big deal it is just annoying things that do not matter to him that shows me that he does not care! And I know he does care deep down inside it is just whenever he is around everyone else and caught up the in the moment he just makes me disappear and I know he may not be trying to do that but that is what he is doing! And I HATE IT! I really doooo. And everyone always says that you can not hate something unless you care enough about them to hate them and that is true I care so much that I just hate this stupid controversy! I just do not understand how boys can be so mean! And I know I will be over it tomorrow I just had to vent tonight! Haha

Race

Today in class was the best class so far. I know I have said that before but now today just beat all the others! Haha it was fun because it was interesting. Really interesting. It was something that we all enjoyed talking about. Maybe not enjoyed as such, but rather something that we all had an input in. And whether or not we actually stated our input is a different story. I think the reason we all did not blatantly come out and say our feelings is all because we are scared of what is going to happen. Tomorrow is the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. He came out and talked about civil Rights and look what happened to him. I know today is different and I really doubt someone shooting their fellow student for just stating how they feel. Lets just hope not. The way I see it, I do not feel any differently or think differently of white and blacks or Asians or Hispanics, but rather the way people act. I can not stand thugs. Maybe because the way I raised but that is not being racist. I am not stating whether whoever the thug is is black or white but I just can not stand the way thugs act or dress or talk. I don’t think today people are so called “racist” but rather just associate certain things to the majority. We do that to so many different things in life. If most of the baseball players are cocky, your going to associate them to being cocky. That is just how people associate certain people to certain groups.

from good to bad

So I finally got TCBY last night and it was awesome! I love it. The bad thing is, is that I actually had to pay for it, and full price for it too! Normally I always go with my boyfriend and so he will buy it for me and we also normally have a buy one get one free so it’s a lot cheaper. Well last night I went with my friend so I had to buy my own and we did not have a buy one get one free haha so it stunk! But the ice cream was still amazing!!!
I am really upset now though because me and my friends were supposed to go to Ole Miss today to watch the Memphis baseball team play ole miss and we have had this planned for over a month and all of a sudden about ten minutes before we are about to leave to head on down to Oxford, Elizabeth, going to be our driver, gets a call from her aunt saying that she has to come into work today because the person who took her shift quit today. Her aunt said if she does not come in to work they will fire her. I am so mad!

Class Argument

Argument
Tupac is a hero. He is a legendary rapper. Anyone and everyone knows that the man behind rap music is Tupac. Everyone adores him. Isn’t that one of the main qualities of being a hero anyways; just the fact that everyone loves you? That is how it is now a days. Brittney Spears used to be every girls idol, now no one likes her so she just went down the drain. Tupac is known for being the best rapper to ever live and will live. Supposedly he still lives. I say he is a rapper’s Elvis. He may not even have great qualities but do all hero’s deep down inside?
Today in class was probably my favorite English classes yet! Whether it was Morgan hiding under the desk to scare Wendy for happy April fools or the fact that we were arguing over Dixie Chicks and Toby Keith! Haha I hope we have another great day Thursday! I hope everyone had a hilarious April fools day because I know I did. I played a joke on my boyfriend and he has still yet to find out it and it’s actually now 12:21 on April 2nd. So I wonder if it still counts!? haha