sudan. and boo
school is going well. i feel like i'm finally getting where i wanna be... in everything. people. classes. clubs. oh so speaking of clubs.
i'm starting this club called STAND: Students Take Action Now:Darfur that has to do with educationg people our age about the GENOCIDE that is happening AS YOU READ THIS in SUDAN... most people i've met on campus dont have a clue. or just pass it off as one of those "african things". kinda like back in the day some people passed off the holocaust as one of those "europena things". we all paid the price for that.
so bwhat is happening? there is a government funded malitia called janjaweed that is a radical islamic group. THey are ransacking hundreds and thousands of towns, raping more than 20,000 women, killing over 2 million people overall and 50,000 people in the last couple months. more than 1.5 million people are now displaced. people are starving, thirsty, unmedicated, and scared. and nothing is really happening. about a month ago Colin Powell was the first to acknowledge this crisis as a genocide and bush echoed him at his address to the UN. But the problem is that Russia and China get their oil in part from sudan.
if you want to do soemthing aobut it on your college campus. lemmie know. i can help you with everything. at penn we're doing a letter signing campaign to kofi annan, colin powell, the president, Snyder (our U.S. State dept senior advisor on sudan), and tons of other people. we are starting a green ribbon campaign. we are holding a philadelphia area conference here in november with Jerry Fowler, the head of the Committee on Conscience, as our lead speaker. we will probably have MTV U covering the event.
it's not that hard to make this happen. considering how much time we waste watching out tv shows, drinking, small talking, and wandering around lookig for something to do... this will be easy. i can hook you up with posters, info, signs, and speakers if you tell me.
just give it a thought.
on to other topics. so yeah. 14 more days till boo. i CANNOT wait. it's going to be 5 days of complete and absolute heaven!!! with my very own boo!!! i dunno what i'm gonna do with ymself on the flight over... can't believe i have to wait in arizona for an hour! i'm gonna be running laps i'll be so excited!!!! but i do feel bad about last nights convo. but she is a threat. and he hasn't reached indifference. that scares me a little. but i know he loves me. but after if there is one. i jsut hope it's not her. for his own sake. but i also realize what brought it on. i'm a little to quick to talk now that i realized. love take way toooo long to go away. WAY too long. its true everything leaves a mark. even things you dont want to!
oh and yeah. i ran a half marathon. i'm contemplating a whole one this summer... we'll see. a couple 8k, 10k runs before that at least!!
and i am soooooooo bummmed i can't go to wisc for halloween with 3m!!! BOOOO urns.!
and now i have to go work. cause i have three midterms next week. and instead of studying i'm writing in this lovely journal and listening to the millions of songs i still have to decide warrent ipod play!
lovin.
i'm starting this club called STAND: Students Take Action Now:Darfur that has to do with educationg people our age about the GENOCIDE that is happening AS YOU READ THIS in SUDAN... most people i've met on campus dont have a clue. or just pass it off as one of those "african things". kinda like back in the day some people passed off the holocaust as one of those "europena things". we all paid the price for that.
so bwhat is happening? there is a government funded malitia called janjaweed that is a radical islamic group. THey are ransacking hundreds and thousands of towns, raping more than 20,000 women, killing over 2 million people overall and 50,000 people in the last couple months. more than 1.5 million people are now displaced. people are starving, thirsty, unmedicated, and scared. and nothing is really happening. about a month ago Colin Powell was the first to acknowledge this crisis as a genocide and bush echoed him at his address to the UN. But the problem is that Russia and China get their oil in part from sudan.
if you want to do soemthing aobut it on your college campus. lemmie know. i can help you with everything. at penn we're doing a letter signing campaign to kofi annan, colin powell, the president, Snyder (our U.S. State dept senior advisor on sudan), and tons of other people. we are starting a green ribbon campaign. we are holding a philadelphia area conference here in november with Jerry Fowler, the head of the Committee on Conscience, as our lead speaker. we will probably have MTV U covering the event.
it's not that hard to make this happen. considering how much time we waste watching out tv shows, drinking, small talking, and wandering around lookig for something to do... this will be easy. i can hook you up with posters, info, signs, and speakers if you tell me.
just give it a thought.
on to other topics. so yeah. 14 more days till boo. i CANNOT wait. it's going to be 5 days of complete and absolute heaven!!! with my very own boo!!! i dunno what i'm gonna do with ymself on the flight over... can't believe i have to wait in arizona for an hour! i'm gonna be running laps i'll be so excited!!!! but i do feel bad about last nights convo. but she is a threat. and he hasn't reached indifference. that scares me a little. but i know he loves me. but after if there is one. i jsut hope it's not her. for his own sake. but i also realize what brought it on. i'm a little to quick to talk now that i realized. love take way toooo long to go away. WAY too long. its true everything leaves a mark. even things you dont want to!
oh and yeah. i ran a half marathon. i'm contemplating a whole one this summer... we'll see. a couple 8k, 10k runs before that at least!!
and i am soooooooo bummmed i can't go to wisc for halloween with 3m!!! BOOOO urns.!
and now i have to go work. cause i have three midterms next week. and instead of studying i'm writing in this lovely journal and listening to the millions of songs i still have to decide warrent ipod play!
lovin.