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All I want right now is to go back to Mexico. I felt like I was actually doing something with my summer down there. That was definitely not long enough of a trip. I got back to work, and all I could think about was how pointless the whole thing was. Kids we'd see in Mexico wore usually the same thing for the whole week, and then at Mervyn's, we can't get rid of all the clothes, even though people buy a couple thousand dollars worth, daily. And also in Mexico, they have a lot of problems with the prison system. Prisoners are not allowed to keep anything of their own, many times the prison system doesn't have enough underwear to give to everyone, and those who don't have underwear are raped. Many times, women can't afford to have someone take care of their children while they are locked up, so the children have to live in prison as well. And diabetes is such a problem there as well. Many Mexicans get it because of their diet, but can't pay for the insulin and treatment stuff. Then when the disease gets bad enough, hospitals can't do anything because the disease is out of control. And the poverty... I don't have time to go into that, as I'm grounded from the comp and have managed to get on one in the library, but all I want to do is go back and do something worthwhile. Everything here seems so pointless.