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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

...I don't think you understand your racial remarks...

My prima Suzy just gave birth to quads not too long ago so last Friday I went there to help out... well one of my duties that I was assigned to do was take her books out of a shelf then put the videos and VHS tapes on the shelves. To my surprise, I saw a movie I watched in Spanish class in high school. The movie is called "My family" or "Mi Familia". So when I saw the movie I gasped and asked her if I could borrow the movie from her and give it back to her the next time I came; she agreed and I began a very short yet interesting adventure.





The movie "My Family" is about a Latino family and their struggles. There's love, death, adventure and comedy all wrapped up in this RATED R... yes R, movie.


What has sparked a light under my rear to write this blog, was something that my ROOMMATE said to me while she stood in the room staring at the television with the movie playing. She said, "They're only good for making babies." Now I will say that she didn't want to say it, but I told her to go ahead and say what she was thinking... but still she said those words.


This is the girl who says that she is "fully cultured" and has "friends of every race"... yet she still made a very hurtful remark. I don't think that other people understand what it's like to be the one who is being made fun of or to be socially targeted. It does hurt when people ignore the fact that we are all children of God, but pull the color card out and just try to sound knowledgeable or smart when in reality they sound very rude and hateful.

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

**since you've been gone**

since i haven't written in such a long while.. i think i'll give an update on everything that i can remember that has happened...


*I will not be going back to PerĂº this year due to financial reasons.


*My cousin Suzy had her QUADS on Christmas Eve! :)


*I finally have a boyfriend now... he's amazing.


*I have found out that I need to have surgery on my knee this year.. yaaaayyyy... NOT!!!!!!


*My grandparents are still living here in Marion, and even though they have had some troubles (sickness wise)...they are actually doing very well!


*I ended my first semester wonderfully... I did better than I thought I was going to do!


*I've found out that Dr. Walter Alva Alva, the archaeologist I worked for in PerĂº would give me a letter of recommendation if I was to apply for my internship at National Geographic!


....those were the recent ones I can think about... if there are anymore I'll share... don't worrrryyy!! :)


For those who are in my digital media class and/or my scriptwriting class...I hope you enjoy my blog!


<3 glenda