Today I am unpacking the stuff back into my room at home now that I've dropped out of school.
Sort of mixed emotions about this...it's good to be home, but I feel kind of useless otherwise. : p
Also my parents completly redecorated my room while I was away! lol
Awkward smile as per usual...
I posted this on Facebook and thought I would booth it as well because of how important it is and how much it gets to me.
"WHY CAN'T SOME PEOPLE LEARN TO ACCEPT OTHERS FOR WHO THEY ARE? Why can't people get over old norms and accept others despite their sexual orientation? Some people need to understand what bullying can do. Suicide is the 2ND highest reason for deaths in teens. This shouldn't be happening. Stop the bullying.... Against not only the LGBT community but against anyone. Bully makes an impact. Understand what actions could do. Don't be the one living with regret. Please re-post this if you feel the same. We need to stop this."
Question: What things do you think could be done to help lower those suicide numbers?
I little origin story from wikipedia: The history of Thanksgiving in Canada can be traced back to the 1578 voyage of Martin Frobisher from England in search of the Northwest Passage. In this, his third, voyage to the Frobisher Bay area of Baffin Island in the present Canadian Territory of Nunavut, it was also the intention to start a small settlement and his fleet of 15 ships were so fitted out with men, materials and provisions for this purpose. However, the loss of one of his ships through contact with ice along with much of the building material was to prevent him from doing so. The expedition was plagued by ice and freak storms which at times had scattered the fleet and on meeting together again at their anchorage in Frobisher Bay, “..Mayster Wolfall, [ Robert Wolfall ] a learned man, appoynted by hir Majesties Councell to be theyr minister and preacher, made unto them a godly sermon, exhorting them especially to be thankefull to God for theyr strange and miraculous deliverance in those so dangerous places,…” . They celebrated Communion and “The celebration of divine mystery was the first signe, scale, and confirmation of Christ's name, death and passion ever known in all these quarters.”
Frobisher returned to England in the fall of the year with over a thousand tons of what he thought was precious gold ore which turned out to be totally worthless, and minus “fortie”, or about ten percent of his ships’ compliment “whiche number is not great, considering howe manye ships were in the fleete, and how strange fortunes we passed."
The exact locations of Frobisher’s activities remained a bit of a mystery until the discoveries of the American explorer Charles Francis Hall in Baffin Island nearly three centuries later in 1861.
Years later, French settlers, having crossed the ocean and arrived in Canada with explorer Samuel de Champlain, in 1604 onwards also held huge feasts of thanks. They even formed 'The Order of Good Cheer' and gladly shared their food with their First Nations neighbours.
After the Seven Years' War ended in 1763 handing over of New France to the British, the citizens of Halifax held a special day of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving days were observed beginning in 1799 but did not occur every year. After the American Revolution, American refugees who remained loyal to Great Britain moved from the newly independent United States and came to Canada. They brought the customs and practices of the American Thanksgiving to Canada.
Thought I would take a page from the @mintzy book and put a quote in a few booths. : )
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
-Carl Sagan
I think it's a great shame that a lot people nowadays lose interest when they are presented with something where they actually have think a bit.
What do you think the reason for this "brain drain" is? Or has the world always been like this, but we just notice it more now because of the internet?
