Wednesday, January 21, 2009

My summer is ruined.

Well, for the most part. So yesterday, there were flyers going around the school: International Student Volunteers. You can travel to Australia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, South Africa, New Zealand, Dominican Republic, Thailand, & Eastern Europe. You can do just two weeks of volunteer service like, helping build houses & communities, helping children at school & teaching them english & just being with them, & then shit like rainforest regeneration, sea turtle & elephant conservations, etc. Like, holy shit. How AMAZING does that sound?! & then the other deal is a 4 week package with the two weeks of volunteer service & then two weeks of adventures like white water rafting, scba diving/snorkeling on exotic reefs, canyoning & cave explorations, horseback riding to hidden waterfalls, etc. That sounds soooo cool. But I would mainly want to go for the volunteer work. This is WHAT I want to do. So badly. I want to make a difference in someone else's life. I want to feel good in knowing that I helped someone. So me, Andi, & Britni skip lunch to go to the meeting to find out more about it. The whoooole time me & Andrea are shrieking at everything the lady talks about & we're on the verge of peeing & crying. When we ask if we have to be 18. Yes. The answer was yes. & then my heart ripped in two & I really almost cried /: 18 year olds ruin my life. So therefore my dreams for this summer are crushed. EXCEPT! The lady also mentioned they have a high school program. Which sounds good, but not AS good. Because then we get treated like children & we don't get to do everything the other group does. & I really wanna go to Thailand & help children & build communities & feed elephants who were rescued. It's such an amazing opportunity. It really does kill me I'm not old enough. When we left that meeting I wanted to kill everyone I saw, because it was at the college, & EVERYONE is basically older than 18. & there were only like 5 other people at that meeting. KILL EVERYONE. Like no one cares. Fuck everyone, for real. & then I heard some people say that we should help around here in the state or in this country & I was like FUCK THAT, because people have so many opportunities to fucking get a job or raise money SOME HOW, some shit, you know? So fuck that. & fuck this economy. I haven't said the pledge of Alligance since like 7th grade. Fuck this government. Foreign countries have a different style of government, like some don't have a choice. Like a dictatorship & some don't have fucking WATER. How sad is that. So that's why I want to help them so much. I really do.


Jacob has been over while I was typing half of this. telling me stories about camp. & he knows how to fence. So make fun him. Tee hee. Alright, he's whining for me to get over with this three page blog. Bye.

2 comments:

andi said...

ive been crying (i'm not even exaggerating) since like, four.

my eyes hurt.
and my face is sore.
and so is my nose from blowing it so much.

and i don't think i can do the summer thing.

i hate my life.

JacobinRL said...

i can do four