Random News

I am the type of person that likes to be informed on the random news around the world so I am going to share the top 5 funny stories I have heard this week.

Jon from Jon and Kate plus 8 has halted their divorce and is trying to work things out with Kate.

A police dispatcher got a phone call about this guy’s next door neighbor’s house blowing up. It ended up being the dispatcher’s house.

A man is suing Bank of America for 1,784 billion, trillion dollars because of their customer service.

Miss Singapore resigned after she stole credit cards to go on a lingerie shopping spree.

Dubai is opening the world’s largest candy store at 10,000 square feet.

Hair

Well I am going to see Hair friday night so I will update this after i see it! :)

AIDS/HIV facts in africa

• According to the World Health Organization 34.3 million people in the world have AIDS.
• 24.5 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Nearly 19 million have died from AIDS, 3.8 million of them children under the age 15.
• 5.4 million new AIDS cases in 1999, 4 million of them in Africa.
• 2.8 million died of AIDS IN 1999, 2.4 million of them in Africa.
• 13.2 million children orphaned by AIDS, 12.1 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Reduced life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa from 59yrs to 45yrs between 2005 and 2010, and in Zimbabwe from 61yrs to 33yrs.
• More than 500,000 babies infected in 1999 by their mothers most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.

http://www.rebirth.co.za/AIDS_in_Africa_1.htm

Where's home?

This past weekend I went home for the first time since I left for college. I thought it was going to be great seeing my mom and my dog along with all my friends for the first time in a month. But it was not the same. Home did not feel like home. When I reached home I realized how much I missed everyone on my floor and what they were doing and what I was going to miss out on. I realized that instead of calling the place I grew up in my home I kept saying I cannot wait to go back home (Muncie). Not even an hour after reaching home I was already texting my roommate telling her about my speeding ticket. I’m not sure if it is just me but I feel like Muncie is my new home and home is just not the same anymore.

wade in the water

Wade in the water (children)Wade in the waterWade in the waterGod's gonna trouble the waterIf you don't believe I've been redeemedGod's gonna trouble the waterI want you to follow him on down to Jordan stream(I said) My God's gonna trouble the waterYou know chilly water is dark and cold(I know my) God's gonna trouble the waterYou know it chills my body but not my soul(I said my) God's gonna trouble the water(Come on let's) wade in the waterWade in the water (children)Wade in the waterGod's gonna trouble the waterNow if you should get there before I do(I know) God's gonna trouble the waterTell all my friends that I'm comin' too(I know) God's gonna trouble the waterSometimes I'm up lord and sometimes I'm down(You know my) God's gonna trouble the waterSometimes I'm level to the groundGod's gonna trouble the water(I Know) God's gonna trouble the waterWade in the water (children)Wade out in the water (children)God's gonna trouble the water

Ishmael Beah

On Tuesday September 15 Ball State University had an exciting author come to school! His name was Ishmael Beah and he wrote our freshman book “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solider.” Walking in I was not sure what to expect because I tried to read the book but did not get very far into it before putting it down because it felt farfetched. When Ishmael began to talk about how he did not include details that he did not remember happening I questioned if some of the things he did put in were exaggerated. This is how I felt reading the book also. I understand that I was not there to experience what he went through but he was drugged and young. You know when you were young how you thought things were always a lot bigger or scarier when you were a child? I am just not sure all of the things he put into the book were 100% correct. On a lighter note I liked how he talked about using soccer to help him overcome what he had been through.

US group helping to fund research in Africa

KwaZulu-Natal is at the heart of the co-epidemic in Africa. KwaZulu-Natal is a providence in South Africa where the new institute for tuberculosis and HIV research will located. This is all thanks to a US philanthropic group who donated 60 million dollars to the research efforts. South Africa on top of being the leader for HIV positive people with 5.4 million is also the 4th highest country with tuberculosis and developing about 250,000 new cases a year. Researchers say that having the institute in South Africa will allow them to “work with higher quality data because we are able to use samples in the lab after drawing them freshly," said Bruce Walker

The Call..

On Memorial Day I received a call from my mother. It started off like every other conversation we had. How was your weekend, what did you have for dinner, ect. Well as the conversation went on my mom said she had some bad news to tell me. My heart sunk to the floor because I knew it had something to do with my family as the “I have bad news” sentence always seemed to go. She told me that my aunt, who was recently divorced out of the family, went on vacation and left her eighteen year old daughter at home. My family knew she always had drug problems but, we just did not know to what extent. “Well,”she said, “she’s in the hospital right now because one of her friends found her on the floor unconscious and called an ambulance.” At the time no one knew why she was passed out. Yesterday we found out that she had overdosed on heroin. My cousin and I were never close growing up because I was the girly girl and she was the tomboy. Over the summer at her graduation party she said, “I love you” to me for the first time. In the back of my mind I kind of feel like this could have been a cry for someone to help her and she was trying to reach to me and I just ignored it. But, on a better note she did go to school yesterday and she has agreed to check into rehab later this week.

Africa's Co-epidemic

If having HIV is not enough to worry about Africa has a new epidemic on the rise called Tuberculosis also referred to as TB. Tuberculosis is an upper respiratory disease in which the person can obtain by breathing in tiny particles of the infection. This disease can be treated with prescriptions in most cases but, in parts of Africa the TB strain is drug resistant. More than twenty percent of the world population has TB but will never show symptoms of it.

The new epidemic is coming fast in areas with high HIV cases. Half of all new tuberculosis cases are also infected with HIV. It has been said to be prevalent in Africa’s poorer neighborhoods but now spreading into the healthier ones. Without treatment of tuberculosis, ninety percent of people infected with both the diseases will die within months.

beginning of my memior

My body trembled as I got up to leave the room. His blue eyes followed me as the scent of his Armani cologne circled my nostrils. I opened the door as the fresh smell of cut grass overtook the smell of his cologne. I felt free again. I knew if I accepted his offer my life would change forever. Part of my childhood would never come back because I would be his. Entering my mom’s car questions started to run through my head. “Am I too young?” “My friends are doing it why can’t I?” The car ride home was quiet as I gazed out the window with these thoughts continuing to run through my head.
Arriving home I began to do my homework as I did any other Thursday night. I sat in my bed going over my vocabulary flashcards for Mr. Modesto’s weekly vocabulary tests. While sitting there all alone a cold breeze from my window blew a few of the cards on the floor. I went to pick them up when a picture of me and my two best friends from elementary school was coming out from under my bed. Again questions whirled through my head until they put me to bed.
The next morning I woke up to my mother yelling to me, “Get up sleepy head breakfast is on the table and I am late to work!” Bam! The door slammed as she was off to work. Taking a deep breath, I smelt the aroma of pancakes and sausages in the air. Putting on my fuzzy black slippers I headed to the kitchen. I am normally a shy person but today was the day it was going to happen I was going to be his.