For the Week 8 Blogging Challenge, I’ve decided to write about a life moral that I have learned that has greatly impacted my life.  I have learned to be grateful for my life by watching the movie, It’s a Wonderful Life, by Frank Capra.  It is about a man who had given up his life to help the poor in his community, Bedford Falls.  He gives up his dreams for the happiness of his brother and those surrounding him.  When 8,000 dollars of his company’s money is misplaced, he will be placed in jail if he does not turn in the missing money to the bank.  And he wishes that he was never born.  But then his angel sent to help him appears and shows him what Bedford Falls would be like without him.  He realizes how much he wishes that he had his old life again.  And his guardian angel brings him back to his old life.  Just like him, I’ve learned to be thankful for all the things around me, from my parents to being able to attend school everyday.

I decided to draw a picture of a Transformer from the Beast Wars for the

Week 7 blogging challenge.  I also decided to use this is sand to create

a volcano.

This week, the blogging challenge pertains to work.  But a special type of work is volunteer work.  For volunteer work, I would want to help children with special needs, autism, etc.

Children with those unique needs have greatly impacted my life, because my brother is diagnosed with autism.  I have to meet his every need as best as I can.  Sometimes I love him as he is.  But other times, he feels like a burden on my shoulders like chains holding me back.  I’ve realized that I can’t do anything about it.  So I might as well take care of my brother to the best of my abilities.

That is why I want to help children with special needs.  I would like to teach them at least the basic skills of life, like how to brush your teeth properly or how to dress and undress without anyone’s help.  I would like to help those who are in need of help.  Many children in the past have been neglected who have special needs.  And I intend to help those kids who deserve  a life and chance full of love and laughter.

This week 4 challenge (go global) has inspired me to write about a major ordeal that humans face in modern times.

One major current problem in our world today is clean water:  with every 20 seconds passing, a child dies due to a water- related illness and women have to travel 200 million miles everyday to collect water for their families that may not even be sanitary.

Organizations that help:  water.org and globalwater.org

Water.org delivers water and sanitation solutions to the villages that they attempt to help.

Globalwater.org creates safer water supplies, sanitation facilities and hygiene-related facilities for rural villagers living in developing nations.

A way you can help: simply donate to the organizations above or any other organizations that help rid our world of unclean water.

Will you answer the call for help?

http://www.crwestrotary.org/GhanaWaterProject.cfm

We have just completed the first week of the student blogging challenge.  All the challenges were fun to write and I thoroughly enjoyed writing about the challenges that made me think about what that really means.  I visited a few other people’s blogs this week and found 3 that really stood out to me: Malia’s blogs for her eloquence and amazing detail, Allan’s for his multi-color words that really attracted me, and Hala’s blog for her creative topic for her post.  These have made me want to write better and to try harder to improve my writing.  I have greatly enjoyed the past week and am looking forward to the surprises waiting in the coming week!