Daylight Savings

I guess you could say I'm not the biggest of daylight savings (yes, I know it was like a week ago, but I'm still not used to it.) I've heard something about it saving energy, but in my case that is defiantly not true. I can't go to sleep at night and I can't get up in the morning. If I try to go to sleep early I end up just laying in bed for hours. So, I'm stuck watching TV and watching tons of TV at night doesn't help save energy. Since I'm staying up late I end up not wanting to get up in the morning. I end up looking like crap. I only did my hair twice this week, and I usually do it at the very least three or four times. Daylight savings wears me out. I'm pretty sure that I'm using a lot more energy then I normally do. So, in my opinion we shouldn't even have daylight savings. It might be helpful to some people, but not me. I kind of like the one in the fall, but I would rather have no daylight savings.

My Fabulous Weekend

This weekend was kind of fun. On Friday I babysat for ever, but I actually had kind of fun. I babysit almost every Friday. I don't always enjoy it though. It it kind of stinks because I don't get to hang out with my friends and do fun things, but on the bright side I get paid. I guess you could say that it is my job. Some days it is fun, but sometimes it is not at all. I went babysitting right after school got out. We played some games, and stuff like that. After we ate diner, we made snow cones (my family has a snow cone machine, and my mom brought it down.) We had Root Beer, and Tigers Blood. Tigers Blood is my favorite. After that we made homemade chocolate chip cookies. They love to make them, and ask me every time I come over if we can make them. Their mom has this really good recipe, and they are delicious. So that's what we did most of the time, it was really fun. I got home around ten and then watched TV. When I woke up the next morning, I got up and went snowboarding. I had really fun. My dad's, bosses son used to teach snow board lessons, so he went up with us. He gave us a couple of tips that would help us a lot, and once I started doing them I noticed a huge difference. The tips that he gave my helped my snowboarding go so much easier. That day was the half pipe competition and one of the chair lifts was right next to the half pipe. We went up that chair lift, it's called Eagle, and we saw some snowboarders on the pipe while we were there. The half pipe walls were twenty two feet high (it is one of the biggest half pipes in North America). While we were on the lift we saw Shawn White on the half pipe. For those of you that don't know who he is one of the best snowboarders in the world, at least in my opinion, he won the olympic gold medal in 2006. He is so amazing. It was so cool to see him while I was on the chair lift. After we were done snowboarding, I went babysitting again, so that pretty much was my whole weekend.

World Hunger

World Hunger is a major issue in today’s society, and we have so many people that are hungry on the earth. There are around 850 million people in the world that are suffering from hunger and malnutrition problems. There are around six billion people in the world; there shouldn’t be that many people that are starving. Jimmy Carter said, “We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one third rich and two thirds hungry.” We need to do everything we can to help them.

The issue of world hunger and malnutrition is so widespread and far-reaching. It touches all walks of life and all aspects of life. Not only is it a social problem but it is an economic problem as well. Those that face extreme poverty seem to be the most effected. Third world and developing countries have the most serious issues associated with hunger.

There are many advocacy groups trying locally, nationally, and globally to help against hunger. Even celebrities use their names to help fight this issue. Every bit of attention to the need to help and education about the situation is helpful. It takes more than money.

Education about hunger to those who can help, like governments, and also to those who need assistance is key. Health issues arise because of hunger issues. Hunger begins with poverty and the inability to provide for oneself. It then leads to malnutrition and deficiencies which lead to disease and then ultimately death.

People, right now, are dieing from hunger and hunger-related issues. Every day we have 2,400 people that die from hunger. That means someone leaves this life about every 3.6 seconds.

It is not because we don’t have enough food. We have enough food for everyone to have nearly two loaves of bread per day. It is more about availability and money for the food and distribution of the goods.

About one fourth of the world lives on less than one dollar a day, and three billion people live on around two dollars or less each day. That is not a lot of money, the richest one percent make as much as the poorest fifty seven percent make. The richest fifth of the world consumes eighty six percent of goods, such as food and technology, and the poorest get about one percent of those goods. That is a major difference. There needs to be more equity in the system.

The children suffer most from hunger and malnutrition. They say that three fourths of the deaths caused by hunger are children under the age of five. That is really sad. There are around 15 million hungry children that die every year from hunger. There are 160 million children that are hungry in the world. One half of the hungry children are in South Asia. There are 183 million children today that weigh less than they should. There are a lot of cases of hunger, and the children are suffering most. The children are our future, but if they are not helped how can they help us? Even though the mortality rate is going down, we still need to do everything we can to help the hungry. They are dieing at an alarming rate, and need to be helped. Even though most of the hungry are in Asia, Africa and India, it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening here. “If you want to eliminate hunger, everybody has to be involved,” said Bono. We all need to stop and fight against the hunger and malnutrition that is going on today.