There's an Economic Crisis and I'm being asked to give my money away.

Ah, the weather was so nice today. Chilling winds picked up and made a dull day wonderful. Class today was... around normal until about 5th period when I was "invited" to a speech today in the commons. Some guy, who was born and raised in Sparks, graduated from Utah, wanted to explain to us about his charity organization Green Eyes of Africa. It's to help raise money for the poor African children that they house and stay with all year. Now i'm not saying this guy is a bad guy or that his job is stupid, I respect what he's doing, but I find it quite annoying when they ask us for money and I find it ESPECIALLY annoying when the kids in my class are like OMG THIS GUY IS AMAZING! WE SHOULD HELP OUT WITH THE AFRICAN KIDS! OH POOR KIDS! OMG DID YOU SEE THAT DOCUMENTARY WHERE THE LITTLE GIRL WAS RAPED OMG HOW TERRIBLE DID YOU SEE WHERE THEY LIVE?!? That's exactly what they do, they get all the kids hyped up about helping them and we just blow all our money on them. Now I doubt this guy was a fraud, but we're in times of an economic crisis, I believe you yourself have to be properly cared for before you can take care of somebody else. If someone personally wants to go help them, that's great, but don't ask us for money, because WE. DON'T. HAVE. IT.

I was elected to be next year's Senior Class Vice President, and I am expected to help with this charity. If I don't believe in it... do I have to help? Should I help? And don't any of you call me uncharitable... because I have donated over 100 dollars to Stand Up to Cancer and good amount of money to various charities. I am one to feel that we should help America before we help others. I realize that the country's government is corrupt. But it doesn't take much to practice safe sex, even in third world countries. America can practice this as well, but we're not having as much child problems as Africa is. So if anyone even reads my blogs, I would like to be understood that I'm not a cruel and heartless person (most times) but they understand where I stand on this.

So... that aside... I have a track meet tomorrow. Running the 100 m Dash. 200 m Dash and the 4x100m Relay. Wish me luck you non readers. For now I must pack because we leave after 2nd period tomorrow.