School is already hard!

August 29th, 2008

Yeah, a couple of my classes have already slammed me. The Humanities in particular. We have teamed up the class into five teams for our term project. My team chose healthcare, and I think what we will do is get donated medical supplies to somewhere needed.

I have a great friend, Gwen, who knows a ‘NURSE WITHOUT BORDERS’ who has done a donation management before and has agreed to help me with contacts and advice. I can’t tell you how important this is…… The other night, when I realized how much there is to do in this class, I was just in tears. I was so afraid I wouldn’t be able to do well in this class and it would drag my GPA down. It’s stupid, because the reason I have to take this class anyway is for the Honors Student achievement. So losing GPA would knock me out of honors,….. well, I went uselessly around that for awhile.

Yesterday I talked to my honors advisor and also one of the professors and I feel much better. I’d better feel better, today is the last day I can change, and I haven’t gotten a response from any of the other teachers that might take an honors studet transfer (or not). I sent everyone emails, there’s an ART and a CIS, either of which I am more suited for than this doo-gooder stuff. I’m not much of a joiner, you know, and this is all group volunteerism. One of the examples was a few years ago a class fixed up a home of poor illegal immigrants and did a film about it. great project, only I have a lot of problems with the subject of it.

The ‘before’ picture showed a filthy house in total disarray. (there is no excuse for that kind of behavior, poverty does not cause dirt. The second issue is the illegal alien part when there are a lot of American families in need.

My third point of displeasure comes from personnal experience:

My son and I have been so close to homelessness ourselves in the past and could not get help because we are WHITE, EMPLOYED and SOBER. You really have to be pretty far down and somewhat brown to get people to help you. Then later, I felt I could give back and volunteered to Habitat to Humanity and discovered that the (brown) people who were getting these homes were better off than I. I also joined a church group to fix up a house that was falling apart and met the people we were helping…. they were ungrateful drunks living off their old granny (who was the real homeowner) They hadn’t even done the yard work, There was so much trash and squalor I couldn’t believe it!!! So this is the thing, I believe you need to be responsible for your own cleanliness and have to bootstrap up sometimes.

The humanities class is going to be a challenge, with all those young, idealistic do-gooders in there. At least I found a group doing something I can believe in. Maybe I can put a breath of sanity in there