Friday, December 11, 2009

Ouch, Yay, Dang!



Today I walked into 4th hour English and my legs were hurting really bad. They were hurting from baseball conditioning on Wednesday. I could barely walk. Every step I took, my calves would feel like they were about to tear open. Then I finally sat down and immediately after, Mr. Fielder said that we were going down to the computer lab. My legs were just starting to get better and we had to get up again. On a scale from 1 to 10 they hurt a 9 and I had to walk down to the computer lab. It was outrageous. So I got up and my legs started to burn right away and we walked down the hall into the preschool hall. Then we went into a very warm place for once and probably the computer lab with the worst computers. The only thing good about getting up and walking again into the computer lab was that the computer lab was warm.

I was actually partially excited about being in the worst computer lab in the school because of the fact that it was warm and outside, the temperature with the wind chill was about 3 degrees. I sat down in a corner surrounded by computers. I was squeezed by computers to my left and right but right behind me there was a computer too. There were so many computers in such a little area. Then it took a long time for the computer to start up but when it finally did I had to go onto the internet and I knew that something bad was going to happen. It took about 10 minutes for me to get comfortable in my chair and for the computer to get onto the internet. I also had to find where to plug my mouse into the computer and I had to adjust my monitor and keyboard and slant them so I had a comfortable position. It is still sort of uncomfortable because my hand was practically hanging off of the table. I had finally fixed it and then, the bell rang to go to lunch. I was so mad that I took that much time to fix my computer and then I had to get up and walk again. And of course, my legs continued to hurt and I had to walk to lunch and all the way back and tried to finish what I started in the computer lab.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

The Genocide

I think that the genocide did not have to happen and since it did, it could’ve been stopped.

The genocide didn’t have to happen because the Hutu president made the MRND who started it. The MRND went right to work and blamed the Tutsi for killing the Hutu president. They made a radio station that convinced the Hutus and the Interahamwe that the Tutsis were going to invade so the Interahamwe were told to kill the Tutsis, so like any other military would, they followed directions. Everyone blames the Interahamwe for killing people but they don’t know the real story. So Juvenal Habirayama (The Hutu President) and the MRND are to blame.

It also could’ve been stopped by the U.S. The U.S. did absolutely nothing about it. They knew the genocide was going on and they didn’t do anything because they just got finished with a similar problem in Somalia. They said that they were too busy and that they didn’t have time to work in Rwanda. If they would’ve actually done something in Rwanda, they could’ve made a huge difference. At that time, they had the best military and could’ve stopped the genocide fairly easily. But they did nothing.