Reflection

After spending those twenty four hours with out using any technology was very hard, I thought that I was litterally going nuts. I couldn't take it for the first three hours so I decided to do some early homework and catch up on some sleep. No cell phone, no television, no radio, i-pods, and the worst one , no FLAT IRON. I had to walk outside looking like a crazy person with my hair all out and I do have untameable and frizzy hair, so that was not too pleasant for me. I guess because our society is so involved with the day to day technologies that basically controlls and consumes our entire life, we forget that long ago many people continued to live with out many of the inventions that are invented today and in most third world countries still are to this day. That really gave me a sort of appreciation towards those twenty hours where I just forgot about having technology and managed to survive.

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One Challenge

A seven year old wakes up at five in the morning, grabs her pale and sets off to her two to three mile journey on foot. She reaches a well and begins to fill her pale up with water, she then picks up the six pound pale, places it on her head to carry back to her village. Haiti has been one of the poorest countries in the world for over a century, every day a child dies from either malnutrition, a curable disease, or by a ransom killing, the Government is corrupted, there is not enough resources to get clean water to drink, and people are struggling to stay alive from day to day. My entire my family is one hundred percent Haitian and we have been fighting for thirteen years to get my older sister and her children to come to the U.S. The United States of America has given me and my family many opportunities that has led us through many tribulations, we wanted to also share that with my sister and her kids to help them obtain a better life. It's really hurtful to see my sister living in Haiti struggling to keep her and her family alive when America lets many Cubans in but doesn't do the same for the Haitians. I understand that there are many immigrants comming into the U.S. but there is a reason why. All they want is a better life for them and their children. We as citizens should acknowledge immigrants whom are despiratly trying to gain a better life, I don't know if the president will pass the wet foot dry foot law for the Haitians but hopefully they will think about their situation and will take that into consideration.