Africa Union Day

African Union Day was about discussing the situation in Burundi. All the African countries discussed what we should do about the Hutu’s and Tutsis and what we should do with them and how we should stop them. Also we discussed the president running for a third term. We discussed what we should do with refugees and what we should do with them, like if we should build refugee camps.

The most significant thing I learned was that the Hutu’s and the Tutsis are a big deal, not just a little war. They have been fighting for decades.

My favorite thing I liked was the debate because we all got to team up or whatever and got to defend the same things and argue different things.

Apartheid Response

The relationship changes throughout the movie when the jersey kid turned down the Springboks jersey, but at the end of the movie jersey kid was listening to the final game with the police. Also I think that the team changed throughout the movie when they got to go to the jail sell of Mandela and the place where he was at. Mandela changed a little bit throughout the movie when he walked out at the end of the rugby match with a Springbok hat on and a Francois Pinaar jersey on. And also Francois changed in the movie by when he stood in the jail sell of Mandela and shut the door and looked out the window and realized how small it was.

This represented South Africa by uniting blacks and whites. I like when Francois said that they didn’t have the support of 12,000 South Africans but the support of 43,000,000 South Africans. I also thought that what united South Africa was when the team went to this little towns of all blacks, and when they first got there everybody was chanting, “Chester! Chester!” Because he was the only black player on the rugby team. And finally they got respect when after the rugby match almost all the stadium was chanting, “Nelson! Nelson! Nelson!” And it wasn’t just black fans but black and white fans.

Amazon Basin Use

I think that the Native Amazonians and the rubber tappers have the best land use of the Amazon Basin. I think that because the Natives have been there for over 12,000 years and all they want is to live the way they have been living for the past 12,000. They don’t hurt the environment so I think they need to have the best lad use. I also think the rubber tappers have the best land use because they don’t even hurt the trees so what did they do wrong to the environment?

The loggers want to put a stinking highway that goes strait through the rainforest. Who on earth would use it? What is all this tree money going to, the government? Life isn’t about money, we won’t even have life if they cut down the forest because a lot of the world’s oxygen comes from the rainforest. Also the settlers don’t belong there because the constant rain washes the nutrients out of the soil. Plus the bugs from the rainforest eat their crops. Why would you want to live in a place that has no point of living in? And last those cattle ranchers need to get the heck out of the rainforest. The only thing they are doing good for the environment is pooping on it and giving it nutrients.

Immigration Day

Logan DeWitt
7X #3
Immigration Day Response

Immigration Day was one of my favorite days of the year so far this year. I liked it because we got to listen to people’s stories and how they came to America. I got to listen to a really good story from Thong Chau, he was born in Cambodia. He lived there for eleven or so years. He worked in rice fields all day every day without getting paid. He could only eat insects, snakes, mice or anything that was living to survive. When he was eleven or so he told his parents that he is going to leave Cambodia. So he and his brother biked to Thailand at night. They lived there for one year and that is where he learned English. After one year living there, he and his brother (who was ten at the time) traveled to the Philippines. There he and his brother live there for six months got sponsored by a church in Holland and that is how he and his brother came to Michigan. Now his brother and him both live on the same neighborhood and his parents and sister live in Seattle.
This is important because we need to know how people in developing countries live. For instance, Thong had to work in rice fields without getting paid, my dad works at Request foods and gets paid. It effected me because people around the world die everyday of starvation and dehydration. We say that we are starving but we are not but kids are. Thong also said that you don’t have freedom of speech. In Cambodia you can’t say anything bad about the president in public because they will turn you in and get killed. That is a key factor that we have here which others don’t have.
This has changed my perspective on immigrants from other countries because we have a good life here, we have food on the table, we have clean water to drink, we have a warm house on a cold night, we have beds, etc. But the people in developing countries live with unclean water. Thong told my group that he had to drink the water that people swim in and go to the bathroom in! They live in a really small hut type thing, they have no running water or toilets, no heat, etc. This has changed my perspective on things big time because before we got to Immigration Day I had no clue where Thong Chau came from or if he had a story behind him, I didn’t even know he was twelve when he came alone with his brother who was ten or eleven (I know Thong because he works at my dad’s work). Now I want to ask everyone who traveled here what their story is. So Immigration Day is one of my favorite days so far this year.

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