Fences

Today in the LA Times there's an article about the Fence Project. It's amusing to me that a government seriously believes, likes to believe or pretends to believe that a wall will discourage people from coming to the U.S. This project is a waste of money first of all. Second, has this government learned nothing from history? Actually they've proved time and again that they really haven't learned anything from history, as a government anyway.

No wall is going to stop a desperate person from getting what they need. This desperate person is a father or a mother in search of a better life for their family. A wall is the last thing that is going to deter them, these people have lived through things worse than material obstacles. If jobs were available to them in their own countries they wouldn't risk their lives, but not only is there a lack of employment. There's a lack of opportunity for prosperity and security.

A wall is not the solution to this problem. This is like sticking a band-aid on a viral infection. No one take offense to this, I am not calling immigrants viruses. I simply want to illustrate that there is a bigger issue there and every solution the government has come up with is a temporary cover-up. To soothe the tranquility of the extreme conservatives and everyone else who is blindly afraid of immigration and the people forced into this.

Think about it. Discuss it.

A Day for Thanks

Well here I am sitting in front of the computer, cutting and pasting images for flash cards to study for a lab practicum while logging onto facebook. A great friend I had the pleasure of meeting last year posted about how this time last year she was celebrating Thanksgiving with my family and I. She was telling us about the World Cup games in South Africa (that's where she's from) and she'd met some guys that spoke Spanish and they taught her to say some obscenities (because that is always the best thing to learn in foreign languages of course, telling people off haha). She wasn't pronouncing the phrase quite right and my parents kept trying to figure out what she was saying until they finally realized what it was and they were just cracking up for the longest time, I had no chance of ever figuring out what she was trying to say - I have little experience with profanity in Spanish, I'm not trying to play innocent here, I just don't use Spanish to tell people off. Point is, it just hit me.

Today, this Thanksgiving 2011 is the first Thanksgiving to be celebrated being truly free in the country of the free. There's so much running through my head sometimes it's a little overwhelming but all in all being where I am today, makes me so insanely happy.

Those of you who have followed me through this blog or life know this means the world to me. It is Life. I have it. I am thankful. For my family. My Life.

MUCH LOVE!!!