World Issues

I've just done some research on our civic responsibility in this country. I've researched poverty, homeless people, and world starvation and found the following web-sites that have statistics polls, donation opportunities, and facts about world issues such as these:

http://www.heritage.org/research/welfare/bg1713.cfm

http://www.globalissues.org/article/4/poverty-around-the-world

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/world/asia/01iht-medical.1.16607251.html

http://www.alphaproject.org/

http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/

http://old.economichumanrights.org/index.shtml

http://www.feedthechildren.org/site/PageServer?pagename=org_intl_programs&s_src=google_adwords&s_subsrc=gaw_AFCA--intprog3131735682--starving%20children%20around%20the%20world

http://www.endhomelessness.org/

http://www.policyalmanac.org/social_welfare/homeless.shtml

http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats

Civic Games

I'm not a huge fan of internet games, but I recently played a game called The Cost of Life and it's a little more like reality than I would've thought. It's about a family that you have to keep alive by managing their health, money, education, and happiness. Their health is the most important. If the whole family dies, GAME OVER. The game is educational, but kind of fun. it's not drop dead exciting, but the whole game kind of gives you a slight idea of what it would be like to live in those conditions. A SLIGHT idea, of course. No one but the actual victims will ever know exactly what it's like.

My Wiki

I currently started taking GED classes and have already taken 2 practice tests to help me study for the main test. I think this class will be fairly challenging, but I'm confident that I'll be able to get my GED before I leave. I'm supposed to leave some time in October, so I'll really have to kick it into gear if I want to graduate the class before I leave. I would like to have it before I leave so I can get a job as soon as possible. I have to find my own way in life and support myself and my daughter. I had a lot of trouble in regular school. It was just too much work all piled on me at once. Some of the work was too hard. Some was easy. I'm not very good at math, but I can handle anything to do with spelling. Either way, I think I'm capable of succeeding in the GED class.