2007-Day Two

Resolutions, or whatever they are called.
I stopped making resolutions a few years ago, but this year I have some goals that I am really excited about. I am still working on improving my overall health. Yesterday I did some working out with my elastics, my medical ball (I think that’s what they are called) and one of our exercise balls. The funny thing about those is that the kids like them more than I do. I guess where I see fitness, they see a big round colorful ball and want to play. I’m on the hunt for some good crosstraining shoes without black soles. We have a new no black soles except basketball shoes policy at the gym, and you know what color the soles are on my shoes, LOL…

The Gift

This morning, I checked the mailbox and found a nice present for little A. from her Auntie Melette. She was so excited. She was happy about her gift, which was a book about her favorite character of the moment, Winnie the Pooh. She was all excited about it, so I thought she’d be glad to leave a voicemail for Melette. Spoke too soon. She went from full of commentary and requests to read the book to saying nothing. I hope her phone manners get better with time, cause she’s been known to hang up and put folk on hold, and that’s not good.

I read about it here yesterday afternoon, and I had been hearing about the school for several months and how she spent the summer working on it and stuff. You know, every time a celebrity does something like this, people are ESPECIALLY quick to say something like, “Why won’t she do something like that here?” Oprah has given millions to education in the United States, so I don’t know if that line of questioning is appropriate, but nonetheless, it will most likely happen.

She said that a lot of people in urban schools and Americans in general don’t value education. I think that is very true. In the four or five years I’ve been battling, er, dealing with the public school system, I’ve run into more apathetic parents that I would care to count, and this is in one of the TOP school systems in the state, so I can only imagine what things are like in underserved schools.

She also said that she had to part company with the South African government on this project because of their problems with the scale of her plans. Girls have it hard in just about any society, but in Africa in general, I’d have to say that the only place in the world where female children are less valued is China. It is kind of ironic because African women are pretty much holding the continent together. I can not even imagine the impact that this school will have. It is going to take so many from surviving to thriving. It gives me chills just thinking about it.