ISU event

I attended the Invisible Children event. During this event, there were a handful of young adults from all around the country presenting a video of the “Invisible Children”. In this video, there were a few young men went on an African adventure to help these children in Uganda, Africa. The meaning of their trip was to help rescue these children who were being kidnapped at night by an evil name named Joseph Kony who was a member of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA). He would kidnap these children and raise them as child soldiers. The beginning of this conflict started with problems with the North and South of Uganda and in the last two decades, 30,000 children have been abducted and transformed into soldiers.
Not only did Kony kidnap these children, he would torture them by mutating parts of their body and there was a massacre that killed over 300 children. If children tried to escape, they would be found and killed by the LRA. Some children were hiding in sewers so Kony and the rest of the LRA would not find them. There were interviews of some of the children in Uganda. They were talking about how scared they were of being kidnapped by Kony, it was very heartbreaking to watch. When these young men reached Uganda (the ones trying to stop Kony’s kidnappings), they wanted to form a peace agreement. Initially, Kony agreed to the peace agreements but did not show up to sign them.
At the end of the showing, the young adults came to the front of the room to answer any questions we had about the horrific things happening in Uganda. They also talked about a fundraising event being held in Chicago. They really encouraged all of us to attend and show our support for bringing these young soldiers home.

Free Blog

Since this is a free blog this week, I will write about my Spring Break was. First off, I did not get home until today actually. It was depressing coming back as the weather is now beautiful and plus, most of my friends are going to be home this week for their Spring Break. My spring break was pretty relaxing over-all. I did not do anything too productive besides a bit of homework! I was stranded in my house a lot since I did not have access to my car until the Friday before break ended which was unfortunate. None of my friends from home were home for break so I did not hang out with many people besides the ones who were home who went to our community college (college of dupage). When I was able to have access to a car, I did lots of shopping! I went to a new mall that was located a few towns over that was pretty nice. It was an outside mall, which was beneficial because it was around 50 degrees out and sunny. I was excited to get new spring clothes because I know very nice weather is approaching us soon. Also, I spent a little quality time with my mother. We went to see a movie and it was really cool because it was a theatre where they serve you food while you are watching the movie. We saw the movie, He’s just not that into you, and it was cute, but I thought it would be a little bit better! I still liked it though. Also, I visited some family and saw a lot of my cousins that I do not get to see very often, which was very cool. Although my break was not the most event-filled, it was nice to spend it with my family. Hopefully next year I will go to somewhere tropical!

Tuition Money

If I was given roughly 80,000 dollars (estimated amount it costs to go to Illinois State University for four years), there are a few ways I would spend my money. To begin with, I would go directly to the bank and put half of the money in the bank. I would want to save some of my money and have interest grow so that I would later on, end up having more.
Next, I would I would go on a mini shopping spree. I would not go too out of control, but I would spend maybe 500 to 1,000 dollars at the mall! I desperately need new jeans and some other new spring clothes. I have never been to the mall of America in Minnesota so that would be the place I would go shopping first!
After going on my mini shopping spree, I would want travel to Europe considering I have never been there before. I would want to go Ireland because I am mostly Irish, and then I would want to visit Italy and Germany. I would want to visit the Shannon River in Ireland, and I would want to go to historical sites in Germany. I would want to also visit France and visit the Eifel Tower as I hear it is a beautiful place to be.
After a vacation to the countries in Europe, I would give some money to family, especially my mother since she has done a lot of me in past 18 in half years. After doing that, I would donate to foundations, organizations, and medical research (especially for cancer since a family member of mine passed away from the disease).
After all of my spending, if I had any mother left over, I would try to remodel some things in the house I live in now in order to help it sell as it is on the market! I would try to help pay for a remodeled kitchen and basement. Although I would not be able to pay for much, I would as much as I had left over into my family’s house remodeling fund.