Sunday, April 18, 2010

My extra career life

Recently, I participated in a community service project sponsored and organized by school. I did pull weeds, pick up litters and some clean up. I did this get some benefit from the community. First, I appreciate the spirit of team. working with classmates and teachers are warm to me. we helped each other, we take care each other, even sharing each other. one thing suprised me that I saw many children they did things as us. They are maybe 12 yeas old, but they joined as volunteers, it is almost their intesets, they did pick up litters and tidy others' yard. I can see they really enjoy this process. But some of our students, they even look effemination than children. It makes me admire those kids. I was shocked by them. Another thing that I remember so clear that I got a stomach ache that day. I felt so bad, even like died, then a person who work in the community, she helped me and took me to her house, let me use her restroom and prepare hot water for me, I was touched by her manner, I was taken care by a people I do not know, I felt so warm. If I am in China, maybe nobody can help me, although they help me, they can not do things like this people. So I think American are friendly. I told this thing to my mother, she also think it make people touched. At that day, I learned a lot, I tried my best to help. I was so glad that I gave my new drinks to driver, because I learn from the people who helped me that we should take care each other, even though they are not our relatives. I think this experience make me gain a lot. One is how important the spirit of team and take care each other. So I hope I can join these jobs as much as I can, and try my best in the future. Thanks school giving me this chance. This is my thinking of my first experience of my extra career life.

Monday, April 12, 2010

30 Days-immigration



From this website http://www.hulu.com/watch/56908/30-days-immigration. I learned a lot from it. It talks about the life of the illegal immigrations and related policies, the United States have many immigrants, many illegal immigrants. Most of them come from Mexico and Central America. In the United States border, there are many people patrol the border to prevent people from illegally entering the United States. Today in America, one position of the immigration debate is that this illegal immigration should be allowed to be citizens, because these people can engage in low-level jobs that Americans do not want to do the work, they can afford more labor and to reduce these people's suffering and trouble. Another position is that illegal immigrations should be round up to deported because they can bring pressure and some disasters. Some people bring drugs to the United States, resulting in unnecessary trouble. In this show, there is a person called Frank George, he is a immigration from Cuba, his father brought his family when he was 7 in 1957. He wants no illegal immigration in America. He is a Minuteman, the Minutemen means that people take members of using their own hands to protect the border and country that stop as many mistakes as they can. They take guns with them that to monitor the border of Mexico and the United States on whether someone wants to illegally enter the United States, if they find, they will call police immediately. In show, there is a family called Gonzalez family, there are 7 members, they came to the United States 12 years ago illegally. They come from Mexico. At the beginning, frank insisted the idea of deporting all illegal immigrants, he visited one of the family called Gonzalez,by 30 days live with them, he changed the idea of illegal immigrants, because the mother in this family's parents died, but she cannot see them last time, so Frank decided to have a trip to Mexico, he found the family living environment is worse than the life in American, he understood the reason why they come to the United States. Armida is the biggest daughter in this family, she is currently attending a local University with hopes of eventually raising the money for tuition at the college of her choice, she can give hope to her family that solve problems. And the reform of immigration will be changed in the future. Based on what I saw in this show, I this problems with being strict with undocumented workers are doing lower-level jobs, they have no guarantee about their life, they worry about the police will deport them back to their counties. In my opinion, I think America should accept illegally immigrations and give them chance to live in America and to be a citizen. Because they can afford labor and help to build completely America. They can apply for being a American, they can by the way of their offerings, experiences, skills that help them to find a good job. I think this also is a way to reduce illegally immigrations