This was my favorite picture from the community walk because I was glad to see that the community gave tribute to the Philadelphia Negro League because a lot of black people do not recieve a lot of credit and for them to have a whole memorial deicated to the Philadelphia Baseball Negro League its a step up from not reconizing black people at all.

I attended a red cross regional conference a few weeks ago and the
mayor of Parramatta spoke saying how when he first moved into the
community, he had a bbq to get to know everyone and how he got to know
people and his street community comming together and I dont know how
things are in different areas but most places that I see..its the same
story, people live in houses, youth have over 300 contacts, most of
them how live about 15mins away from them yet hey havent met.

We find more and more youth being diagnosed with depression, feeling
isolated, with the world at their fingertips...we still feel more
colder then our parents would have.

A way to get youth together, a way to show them that 'hey u have
potential, great potiental'
You get this ALOT at leaderships conferences and other various things
but it is restrcited only to leaders. We go and get our skills fine
tuned, we are taught to stand firmer, to speak louder and aim higher
but what about those who simply dont know how to stand to begin with,
those who dont know how to speak at all and those who lack motivation
and belonging...
Scary thing is, these people and we are the future so something more
needs to be done...

I really dont know what I am trying to say but I dont know...a youth
led festival organised by youth and not so much by the council, just
when people feel like their decisions matter , they tend to take more
intiviative so yeah...
Something new, something differenent...not sure what...

BO$$UNIT is a group of young people who are trying to take control of there life with all thats going on. Bo$$unit basically takes advantage of how the world is so high tech nowadays and use technology to express whatever they want. Bo$$unit has realized with technology you can achieve many things, and they just want to show the world that in a way for young people and older people can understand. Bo$$unit produces many products with technology until they get enough money to build a studio that uses technology to do everything and have it open to the public to produce whatever they want to exspress to the world with a little help.

I know, it has been such a long time since my last post.

Its Easter =]

I dont think I am the only one who feels just a little extra loved during Easter.
As a christian , easter somehow has more signifiance to me personally then Christmas.

Maybe its because it hasnt been comsumerised (sp?) yet or maybe its about the scarifice that one makes to save others.

savior on a hill, dying for my shame, deifes the world I see, yet this is what my heart has been longing for

I am not sure if I believe in the big scary "God" person but whichever way you look at it, Jesus was amazing.
Whether divine or not, to die for people who rejected him
To show the world a way of life
To teach the world love
and to believe it enough to well be cruificed....
that is why I call myself a Chrisitan.

Other things have been amazing as well.

This week, I found out that I am in the NSW youth parliment so I am very excited about that =]

More updates as they come =]

xx
rusty

In my point of view our class ''Invisible City'' is about overlooking things that people pass by every day. I learned a lot from being in this class and it gave me a new lens to see things in different ways. I also liked this class because it also gives me a chance to show people how I see things with my photography.
Pictures I personally took were mostly landscape pictures, like pictures of my school and pictures of my community. The music we created was more up to date hip hop type instrumentals. The process of making the music was simple; we used this program called FL studio and put together sounds to make the music we produced.
We took all the projects our class made and we took it to Hershey, Pennsylvania to the PETE&C conference. There we displayed all the things we did in our class for people there to observe. I thought the conference was helpful because people there gave us feedback on what they thought about our work. I would be interested in going again, and if I could go again next year a project I would like to work on more of our music and maybe do some movies.

Today was a very good day. Visitors from other countries came to talk about how they was living and their cultures. I think it was very interesting.I learned a lot from listening to the different people. I also enjoyed the different questions that were being asked. I think the visitors helped me get more knowledge about their homes and their religions.

Once again its that time of the year...the joy of family, the warmth of home, the feeling of love!

Merry Christmas everyone! and have a fanastic new year!

Finally breathing time!

The year is almost over. The school year, for me, ends tomrow and then the presentation of reports followed by a eight week break.
Seems like only yesterday when I first started at Rooty Hill and now my first year is over. Time flies.

Today we also had a party for STAND. We now have around 30 members which is fanastic since well..its Rooty Hill.

Kevin Rudd has won Labor Leadership. Woot woot!! It seems unfair on Kim Beazely for putting so much effort and commitment to the party and then having it all taken away....but such is life and well go labor!!

The sensationalism of the coup in Fiji is absoulty ridicious. Ask the average Fijian how they feel and they tell you that there is no difference. I am, personally, for the coup. The measures needed to be taken. Who is the bigger sinner, the one who commits the crime or the one who watches it being commited? Hopefully this coup will put an end to corruption and injustice. However, I think there could have been other ways to resolve it and not having a coup but you have to give the military commander some credit, he did everything he could. He talked. He negioated. He gave them time and well sometimes things need to be done. I dislike his method but his intentions were good.

Oh god I sound so bad saying that >.<

Once again, 4th time in less than 20 years, Fiji is in a state of Coup.

They have promised that this will be a bloodless coup…lets hope so.

There wasn’t any deaths in the 2000 coup…but the atrocities that occurred were just plain old stupid. Jobs were lost, the economy was going down, there was fear amongst everyone and most importantly people simply lost hope after the injustice that happened.

The military has taken over the country because they are unhappy with certain government bills and yes I am for that. Fiji has become a place where the poor keep sliding into deeper poverty. More and more farms and houses are being taken over by the native and the law just sits back. One of the bills which the military was against was making all freehold land turned to the native title.

I am not against the coup, I just hope that the results from this coup isn’t the same as the last one.

This article was about migration in terms of labor. I say this because in the article it says ''many middle-age people have migrated for economic reasons and not persecution. This may be referred to as labour migration resulting from widespread unemployment in the country. It is also not true that many Ugandans seek refuge due to completely unbearable life here at home. Many of these people are not fleeing starvation and a lack of shelter but are on a search for high life on the streets of London. Surely no one can leave Uganda unless they can pay US $ 1000 for the flight to Gatwick or risk a two month trip on a cargo ship''. So i place this article in the categorys of involuntary and labor, I think its some what involuntary because they dont want to leave there home land there being forced to and its labor becase they need jobs because there economic problem

No Questions

The British collected a number of Nepalese youngsters to the British armed forces. And they collected migrants to come and work for them. They used the migrants of Nepalese for employment purposes only. There are many villages in Nepal where labor migration has been established as a culture of a community.
Economic migration to the Middle East from South Asia and other parts of the world was spurred-on by the oil boom in the early 1970s.

Why do they need migrants to work for them?
How could they end migration?

In story the women had to leave to work far from their family because they have to work but they send money for food, clothes, and the children eduction it's hard not see your family for a couple of months and they don't see their family always working and I know it's hardnot seeing your mom because I hate when my go away.

I WAS READING ABOUT HOW WOMEN ARE SOME TIMES USED AS SLAVES AND COULD NOT GET WHAT THEY WANTED. THEY GOT SLOTERD AND RAPED AND BEAT UP FOR STUFF THEY DID NOT DO. AND IF THEY DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THERE MATE. THE LITTLE GIRLS WAS FORCED TO GET MARRIED AT A YOUNG AGE AND HAVING KIDS WITH THAT PERSON THEY WERE FORCED TO MATE WITH. I THINK THAT ALL OF THAT WAS WRONG BECAUSE NO ONE SHOULD BE FORCED TO DO SOMETHING THEY DO NOT WANT TO LIKE GETTING MARRIED TO SOMEONE YOU DO NOT KNOW AND DO NOT CARE AND PLUS HE'S GROWN. YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO GO THREW ALL THAT BECAUSE THAT MAKES NO SINCE AT ALL. MY DAD WILL NEVER WANT ME TO GET MARRIED AT A YOUNG AGE. HE TELL'S ME ALL OF TIME TO STAY A CHILD AS LONG AS POSIBLE. HOPEULLY ALL OF THIS WAR AGAINST WOMEN IS SOLVED WHEN I GROW UP BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT TO THREW ALL THAT

Yes, I finally found time to watch the movie.....and wow!
It is incredible.

Human insanity.
Hatred.
Compassion.

How do stuff like that happen in our world? How does these types of hatred breed in todays world?

And how did we just turn our backs?
and things like this are still happening today and we are still ignoring it?

Have we just become immune to the attroctes of the world or do we just not care?

Over n Out
Rusty.

What is the dark side with migration?
How does migration open doors for women?
Why is the demand for women migrants at an all time high?
This article is about how women migrate for a better life. They come to the united States for a better life, and better jobs. They come over to the United States.