Reply to 'Refused" Posting

I noticed an article a couple posts below in which someone posted about the swimming pool not letting the black kids in and I was reading on Huffington Post today that Tyler Perry, the playwright/actor heard about this and has announced he is treating all the kids to a free trip to Disney World! I just thought that was a really generous way to show the kids someone cared.
-Juliana Adedoyin

After class?

I was just wondering if any of you will be here after exams end on Friday. I'll be in Chapel Hill for a little while longer and would like to visit the center once more to spread some pamphlets and possibly play a round of soccer or two. Hit me back here or on Facebook if you think you would like to stay around and hang out at the center for a few. Thanks

Soccer

I went out to the center for soccer twice this session. The first day, no kids showed up and we played with a random guy our age. I decided to go again this past Sunday since I still had not had any time with the kids. It started out just the seven of us from class kicking around and playing juggling games, but finally a mom with her two kids met us and her son joined the game already going on amongst us. Eventually, several more kids started creeping out, (but staying close to their mothers of course). Finally we had a good game going with quite a few kids, and even a middle aged guy joined us who had been watching from the steps. Several mothers with smaller toddlers gathered with Professor Blau and a few people that were periodically taking breaks from the game. We all got to sit and talk with them for a while and the women were very sweet and friendly. I listened to Evan speak with them in Spanish and it made me wish I knew more of their language. Nancy, the first woman who showed up politely asked if I spoke Spanish and unfortunately I had to reply no, I only speak French :( The longer we were out in the courtyard, more families stood on the upper levels of the steps and watched the game. The entire experience was amazing because I was only there for an hour and saw a small community appear and begin to interact around me.

Refused

The Story

The story I posted above is about the Philadelphia swim club who refused to allow black children to swim in their swimming pool. This story particularly disturbed me because how could people deny small children their right to swim in a pool because of their skin color! The rights of the children have been violated in such a disturbing way and I can not believe how cruel people can be!

Human Rights Project

It's amazing how so many people say that it is important to concern ourselves with Human Rights and yet they know nothing about what it truly is and how it is being dealt with in countries other than our own.

The project (our group) seems to be doing pretty well.
Recently I was talking with a friend who is planning a trip to Thailand in the next couple weeks and found that he saw the troubles of workers in Thailand but said that it was NORMAL for them to work in bad conditions.

Normal. Really??

Hopefully, our group will be able to pass on all the information that we have collected about Human Rights and slowly but surely people will take notice that what we take for granted, others have not never had the opportunity to experience for themselves, "rights" as we know it.

-- Katherine

Cultural Diversity Project

So the projects are due tomorrow! I only have finishing touches to do and I am complete, mostly just making it pretty! I have tested my packets on children and it seemed to be successful with aiding children to learn about different cultures, even though it is a broad topic from different backgrounds. I hope this can future benefit children and expand their knowledge through a cultural diversity perspective. :-)

gentleman's social

we just finished up our third gentleman's social of the session and despite the poor turnout, i feel like we have still made progress. the first week we had it on a friday at 5:30 and only one man came out. because of the poor showing we decided to advertise more and change the day and time to sunday at 6:30 thinking that it would be a good way to wind up the weekend. little did we know the hispanics who live in abbey court like to do their laundry and go grocery shopping on sunday evenings to prepare for the week ahead. no one showed up. we again changed the day, this time to saturday evenings at 6:30. the third time we had one man come and he seemed to have had a great time and he promised us that next week he would be sure to bring his friends. it's coming along slowly, but surely and in a few weeks i'm positive others will start to come as the word continues to spread. dominoe