Well like usual it took me a few days to write something on my blog. I have realized if I blog everyday then this blog would become very boring and I feel that I am getting more people reading it, so I have to keep it fresh. All in all since the last blog I have been doing pretty well.
Now you might be wondering why my title is what it is. Well I want to approach the title as two separate entities.
I teach Religious Education every Tuesday at the parish down the street from where I live called St. Daniel's. I only have 6 kids in my class, 2 girls and 4 boys. They are usually very wild when they come to me since they typically come to me after they have lunch and recess at the school they attend. Now yesterday was different. The first student that walked into my class said that another student in the class got in trouble at school, but he was waiting for everyone else to get in to tell me. Now I was like what did he do, is he okay, all these questions were popping up in my head. Once everyone got into the classroom, I shut the door and they told me. For the sake of keeping his name private I will call him "The Boy". Well "The Boy" got a 5 day suspension from school because he brought a weapon to school and not just a pocket knife, but a gun. Now when they told me he had a gun, my eyes got really big because my first instinct was like oh my gosh he brought a gun to school. They then said that he had brought a pellet gun to school. In some sense I did find that more relieving because it was a pellet gun and not just a gun that a cop might carry. However, it is still a gun and it is still a weapon. I ended up telling the director the situation, just to give him a heads up. So a lot of my worry now has been thinking about how "The Boy" is doing. I did stress to my religion class how dangerous it is for something like that to be brought to school and the consequences of such actions. I wanted them to know that there lives could have been at risk, who knows. Something like that is dangerous and not smart. I just hope "The Boy" learns from this. I feel like this is where I can really step in to be a male figure for him because he does come from a split family. So my prayers do go out to him at this time. It is just a scary thing and you never know.
Today I went to the gym twice, but the second time I went because I had to blow off some steam because I was frustrated. I absolutely hate talking politics, I really do! I have no time to talk about it, I don't want to hear anything, things are already screwed up with it. However, I also believe that everything happens for a reason, so if people think President Bush was a horrible president so be it, I just don't want to hear it, what's done is done. People are mad at Bush because of the war and everything, I just wonder what the world would be like if Bush just sat back after 9/11 and did absolutely nothing. We would then have bashing at Bush for not doing anything. There is never a win win situation. Give the man a break. I don't like Obama, I don't go around saying that to people, however, I am saying that here. I don't like it when religion and politics cross paths especially when it is in community because it can be a real bummer. That's where my frustration comes from, the bashing. The bashing can really separate people! Probably why our country can't get anything done because we can't work together.
Looking forward to the weekend, I have my formation program this weekend and it is usually fun!
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