Life it hard

Change is supposed to be a part of every one’s life, I know this. I have always known this. But when everything moves one you then how do you handle it? My grandmother was diagnosed with cancer last month. It was a lot to take in. she turned eighty just a few weeks ago and yet she is going to go on kemo. I don’t know if it is better that she wants to hold on…or if she could just let nature take its course I have seen how the kemo rips apart a young person…so what makes me think at eighty she will be ok with the treatment. Then on top of that my boyfriend is moving….he is the person that can make me smile after a long day the one I talk to when I am in need, the one I love. And he is moving away. I am scared on how it will affect our relationship. If all that is not enough to make a day wonderful, my best friend I met up here in college cannot afford to stay here, so she too is moving back to home….mind you home for her is in Hawaii. Such a far off place, I fear I will never see the three of them again. All I can hope for is that everyone is ok where they end up. I am happy that one day my grandmother will be reunited with my grandfather, I just do not want it to be any time soon. I feel like I have no control over my life and that I am falling in to a deep black pit. That no one can hear me because no one is left, and I am scared. I don’t want to be alone. Please don’t let be alone.

Sex Education in the United States

Looking at the United States one can see the amount of teen pregnancies and abortion rates are much higher than one would like. Especially if you compare the United States to another country, as a matter of fact, almost any other country. One may ask why this is, what is the United States doing wrong? I have been doing research on the topic and on e of the most common things I have come upon is what we chose to teach the children of America, if we do at all. In the United States we push abstinence. Almost all of our government funds for sexual education go to the one and only topic. This is much different than what West Europe teaches their youth. Yes, they do talk about abstinence, but it is a small part of the sexual education class. They main push that they have is safe sex. They teach kids how to use condoms and what birth control will do to help. West Europe also makes birth control and condoms readily available to children very early in life. This plan must be working because they have a very low rate of unwanted pregnancies and abortions. Compared to the United States a teen girl cannot get birth control without a parent until they are eighteen. To sum it up, I think that if the United States would teach a different curriculum in the schools, we too would have a much lower unwanted birth and abortion rates.

NAU BUSS SYSTEM

The buses here on campus are used very often by many students. i know that i ride them around 4 to 6 times a day because i have alternating classes on north and south campus. there has recently been an article in the LUMBER JACK paper talking about how the system will be changing. NAU will not be having their own buses soon. They plan on letting the city buss take over all the stops on campus. the major push is that the city buses are good for the environment because they use less gas. There are a few point of interest that they seem to be leaving out. i have talked to some of the on campus drives and they say that if the city does take over they will have only a few stops and it will leave the poor freshmen in McConnell out of the loop completely. It is the freshmen who will be using the bus the most because it is most likly that they are the ones with out a car. We as students should put a stop to this transfer of buses. We pay enough to keep the buses running from our tuition. Oe they could charge the students a fee for the year to ride the bus. I am not sure what to do but i know we need to act quickly, or we wont have them for much longer.