Hola my dear HSAOP friends,
yesterday Erina et moi went to Crossroads High School in Santa Monica to teach 12 year old middle school kids.
We were soooo impressed how smart they were! We asked them who activists are, what human rights are, and we loved their answers - they are so bright kids!!! We asked the if they heard of Darfur, and they KNEW it's a region and a genocide is going on! I wish you were all there!!!
Still, our favorite was, when an adorable kid raised his hands when we were talking about human rights violations and said he thought Al Quaeda was a place :) It's funny at first, but then think about it.. this is what the media do to us...
But anyway, everything went great!!! We talked about everything we planned to and they were such a great audience and in general, great, smart kids!!!
They were a lot more willing to talk than our high school kids - I guess you are not afraid to say a wrong answer when you're a kid. We loved it!
We have 4 more weeks to go! Since the presentations are 30 minutes each, we have to redesign them. We are also changing many things, since we were asked to talk more about human rights in general, than Darfur in specific. So we want to have a refugee day, a Burma day, a genocide day, a Congo/violence against women day, and maybe another Darfur day on the last week, with Burma and Tibet --> China's responsibility.
If anyone wants to join, pls let me know. I'm doing it alone next week. :S
Go activism!!!!!! Go young generation!!!!!
yesterday Erina et moi went to Crossroads High School in Santa Monica to teach 12 year old middle school kids.
We were soooo impressed how smart they were! We asked them who activists are, what human rights are, and we loved their answers - they are so bright kids!!! We asked the if they heard of Darfur, and they KNEW it's a region and a genocide is going on! I wish you were all there!!!
Still, our favorite was, when an adorable kid raised his hands when we were talking about human rights violations and said he thought Al Quaeda was a place :) It's funny at first, but then think about it.. this is what the media do to us...
But anyway, everything went great!!! We talked about everything we planned to and they were such a great audience and in general, great, smart kids!!!
They were a lot more willing to talk than our high school kids - I guess you are not afraid to say a wrong answer when you're a kid. We loved it!
We have 4 more weeks to go! Since the presentations are 30 minutes each, we have to redesign them. We are also changing many things, since we were asked to talk more about human rights in general, than Darfur in specific. So we want to have a refugee day, a Burma day, a genocide day, a Congo/violence against women day, and maybe another Darfur day on the last week, with Burma and Tibet --> China's responsibility.
If anyone wants to join, pls let me know. I'm doing it alone next week. :S
Go activism!!!!!! Go young generation!!!!!
1 comment:
Wow congrats guys! Sounds like it was a success! Wish I could've been there, but good job!
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