My geography prep today was to research this guy called Baliro Maggi who is a soy bean baron in Brazil. any way I have found out that actually after being awarded the golden chainsaw prize in 2005 he has changed his ways and has now become one of the leading figures in preserving the forest.
Why cant all logging barons be like this?
Never Ending Nonsense
Thursday, 24 May 2012
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
I was born and I am currently being raised in a privileged
background. As I look around me at school every day I see the children of
billionaire Russians and oil baron Arabs and if I wanted to I could probably go
through my life telling myself that this is a birth right and that there are no
other ways of life. But this unfortunately is not true. Until a few years ago
the most I would hear about poverty and people born into a life of starvation
and violence is when my mother would tell me at the table “eat your food, just
think of all those starving children in Africa”. It is a cliché line but I addess
a serious point. Now eating my greens won’t save the children in Africa but
there are ways to help to try and give rather than living a life of eternal
gain and growth. Just stop for a second and look at the way you live, work,
sleep, eat, make money, engage in social activity which ultimately helps you
make money from the contacts you make. It’s a vicious cycle, try breaking it
for a change try giving something back to the world around you (and that
doesn’t mean spending a mini fortune making your local area look nice so you
can sell the property you own their for twenty times it is worth) look at the
world, look at the places that need the most help.
What I am trying to tell you is that while you may think
that working hard, having fun and getting to the top is the most important
thing you can do it isn’t. The greatest gift we are ever given is life so why should
we not give back and give a better life to those who when we were just learning
to read were walking miles to get water that for us just runs out of our taps.
How can you complain to your room mate that you have had a
hard day at work when there are children out there who work form six till the
sun sets and do things that we have machines to do for us.
So what can you do about it? Well I am not an expert; I am
just a fourteen year old boy that thinks it unfair that the thing I dread about
each week is double chemistry on a Tuesday and that there are children out
there that who have stopped even hoping that things might better. There is this
great charity called Save the Children, and they are the experts, they know
what they are doing so go onto their site and have a look at what you can do. http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/
So If this is at all important to you tell a friend about save the children and my blog and if you have anything to ad please comment.
So If this is at all important to you tell a friend about save the children and my blog and if you have anything to ad please comment.
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Wow some people actually read my first post thanks. So in this post I am going to tell you a little about my school (Winchester College). Firstly just to straighten things out I am not going to tell you the things you could simply just look up on Wikipedia. I am in the first year at Winchester which is called JP but most people just call it the first year. My house is called Phils but that's only its nickname its real name is Sergeant's and the house letter is G all the houses at Winchester have three methods of identification Nickname, actual name, and house letter most people just use the nickname. Phils is a good house and it is known as the gaming house and the house where all the crazy stuff goes down. Most of the houses at Winchester have something called a yard normally these are an area of concreate enclosed in a cage however some houses have modernised theirs and had an astroturf put in. I don't go in yard much I spend most of my time in my Toys which is my work area, by the way Winchester has all sorts of strange notions. We are in dorms of six in the first year and at the moment i am in a good dorm it is the only first year dorm with partitions.
If any people have any questions please comment because I write much better if I am writing for a question rather than just writing about really dull topics. Any way see you guys later.
If any people have any questions please comment because I write much better if I am writing for a question rather than just writing about really dull topics. Any way see you guys later.
Saturday, 19 May 2012
Well first Blog. So what should I talk about? I spose I should probably start telling you a bit about my self. Ok. I am quite tall well built I have brown hair and I cant remember what colour my eyes are. I cant spell for my life as you can probably tell and I like maths but I am not very good at it. If you asked my friends about me I have no Idea what they would say. I was born in Hong Kong but my mum is from Sydney Australia and my dad is from Kent England they are both bankers but I don't really want to follow in their footsteps and be a banker to. My favourite sport is Rowing and I am OK at it and I also like swimming. And I can only write when I am in the right mood and that's not really happening right now so I am going to leave it there do some Homework then come back to you guys (I say you guys but I bet nobody will ever read this)
Later
Later
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