And i am EXHAUSTED. I have just spent around 80 minutes walking to and fro South Kensington Campus and I am finally back home. But my legs are aching so bad and i feel OLD. There is a dire need for me to start exercising but....
Have you realized how you notice something more when you don't have it?
So, whilst walking to university today, i noticed 17, yes 17 people with a Starbucks cup in their hand.
It is quite sad that I actually counted them. (**hits my forehead several times)
Why you did this, Just VY?
When i came home, i was craving coffee so I made one and after taking a sip, i vowed never to make one again! And just as I was about to put some cream, Prerna kindly pointed out that cream was not allowed and I was like,
Cream should be a human right, really.
Anyways, so apart from the "whole coffee debacle" and the fact that the nociceptors (pain sensors, or at least i think they are...) in my legs are on " super-active" mode, I am doing just fine! It is a cold cold day today and I wish that the sun was out shining down on us! It would be nice to have some warmth!
I am currently looking at the blogs of other LIVE below the LINE-rs and if you would like to follow them here is one I find particularly interesting and "relatable". It's quite hilarious!
On a more serious note,
I just read an article on how students in South Sudan were sitting for an exam admist the armed conflict. During exam times, i am usually killing myself (not literally maybe not), mugging till the last minute and yes, cursing the man or woman who came up with such horrid school assessment systems. Yet, I took advantage of the fact that I do have a roof above my head, food to eat and a safe environement to revise for exams. On the other side of the world, students like me are sitting for them amidst a violent surrounding. Maybe exams are horrid things but maybe, just maybe, we should take a minute to appreciate the fact that we get to write them in safety. (click on the article to find out more)http://blogs.unicef.org.uk/2014/04/30/eleven-things-people-living-line-will-understand/
Conflicts are perhaps inevitable. I mean we would be living in an utopia if we had no wars, conflicts or violent killings. Its something that we should strive for, oh yes definitely. And I truly believe literacy will extinguish the fire of ignorance and
hatred. Together we can strive to give these students hope by giving
them an opportunity for an education. Or we can all just join Amity (faction in the Divergent series- if you haven't read it, you haven't lived) and be like..
I would very much like that to happen.
In a small way, in our way, we can help these children by providing books, school supplies and clothes. We can do so by donating money to UNICEF or volunteering! This is not only a problem in the Global South, this issue hits close to home. Wherever you are, in the UK, in Singapore, there are students who struggle with education in their own way.
I am sorry this has post is ending on a serious note. But i truly truly believe in this cause and I know from the bottom of my lungs that if we, as a generation, strive together for a better world, that perhaps we change things for the better.
Now its time to think about lunch.
All i think about it food. Oh. MY. Goodness.
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The yeti marches on!
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