It’s “Ra-1″`s Birthday after two days; Yes the entire world will celebrate it.
I still don’t know what to buy her. I asked her what does she need or want as a gift; her answer was: (( Anything but a Mug ))
Please I need your suggestions.
Thousands of miles away in Indonesia, farmer Yusya Yusman aimlessly searched the beaches for his two children lost in Sunday’s tsunami. “My life is over,” he said emotionlessly.
The U.N. organization estimates at least one-third of the tens of thousands who died were children, and the proportion could be up to half, said UNICEF spokesman Alfred Ironside in New York.
He said communities are suffering a double loss: dead children and orphaned boys and girls. “Our major concern is that the kids who survived the tsunami now survive the aftermath. Because children are the most vulnerable to disease and lack of proper nutrition and water.”
Most of the children, ages 5-12, were buried as they were found — in their Sunday clothes — without the luxury of a shroud.
Venkatesh, who uses only one name, found his 11-year-old son Suman as his body was lowered on to a gurney.
“I never thought I would only see my son’s body,” cried Venkatesh, refusing even a sip of water
“When I Stutter”a story by Blake, age 8
When I stutter, sometimes I feel upset and sad. I usually don’t like it because it hurts my feelings a lot. I don’t want to talk in front of my class because I’m afraid that I might stutter. Even if someone teases me, I just ignore them. If I do stutter, I need to stretch my words out and take my time. My speech helpers sometimes make me stutter a lot. It’s very hard to talk right when you’re stuttering. Sometimes my mom helps me talk. She tells me to stretch my words out just like at Speech. It makes me feel better.
added March 24, 1999
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My thoughts a year later
by Blake, age 9
When I stutter sometimes I do not feel well but sometimes I get upset and sometimes I play basketball to make myself feel better but sometimes I feel better.
Sometimes I go to speech. And they teach me how to use my easy speaking voice. I use light touch to make my speech feel better. And sometimes Jane and I go play basketball. We choose three things. And those are hard touch, light touch, and sliding. One time Lynne and I beat my speech teacher in basketball. Sometimes you get candy if you win. You get a point for stuttering and points for baskets. One time I beat my dad in stuttering and the score was 111 to 61. One time I beat a college student. His name was Paul. He stutters too. Paul lost the round against me. And we stuttered and we played basketball, too. It was neat seeing another person stuttering. You should try it too, if you want.
added April 20, 2000
yesterday I was buying some stuff from some place and there was a guy who was in his mid thirties, he was staring at me in a strange way with smiley eyes, I went up stairs to get what I need and back down to the casher. And the same guy was staring.
Well, if he wasn’t Kuwaiti I would have smiled to him; but as a Kuwaiti I can’t.
Why? This is a question to be asked to Kuwaiti guys.
Why couldn’t I smile with out you having a bad explanation of my smile?
I was that kind of person that smiles with every eye contact.
But now; I only smile to non Kuwaiti guys…
