GLC totally opened my eyes to many things.
I mean, I already knew the situation...I just didn't understand the severity of it.
Right now, 900,000,000 people are dying of hunger.
Last year it was 800,000,000. It increase by 100,000,000 in JUST ONE YEAR!!!
It's unbelieveable.
How did we let this happen??!!!
Also, the amount of corn that has been changed to biofuel that can fill a tank of 1 car is the equivalent of the amount of corn that one person would eat for a year!!
WE'RE FEEDING OUR CARS BEFORE PEOPLE??!!!
What kind of a world do we live in where we put our own mechanical items above humans?!
Also, these people don't have any future.
They don't face the choices that we do.
The only thing that can happen them is that they grow up and do the same thing that they've done for their while life, which would probably be just searching for food.
Jesse is the 2009 Youth Ambassedor.
He told us the story of Chandra. She's 10 and she lives with her father who's half blind due to some dude...
I can't remember but her father would stay up at night with a stick, listening for wolves so that he could protect his family.
He also told us another story of another 10 year old boy.
As a present, they gave him a small bag of pineapple juice. And without a thought, the boy gave it to his baby cousin.
It really touched my heart that the boy gave up such a big sacrifice without a second thought.
That's just really astounding.
At the start, they gave us stickers with different numbers and colours on them.
Red, blue and green.
They treated the red like royalty, the blue like middle-class and the green like crap.
It was symbolic for the world.
It's just not fair.
Also, for another activity, we were separated into 'families'.
Each family either had some land or no land at all.
Then we had to work, either at the land (where we folded bags) or at the city (where we folded origami). We only got paid $1 or $2.
it was so hard.
And we were supposed to buy health vouchers for each of our family, and everytime we got so close to earning enough money to buy it, the price would increase.
IT WAS SO FRUSTRATING!
PLUS I GOT 'MALARIA' HALF WAY THROUGH SO I HAD TO SIT DOWN!
Sigh...
not fair!!

So I got home, and my mum tells me the T from tennis called.
Apparently there's no tennis tomorrow.
I was like, "why?'
And my mum said ,"G has died.'
I was just so stunned.
WHAT?!!!
HOW??!!!
It happened so quickly. She was in a car accident, speeding and lost control,
She and her friend both died.
I was just shocked.
I can still see her face in my head. Smiling, laughing.
I don't believe it, she's actually dead.
It's so...sudden.
So abrupt.
She's only 18, she wanted to be an engineer.
And she never got the chance to fulfill her dreams.
I...don't believe it.
It's too soon...too soon.
I never got to truly know her well.