So today, at school, was 3Rs Day, which our school has every other year, and it's basically when all these cool, heroic people from historic eras come to visit our school and talk about their experiences. And it's televised and everything! It's a really thoughtful day for everyone, and I love learning about the more, I don't know, mainstream (that seems sort of insulting, but for lack of a better word, we'll have to go with that one) events, such as people who come who are Holocaust survivors; or the more obscure ones, such as a guy who came to visit who was only a little kid during the Rwanda genocide. Either way, I really enjoyed myself. We're so privileged to have all these amazing people visit us and tell us their stories. We traveled in homerooms, and here was our schedule:
pd. 1--Holocaust violist
pd. 2--Burundi genocide survivor. I'm not going to go too much into detail here because I'll be writing into the night like the crazy, unbridled child that I am, but this guy was really impactful. He spoke in broken English about how he was only a young kid when his Tutsi family, friends, and neighbors were killed for no good reason, and the horrifying things he had to go through. But his main message for us was that we should always be forgiving, and be optimistic. I thought he was AMAZING.
pd. 3--lady with a You Are Beautiful campaign. It didn't interest me that much, but you know. It was a valuable life lesson, I suppose.
pd. 4--lunch
pd. 5--Kellum Smith. Amazing.
pd. 6--9/11 survivor. Now this is truly just astounding (love that word). This man worked on the 84th floor of the South Tower, and caught just about every lucky break thrown at him. He saved people and saved himself, returned to his family surprisingly quickly, and had seriously minimal injuries. He was a wonderful public speaker, too. That was definitely one of my favorite presentations.
pd. 7--guy with cerebral palsy. His name was Johnnie Tuitel, and he was just so charismatic that he automatically became my favorite, especially his choice words about a certain Jack Rosen's hair. HA! He also apparently drove his wheelchair into a pool off a high dive. Role model.
And then we had an all-school assembly thing for our principal, who's leaving. All in all, fabulous day.
pd. 1--Holocaust violist
pd. 2--Burundi genocide survivor. I'm not going to go too much into detail here because I'll be writing into the night like the crazy, unbridled child that I am, but this guy was really impactful. He spoke in broken English about how he was only a young kid when his Tutsi family, friends, and neighbors were killed for no good reason, and the horrifying things he had to go through. But his main message for us was that we should always be forgiving, and be optimistic. I thought he was AMAZING.
pd. 3--lady with a You Are Beautiful campaign. It didn't interest me that much, but you know. It was a valuable life lesson, I suppose.
pd. 4--lunch
pd. 5--Kellum Smith. Amazing.
pd. 6--9/11 survivor. Now this is truly just astounding (love that word). This man worked on the 84th floor of the South Tower, and caught just about every lucky break thrown at him. He saved people and saved himself, returned to his family surprisingly quickly, and had seriously minimal injuries. He was a wonderful public speaker, too. That was definitely one of my favorite presentations.
pd. 7--guy with cerebral palsy. His name was Johnnie Tuitel, and he was just so charismatic that he automatically became my favorite, especially his choice words about a certain Jack Rosen's hair. HA! He also apparently drove his wheelchair into a pool off a high dive. Role model.
And then we had an all-school assembly thing for our principal, who's leaving. All in all, fabulous day.
Hah, mainstream. What did Johnnie Tuitel say about ol' Jack Rosen's hair?!
RispondiEliminaHashtag you know it! He totally told everyone to "pray for Jack's hair," you know how much he's always fixing it and jazzing it up and stuff. Oh, Jack...
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