Spring Break

So we have made it just over  half way. There are 6 weeks left in the semester and thus far I am doing pretty well. Classes are slightly overwhelming but its keeping me busy. This semester I have really realized what I want to do with my life. I have two classes in which I am working with students in a teaching aspect and I LOVE it. I am tutoring a 6 year old girl in reading and she is fascinating. Observing her learning is so interesting to me. She is really succeeding and her success is lighting a fire inside me. My other class is being a teaching assistant for an Earth Science class. I am working with freshmen at UNC and I love teaching them. The professor I am working under and I have a great relationship and she really lets me work with the students and they regard me like a second teacher. When I was in their position, our class didn't trust the girl in my position. She just stood in the corner. But I am really working with students and I had the opportunity to one on one tutor 3 girls for an upcoming test. All three of them aced the test and I was so proud. They each thanked me for helping them and credit me with their success. This really made me feel fulfilled and I know that I want to help people for the rest of my life. There is not a better high than knowing that something you did really helped someone. 

Other than that, I have a small beef with americans. I wish I could just shout from the rooftops that people are really kinda naive. Anyone who has taken Economics 101 knows what I am saying. WE as americans are causing the recession that we are currently in. It is driving me CRAZY that rich people are continually under scrutiny for spending their money in a time of economic crisis. PEOPLE PLEASE SPEND YOUR MONEY!!! we NEED rick people to spend money!!! Every dollar they spend is a dollar in someone else's pocket and then they will spend that money, putting it in another person's pocket and so on and so forth. Right now everyone is too afraid to spend their money because they don't have very much of it, but they really don't understand that they are the reason they don't have money. It's called the paradox of savings. If Lindsey Lohan doesn't buy her starbucks because she is cutting back due to public scrutiny, the barista will be laid off. She, therefore, won't go to the Olive Garden with her girlfriends on ladies night. The server that they would have had would then make less money so he can't pay his rent to the landlords who in turn can't fix the plumbing problem so the plumber is laid off and can't spend money for food ...etc. SO Please let Lindsey Lohan buy her starbucks. The point is that a dollar saved is a dollar wasted. Money was meant to be spent, thats how our economy works. I would bet that if the media started saying that the recession was looking up and that our economy was now booming, people would spend their money and the economy would come back. The problem is that we all have this mentality that we shouldn't spend our money so we really the cause of the recession. I am done rambling, but please for the love of everything cheese like, SPEND YOUR MONEY!

So onto spring break. I am going to Portland and I am SOOO excited. I leave Monday and will be back Saturday night. Be prepared for pictures.