Learning how to blog.

I’m just playing with life guys waiting for my teacher to walk over here and tell me, hey you can’t write that. I’m no media mogul, although my sister called me a guru. Thanks sis.

It’s all so not serious. If we can’t play a little bit in life, then what fun is it?

This is my new shiney blog button ~ you may steal it. Yes, just drag it.

Thank you God for giving me a job I love where I work with smiling children.

It’s probably not the best habit to drive with the car mirror pointing towards myself. If you know me at all, you know I’ve been there. I’ve had the ups and the downs just like all of us. I make a decision every day to focus on the good. Focus on God.

I’m just making a decision here right now to play, have fun and be happy. I pray you are smiling, I thank you for your visit.

I’m organizing a giveaway starting this Saturday for probably four days. I was thinking about giving away another painting. Probably a small one due to mailing reasons from Italy. I guess I could do a big one too, but it would have to be sent rolled up. You’d have to frame it. Ikea frames are the perfect size.

As always I did some research on giveaways where I came across a super popular blog who wrote, I don’t like reading and I don’t like writing. I just had to stop short in my tracks and thought, Well then, why did you start a blog?

I just don’t get it. I don’t get a lot of things. But you know what, I’m willing to learn. I know I’m doing a good job because my junior high school students stop by and leave me positive comments. I know I’m doing well, when just one of my friends says, hey I can do that too. And most of the times much better than me. God bless you.

8th grade scholarship due month end.

There’s a scholarship for $500 worth of books at my junior high school approved by the city and aimed at only 60 kids in our school in the 8th grade. I asked the teachers if they were promoting this to the kids and they said they didn’t have time.

My jaw dropped to my chin. I LOVE competing and I love a good contest. All the kids have to do is write an essay about the 25th of April commemorating national freedom here in Italy. NONE of the kids wanted to do it.

You know what I did? I asked a janitor to get me a large piece of paper. She did. God bless you Silvia. She gave me three big blue poster size pieces of thick paper. During my lesson, I cut them into 9 long strips, and slowly but surely convinced nine students to participate, just by giving them the necessary tools. I guarantee you one of my students will win.

It's thanks to our forefathers who have fought for our freedom that we can sleep well at night.

With their strips, they folded them in half and made a book like looking presentation where they were told to put a title on the front, a collage on the inside front cover and an essay, or even magazine cut out words, showing how lucky we are to be living in peace. It’s thanks to our forefathers who have fought for our freedom that we can sleep well at night. Except for my insomnia:)

You want to know why? Because I BELIEVE IN THEM. Education is the key to success. I had the hardest and saddest history lesson today again about wars around the world. I was told there are 27 current wars. It breaks my heart every time. The one sentence that stood out for me was The kids don’t have alternatives. when they grow up in violent war ridden country. Its so sad.

A quick plug goes out to the wonderful sweet girls who came to talk to us from Emergency. They had three rules to help kids in need providing schools and hospitals to countries in war. Their offer was free service to anyone and neutrality.

Peace to you all. Promote peace. Promote believing in yourself. Tell your children they are awesome and they are our future. Give them what they need to make a difference.

Thanks for reading. As always please leave a comment.

Jules

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