Everyone pray for him! Even if you don’t know him.. This is Jack Jablonski. He is only 16 years old, and was hit from behind in hockey and is now paralyzed. Jack will never be able to walk again and or lace up a pair of skates. He was just a young guy following his dreams when it all came crashing down…. Reblog if you have a heart.
Jack is such an inspiration - he goes to my school and we and the whole country are supporting him!
One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said: “Allie, I’m not playing. It’s time for art. The rule is no hoods or hats in school.”
She looked up with tears in her eyes and I realized there was something wrong. Her classmates went into the art room and we moved to the art storage area so her classmates wouldn’t hear our conversation. I softened my tone and asked her if she’d like to tell me what was wrong.
“My ponytail,” she cried.
“Can I see?” I asked.
She nodded and pulled down her hood. Allie’s braids had come undone overnight and there hadn’t been time to redo them in the morning, so they had to be put back in a ponytail. It was high up on the back of her head like those of many girls in our class, but I could see that to Allie it just felt wrong. With Allie’s permission, I took the elastic out and re-braided her hair so it could hang down.
“How’s that?” I asked.
She smiled. “Good,” she said and skipped off to join her friends in art.
‘Why Do You Look Like a Boy?’
Qamar Hashim is an 8-year-old Iraqi photographer. He tours famous streets to picture Baghdadis with his single camera and is the youngest Iraqi photographer to win several local awards, according to the Iraqi Society Photographic (ISP).
Below, Qamar responds to a series of questions.
- When did you take your first photograph and what did it show?
I do not remember exactly the first picture but I had been mimicking my father since I was 4 or 5 years-old and started to take pictures of the Tigris river, the gulls, birds, old houses and heritage places.
- Why do you think photography is important?
Photography is very important. It documents life and pauses time. We can show the city, life and the people.
- What do you want to show people about Iraq?
I want to say through my pictures that Iraq is precious and Iraqis are very kind. Iraq is peaceful and has a great history.
- How do you feel about the U.S. troops leaving Iraq?
I am afraid of the U.S. soldiers, they destroyed the house my family rented in 2003, when I was a fetus. Thank God my family survived and I am happy now for their departure. I am free and not afraid of their tanks.
- What do you want to be when you finish school?
I like to act and I would like to be a child-activist.
- Which is your favorite photo you have taken and why?
My favorite picture is of a man sleeping who sells books at al-Mutanabi street. Also a picture of a bee on a rose, I ran a lot to follow the bee until I got this picture.
- Are there any photographers you look up to?
There a lot of good photographers and I learned from them (Adel Qassim, Fouad Shakir, Kareem al-Ba’aj, and Hameed Majeed).
- Are there any photos you wish to take but haven’t been able to yet?
The dangerous pictures like fire, blasts, other incidents but I have been sent off the site. They say I am a child. Also I wish to get a picture of the triangle of migrant birds.
- What does the future of Iraq look like?
I see a flourishing future for Iraq especially when my family owns a house. I love Iraq, my home, and it is more precious than anything else.
public service announcement:
I LOVE CLOUDS
NO ONE UNDERSTANDS HOW MUCH I LOVE CLOUDS………
I love airplanes because I can just sit and LOOK AT CLOUDS from UP CLOSE and I try to take pictures out the window because HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO COOL, I AM NEXT TO A /CLOUD/
and it looks like a magical world of castles and I wish I could fly around them and I just….clouds.
CLOUDS!!
LASFKDJASL;K OH MY GOD YOU GUYS MY LOVE OF CLOUDS GOES ON FOREVER
ohhhh goshhh
May as well call them cl-WOW-ds! :O
Because I love Neville.
Taken by me at the London Comic-con. He was so confused as to why people kept giving him butternut squashes <3
Ahahahaha
ONE BY ONE I WILL INFILTRATE THE MINDS OF THE HARRY POTTER CAST
HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTT HAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHHA
ohhhh my god
holy shit thruetwui;heiuheuh. Also: How sexy did Neville’s actor get? Bajeebus
also also: I just got back from a Harry Potter CONVENTION so I am mad crazy tired right now and this is just… this picture.. my brain is just going to explode from joy ok
this is just perfect
