Room 613 Student Blogs - 2005/2006

Have you ever wondered what happened back then? Well I have and I’m sure you have too. This is about that and how a man lived his years in different places…

This mans name was “Mahatma” Gandhi and he was born in Probander - or what is now called Gujarat - on December 2, 1869. He went to school near Rajkot which was close to where his father worked as the prime minister (adviser) for the local ruler. When Gandhi was thirteen years old, he got married to a twelve year old named Kasturba. Later on, Gandhi had four sons who’s names are, Harilal, Manilal, Ramdas, and Devdas. When he was older, he went to London to study law and soon went back to India to practice. In the year 1893, he was offered a one year contract to do (legal) work in South Africa. During that time, he worked on securing rights for the indian people. In 1915, Gandhi decided to go back to India.  In the time of 15 years, he became the leader of the ‘Indian nationalist movement’. Gandhi led campaigns for Indian independence from Britian because they had taken over India at the time, but Gandhi ended up getting arrested by the British for all of the campaigns held trying to get the freedom they deserved. Later on in 1947, India was granted their peace. Years after, Gandhi was assasinated by a so called, hindu fanatic.

That was the life of a generous man who was willing to put in anything he could to get freedom for India…

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes”

“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”

One thing that I’m really interested in, is that I learned about how Gandhi died and what he went through during his life. It was deffinetly surprising to hear what kind of things he had to say about the world like [is written] up above. What was interesting though was that I think Mahatma means “great soul”. Thats what the Indians called him…

Could you believe that this… ugly thing resembles a lobster?

Well, it does and it was found near Paris, France by some American-led divers in the south pacific. Scientists named the animal the Kiwa Hirsuta. The animal is also said to be so distinct from many other species, that they made a new family and genus for it. The Kiwa Hirsuta was found in waters 2,300 meters - or 7,540 feet - deep at a location 1,500 kilometers - or 900 miles - south of easter island last year. This crustacean is 15 centimeters long and is white. CNN reports that it is about the size of a “salad plate”. One suprising characteristic is that it has “sinuous hair-like strands on its pinchers. The Kiwa Hirsuta is also blind and its family is named Kiwaida. Thats all the info I could get, but I’ll let you know if there is anymore on the Kiwa Hirsuta.

President Mwai Kibaki’s government had spent $12.2 million on brand new SUV’s. Nearly half of this amount was used to buy fifty-seven Mercedes Benz and the rest of the government had gotten four-wheel-drive SUV’s. Even when this happened, about 32 million could not afford a good meal. What happened was that after three years of horrible rains, Kenyans were almost at the point of starvation. “The part that’s annoying is that they’ve come in on a platform of change, but they have shown the same extravagance, the same disrespect of the people as the previous regime,” Maina Kiai, the chairman of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, said.

My resource was www.cnn.com quote from cnn too

Theres so many places to go to… but, I have to say one thing:Hawaii! No wonder! The plants, animals, and everything else makes it such a wonderful place to be. It doesn’t matter whether you’re scuba diving in the ocean, hiking to volcanoes, or just looking out a window at a great view! I’ve always wanted to go there though because it sounds like there’s so many things to do. Ever since I heard about luaus and swimming with dolphins, I knew it was the place to be! Plus! My dad went there on his honeymoon and brought back beautiful pictures and tapes of him looking at waterfalls. Well, thats all the time I have! Bye!