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Name: Angela
Country: United States
State: New Mexico
Metro: Albuquerque
Birthday: 1/6/1981
Gender: Female
Interests: books, politics, my cellphone, reading books, religion, history, books, volunteering, board games, selling books, movies, French, Ireland/Celtic culture, books, women, men, writing books, cats, young children, syberjoel, midget tossing
Expertise: books, history, being bitchy, customer service, bullshit, singing, sleeping, elephant anatomy
Occupation: Customer service/support
Industry: Retail
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  AngelCoeur81
MSN: cuteangel6@hotmail.com
Yahoo:  darkalbinossis
Yahoo:  greenkittiecat
Member Since:
5/8/2004
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| I didn't die or fall off the face of the planet. However, I haven't been here in quite a while and I have no idea what's going on with any of my xanga pals. Although, I don't really have any idea what's going on with my flesh and blood pals either! Anyhow, life is Homework. School. Work. That's as detailed as I get! Now time for me to shower so I can go to work so I can come home and write a billion papers! Woohoo! Life is so full and rich now! (or something............) | | |
| This is the first picture I've seen of myself in a LONG time that I
actually like.... so I'm putting it on here so I remember it! 
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| So, Thursday morning in World's Religions we discussed poverty
(supposedly whether or not it's related to religion - but we didn't
really even touch that). Anyhow, the class ended with our teacher
begging us to donate to less fortunate countries through organizations
like Christian Children's Fund. So, I was thinking that maybe I'd try
to get ahold of one of those places to donate to them - or sponsor a
child.... or something.
So, today I went to church and low and behold we had a guest priest who
just happens to help with the Christian Foundation for Children and
Aging. He brought tons of kids for people to sponsor. Apparently
someone out there thought I should really do this, so I'm sponsoring
one kid by myself and one with my mom. Here they are:
This is Juvy Ann. She's from the Philippines. She's the one I'm
sponsoring with my mom. What's really sad is that her mom is a single
parent (her dad passed away) and they've got 4 people living in the
house (her mom, her brothers, sister, and her) living off of
$30/month. Can you believe that?! $30/month?!?! Apparently she
speeks Tagalog and likes drawing and reading.
This is Sneha. She's from India and lives with her parents, and
brother. They apparently live off of $41 a month. So sad. She's the
one I'm sponsoring myself. Anyhow, she apparently knows 3 languages
(Tamil, Kannada, and English) and enjoys singing and dancing. I'm
really really excited about this!!!!!
If you're interested in
doing the same you can contact the Christian Foundation for Children
and Aging (they have seniors they sponsor as well) at:
Christian Foundation for Children and Aging
One Elmwood Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66103
1-800-875-6564
www.cfcausa.org
It's only $20 a month! And let me know if you decide to sponsor
someone. Oh, and by the way, they give you their addy so you can write
to them too!
By the way, if you decide you want to help but you can't afford $20 a month, talk to me and maybe I can help you out!
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| Random factoids from a conglomeration of my classes (expect more to
come) (*note* keep in mind that this is really shortened and meant only
to inspire a few goosebumps and not cause a debate or anything... I
just found this interesting):
Semites (the word) originates from "Shem" who was one of Noah's
sons. The people in the Middle East were all at one point called
"Semites" or "Shemites" which means decendents of Shem. Does that
cause goosebumps or what? Another interesting thing is Ham
(Noah's "bad" son) is said to be the "father" of the Hamites (I think)
who are said to have settled in Africa. The intersting point to
this is way way way back when the Middle East started having the slave
trade (yes, they had one like the U.S. did) they justified enslaving
the Africans or Hamites because they were descendents of the evil son
therefore they must be evil. Lastly, Noah's other son Japeth is
said to be the father of basically the European people. And in
fact, there is a Greecian surname that sounds like Japetha or something
(my teacher did not write it down) which cannot be traced to any
Greecian origin - the only place people have been able to trace it is
to the name of Noah's son.
I may not be too big on the whole God and Bible thing.... but learning this gave me goosebumps..... very interesting......
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| I have Joel's addy... if you want it, just let me know. If you're interested in what's up with him, check out my myspace. I'll be doing Joel updates on myspace from time to time. OK... that's it for now! 
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