Living on the other side of Weird

A little Appreciation!!!

2006-07-31T13:33:00.000-07:00

Well, man I can't believe we are in our last week of work!!! Man this Summer, went by so fast!!! I am so blessed and honored to have shared it with so many great people. I can honestly say that working with librarians, has been an awesome experience!!! Librarians really aren't as creepy and weird as they seem. Well take that back, they are kind of weird, but thats only cuz they are really wacky in a sense!! Its awesome, I wouldn't have thought of spending my summer any other way it was great!!!

Love Tarrez

Research Paper

2006-07-21T08:23:00.000-07:00

Title: Child combatants: a soldier's perspective , By: Ashby, Phil, Lancet, 00995355, 12/21/2002 Supplement, Vol. 360, Issue 9350Database: Academic Search Primer

This is an article about the brutality of child soldiers in Sierra Leone. It gives a blow by blow account of the whole process and then it actually has a quote from the actual children. This article was a great source of information and I definitely can use this one!!!!

Title:
'We beat and killed people...'
Authors:
Masland, Tom
Source:
Newsweek; 5/13/2002, Vol. 139 Issue 19, p24, 6p, 1 chart, 5c

This is also a great article it actual has these four boys describing their encounter of being actual child soldiers. They explain how it was to kill and beat people for a living and how it disturbed them extremely. Now they are in rehab centers and still not doing to good!

Random Talk

2006-07-11T19:14:00.000-07:00

Man, the library is getting more interesting more and more each day!!! I get to learn new things and see different random stuff like all the time!!!!!!! Today, I learned how to play ping-pong and billards! That was awesome, now I can add two more activites to my list of things to do. I think the best part about playing ping-pong is when Liz, went for the kill and hit the ball, and I seen my life flash right in front of me !!!!!!!!! That was the greatest, I had so much fun, and would really love to do it again. Man, I am so excited for our trip on Thursday to Chicago, I definitely will have to post, everything that went on there. And the most important thing, about this week...... PAY DAY!!!!!!!!!! Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reflecting Pool

2006-07-11T19:05:00.000-07:00

Man, you want to know what is so funny!! How many people never really knew, the trur meaning of a reflecting pool!!! Well at least I didn't!!!! But anyways, Felicia told me that it is a place, where people can come and sit and remember or dwell on the death of people. So it is like you are REFLECTING on the death or memories!!!!! All that time, I thought it meant that it reflected an image, but then I thought it doesn't really reflect. Then I thought, wait all pools have some kind of reflection!!!!!!! Wow, that's funny!!!!!!!!!

I've changed my topic

2006-07-07T07:59:00.000-07:00

Yes, I did it. I finally found a topic that works. My topic will be based on the Sierra Leonean Tragedy. This is where adults used child soldiers to guard people that mined for diamonds. This is once again a tragic and gloomy topic, but I have always wondered about it since Kanye West made that one song.

Pham, Peter J. Child Soldiers, Adult Interests: The Global Dimensions of the Sierra Leonean Tragedy. Nova Sciences Publishers, Inc: 2005.

This Book seems to have brief descriptions on certain topics. It goes through the different stages of events that have happened in Sierra Leone. It gives a close look at the tragedy and sort of explains the whole incident. It looks like a pretty overall good book.

Hirsch, John L. Sierra Leone: diamonds and the struggle for democracy. Rienner, 2001.

Research Project

2006-07-06T07:19:00.000-07:00

Man, I know that I am extremely behind on my research project!!! But, that is only because I am having a hard time narrowing it down. I was going along the lines of youth violence and I wanted to narrow it down to minorities in small cities. Like South Bend, but it is not working. So I think I am just going to change my topic. But, I will keep you guys posted!!!!!!

4th of July

2006-07-06T07:13:00.000-07:00

Man, my 4th was so awesome!!! It was totally cool that I got to SLEEP in for one of the first times since school let out!!! Then my family and I went to my cousin's house, where they was having fireworks and this big party that lasted until 5:00 in the morning. Then I had to spend the night because by the time I would have gotten home it was going to be time to come to work..So I ended up spending the whole day with my family and we chilled and had a lot of fun!!! It was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Random Talk

2006-06-28T10:09:00.000-07:00

Man it seems like it has been a long week! I think it is because the days are getting longer!! It seems to be taking a toil on my mind. It hurts so bad to have to come inside and sit in a freezing library, when the weather is just right outside. I am so excited because we are getting paid this week and my birthday is Friday.

YEAH ME!!!

We finally got are Notre Dame Id's

2006-06-26T10:54:00.000-07:00

I am so excited that today I finally got my ND login. Now I know I am officially an ND employee. Yeah!!! But unfortunately now I have no excuse to slack off on any assignment that requires a computer because I can log on to any computer. AAh Man!!
Just Kidding!!!

Research Project

2006-06-22T06:42:00.000-07:00

Well I really just wrote this whole paragraph, a couple of minutes ago and it deleted because I did not save it first. But, that is what happens when you don't think smart or pay attention to what you are doing.

Anyways, I don't really have an definite idea of what I want my research project to be on yet. But I do think that it is going to be about youth and violence. I know this seems like a gloomy or depressing topic, but living in my generation, it a everyday issue that continues to get worse more by the minute. I really just want to know where it all stemmed from and is there anybody trying to stop this corrupt behavior. I know this is a very broad topic, but I know it will eventually narrow down or even change by time we are done with the whole project. It is just one of those step by step processes, that has to develop in itself.

It's kind of funny

2006-06-21T12:52:00.000-07:00

Well It's kind of funny, how everyday I eat lunch by myself because I didn't know all the other kids have lunch at the same time and I thought that they be off on their own thing and wouldn't want to eat lunch with me, but it turns out that basically everyone else eats lunch by themselves too, and be thinking the same thing I be thinking the whole time. It's also kind of funny how many Washington High School Alumni students (if I can say Alumni) work here!!! I mean I see somebody new everyday. WoW!!!

Go WHS!!!

It's also kind of funny in a twisted way, how everyone had plans to get paid on Friday, but come to find out we cannot get paid because we all turned in our papers too late. Man sucks to be us!!!

Touring the Libraries

2006-06-21T12:41:00.000-07:00

Well on Monday we got to meet the other kids in the Diversity program and tour the Medieval part of the Hesburgh Library, and IUSB library. I must admit it was quite interesting!! I really enjoyed having time to chat with my pal Erin since we haven't talked or seen each other since school was out. Also it was weird because I recognized one of the students from Valpo and I think they recognized me too, but we never actually got a chance to talk. I think the thing that surprised me the most out of the whole day was seeing how small IUSB Library was compared to Notre Dame. I think during the whole tour I realized how much I actually like working at Notre Dame!!!

Go ND!!!!!

Working at a library

2006-06-16T10:59:00.000-07:00

Working at a library has definitely been a weird experience. It is surprisingly funny or shocking that not all librarians are creepy, but most of them are very down to earth. One thing that I have found in common is they all love to talk and eat. Also they are so friendly and nice. But don't get me wrong some of them do come off like, Okay can you please get out of my face or can you please just shut up!! Maybe I just am a little cranky at the time but I must say that it is a pretty cool job.

Just another day at work

2006-06-16T10:31:00.000-07:00

Well today is my 5th day and I must say I am kind of glad. Working at the library is cool, but you always have to do the most tedious jobs. Plus, by me being a student worker, it seems like just save those jobs for you to do. I mean I can't complain, everybody is extremely nice and really laid back. But, it is just those times when your mind starts to think, "Man, I could be at home chilling on the couch and watching tv like my friends." Or there are those times when you be like I woke up at 7:00 in the morning for this. But as stated before, I don't want to seem ungrateful or even selfish it just gets a little old quick and I just started!!! Man, this is going to be my whole summer. Yeah for me!!! Well, I least it pays good.