"Thanksgiving Reflection"🦃

      What does Thanksgiving mean to you? It could mean a lot of things for you, but for me in particular its like a realization day where I become aware that I have many privileges that others don't. The fact that my family is healthy is one thing I am the most grateful for. I've witnessed other families lose a love one and its so terrifying to imagine losing one of my family members. Yes I know that everyone always goes through some sort of loss but I'm grateful it still hasn't happen to me. And I hope it doesn't for a long time.

       Having a healthy family isn't the only thing I am grateful for, I'm also appreciative with the fact that there's never food missing on the table nor the fridge. That's one of the privileges that many people don't have at the moment. It's sad to think that we at times throw food away, including myself. Its even sadder to think that some families on Thanksgiving won't be able to have food on their table. I'm very fortunate that I'm not even close to that situation. My parents are the ones that have tried not to let that happen in our house. I'm thankful for them because we've never not had food in our fridge or struggled with food in general.

         Another thing I'm thankful for is my parents. Even though they are very strict I know they have reasons for everything. I actually have some friends who don't have parents because they have passed away. I for one can't imagine what it must be like and feel like to not see your parents and only have them living in your memories. I know they have made many sacrifices and I want to try my best to make them proud and not have them done those sacrifices in vein. I believe that we should be thankful for things like this everyday. Even though this aren't the only things I'm grateful for I feel like this are just the main ones.
       
                                                 

Learning about the Fresno Family

     Today durning the gallery walk I learned a few things going on in the world. For example Nathaly, one of my peers, informed me about the life and struggles of a family of  refugees. In her article " Fresno family represents the fight of Syrian refugees" she talked about a specific family in Syria, the Fresno family, who lived in a peaceful place in Syria with zero violence. As time passed the neighborhood that they lived in suddenly became unsafe. People were getting shot and killed.
       The Fresno family decided to move. They lived in a refugee camp but in there they didn't allow them to work. They decided to come to the United States to seek peace. As they were trying to come in the U.S legally the United States did a background check on all of the members. All of this took two whole years. As people heared their story they said that the U.S was being too judgmental and needed to stop assuming people were terrorist based on their culture.

"Making America Great Again?"

         There were many mixed emotions on the night of the elections. For example, I was really happy because a lot of people had said that Hillary had a really good chance of winning the elections, and I had even seen that the she had a high number of electoral votes. Since It was late I wasn't able to see the results of the election but the next day as I woke up I was very shocked at the fact that Trump had won. But what I though about the elections in general was that I felt like our country had done a poor decision in choosing Trump to be our new leader. But more than anything I felt a bit disappointed, because my generation depends on the adults to make decisions. We all expect that their decisions will have a positive effect in our future. I feel like Donald Trump isn't qualified to run a country. Maybe he thinks that running a country is just as easy running one of his fancy hotels or casinos, which kind of worries me a bit.

          Hopefully by the next election there will be more convenient candidates. By then I will be able to vote and have my opinion matter. And If Trump decides to run for president again I really hope he doesn't get re-elected. Most people would think that since I have a great  interest in the elections that I might have the desire to be involved in politics some day but to be honest I've never really thought about it. The reasons might be because four years ago I might of been too young to understand how politics in work or not have any interest towards the subject at all. Of course now I see how important it is to be informed about the topic but I still don't think that being involved in politics is going to work for me.

           An important topic that I'm anxious to get to see that involves the election is immigration. Both Hillary and Trump have very different views on immigration. After the elections some people have talked and even joked about how Trump will be sending all immigrants back to Mexico. First of all not all immigrants come from Mexico and I think that Trump doesn't know that more than half of these “immigrants” make up the U.S. I also believe that those people who think Trump will send immigrants back to their countries don't know that the Constitution protects them in some ways. But we will all just have to wait and see what the future holds for this country.