Overpopulation

Japan and China are some of the most overpopulated countries in the world. In fact, China is THE most populated country in the world! Why? because there weren't any limits on the population growth. Recently China has passed an act that limits families to only 1 child. I think that this is a really good response to the overpopulation problem, but it probably could have gone into action a lot earlier. Also, China should start making things like birth control more available to the population.


Last week, I went to a fencing tournament in San Marcos, and got 6th out of 16 people. I probably could have done better, but I had some bad luck in the direct elimination round. For those of you not familiar with this, it's where you fence someone to 15 points, then if you lose you're out for the rest of the tournament, but if you win, you fence the person who won their bout, and so on, until the last two, who fight for 1st place.( yeah, sorry bad explanation..) Anyways, I won my first direct elimination, but then got placed with the one guy I couldn't beat, who ended up getting 1st.

Darfur

I think that the situation in Darfur is a huge mess of corruption, chaos, and genocide.The Janjaweed should be blamed because they're doing the actual killing. China should be blamed, because they're supplying the Janjaweed with weapons,and the rest of the world isn't doing much to help. I think that this conflict is definitly a genocide, because a group of innocent people are being killed.

Last week, I went on a ski trip with the music department of Anderson Orchestra. We went to Colorado, and it snowed a ton! We almost had to stay an extra day because there was so much! Anyways, I had alot of fun skiing, and it was just really awesome.