AP Lang Piece

Hey guys! I have been kind of swamped with all of the crap I've had to do lately, so bear with me, I'll try to roll in the content more often.

   Anywho, I wrote a piece in my AP Language class and had to post it on this blog page and all that jazz for a grade. So far it has 0 likes, 0 comments, 22 views and counting. People are viewing it, but no comment. So, it means A: my essay was too ballsy for some people, or B: people are too lazy, or even C: not enough people know me in that class so they don't know how I would respond to commentation. Whatever. Thought I'd show you what I wrote, I'm quite proud of it.

The Taboo that Kills

by Cailin Rogers

What can you do in twenty-six seconds?  Can you tie your shoes, throw a grape in the air and catch it, post a witty tweet? Time seems to rush so fast, twenty-six seconds seem miniscule on a grand scale. But every twenty-six seconds someone is forced into sex slavery. Trapped in the worst of terrors, an unimaginable number of people are forced into the sex trafficking business.

Oops.

   Sorry, I forgot I am not supposed to talk about those kinds of things with my young impressionable peers. Some of you might cringe, some scroll onto a different article, because honestly nobody likes to read about this topic; you want to read something satirical and comedic.  My sincerest apologies, but I’ve stood toe to toe with sex-trafficking and we’ve given each other a good looking over. Neither of us like what we see.
    We all have a different exposure to sex-trafficking.  My story of exposure isn’t even mine, but needs to be shared. Once upon a time there was a girl named Shaniya Davis. This beautiful black girl was reported missing by her school and people started looking for her. She was found, luckily. In a garbage bin…in a trash bag…dead. It was discovered that she was raped to death, sold by her parents who were assumed to be loving and caring, for drugs.

Shaniya Davis was five years old. She had just started kindergarten.

    This story played out in where I was living at the time, Fayetteville, NC, the armpit of America. We were in an uproar, how could this happen? This shouldn’t and couldn’t happen to five year olds! But that was before it came to my attention that five year olds are sold every day to be raped by big scary men. In fact, nowadays three year olds are really in.

This is bad. I don’t even think I need to tell you that. But that’s not the worst bit.

   The worst bit is that there are millions of Americans who are quite a bit like you and me are. Privileged. Now, you may be thinking, um Cailin, I’m not privileged, I don’t have the iPhone 5. You have a roof over your head, food in your belly, and you are relatively safe. You are privileged.  Anyways, there are millions of you and me out there, and what do the vast majority of us do about this increasing issue?

Ignore it. Pretend it doesn’t happen.

    Today, I challenge you. Challenge you to fight the apathy that has invaded America and my generation in particular. Don't go all 'I'm only one person' on me, for godsakes, Gandhi quit eating and he stopped a civil war! I believe you have the skills to make a difference, and I believe we as privileged owe it to the oppressed to hold out our hand for them to grasp. Think, then do.
NOTE: I work with an anti-sex trafficking organization based in Australia (because Aussies are in fact, aussome). If you want to make a difference with this issue Destiny Rescue has multiple options to assist you on the matter .

Thanks guys for reading! Comment if you wish. 

Over and out.

Love,

Cailin  

Drawing A Blank Day

    Happy summer y'all! Betcha missed me.

   So, after a Harry Potter marathon, I've taken a shower and stuffed my face. And I'm pretty sure that's ALL I'm capable of right now.
 
  My parents are actually leaving in two days to go to Cambodia and Thailand. And instead of going on a cruise or the beach, they are going to the red light district, to aid those who need it. I'm very proud.That kind of proud that makes you puff out your chest when you say, 'Those are MY folks.'

  You know, it's kind of shocking to hear previous generations talking about all the things they did, and how much they didn't have to worry about stalkers, hoodlums, or thieves. I feel like my generation worries more than older ones did when they where my age. Is it true? I don't know. I'll get back to you on that.
Over and out.
Love,
Cailin
  

My wondermous weekend

Hey guys,
  First off,

    You know who you are. 

    Secondly, I want to tell you all about my reallyawesomespectacular weekend that I experienced. On that Friday after school I went to work from six to nine, and after that, I went to an event at my church.
   This event was called Friday Night Fights. They had cool pro bikers come to our skate park, fail wrestlers that failed at impressing me fighting wise and failed to impress me acting wise. All of my friends were there and say it was SOOOOOOOOOOOOO much fun to be around them and just laugh and chill and be weird, well that would be the understatement of 2012.
    And then Twenty One Pilots got on the stage. Now, I had heard nice things about them, but I had never heard them before. And let me tell you. Wow. Ohmigirlscout. Let me tell you, for a two man band, they're awesome!

 The two men. Josh Dun and Tyler Joseph.

    Based and loved in Ohio, I have to say: props. 

     Back to my story, while the drummer (Josh) is completely knocking all other drummers out of the water, his stick breaks. It's pretty common, he just grabs another. So I snagged it off the stage. You might've called it 'stealing', but hey, how upset are you when someone takes something that you broke? 

     They had a line of people who wanted things signed, pics taken, etc. I stood in line and when it got to me, I had them sign the stick, and mentioned how my best friend was a drummer and they were like 'yeah?' and then I said it was a requirement and then Josh says, "Can I be your best friend?" And I was like, "Of course!" And then Tyler was like, "What we can't be best friends?" It was adorable and made my night and they're wonderful. 

And this was just Friday. 

      On Saturday we got up rushed around and cleaned the house, at  lunch we went to an Italian place and met my inlaws (stepdad's family) and had a lunch with them and the Everetts. The Everetts are like my favorite sort of people, we met them at SOS when they were campaigning for their organization, Destiny Rescue. After a very belated birthday party, where I did a lot of blushing and cake eating, we went home and just hung out. And it was fun.

     Sunday we went all the way down to Kentucky because my stepdad was speaking on Destiny Rescue and I helped at the booth and a TON of people sponsored kids, bought jewelry, and did what the right thing was. 

  That was kinda all I wanted to say. 

Think big thoughts and dream big dreams.

Over and out. 

Love, 

Cailin

It's Promote an Organization Day!

  Hey guys,
  Today I want to talk about this amazing organization called Destiny Rescue. It is this nonprofit corporation that is on a mission to stop child trafficking.
 
       You don't understand how big of an issue child trafficking is, every 26 seconds a child is sold into prostitution, girls as young as five. An estimated 2 million kids a year are trafficked.
   This problem really hurts my heart, and my family is so excited about this growing organization. How does this organization work?

     Well Destiny Rescue sends out teams (think ex-Navy Seals) that rescue kids out of brothels and prostitution, and rehabilitate them, giving them love and care, educating them and when they get older, how to cook, sew, and other trades so they won't fall back to prostituting themselves. Destiny Rescue works in Thailand, Cambodia, Mozambique, and India and a few other places that have a lot of trafficking issues. They get the money to do this sort of thing from selling jewelry that the kids make.

     Another reason why Destiny Rescue is awesome is because it is founded in Australia! We know some of the really cool people that run Destiny Rescue, and my parents became the Ohio Representatives of their organization. If you are interested in Destiny Rescue, check out their site, it's a life changing business you want to support. (They're also on facebook.)

    Oh I found out I got three pageviews from the UK. Hey guys, props for checking out my site.

    Last thing, comment on my posts por favor, I want to know what people like, don't like, their opinions. (I am really not the most egocentric person you will meet.)


 Sorry for using the word organization a bajillion times...
Cailin