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Detroit here we come!!!

gabbyfromsayit — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:41:34 +0000

I am so Exited for the USSF!!!!!!! I can’t wait it’s gonna be so Exiting!!! 1. I never been there 2. I am so exited to learn and experience this new thing!!!!!!

SEE YA!!!!! in Detroit!!!!!!!!! BYE!!

I can’t Believe This!!!!!!!

gabbyfromsayit — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:51:33 +0000

I can’t beileve today was the last day of Say It!. I am so sad. It doesn’t seem like its over though. Its gonna be sad not going to SYPP every Monday and Wensday, what am i going to do???!!

I didn’t say this at SYPP but I will always remember the time when Akili was doing beats on the wall and his nostrals were hella big and mike said “can you close your nostrals?” That was a good time everyone started laughing and stuff.

I also want to tell who ever is reading this that I am going to try to become more “Green”. I want to start recycling, but housing doesn’t offer recycling so my mom said we could write a letter to the housing place and see if they can start doing expecially with the terrible oil spill that just happened. And I want to start my own compost!!!! I have six worms in a big empty tube baked beans with some orange peels but I am scared cause the dirt is drying out and I really don’t want my worms to die! But I am going to the Green Festable and my mom said that they will be talking about how to creat your own compost, so I am totally there!!!! I also found a snail today and it is in a pickel jar but i don’t know what to do with it, but its name is slug. And if anyone has any advise on this green stuff for me I would LOVE!!! to hear from you.

Thats all for now cause i gotta go to sleep for school tomorrow. We have a book club meeting again tomorrow, but I am totally siked cause I love the book we are reading. It is called Bloody Jack. It is about this “orphan” girl who is living on the streets in london 1797 and she is living with her “gang” but when thier learder dies she desides to leave and take on her dream of working on a boat! Well its not all fine and mighty cause she is a ship’s boy. But I just finished a real exiting part and cant wait to discuss it with my group!! And it is so cool cause i didn’t even want to read it in the 1st place cause it is a big book and i never read anything over 300 pages but I am alright with it causet is TUBULAR!!!!!! I highly recomed it and the Outsiders too, but thats another story. Okay I am going to go now. Buh-Bye!!!

Sexual Choices With Future Consequences

James — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:26:36 +0000

I would love to keep this short and sweet, even for how sour this is gonna last and is going to sound, back about two summers ago, the summer of 08, I once knew this one girl who was as philosophical as me, so we connected real well, actually, I classified her as my bestfriend. When you get close to someone like that, you want to kind of step it up a notch, you hug more often, you joke without feeling the insult of the friendly fire, and if you come across a situation where your comforting them, you may even kiss, and it’s just something about that static connection, that kind of makes you fiend for more, little by little, theres no lie to this, it’s just your natural hormones right? Of course, I would love to participate in this sexual experiece, problem is, she already is experienced, but damaged, she loves me so much, but fails to explain the fact that has been afflicted with an STD, curable but bad timing for us in this mood, I’m not a victim luckily, but how can I comfort this girl at this point…

On the side, her bestfriend lives just up the street from me, and me her constantly do what the other couldn’t provide. To avoid confusion, the girl afflicted with an STD, we’ll just call her “C” and her bestfriend living close to me, we’ll call her “D”. Anyways, D and I do it so much, that C finds out, due to this, she gets upset with both of us, but we end up becoming cool again within a few minutes of talking shit out, but C seems to have been hurt even more so bad, that when her father is given the choice of moving to New Jersey, she agrees, possibly to escape the weight of mental stress because of what she’s gone through being in Seattle…

Anyways, D and I always did what we usually do, until she moved down to the southend, so it was harder to reach her, oh well, we never went out, so it’s all cool… I guess, we do it one last time, before next month I go out with this new girl that I date for a year and three months, after she breaks up with me, I decide to go down to the southend and recollect things with D, everything is cool, until she tells me that she was trying to call me (before my house number changed) about how she was pregnant, and since she tried to cover up for me, and not giveaway who the father was, because she didn’t want me to deal with all the stress and trouble, she ends up having an abortion…

kids or teens that dont live with their parents…..

aisha — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:02:13 +0000

i choose this issue because i don’t live with my parents and i just wanna see how the one’s that don’t live with their parents feel. let me start by telling my story. i never grew up with my parents and i always wonder how it feels to live with your parents and if i did i would be kind of different because for example if i said mom am going out with friends she would be like okay come home at a good time but i cant say that to ma auntie because i wonder if she’s gonna get mad or thing something else. there’s so much things i wanna say to my parents and i wonder why i don’t live with them i mean i know there divorced but i can at least live with one of them especially my mom. every girl needs her mother in her life. its kinda hard not having my mother in my life but i stand strong for her i love my mother and am not gonna be mad at her for ever that’s my mother and even though i don’t live with she was carrying me for nine months and i can never give back that nine months she was carrying. i think everyone should love and there parents. so back to my topic the reason i was telling my story is because i wanna know what other kids or teen’s go through as well and also see if its cool with them like if it don’t bother them living with their parents……. that’s my story and thats gonna be my topic…..

Get On The Freeway – (Gang Violence)

akilifromsayit — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:01:56 +0000

They are all the same. the same people that is. the crips who hate the bloods are just as coo peoples as the bloods who hate the crips. only difference is the circumstances of the individual’s youth and childhood (preferably because youth are easily persuaded), in cases where one person was grown up on one side of the city or even street, and the other in right around the corner from the other side of the street. In suburbs, these 2 individuals could have grown up neighborhood friends. In the hood/ghetto environment, these could/would end up on head starts to a life path where they are sworn enemies. Do to the ethics and codes of gang banging, you are forced to live a certain way and only associate with certain people.
I figure, isn’t the whole point to get the money tho. Why would you limit your opportunity? if I can only associate with a certain group of people, then I can only do business and make my money amongst that certain group of peoples; so therefore we have, crips making money amongst crops, bloods making money amongst bloods. I’m assuming the violence on general terms start along those circumstances. The bloods is beefin cuz they ain’t makin no money wit the crips and the crips is beefing cuz they ain’t makin no money wit the bloods. Thats just a frank and ambiguous description. But think about it, the crips don’t beef with the crips, for what? thats cuz they makin money together. The bloods either, they don’t beef amongst themselves… why? cuz they makin money amongst their group. I would rather it be that they all get the money together. That seems like the most, or at least a more logical AND profitable solution to me. Aren’t a bundle sticks more strong than a single one. Its as if they lifestyles are on two separate roads that are on the exact same rout. What they need to do is join the lanes and make it a freeway, you feel me, like, get to where you need to go faster you know, be on a faster pace to the money. That would stop a lot of the anger, violence, beef, and drama… For the most part.

I don’t understand school.

fatiyafromsayit — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:49:04 +0000

Why is it called school if we don’t really learn ? why pay all those teachers that don’t look interesting in teaching ? when I’m at school i get really bored, when I’m in class i don’t feel like doing anything and that’s because we are not thought anything.The teachers just give us papers everyday and say it’s due at the end of the period and that to me doesn’t make sense because they really get paid for doing nothing. Especially my biology and L.A teacher oh my gosh i dislike the way the talk to me and not just me all the kids in class because all they do is talk and when you ask question they be like got a 0 for today. My biology teacher always does this think called responsible scholarship O.M.G that thing is so annoying because every time you try to ask her something she always says remember responsible scholarship and if you don’t sit down or stop talking to her you loose ten points for the day and it’s consider zero which I wish someone can do something about because I tried by going to vice principal and he hasn’t done anything about it as far as i know but every time i talk to him he says i will get on but i wish they can just take us serious for once and just talk to the teachers because i don’t think it’s fair for teachers to fail us for stupid reasons and just get away with .

S, C, H, O, O, L

gabbyfromsayit — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:48:20 +0000

6 Letters. 1 Word. Over 300 students. 1 person. Why do people think its not bad, Why don’t people like it? Why do parents think its not so bad, that their kid is just exaggerating? That its just an excuse to got to school, to do homework. I H A T E school. I know kids say it all the time and its just same old same old. But I HATE it. I don’t like the kids there, I don’t like the Teachers there, and I don’t like the feeling I’m not going to pass 7th grade. The kids there are so caught up in there live that seem so perfect, they get everything they want. They don’t like anyone who’s different, who can’t afford a phone or a house, who doesn’t wear the same clothes as them, who doesn’t look like them. I didn’t fit in I sat in the lunchroom all by my self for 35 minutes waiting for the bell to ring, waiting for the day to be over. Nobody talked to me, I had no one for 7 hours and 40 minutes each day till I got home. It is hard for me to got through the day with no human contact, no face-to-face conversation. It was so bad for me that I missed so much school, I was failing. It was so hard for me to got to school everyday. Then I started getting all mixed up and had piles of work to do. But I didn’t know how to do them. I feel like that I am not going to pass 7th grade and I don’t want to get held back. There talking about the state test and I have no confidence. I can’t ask my teacher for help b/c I am so shy and I don’t trust her anymore. I know that I am so behind in math and science. Especially science cause the teacher basically puts it on your desk and tells you to do it. No help, no nothin. So I go home and try to get help from my family for homework but they don’tt know how to do ti so I am DOOMED!!!!! Then the counselor thought I was depressed and wanted to know if I wanted someone to talk to. BUT…. My loyal friend Anna came to my school after a big mess with her school and the enrolling center. But once she came they expected her to know how to do it right away b/c she definitely didn’t get treated like I did when I started. They probably thought that I told her how to it and stuff so just left her alone. But at least I have someone who actually has someone to talk to and who understands me. But that doesn’t mean I am going to pass, but we still got 1 more quarter.

Teen pregnancies; it is an issue!

anisefromsayit — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:24:32 +0000

Young women are not using adequate resources these days. I think they are not conscious about the consequences of a child being raised in a broken home, because many teenage families do not survive. It is simple purity to give life, but I think as teenagers young women are not mature and have not reached a point anywhere in life to believe they should bear a child.

Shit happens, yes but why does the next generation have to pay for it! I see more divorce and disunity than companionship and attachment, this fad has demolished families for years, many fathers abandon their offspring and fruit does not fall far from the tree; year after year, patterns of separation and confusion amongst teenagers wondering why their parents do not want them.

We must fight this battle as people. We must take responsibility within each other and protect ourselves, be educated and mature about relationships. It is not worth the pain of birth and soon to become the agony of a child disenchanted before grade school, who becomes an atrocity to society, and envelopes themselves in their own shame, completely mad at the world and those most fortunate.

I wish to see a lower statistic rate of teenage pregnancy, therefore kids would stop having kids and remain prospering to make better decisions as we age.

What I Think Of The Boxes

gabbyfromsayit — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:49:05 +0000

Gender boxes.When someone tells you to act like a girl what do you think of? Be nice,like pink,be proper ( no burping or farting), cross your legs,be thin,where skirts and dresses,let the man be in charge,stay home,cook,clean,make dinner.Now when you step outta the box what names are you called?Slut,dyke,cunt,bitch,man haters,etc.What actions are took?Talked about,raped,beat up,killed suicide,etc.But then they push you back in the box.And the same goes for boys.

Now I don’t really wanna be in the box.Like I burp and fart,I don’t like pink.I like to be a tom-boy,not a girly girl.I don’t like the boxes.I think everyone can cook,clean,make the dough.Its not just the woman cooking and cleaning,or the man making the dough,anybody can do that.Thats all.

Stop Gang Violence: The Sticker Campaign

saharromani — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:15:26 +0000

Two weeks ago, Say It! Storytellers decided they wanted to take Action. After listening to some of the struggles and issues their friends, classmates, and neighbors shared with them, they decided it’s time to Organize as a collective.

The issue: Gang Violence.
The action: Grassroots Stickering.

Take a look at some of their work on the streets. And, take a look at the posts below to know more about their experience of organizing this mini-campaign as youth organizers.

On a Notebook.

"Up to no good in your hood?" and "Clap Fists, no Clips" on a street sign.

Realize Real Lies. At a bus stop.

Photographs taken by Gabby Montes.