At school for our final project of the year, we have something called Five Fascinating Facts where we get to choose a topic and find five facts about it and present them to the class in a interesting way. For my project I chose to do Child Labour because I feel very passionate about that […]
We Are Silent
On April 17 I am taking vow of silence. Free The Children has a campaign that’s called We Are Silent – for 24 hours participants are going to be silent and not talk at all. We Are Silent is inspired by one boy and his name is Iqbal Masih. When Craig Kielburger was 12 years […]
What does We Day Mean in 3 Words?
Backstage at We Day 2012 I had a chance to meet, interview and hang out with some of the awesome people of Free The Children and We Day. At the end of each of my conversations, I asked the question, “What does we day mean to you in 3 words.” It is true that We […]
We Day Waterloo: My Top 5 Moments
I just went to my first We Day! It was awesome. My We Day experience started on Monday night when my parents and I checked into the hotel in Kitchener. We went early because I was invited to go to see some of the rehearsals and do some interviews with some people I really admire including […]
Wordless Wednesday – My We Day Waterloo Region Preview
I’m Going to We Day 2012 In Waterloo!
If you’ve been here to my blog before, you might remember that I was invited to attend We Day in Toronto. What you might not know is that I was not able to go. A few days before my great-grandmother, my “Boo Boo” Rose Grossman died. I couldn’t go because on the day of We […]
Real stories about real people make change. How Matthew Shepard changed the world.
Right now I’m reading Spencer West’s autobiography, Standing Tall. When I finish reading his book I’m going to write a post about it. But Spencer talked about one person in a part of the book who I wanted to learn more about. His name is Matthew Shepard. Matthew’s story affected Spencer because Matthew was murdered […]
I got invited to attend We Day!
I just got invited to We Day in Toronto! I got an email from the We Day Honoured Guest Team and Craig and Marc Kielburger – the two brothers from Toronto who founded Free The Children and We Day – to invite me to be an “honoured guest”. This is some of what the email […]