Raking

            LISTER LEAF BUSTERS!

We are back! This recently we raked our last lawn! We have raised a good amount of money raking with a total of  $3,800. We are trying to figure what our next step is. We are holding a fundraiser at Papa Gino's In Portsmouth on January 20th, 2011 from 4 p.m. until 9 p.m.the address is Heritage commons- 2800 Lafayette Rd. Portsmouth NH. We would appreciate it if we could as many people as possible. I am getting more and more excited the closer we get. Raking was a good experience for our class as a whole. Although at times the raking was very hard and tiring. We learned the positives and that downfalls will come along when working as a class together. It has been nice to chat with classmates and get to know each other even more than we already did. With a grand total of raking and everything else combined we have raised

$11,600. We would like if we could reach up to $20,000 but as long as we reach our primary goal we are okay and are on our way to Costa Rica. I know I have said this alot but I feel like I can not say it enough we really appreciate everything everyone has done for us!

 While grading myself for this class I have realized how much growth I have made in this class.

I am really proud of myself for the things that I have done in the past month, that I would never have done in the past 6 months. I didn't realize that helping others could mean so much to someone. I am very happy that I had the ability to make people happy by raking their lawns. Raking was a very time consuming thing and tireding, but seeing the smiles on those peoples faces was deffinatly worth the end result! I am so glad that I chose to be involved with this class :) 

Chapter 7

LISTER ACADEMY LEAF BUSTERS!

In chapter 7 Wolf finds out that he is diagnosed with Bipolar disorder.  When Wolf found out that he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder Wolf was prescribed Lithium.  Lithium balanced the chemical imbalance in his body and allowed him to go back to work full time.

Currently outside of school I am taking a boundaries class.  When I read about the stuff that wolf went through. I thought of my boundaries class.  Boundaries and Bipolar disorder can go hand and hand.  They are similar in all different types of ways.  When people talk about Bipolar disorder it is not always a bad thing. Bipolar disorder does not make a difference in who you are at all and that is what I personally think people struggle with daily.

It's amazing how Wolf had the power to keep on going after he found all of this out.  Having personal experiences with this sort of thing, I found it difficult to get up and keep on going.  Having Bipolar disorder is not necessarily an easy thing to deal with.  It is a lot to focus on when you have so many other things going on in your life.  Reading this part in the book defiantly made me feel more connected to what i was reading.  I think what amazes me more is the fact that there are people out there in the world who are dealing with the same issues.  Reading that Wolf did this is a good way to get  back up and start continuing on with life.

When I found out that I had a similar experience I did not take the news easily.  I found it to be something very difficult to go through and understand.  Finally later on maybe a few months or down the line I was able to realize what was happening and that I had people to help me and get me through what was going on in my life.  I once heard someone say no matter how high the mountain is you can climb it without a struggle.

I totally agree with this saying because I have had so much happen throughout my life and I am still here.  It took me along time to get where I am now but in the end I don't regret anything that has happened because if those things had never happened I would not have the life that I do now.  I really enjoyed reading this blog and look forward to reading more about what happens to Wolf throughout the rest of the book!

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Chapter 5

        Chapter 5        

  Throughout Chapter 5 I kept on seeing the word Transportation. So what I figured I would do is write this weeks blog entry on transportation. Before Costa Rica received the privilege of having buses, cars, or airplanes, they did all of their traveling by foot. Traveling by foot was not easy! traveling by foot takes alot of effort and work.

             There are a variety of options for moving between destinations in Costa Rica: domestic flights, rental cars, shuttles, private vans, ferries, public bus, and even horseback.

In the United States we have many types of transportation. We have buses, Cars, Airplanes, Bikes, scooters, Rollerblades, boats, jet skis etc.... The point is what I am trying to explain is that we are more fortunate because we really never have to travel by foot maybe some do. I am very fortunate for both my parents to have cars so that I can be transported to the places that I need to go instead of having to walk by foot.

                               When we go to Costa Rica that is one of the things I am looking forward to is seeing there types of cars, airplanes, ferries all of those different types of things. I think that it will make me thing about all the things we would have to do or work for in order to have the things that we do now. Most of the roads in Costa Rica are very long they take along time to walk. I know that when we are in Costa Rica we will be doing alot of walking. Although i do look forward to that because it is very good exercise. It will still be a good hike! I look forward to next weeks blog entry Thanks for taking the time to read this !

   Costa Rica Transportation