Hello everyone, I’ll be heading off to Mexico for the next two weeks on a service trip, where I and a group of about one hundred students and adult leaders will be building homes for families living in difficult conditions near Tijuana, Mexico. I am looking forward to not only getting to be in Mexico …
Month: June 2017
First Book Recommendation!
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/review-of-the-hot-zone-96325494/ In biology class, I got a chance to read The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. What I expected to be a dull science book was absolutely a thriller, packed with information. It may make your skin crawl, but for me it provoked an unprecedented fascination with the spread of highly infectious diseases and certainly made me …
About Me
Hi everyone, I’m going to start off by introducing myself. My name is Julia and I’m currently a junior in high school. I’m really interested in politics, international relations, and biology, and am hoping to study these in college. That’s all for now, I don’t want to bore anyone with my life! -J
First Post
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. I will be posting about all kinds of things that I feel are important to think and talk about, from politics to world events to interesting articles. One of my largest concerns is that young people have no understanding or interest in the world around them. That’s why …