Sorry that I haven't updated recently. I have been busy, but it isn't an excuse, and I've mostly been working. I've started to dream about work. I don't like that. I always do that with my jobs, and it is really freaking annoying.

Tonight was beautiful in Lubbock. The high was 84! (A week of temperatures in the upper 90s, low 100s, really makes you appreciate an 84) and the sun was gorgeous as it set. My mom, cousin Michael, Glen, and I went biking (they biked, I jogged) and it felt really good to have a cool breeze...I don't know, the little things right?
All we need now is rain.
I have been doing a really miserable job of educating myself this summer. I got as far as the Rwandan genocide, and still aren't completely done with that. It's horrible. It truly is horrible what humans are capable of doing to each other. But on the other side, (take it on the other side) we are capable of so many acts of love as well.
Breedlove, for example, is a dehydration plant here in Lubbock that takes excess produce from Farmers, makes it into soups and other types of foods, and sends them to third world countries for really cheap prices. I bought a shirt from them a week ago, and fed 250 people. The shirt was 10. Isn't it pathetic that two cups of coffee and a scone for us is dinner for some people.
Just to depress everyone, here's some statistics from their website:

1 person dies every 2.9 seconds somewhere on earth because of hunger related causes.

Hunger and poverty claim 25,000 lives every day.

Of those, almost 16,000 are children who die from hunger related causes-one child every five seconds.

Worldwide, more than 1 billion people currently live below the international poverty line, earning less than $1 per day.

Every other child in the world is living in poverty

640 million children in developing countries live without adequate shelter: one in three.

400 million children, one in five, have no access to safe water.

854 million people across the world are hungry.

The World Health Organization estimates 1/3 of the world is well fed, 1/3 is under fed, and 1/3 is starving.

Research shows that free school lunches can increase attendance rates by 100 % and boost performance.

More than 1/2 of all child deaths worldwide are caused by malnutrition

More than 153 million of the world's malnourished are children under the age of 5

Poor nutrition & calorie deficiencies cause nearly one in three people to die prematurely or have disabilities

The risk of death for children with even mind malnutrition is 2.5 times greater than for children receiving adequate nutrition.

Pregnant women, new mothers who breastfeed infants, and children are among the most at risk of undernourishment.