Music and kids who need help -Example of something useful

BE4 Saw a program on "el Sistema".

You just have to love the Internet. See something on TV or anywhere and you can look up more details on the Internet. The Internet is more amazing than one can appreciate. Hopefully this link below will last a long time: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4457278.stm

"Placido Domingo cried when he saw the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra perform.

The world-renowned opera singer confessed that the concert evoked the strongest emotions he had ever felt."

You also can get the most current details by "googling" ->el sistema venezuela

If you get a chance to see a video on this music program, it would be great to watch.

This program is HUGE. They have three hundred thousand kids involved. The people running this program must be fantastic to mange such a large number.

This program benefits so many people whether they know it or not. Keeping kids off the street doing something productive ...

So if you've heard nothing about this program, please click the link above, do a google on it and you'll learn something worthwhile.

You also may go to the following link which should be good for the next 100 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Sistema

And now for this message

BE3 A friend from my old company sent me this.video. Please take a few minutes and watch it. It is pretty moving.




There are signs of hope (as shown in BE2 below ("Disabled Thrive...") but as this elocutionist points out "we" are not moving fast enough.

An excellent TESOL teacher at CSUEB <-Google it) introduced us students to new a teacher named Paulo Freire http://www.answers.com/topic/paulo-freire. Just as we should know about George Washington, we should all know about Paulo.

Watching that video and reading about Paulo should be enough for this week and is well worth anyone's time. Even though there is a 75 year age difference between them, there is a common thread.

(Next week's planned topic: Take care of what you have.)