6/18/09

**Traveling outside of London**
I WAS ALMOST LATE FOR THE BUS!! You know you're in a busy city when you are jogging-jetting to get to a location!!! I made it in the nick of time :D

My internship sent me to another location called Birmingham, England for a conference called "Generation Digital." The ride was three hours long but it didn't feel like it cause I was sleep. I really do appreciate my internship in sending me to other locations. It helps me learn about different areas and I can bring back ideas. While in the conf, there was a story about a stolen sidekick. A soon to be bridesmaid left it in a taxi cab. The thief did not want to return the phone. With the phone, the girl took new pictures of herself and signed on Myspace and AIM. Through modern technology, they were able to track down the theft and she was arrested.

The conference main focus is to learn different ways to attract business to their websites especially the youth. Non profit organizations can use social networks to find volunteers. They had older and younger discussion boards about young people's issues. The young people focused more on the issues than the older folks. Topics of interest: Pregnancy, Gang turf, Media having negative views on young people, knives, hoodies. Carrying a knife here is a serious offense because there are higher cases of stabbings than guns!!!. (Stereotype) A lot of young girls here get pregnant here to receive benefits such as : reduced housing, cash, chance to move out the house. They receive more benefits from the government than we do here.

I almost missed the bus again!! I tried a new location to get to the bus stop and I GOT LOST!!!, One person directed me the wrong way but there were other people that guided me the right path. Again I got there in the nick of time.

**Bus ride**
In the bus route, there was a cute little boy with his mom. He kept laughing at me, I guess my facial reactions made him laugh. He was about to cry, I calmed him down and as a result, he laughed again lol. He had the laugh similar to " Ha I was only fake crying." Good kid

**From the U.S to the U.K**
I went home, cooked and that's when I found out SOMEONE IN MY APARTMENT COMPLEX has the SWINE FLU!!! great!!! So I started to disinfect all the cooking appliances and the kitchen. Nasty, lack of home training fools