Mom Charged with Girl's Murder

There was an interesting story in the paper today and it involved a lady named Aset Magomadova who used to study here at Bow Valley College. This lady is being charged by police with murdering her 14 year old daughter on Saturday. The paper says that the family came from Chechnya three years ago. Within a year, the daughter, Aminat, had become adicted to drugs. Then she became very "dangerous". At home, she was violent and fought her mother daily. Sometimes her mother and brother had to go live somewhere else for awhile. I think this will be an interesting topic to read about in the paper tomorrow if they have more information. We all know that parents of teenagers have a lot of stress. Having a drug-addicted teenager would be terrible. I wonder what really happened to her. How sad that this young life ended so soon.

Leaving Children in Cars

There was a story on the news yesterday about a two year old girl who died because she was left alone in the car. It is a very sad story and I have many opinions about this story. First of all, I think it is okay to leave children in the car for a short time but I think the mother should have turned the car off and taken the keys. Secondly, she should have told her 6 year old son clearly that he was not to let his sister out of her car seat. If the little girl had stayed in her car seat, she would not have gotten hurt. The man who rescued her when she got her head stuck in the window should not have left her. He should have yelled for someone with a cell phone to call 911. So many things went wrong that should not have happened. Perhaps it is as Shir said. Perhaps it is just her fate to die this way. What do you think?

Questions?

I think it's a great idea for people to ask each other questions on their blogs. Of course, if we don't like the questions we don't have to answer them!! But it might give us lots of ideas for things to write about. One thing we know for sure - EVERYBODY HAS A STORY! In fact we have a lot of stories and they're all valuable and should be told (Mom, I know you're reading this! You should write your stories, too!)

My surgery

It is really nice to live in a place where we have doctors and hospitals. Even though we sometimes have to wait a long time to see a doctor, eventually we can get our problems taken care of. I was lucky to find a special doctor to take a growth off my back. He arranged quickly for me to have this surgery done in his office. It was strange to have surgery with only one needle full of medicine to keep me from feeling the pain. The surgeon was so surprised to find a tumour under the growth on my back. He said it was good I had the surgery because if I hadn't had the tumour taken out, it might have poisoned my blood and killed me. Wouldn't that have been too sad? So I was lucky twice!

What is the Best Thing About Canada?

What a good question! I'll have to think about that... I think the best thing about Canada is our high standard of living. The United Nations has often said that Canada has the best standard of living in the world. Even our "poor" people live very well. People who want to work can usually find a job somewhere and people who are sick or injured are taken care of by the government. Our new immigrants have money to learn English and, sometimes, they get money to live, too. We are very comfortable here but we don't always appreciate what we have. We grumble and complain about everything. We don't understand how lucky we are. Also, we have a big responsibility to help other people in the world. What's your opinion?