Verse of the Day: "You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all of your heart." (Jeremiah 29:13)

Book Review:  I'd give this one a 7 on the awesomeness scale: the first two hundred pages were great, but the ending was a disappointment.  Basically the story of a girl who comes over to America from Hong Kong with her mother, and finds out the American dream is not at all what she had thought it would be.  She and her mother have to learn to survive harsh living conditions, and endless low-paying factory work.. in order for her to hopefully get an education and live a better life than her mother.  Paints a great picture of what it would be like to experience America as an outsider, and how hard it must be to have to work your way up from the bottom.  Throughout the story the girl ends up being brilliant in school and gaining a scholarship to both a private high school and her dream college (Yale). Unfortunately, the "love story" that is also part of her journey contained immorality, so it loses points in my book. No one wants to read that crap.


In my head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUfh5mbjjrw





Truth or Myth?:  "The U.S. govenment once passed anorder to confiscate all privatly owned gold."

 

ScaryFact:  "At the Middle Tennesee District Fair in Lawenceburg, a sixty-year-old woman was severely injured when she fell thirty feet from the top of a ferris wheel and landed on the spokes closest to the center wheel axle.  Witnesses told investigators that she was standing up and waving right before she fell from the gondola."