Some, I can't possibly begin to think of who, take bullying lightly. Me ... not a chance. I am writing this as an active citizen to try to impact the community with my argument against bullying and my personal story with bullying. But before I begin, here are some videos on bullying I personally find pretty powerful and I hope you do as well:

These videos made me feel something inside. I felt sad for these people. Although the first was an acted character, I felt for him. And the second one as well because this is her story. I also feel like I can relate to these people because I also have a story and I hope it moves you.

All through school growing up, I was bullied. I was a very small kid and people thought because I was little, they could take advantage of me. I was used, picked on, emotionally scared, few times almost physically bullied. I never did anything to these people. I was called almost every name in the book. Once I even felt that a teacher had something against me. I felt like I was the only one to get in trouble and I had something completely profained said to me and hurt my feelings very greatly. I went home many days crying. I even thought about killing myself aswell, but I knew that would not solve the problem. In middle school, I thought a group of kids were my friends and I found out after, that they didn't care about me. They played me, and only wanted to hurt me. In highschool, I've stayed away from these people and have been okay. Yes, they have picked on me since, but I have brushed it off because I know I am not what they tell me I am. I have forgave them and I definitely will not hold a grudge against these people, but I am still left with the memories. Maybe they bullied me because I am a Christian, I honestly do not know, but one thing I know is they did because they knew they could take advantage of me. Again, I forgive them, but that is my story in a quick summary. So, do I take bullying lighty? No. Definitely not. It is a very serious thing. Bullying has killed many, many kids and teens. Here is a way to think about it okay; bullying someone is in a way killing them because they often don't want to live anymore which leads to suicide. Bullying is stupid, mean, inconsiderate, there are many words to describe it. I have a challenge. It may take a bit of courage, but here it is. From here out, make a pact to yourself that everytime you see someone getting picked on, bullied, whatever, tell someone about it, or if you can without harming yourself, try and stop it because bullying is not a joke, it is a very serious thing. Here is a pictures on the statistics of bullying:

If everyone found a way to stop only ONE incident of bullying, a lot of problems could be stopped. Be an active citizen in your community, stand up and stop bullying. I think bullying is a way to take control and be dominant over someone and usually because something is going wrong in their life. Here is another one for you; although it is hard, try to befriend a bully because they may be hurting and taking it out on someone they know they can take it out on. I don't like bullying at all, and it should, rather, it NEEDS to be stopped. So, I will say it again. Do I take bullying lightly? Absolutely not, and neither should you. Think about it.
For more information on bullying, here are a few websites you may visit:
-http://www.kidshelpphone.ca/Teens/InfoBooth/Bullying.aspx
-http://www.pacerteensagainstbullying.org/#/home
-http://www.stopbullying.gov/

I thank you for taking the time to read this post and I hope you take action and help stop bullying. I also hope you will take up my challenges, not only beacause I told you to or challenged you to do it, well yeah kind of haha, but also because you want to take a stand and stop it! Thanks again and take care.

Everybody knows that in high school you can play sports along with your academics right? Well personally, I like that but this semester, I have been loaded with all my academics except Science. I have English, Math, Civics/Careers, and History and quite frankly I hate it hahaha. Personally, this semester I wanted to play Rugby but since I have all my academics it is a really heavy load so I couldn't play, I really wanted to but couldn't. Mostly every night it is homework most of the night, it gets tiring but I'm keeping up and getting through so I am at least happy about that. Honestly I just can't wait for the semester to be over so I can be free and that the load will be taken off. But on the bright side, all of my teachers are amazing! I couldn't ask for better. They all help me whenever I need it and are very lenient on different things. I love my school Huron Heights. It has made my high school experience a blast and I am loving it so far besides all of the work. I know I'll get through this semester and pass all of my courses and hope to do very well in my next couple of years to come. I also thank all of my teachers for being so amazing, you guys are great and help me out very well. Thanks for all the help, you rock! Although I did not get to play Rugby this year, I hope to play next year and maybe the year after

I have recently read about the Canadian Constitution and looked at a website where it shows a picture of a kid or teen and shows where they sleep. Some rooms are absolutely epic, but at the same time some are saddening to see. I wonder how they can survive there. The Canadian Constitution can relate to this because in Canada everyone is equal and has similar rights and different things but seeing this site, I realised that accross the world, not everyone has these rights and in some plavces peole are descriminated over stupid and little thingsw. I have also realised that not everyone has the same privlages as we as Canadians do, and sometimes it breaks my heart hearing and seeing different scenarios. Not everyone has the same equality, but in a sense, I think they should because we are all humans, therefore we should all have the same rights and equality.

Another big issue that is going on right now in the world is the big issue of Korea threatening to bomb the United States. From my understanding, the United States air force went on some test flight and happened to pass over Korea and Korea thought it was a threat and called a bomb threat over the U.S. Again that is from my understanding... I don't for sure what happened but I know Korea has threatened to bomb the United States. This has struck a lot of fear into many people, I would guess, because people don't want to die from this potential bombing or because they don't want their country to be attacked. I know for sure a reason is because, nobody wants another war to break out from this bombing. Everybody wants this bomb threat to be stopped in any way possible, and personally, I do too because this is a very, very rather sticky situation, for lack of a better word.

Mostly everyone probably knows about the very recent and new huge issue, the bombing in Boston during the Boston Marathon. I chose to post about this issue because it is a good issue to talk about as a national issue and kind of controversy that is going on right now. What had happened, to the extent of my knowledge, is there is a big marathon that goes on every year in Boston, and this year there were a lot of people coming through the finish line, and two bombs exploded. There were at least two reported dead, and many, many people injured from shrapnel wounds. When I heard about this I was both shocked but also disgusted. I thought why would somebody in their right mind do such a thing to a bunch of innocent people running for a very good cause. It also broke my heart to hear about so many injuries and that even kids were injured. My heart goes out to the families of the injured and even the injured themselves, and I am saddened to hear about this brutal and very fatal event.

Just lately there was a suspicious fire at an old house that was due for demolition the day the fire broke out. I first heard this about this on the news the other week and I thought "that's weird." The report about it sparked my interest and I listened closely to the report. It turns out that there has been quite a few of these suspicious fires lately in the same general area and they have all been on the same designated day for the place to be destroyed. I briefly thought about it and thought maybe people are going around and thinking it's supposed to bee demolished anyways so just burn it down. I didn't know at all if that is what it is but it was just a brief inference. All in all I didn't like hearing about these horrible suspicious fires that have been breaking out.

This post is about the TEDx confrence on March 27th. I am going to go and I am excited and really looking forward to a couple speakers: Syd Vanderpool and Maddie Cranston. I am looking forward to Syd to speak because he is a championship boxer and I love boxing and I used to box and I'm interested in what he is going to say. I am looking forward to Maddie speaking because she is only in grade 3 and I am really excited to hear what she will say and what her arguments will be etc. Also I am looking forward to her stage presence and confidence and quality of her speech for a grade 3 staswell.

Hi, I'm Marcel. Really this is my first blog and I have no clue how to write one but I'm going to try my best! This blog is for my future forums class at school. Personally I like to achieve good grades at school and I work hard to get good grades an I think I've reached my goal so far. Future forums is a great class because it gives me the proper skills and knowledge I need but integrates a lot of technology in its teaching and work by using Google Drive, our phones, laptops, iPods, iPads, tablets etc. But also because the teacher is just really awesome! You're probably thinking "But what about you?" Well here it is. I think I'm a pretty friendly guy, I like to be good to others and help them out when they need it. Again, I work really hard at things to get them really good, I'm a perfectionist and if I can't get something figured out I really want to solve it and it stays on my mind bugging me if i can't or don't. That's some basic things about me, and there is my very first blog!