It feels like it's been forever since I could post anything. This last week has been crazy with school. I had something due in every class. This class we had our books due, I had a drawing due the next day and two tests that I had today. Now I actually have time to get other stuff done, like my taxes!

The other night, instead of doing homework :) I went to After Dark, a free event at the Morrison Center. A band called, The Afters played for a little bit and then there was a speaker and then more music after. It was pretty cool. The band wasn't great, i've heard one of their songs before and they were about how I imagined they would be live. The speaker was good. It was a Christian event, so the speaker was giving a message. He did a good job tying everything together. He had this whole "skit" with the cross and nailing our sins to it and letting go of those things that are holding us back from a relationship with Jesus. He talked about how Jesus is our dad and he showed this video to try and show what he thinks of when he thinks of a dad. It was a video of this father and son. The son was physically disabled and the dad began to run with him. He would push him in his wheel chair. He started out doing small things, then ran a marathon pushing his son so he could finish a marathon. Then, I couldn't believe this, he did the Iron Man pushing and pulling his son the whole way. The Iron Man is swimming 1.2 miles, biking 56 miles, then running a marathon. This dad did all of this with his son! That means he swam while pulling his son in a raft, biked with an extra seat for his son, and then ran while pushing his son in his wheel chair for a full marathon. The thought of doing this all alone is extreme, but doing it with the weight of another person is crazy! The dad was also old, he wasn't a young guy. I just thought that was amazing.

After After Dark my boyfriend and I watched The Cove. It's a documentary on dolphins. It was also amazing. It's about the killing of dolphins in Japan. I had no idea about it. Japan is the place that captures dolphins and then sells them all around the world to places like Sea World. The documentary was made by the guy who started the love of watching dolphins off of Flipper, an old tv show. He was the boy in the show and became the main trainer. He developed a close relationship with the dolphins in the show and began to realize that keeping dolphins in captivity is wrong. So he and others made this video to show awareness to what is happening to dolphins now. Japanese fishermen go out in boats and make a noise in the water when hundreds of dolphins are swimming through and it scares the dolphins to swim in close to shore. They then trap the dolphins in with nets and have trainers come choose which dolphins they want to keep and sell. They get $150,000 for a live one. After the trainers take the dolphins they want, they kill the rest of them. Remember, there are hundreds of dolphins and only a few get chosen.

The group of activists aren't allowed anywhere near the coves that these dolphins are killed in. In fact no one is allowed to see what goes on there. It's a big secret. The activists will get arrested if they try and do anything about it, so they had to do it in secret. They went to professional prop makers from films to make fake rocks to put cameras in. They made rocks, had underwater cameras, microphones, etc put in around these coves. They had to do it in secret in the middle of the night in order not to get caught. Once the cameras were rolling, it was disgusting what they showed. The fisherman stood in their little boats and just speared every single dolphin. The clear water durned a deep dark red. It showed aerial views of the cove and it was pure red. It was also sad seeing the dolphins die like that. Once they had this captured they went around trying to make people aware of what was going on. One of the reasons why the fisherman said they killed the dolphins was that it was part of their culture, but they're own people didn't even know about it so it obviously was not part of their culture. They also said that they sold the dolphin meat, but dolphin meat is not popular and it's filled with mercury, which poisons you. The reason for the killing is unknown, but they are trying to make people aware of what's going on. I thought the documentary was put together really well and it really opened my eyes to what is going on over there.