PLN 9

Today I read a post off the Nata Village blog titled "Nata youth use old tires for toys," this post was very brief, but I had a lot of connection with it. This post was only about three or four sentences long, but in these couple of sentences it explained and show how these Nata children are very creative when it comes to play. They were playing with tires seeing who could roll theirs the fastest. What this showed was that even though they do not have all the cool toys in the world they are still happy and find ways to have fun. They do not lay around feeling like they can not do nothing and it shows how little they have and yet they are happy. This kind of made me remember one of the students in my English class when they did their PLN presentation their question at the end was about money and whether it made you had to have it to be happy. I think this pretty much answers that question, that you do not need it to be happy you just have to learn to live with your situation and if you don't like it then fix it and don't make your self unhappy, life is what you make. This also reminded me of when I was little and the things I would do to have fun. I was not exactly the little girl who played dolls and barbies, I grew up with all my guy cousins imagine that. So I grew up playing with cars, trucks and doing crazy things that boys do. I remember we use to play with tires also, but we would find the biggest hill and we would stuff ourselves in them and see who made it down the hill unharmed and the fastest. Its crazy when you are little because those are the best times of your life and you never seem to forget them.