Day: December 10, 2017

Click here to support 7th Grade Student Tragedy organized by Anthony Marucci

cinnimani:

i haven’t posted about this on tumblr yet, just facebook. a kid in my little brother’s class died during gym class. if you google it, it says he passed out for “no reason”. it’s a lie.

our family has personally had a problem with the gym teacher. my little brother has asthma and is made to bring his asthma pump every gym day because of how hard she pushes the kids. you’re made to do four laps, and if you can’t make it, you’re made to do four more. in this case, kamarr couldn’t do four.. so he was made to do eight. he couldn’t do eight.. so he was made to do twelve. you’re not allowed to take a break or get water. we live in south florida. it’s HOT. he passed out and pretty much died in front of all the kids.

when police arrived, they interviewed the kids (my brother included) and the kids told them he was doing extra laps for punishment. the school said “that’s absolutely not true”. again, IT’S A LIE. my mom has been complaining about the gym teacher FOR MONTHS. her complaints fell on deaf ears and now a child is dead. she’s also still my brother’s gym teacher. she should be in jail im

but here’s the gofundme to cover funeral expenses.  we’re trying to figure out a way to get our voices heard for this family because the school is trying to save face and basically lie to them. if y’all got any ideas let me know. #ripkamarrscott

Click here to support 7th Grade Student Tragedy organized by Anthony Marucci

inhwa-kim:

I remember the first time I fed a street cat and her kitten about 5 years ago.

It was late fall and I was going home hanging a big plastic bad on my wrist. The bag was full of full of groceries. When I was turning the corner to get to my apartment, a cat appeared and followed me meowing around. She was very scrawny. The next moment I noticed a kitten hidden aside, who was scrawnier than her mother. Her meowing voice heared to me just like saying “Help Me”.

But I had no adequate food for cat in my grocery bag. In fact, I didn’t know which food was adequate for cat. I ran up to my home and brought a cup of banana flavored milk. But the cup was so tall for the cat that she couldn’t push her head into the cup. So I spilled the milk a bit to the ground then she came and ate a little and stoped.

In fact, cats in Korea scarcely come close to human and run away at the footsteps of human. Because cats were the symbol of misfortune till about late 1990’s, Koreans afraid cats and  used to shoo them or avoid them at the street. I also didn’t like cats in my childhood. But after the encounter with that scrawny mother cat and her baby, I realised they are not threateningly at all and sometimes need help from human to survive in the back street of this big dirty city, Seoul.

Since then I became to carrying some canned cat food in my back pack and gave it to them only when they came to me first and asked me help with meow meow. In the case of the cat in this picture, she didn’t seem to need help from me. she quietly approached to my bicycle, looked up me, and slid away.

내가 길고양이에게 처음 먹이를 줬던 건 몇 년 전 어느 늦은 가을 날이었다. 마트에서 장을 봐서 집으로 돌아오고 있었는데 비쩍 마른 고양이 한 마리가 뒤로 다가오더니 장바구니와 나를 번갈아 올려다보며 야옹야옹 말을 걸기 시작했다. 고양이가 먼저 가까이 다가오는 건 처음 겪는 일이라 그냥 쳐다보고만 있었는데 근처에는 엄마보다 더 비쩍 마른 새끼 고양이도 숨어 있었다. 야옹거리던 소리는 순간 내 귓전에서 너무나 명확히 ‘도와주세요~‘라는 목소리로 바뀌었다.

장바구니엔 딱히 고양이에게 줄 건 없었고, 사실 그때까지는 고양이에게 뭘 줘야하는지도 잘 몰랐다. 일단 집으로 뛰어 올라가서 바나나우유를 한 컵 따라왔는데 컵이 높다보니 고양이가 머리를 안으로 들이밀 수가 없었다. 바닥에 따라주니 조금 먹다 말았다.

보통 길고양이들은 사람 곁으로 잘 다가오지 않는다. 내 기억으론, 한 90년대 후반까지는 대부분 길고양이를 싫어했고, 나도 마찬가지였다. 무섭다거나, 재수가 없다거나. 하지만 그 날 나에게 다가온 고양이는 무섭지도 않았고 재수없는 동물도 아니었다. 그저 더러운 도시에서 위험하게 살며, 가끔 사람의 도움을 필요로 하는 묘생(?)일 뿐.

이후로 나는 가끔 길고양이를 만나면 이런 저런 먹이를 주다 요즘은 가방에 고양이사료 통조림 몇 개를 넣고 다니게 되었다. 이건 뭔가 도와달라는 싸인을 보내는 아이들에게만 준다. 물론 이 사진 속의 고양이는 그닥 도움이 필요해 보이지는 않았다. 카메라를 꺼내는 나를 쳐다보다니 성큼성큼 나가와 내 자전거 뒤로 사라졌을 뿐.

Dec 9th, 2017. Myeonmok-dong, Seoul.

2017. 12. 09., 면목동.