School lunches

Topic- School Lunch
Audience- Families
Purpose- To raise awareness about bad quality school lunch.

    Good Evening ladies and gentlemen. I have gathered you today to inform you about school lunch. I am an 11th grade student who attends a New York City Public school. I am a devoted student and I spend most of my time doing school work. I have never had any problems with public school, but I’ve always had a concern about the school lunch.
    The past 12 tears of being a student I have eaten school lunch 5 times. Each try has had the same conclusion, it was disgusting. There was one time that I had lunch at school and I had a bad reaction and puked. The students do not have a choice to eat what they want, in fact they often say “you get what you get and you don’t get upset.” Lunch is a very crucial part of the day, and the school can’t even provide us with the nutrition we need. Schools may claim to carry the appropriate nutrients, but according to online study 15% of 13-15 year old girls and 14% of 13-15 year old boys are obese. Why are the children of our NYC public schools gaining weight? Who is to blame for this epidemic?
Schools are to blame. According to the Physicians Comitee for Responsible Medicine and the Healthy School Campaign, school lunches are too rich in fat and cholesterol instead of the appropriate nutrients which students need. Without these nutrients how are we supposed to remain healthy?
    The lack of nutrients in these school foods are hurting students when schools are supposed to provide foods that benefit us. Students of public schools deserve better food options. How is this going to change? It begins with you. You have to take action, we all have to take action. We must create a change, and just by using your words, we all could make a change, and it starts here. Thank you.

Introducing myself

  Hi, my name is Marta, I'm 16 years old and I really suck at introducing myself to new people, and new things. I have two sisters, a dog who I basically spend all my time with, and my parents who barely understand english. In school a lot of people might know me as the girl who got her finger chopped off. This is because the cafeteria door slammed on my finger in freshman year. Since then I've had two surgeries and I am still seeing my a doctor for it bi-yearly.
  When I was little I thought I'd be able to have at least one hobby, but as time went by I realized that I don't really have any. The only thing I actually enjoy doing is getting money and spending it. I worked at a Subways restaurant during the summer and even though i hated working there, I loved getting money too much to let the job go. I am also very timid and still need to tell my boss that I quit. My birthday is during February and every year I get myself a present because it's an excuse to spend money. You could say that I love shopping or call me shopaholic, but I genuinely enjoy spending money I've earned, but doesn't everybody?
    Many of my friends consider me a tall girl because they are only 5'1, but honestly being 5'5 is average for a girl, it's not like I'm a giant. My boyfriend on the other hand is 6'2 or something along those lines, he's an actual giant. It comes to the point where when everyone has their umbrellas up on Main Street, he has to duck them or the umbrella would hit him in the face. I honestly wrote this thinking I would have so much to say about myself, but now I've just come to the realization that I've actually done nothing the past 16 years. Hopefully this year I'll be able to do things I've never done before and grow more as a person. It's a big year for us juniors and I wish everyone good luck!