My high school was the site of tragedy today.

...This school was about an hour from where I went to school when I lived in America. I though that Washington was actually a decent place and people weren't so petty that they'd go on a shooting rampage at a school. I guess I was wrong... I went to Chinook Middle School in Bellevue, my sister went to Clyde Hill Elementary (which was practically next door). This actually scares me a huge deal, and one of my old friends who I went to school with, I think lived in Everett which is even closer.

While I miss living in America for a few reasons, these make me love the fact that I live in Australia, a country with laws about firearms. I'm not dissing America here, but I feel a lot safer being in a country where people aren't allowed to keep guns in their house which they can take out if they've had a bad day. I do wish that we got snow down here though...

 

I heard about this, while I was in school today. I found an excuse to leave class just so I could read on what was going on. It's really a tragedy, what happened. I was shocked. You could tell, as the news circulated, that some of the students were a bit on edge, for the rest of the day. It really had an effect. And we're all the way down in Texas. I just wish it didn't have to happen at all. From what I heard, unless something changed, there was only one fatality. And although it's never good to hear that someone lost their life, I'm just thankful it wasn't a repeat of Columbine or Newtown.