unpredictable/ Jay Baruchel/ Peace Corps

Feb. 26 Unpredictable: Here is an unpredictable storyline that I doubt anyone would have guessed. It was on the TV show Boston Public back in 2001. It's about teachers teaching at a high school. The story is about this pregnant teen girl and she falls down the stairs. She's okay. Then a student tells a teacher that before the girl fell, it looked like she was psyching herself up and that she wanted to fall down the stairs and hurt herself.

The teachers investigated by asking the pregnant teen girl's boyfriend.

Boyfriend: We never had sex.
Teacher: Then who's the father of the baby?
Bf: One time when we were going to go skating, her dad wouldn't let her. He said: "I don't want my baby to get hurt."

So you think it's incest. The principal, vice-principal, and teacher got the pregnant girl and parents to talk.

Principal: Is your daughter carrying your baby?
Father: Look, my wife needs a kidney. My daughter and I aren't matches and we can't find one. I put my sperm in a tube. Then we injected it into my daughter so she could have a baby. Then the baby could have the kidney that my wife needs.
Teacher: That's child abuse.

I never predicated that at all whatsoever. I have never seen that on TV or real life. Well I know there are parents who have a kid and then that kid gets sick. So then they have another kid to keep the first one alive by using the 2nd kid's blood and organs.

Jay Baruchel: I was watching W5 and they interviewed this Canadian actor Jay Baruchel. You may have heard his voice as Hiccup in the movie How to Train Your Dragon, and seen him in She's Out of My League, and Knocked Up. He's a pretty interesting guy. I learned a lot of stuff about him in the interview.

He said that before he was born, his dad was smuggling illegal things into the country. He was raised in a working poor family and was bankrupt in 1992. They had food to eat, mainly Kraft dinner and meatloaf. His mom made it interesting by putting blue food coloring in it and call it moon food. He's been acting since he was 12, and his parents divorced when he was 14. His dad left and then JB felt the pressure to get work and make money.

He says his mom and sister are two independent women, but he does take care of them by paying for his sister's tuition. He bought a house 5 blocks away from where his mom lives in Montreal. He has a Canadian flag tattooed on his chest, on his heart area.

Feb. 27 News: I read this in the Edmonton Journal a few weeks ago. There's this article about this Asian family who will be closing their TV repair shop because nobody gets their TVs fixed anymore. It's cheaper to buy a new one than get it fixed. It did mention that the business was doing well in 2007, but in a few years things have changed.

Job expectations: I was watching Gossip Girl and Ben is released from jail and is looking for a job. He struggles and gets a job as a waiter. His girlfriend Serena asks: "Are you going to be a tutor?" She expects him to go back to his teaching like before he went to jail, but that's a hard job to get. So B says yeah he did get a job as a tutor, and then S finds out he's a waiter when she sees him at his job.

S needs to lower her expectations. The show reminds me of me. B should have said: "I have a job as a waiter, and on the side I will keep looking for a tutor job." That's me: "I have a job as a busser, and on the side I am looking for an office job."

Then there's the storyline where Blair is a full-time student and works a full-time job at a magazine. At least it's realistic because B then loses her job because she gets overwhelmed. She also fails a test and almost got her friend's brother arrested all in one day.

Feb. 28 Peace Corps: I was watching 20/20 last month and women who join the Peace Corps have been sexually assaulted and murdered. Peace Corps have been here for 50 years. 23 people have been killed working for them. One was Katy Puzey. In the video, she seemed to be a really nice woman who teaches in African villages. One male teacher Constant Biel was raping girls and they got got pregnant and had his kid.

KP sent an email to Peace Corps about him, and CB was dismissed. KP said she wanted to stay anonymous, but CB found out. He then murdered her while she slept in her home in Africa.

Another case was about Jesse. On the first day, J was being harassed at Bangladesh. J called Peace Corps to be removed, with her 2 other volunteers. J was then gang raped by a group of young men in an alley at 5pm. 1000 Peace Corp people have been sexually assaulted in the past 10 years.

20/20 interviewed a group of Peace Corp women volunteers who were assaulted. PC gave a woman 3 counseling sessions and then dismissed her. She says: "Doesn't mean someone has a drink, means they will get attacked." PC never apologized. One PC worker apologized for her organization during the interview.

One woman was named Adrianna: "I have 2 daughters and I would never let them join the Peace Corps. I would never put them in Peace Corps' hands."

Charity: Onto a lighter topic. 20/20 had covered a story about this great charity causes. There was a piece called "Be the change, save a life." 2 million children die before they're 5 yrs old in India. Stanford university students made a incubator for premature babies. It costs $200, and 2 years in the making.

Babies need to be kept warm to survive. It's called Embrace baby warmer. People live in villages and slums, and can't get to the hospital.

Malnutrition: 20/20 says that the USA gives $2 billion to Gautemola for food. It's corn, that's not nutritious. It doesn't help the kids grow. They are physically and mentally stunted. There's a food product called Plumpy Dos, and it has vitamins, nutritious and doesn't need water. It's like peanut butter.

Water in India: There's contaminated water in India and children die from Ecoli. Thugs sell water. That kind of reminds me of the sci-fi TV show Flash Gordon where Flash goes to the planet Mongo and water is scarce. Villages try to get pipes. There is this medicine to put in the water that will make it safe drinking water.

There is an NYC club owner named Harrison that made Charity Waters. It's about "Donate your birthday" and your age in dollars, than you donate the money. Say you're 25 yrs old, you donate $25. He lived in excess and felt selfish. He volunteered in Africa. They made a well in a village. It needs maintenance so he donates money to it.

Blood tests: Women in Africa have blood tests. This man Poleso rides a horse for 3hrs to deliver to these blood samples to a clinic. If it's more than 6hrs, the blood will spoil. Poleso gives then gives this motorcycle guy to deliver it. Few days later, the blood tests are done, and Poleso delivers the results.

This kind of reminds me of that novel I read for gr. 7 called African Journey. There was a part where the main character has to ride his motorcycle to get medicine for a baby, and he was too late and the baby dies.

Go to abcnews.com, saveone.net.

Script: Today I emailed this producer my 46 page script that I wrote for him. Now I must brainstorm some episode ideas.