That's Wassup Online Youth Magazine Issue #3

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6 Ross Daniel - Visual Artist 8 Too Much Makeup

10 First Citizens Assists YouthSpac 11 Technology & Sports

13 Swag & Slackness

16 Comic Strip

18 SALCC Life

19 Teenagers VS Parents

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Editors NoteWITH STEPHANIE MATHEWSummertime! We all anticipated this time. Now it’s here what are we do to? Six weeks of vacationing passes by quickly and there is so much to do. Or maybe not that much to do but lay around on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The awesome thing is that no one is saying to ‘go study’ every now and then. While the Carnival and hyped party atmosphere dulls down, we take time to just enjoy the peace around us and appreciate the little things that we may have missed. It seems that everything is so much more beautiful and won-derful during summer. However, we move on to a more serious state. Summertime is usually a bridge.

We are leaving behind the natural, the normal and wandering off into the unknown. For some of us, it’s to a new school or a new form. While for some it’s entering a totally new world; the world of work. Each stage in life has prepared us for the one ahead. Given us the skills needed to get through the daily challenges of this world. Uncertainty, anxiety and excitement all rolled up into one. We are out getting new uniforms, new shoes, new bags, new everything! We are preparing for the next step in our life, for the next chapter of our story. How will you write this chapter? What will you do differently or change to make your dreams a reality? So, while you are walking on this ‘Summertime’ bridge, take some time out to think. It’s your book, so go ahead and write the next chapter.

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon, the two most beautiful words in the English lan-guage. – Henry James

Take Care

Project Managers Hierland Peter Kendal Barthelmy

Photographers Kareem StanleyJonathan Shawn Philip

Graphic Designer & Animation Ross Daniel

Makeup DesignerAmy Florius

Special Thanks Snard Alexander Bank of St LuciaKentillia Louis - CAMDU Ted Sandiford Sarah PeterJE BERGASSE - Josette Edgar

Mistakes by students should be expected, not be excused or dismissed, but corrected with genuine concern. Please remember that as a teen-ager it is difficult to do what’s expected of us which is to act like an adult while still being children. If we work together and come to respect each other, one could come to school ready to learn from their students, and in return give the knowledge that students desire, school days would indeed be the happiest days of our lives. And I quote “criticism should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots” – Frank A. Clark.

How long can we allow ourselves to be treated like common sub-jects, serfs and peons? And yet few individuals have seen nothing wrong with this. They teach us to love ourselves and not allow ourselves to be bul-lied, yet this isn’t the behavior that they display. Why is it that they can’t be like their colleagues and show us the same respect that we show them? Such hypocrisy should not be allowed to continue. I urge all students to let their schools know that they are done being the punching bags for teach-ers to take their anger out on and that teachers should be kinder to us. Too long have we have sat by and done nothing, too long have we sat in fear and afraid to do or say anything, afraid of the consequences because to society we don’t know anything and we will always be wrong. Nothing will change if we ourselves do not. Teachers do this to us because we allow it. I urge all teachers to display kinder behavior. A student is still a person, they bleed, they feel, they cry and they hurt. A student is on the road to adult hood. Contrary to popular belief we aren’t just robots.

Permit me to comment on the present state of soci-ety’s role models, specifically teachers in regard to their ill conduct towards their students. As the in-cessant “god” complexes of our teachers continue, it seems hypocritical to us students, as they are dis-playing the same distasteful behavior they chastise us for using. Evidently, if such behavior continues to be dis-played, the students will acclimatize and in return begin to display the same ill manor that is being shown to them. The saying after all is “lead by ex-ample” a saying which has been drilled into our

minds since preschool. Since this is a teacher’s ex-ample then things will not become easier for either party involved. Why are students being constantly upbraided for the practice of the same behavior that some of our so called “role models” love to display? Why are some teachers allowed to treat students as they fan-cy without consequence to their actions? Year after year they preach to us about mutual re-spect. How is it that they fail to practise what they preach? Again I say this is rubbish!

How to Deal With A Teacher that hates You BY DARRION LIONEL

Graphic Designer & Animation Ross Daniel


Acrylic paint, a small thin paint brush, artist can-vas, paper, pencil crayons, 2b pencils and a half cut bottle filled with water. These comprise of a list of items that Ross Daniel, an upcoming painter and Vi-sual Artist has been equipped with from his early pri-mary school days. Ross is predominantly known as a painter however is skilled in animation and graphic designing. The versatile artist was nurtured by his art teacher at St. Mary's College and gains motivation from the competitive atmosphere, created when his classmates relentlessly tried to better each others art. While in Form 4 at St. Mary's College, he began using his talent as a source of income since his paintings and drawings were in great demand by the public. His perseverance as an artist enhanced his skills and he thus achieved the top score in the CXC Visual Arts for the year 2010.

After being accepted to the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College he gained an interest in graphic designing and animation. Ross has also developed a passion for teaching and is now an art teacher at the George Charles Secondary. He gets inspiration from viewing and analyzing the work of other artists which in turn motivates him to learn their art tech-niques. Ross says that he has three role models, Alan Phillips from Austria who specializes in animation, Christopher Cox a local painter and Ted Sandiford, a local graphic designer. Ross advises persons who have a passion for visual arts to develop themselves in that field by doing research and by working hard at achieving their goals.

Ross Daniel & Visual Arts


Makeup is a beautiful, decorative instrument most women fall in love with at a tender age. To women it is so wonderful and interesting how these chemical and mineral formulas can completely alter their appearance to some-thing more desirable at that special moment. Many male counterparts disagree with makeup but this is only as a result of one simple reason which is some women abuse makeup to the extent that it would be difficult to differentiate between a woman’s face and a badly decorated cake. A lot of the time we wonder why people

would do themselves such an injustice how-ever, there can be many reasons women may seemingly overuse makeup; those include self-esteem issues, ignorance to proper use of make-up and some of them simply want to disguise themselves believe it or not. If makeup is used the right way and in the right proportions its result will be absolutely beautiful as displayed on YMA Design’s Facebook page. There you will find looks ranging from natural to avant grand. Helpful advice is also provided to set you on the path to flawless make up application.

~Women should wear makeup to enhance their beauty and boost their

confidence level~

Makeup Talk

Effects of too much makeup

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First Citizens Investment Services continues support for Youth and Arts in St. Lucia

Youth S.P.A.C. was trained under the Regional Stigma and Discrimination Unit (R.S.D.U) as Edudrama specialists. Several workshops using this form have been conducted such as with peer counselors of the St. Joseph Convent, St. Mary’s College and the Depart-ment of Teacher Education and Teaching Administration (DTEA) of the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College.

However aside from using performance to educate and bring about social and behav-ioral changes, Youth S.P.A.C. seeks to utilize their skills as a form of entertainment and tools for educating. From the group’s inception Youth S.P.A.C. has performed at the Nobel Laureate Week activities, producing stage performances and even as of late a film dedicated to the late Sir Arthur Lewis which was developed, filmed, directed and produced by Youth S.P.A.C. They performed recently for the St. Lucia National Trust at the 2013 Earth Day celebrations, creating awareness towards climate change. The members of Youth S.P.A.C. want to extend a special thank you to First Citizens for their noteworthy contribution towards making the Tobago trip a reality.

Youth Studying Performance Arts and Culture (Youth S.P.A.C.) has received an opportunity of a lifetime, to be a part of the Tobago Heritage Festival and will on August 1st 2013 represent St. Lucia in the cultural arts exchange event which will feature youth arts groups from the Caribbean Region.

First Citizens Investment Services in its continued efforts to support youth, arts and culture in St. Lucia has pledged its support to Youth S.P.A.C. and assisted the dynamic and talented youth performers with the their airfare to the Tobago event. In existence, for the past three years, Youth S.P.A.C., has been tediously work-ing on honing performance skills and practicing different art forms of both lo-cal and regional strains and standards. One such form is the highly popular educative form of drama known as Edudrama. This technique leans on the use of drama as a teaching tool and has been proven very effective as all senses are stimulated and thus individuals are more conducive to learning.

On the Right Hierland Peter (Vice President - Youthspac)On the left Shaka St. Ange (Senior Business Development Officier - First Citizens

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Caribbean Premier League T20 Fixtures (Match 1-6)

Samsung has become the most profitable mobile phone company in the world, over-taking Apple, a report says.

Samsung's handset division had an estimat-ed operating profit of $5.2 billon in the sec-ond quarter of 2013, according to Strategy Analytics. Apple's iPhone operating profit was estimated at $4.6 billon, with the iPhone range "underperforming”. Total mobile phone shipments were 386 million in the April-to-June period, 4% up on the same time last year. In all, 27.7% of phones shipped were made by Samsung. Separately, Samsung, which is also the world's biggest TV maker, reported second-quarter profits of $7 billon for the entire company."This was the mobile phone industry's fastest growth rate since the second quarter of 2012," said Neil Shah, senior analyst at Strategy Analytics.

Strong demand for entry-level Android de-vices in Asia and Latin America drove much of the growth. Samsung continued to domi-nate, shipping 107 million mobile phones worldwide.

Samsung takes over apple as most profitable phone firm

First Citizens Investment Services continues support for Youth and Arts in St. Lucia

So, does that mean consumers are over the iPhone rave? Well with the reports of the new iPhone and iOS 7, profits may soar once again for Apple and overtake Samsung. This Apple vs. Samsung war has only just begun. Only time will tell who reigns supreme.

Courtesy BBC News Business


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The environment at a tertiary level institution like Sir Arthur Lew-is Community College is without a doubt very different than that of a secondary level institution. The most obvious difference is the work load at the respective levels. For some, the work load at the tertiary level may appear to be more. For others it may be less. Personally, I think that the subject number decreases however the work load increases significantly. Also there is seldom any pamper-ing from teachers, treatment many of us have experienced at second-ary school. Also this is just about the last step before entering the world of employment so the importance of grades bring along much more pres-sure than before.

At Sir Arthur Lewis Community Col-lege one gets to interact with a lot more people than at secondary school. This can positively impact the student as it helps with building them socially as well as personally; molding students to be confident.

It can however negatively impact students by providing distractions, something that we should always avoid when it comes to our educa-tion. Sometimes you are forced to interact with new people because of timetables, which are likely to be structured differently as compared to that of your usual friends, or because your peers do not attend the school. Something I have been a victim of.

But I have made new friends and un-derstand that some changes like this are inevitable. I think tertiary level education re-fines us to be suited for the areas we are seeking for future employment. I think being at Sir Arthur has so far been going well into that direction for me, and will for anyone else who applies themselves

Life at Sir Arthur Lewis Community College By Kelianne Nelson (DTEMS - SALCC)

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Have you heard this before ?

They just don’t want me to have fun, or they don’t understand - It is a usual complaint of the aver-age teenager when commenting about some encounter with par-ents or teachers or other adult au-thorities

What about?What am I going to do with that boy/ girl! I don’t know what is go-ing through his head!

Likewise this is a refrain that is just as common but occurs on the flip side in the adult side of the court. While all age groups have their challenges, for certain these are the two developmental stages or two age groups that seem to be almost always at logger heads.Unfortunately there is no manual that has the answer to every ques-tion or a right solution to every problematic situation that will come up. No crystal ball that lets teenagers know how to get par-ents and adults to see things their way all the time, or magic glasses for adults to see into the brains of adolescents or to see the world through their eyes so as to under-stand their perspectives.

Yet despite the evident antago-nism, this teenager- adult push and pull relationship is actually a necessary structure for the de-velopment of both parties. Yes, challenging and pushing au-thority contributes to help the adolescents form their identity, and test out the principles that will eventually guide their life decisions. Adults also experi-

ence self growth within these interactions. Oh yes, that’s right. So having noted this symbiotic, important dynamic between youth and adults, why not use it to our advantage. Let’s take a peek into each world to help move the process along.

Teenagers Vs Parents

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