This week has
been a lot. There seemed to be a lot of things which were due so I was a bit
all over the place. In World Politics we started off the week with our
simulation. Well that was honestly a bit discouraging because all we did was
debate for an hour and change one word! I am laughing as I am writing this because
of how silly that is. The word we did add though offers a plethora of opportunities
to expand upon the proposal in future debates. On Thursday we discussed a very
interesting reading called We Who Stole
The Dream. It was a short story written by an AU alum who had to use a man’s
name to get published in the first place. The story was fascinating there was
so much in it that could be analyzed. What really had me was the significance
of smiling was different for the Terran and for the Joolani, the Terran
believed it meant happiness whereas the Joolani used it to show sadness. The
other concept which caught my attention was the Stars Tears. The fact that the elites
of both species were drinking it made me think of a song by The Who titled Won’t Get Fooled Again and the line is
at the very end of the song, it goes “Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss”.
Those who commanded power in both species were able to get away with
atrocities. I believe that power enables atrocities, one does not equal the
other, but they enable each other. It was a great last class.
The other days
of the week passed in the same fashion as usual, Wednesday I babysat and then
went to the abroad meeting to gather more information about this summer. Thursday
and Friday were busy as usual, I was running all over the place. Friday I went
ice skating with my friends, we tried to go see some Christmas lights but that
did not work out. However, a nice security guard let us into a building which
had a nice Christmas tree and sleigh set up. It was a fun night. Saturday I
spent all day at the library of congress and then I babysat my favorite child.
She is the most adorable human in the world, she always makes me laugh and I
end up having the silliest times with her. Sunday I attended the global scholar
brunch. The food was delicious and it was fun to eat out with friends for free.
The weather was really nice too.
Ok back to
studying now.
Overall not a
bad second to last week.
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