It's exam week these next four days here at school. My classroom has apparently been rated best exam taking room, and out of the eight exam blocks this week, seven of them take place in my classroom. Thankfully I have an office that I can hide in. And so far it's proving to keep me more disciplined since I basically have to stay in my office for the whole three hours (except for that emergency bathroom break 45 minutes ago.) Today so far I have: made a to do list for this week (I always feel better when I have written down everything that I have to do) organized my book shelves, and cleaned my desk. No small feat, cleaning my desk. I can finally see my desk calendar again.
Sarah, you asked if we celebrated our anniversary, and so I'll answer as a way to talk about a book I just started reading. We went to Langely to a little Thai restaurant (excellent, I love Thai food) and then to Chapters, since we don't have a good book store in Abbotsford. The original plan was to go to Vancouver, but we decided to do that next week for Scott's birthday. Anyway, at Chapter's I bought a book called _A People's History of the United States_ by Howard Zinn. It's a book that I borrowed from my dad for a while when I was at Dordt and used as a reference book, but never really sat down to read starting from the beginning. Some people would say that Zinn leans a little too far to the left, but I'm liking his way of doing history so far. He starts out telling about the atrocities that Columbus and the Spaniards committed against the Arawaks in Haiti and Cuba. He tries to tell history from the perspective of the people who were being oppressed or who are now considered victims. He says that the reason that we don't learn from our history is that we justify the horrible things that happened by saying that they were necessary for the greater good (Hiroshima, for example). But whose greater good? Interesting stuff. Dane you probably have something to chime in with about now. Go for it.
Back to organizing my life and planning for next semester.
Oh yeah, and for those of you who may have misunderstood the "apartment" post, Scott and I are neither moving in together nor getting married before the planned date in July. We were just coveting what seemed like a perfect apartment for the two of us that we can't afford to rent because it costs more than either of us are paying for rent right now.
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Well if I must I must . . . But so far I like everything said. True history is written by the winners (for those that still think its unbiased GROW UP). And justification is also something we need to do; who would want to live in the land of noble nomads (US) when it could be the land taken from the savages? Its the same story with Islamic countries and the west right now too and because we don't acknowledge their side of the story (which is good in some cases) we have no way of understanding them as a people. Hows that Margo? Its all I got for now. . .
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