27 days until graduation (it can't come fast enough!)
4 days until Thanksgiving
8 days until I put up the Christmas Tree (yeah, I have a countdown for that too...I love Christmas trees. They're so happy :D plus, smaller countdowns make the graduation countdown go faster. Whatever works, right?)
^^I think you got it because you never did your voter registration in San Antonio. See, what goes around comes around. IF you had voted this wouldn't have happened:)
ha, one time i got a jury duty summons at my parents' house, but i had never lived at that address! but my car was registered to me and my parents at that address (i hadn't changed it to up here yet) so the summons went there. if you're still in the file with a car registration at that address, they will get you! ;)
2 weeks til Thanksgiving! We have to get our heads together to plan for this thing. What do you and Ben think of a bought, already cooked, ready to eat, Turkey? and then........all homemade sides and desserts!!!! (mmm....pecan)
I finally feel caught up on all my work! Now I just need to start on my 10 pg rough draft for my seminar paper, write a 2 page response to a book, and read a novel all for next Tuesday. Not too bad...especially when I remember that I only have 46 days until graduation :D
yeah, good questions...I honestly do not think that 'we' (the world) will ever learn anything nor do I think a few crying "never again" will actually ever mean anything. I encourage you to look into the international communities actions during the 1994 Rwanda genocide, and look specifically at their actions BEFORE people began fleeing the country into refugee camps. It will help answer those questions better…If you look at what is currently going on in Burundi (and the surrounding countries) they are STILL trying to kill each other off. I do think that it is important to deal collectively as a country when the people experience something like genocide. Otherwise, they will not be able to prevent the same thing from happening all over again, which is one of the problems there now.
OK. so, here is the count down: 8 Weeks OR 52 days (including weekends,holidays,and dead days) OR 12 actual class days (since I only have class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and I have left out holidays and dead days this time)!!!
it's about historical memory and the ways in which ordinary people deal with horrible things. I am going to look at the ways that the Tutsi survivor population in Rwanda deals with the pain from the 1994 genocide and how the Hutus in that country similarly are dealing with what they did and how they were able to carry out the genocide
then I am going to compare that to a similar situation in a neighboring country, that is Burundi; here the roles are switched and I will be looking at how the Burundi Hutu survivors deal with the massacres there and with the Tutsi population, who carried out the massacres. Collective memory is a very interesting thing, and I will be using 1st person accounts and also can use objects like memorials as evidence for my thesis...
