Ahh. I should probably unroll the yearlong calander my synagogue gave me and check when that is in the secular calander, but I feel lazy right now. now I kind of, to make up for my ignorance, want to make a list of important -- positive -- wwII dates, like the victory days and liberation of here and there and that kind of thing. would be good to know. (Or, I could go to the Resistance museum here -- it's literally down the block from my apartment -- with a clipboard and copy things down ... :P) I'll put it on my list to do. I become more and more obsessed with the French Resistance -- things about wwII are so dark that I have to think of those brave people who struggled and suffered so much to liberate their country and, unlike the Jews, had a choice not to get involved but involved themselves anyhow. (I have a poster of Jean Moulin :)...)
Yeah, it's odd because I really thought I was an enlightened modern young person who saw beyond that kind of thing -- then, for instance, I met some German girl this year at school and we talked and were friendly for a few weeks, then, just as we started becoming friends and not just acquaintances I ... I couldn't continue, I kept thinking -- what would she say if she knows I'm Jewish? what were her ancestors doing in the war...? And she'd be teaching us all words in German and I felt all uncomfortable when I ever heard them, so ... I just drifted away from her. I don't think she knows my reaction -- like we saw each other last week, randomly met at the fac and talked for a minute and she was perfectly pleasant and friendly, but I feel guilty for ... not wanting to be her friend. Although I'd never be in favor of a war or anything like that, I guess I'm not ... really capable to further peace and understanding! I hope that my eventual kids aren't like me in this :(
Yeah, it'd be nice if Egypt wasn't attacking Israel because they wanted peace, not because it would be stupid to attack, but who knows. And, yeah, American military 0.0 ... there's almost a part of me that wants Bush to do something so stupid that people will realize we need a drastic change but I shudder to think exactly what something that dumb would entail... :(
we are chatting a lot in Amelia's journal, aren't we? Do you want to friend each other? How do you know Amelia, by the way? I'm a student at U of O (only now I'm in France...) and we met there last year. :)
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Date: 2007-01-28 10:58 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's odd because I really thought I was an enlightened modern young person who saw beyond that kind of thing -- then, for instance, I met some German girl this year at school and we talked and were friendly for a few weeks, then, just as we started becoming friends and not just acquaintances I ... I couldn't continue, I kept thinking -- what would she say if she knows I'm Jewish? what were her ancestors doing in the war...? And she'd be teaching us all words in German and I felt all uncomfortable when I ever heard them, so ... I just drifted away from her. I don't think she knows my reaction -- like we saw each other last week, randomly met at the fac and talked for a minute and she was perfectly pleasant and friendly, but I feel guilty for ... not wanting to be her friend. Although I'd never be in favor of a war or anything like that, I guess I'm not ... really capable to further peace and understanding! I hope that my eventual kids aren't like me in this
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Yeah, it'd be nice if Egypt wasn't attacking Israel because they wanted peace, not because it would be stupid to attack, but who knows. And, yeah, American military 0.0 ... there's almost a part of me that wants Bush to do something so stupid that people will realize we need a drastic change but I shudder to think exactly what something that dumb would entail... :(
we are chatting a lot in Amelia's journal, aren't we? Do you want to friend each other? How do you know Amelia, by the way? I'm a student at U of O (only now I'm in France...) and we met there last year. :)