Blog 10

Monday, March 09, 2009

Current mood: curious
Category: Blogging

Blogging is the 'category' today because my first day at uni spelt that out very clearly. Out of 3 accesable components in my 'Media, Culture and Everyday Life' blogging is essential. I must read a section of the text provided, and give my views. REMIND YOU OF ANYTHING?!!

This was closely followed with a girl, who I just happened to sit down next to (out of 400 people) who just happened to be an admirer of the Jewish people. Her name is Ellen and she is awsome. After a polite introduction, I mentioned by school and her face lit up. "Are you Jewish?" she asked. I replied yes, and she responsed saying "I love Jews! I want to marry Jewish and raise my kids Jewish...". For obvious reasons we got along quite well.

We spent some time in the uni bar, having coffee and chatting about uni, family, and I told her about some experiences in Israel. When she asked about the country, it wasn't the usual 'is it scary', 'did you feel unsafe' e.c.t, but rather such a refreshing idea, focusing her questions about the culture. I told that when you enter a place that is loved so much by the people within it, the air smell different, and each place, ditch in the road, hills and street corner crackles with the magic of history.

Later I found myself in another lecture (Marketing Fundamentals) - lucky it was your basic Yr12 stuff - so no dramas - and our lecturer Muhammad (switching gears here...!) was..really FUNNY. He told us jokes about his marriage, asked questions about people's boyfriend and girlfriends, told us about his exersize routine (walking up and down the isles in the lecture...and warned us not to be afraid), told us to ask him to repeat something if his accent is to strong (he's from Pakistan) and many more stories about cheap bed sheeps and human-hair carpets.

This day was really great. I got to read some more wonderful blogs from people at Southern Gothic (blogspot.com), I got the opportunity to fight back against the antisematic Social Activists in my uni, who perpetuate descrimination - my 'Aujus' exec leader sent the team an email with thoughts to appose the idea of a Palestinian Support Week' in the uni. And after all that I have meeting, parties, friends and good classes to look forward to in the coming week.

Thanks for reading, and I hope everyone is having a FAB Purim!

p.s Just wait till I start blogging about assessments and work loads!

p.s.s I do want to be more specific sometimes when I mention people and things, I do, but for security reason, I'd like to keep some things slightly confidential. Maybe when I become a better writer, I will find a way to increase the details without sacrificing saftey.

p.s.s.s Happy 10th BLOG! Love Shailee.

Currently reading:Diplomacy (A Touchstone book)By Henry Kissinger