May 28

African Union Day

African Union day was about solving the conflict in Burundi in a countries own way. Like I was Cameroon with Eli and Jay, and we decided to go along with Nigerias plan, which was send in a 3rd party. Mr. Lowe and Mr. Minkus were the moderators, the people who choose when you stop talking and when your turn is over. They also judge weather or not your idea is going on. The students were the countries who had to come up with ideas to help Burundi.

I learned that it is complicated to make wise decision on what we are to do to solve a problem. So it sort of gets confusing  when you thin you have a good idea but it turns out that many people do not agree with you. What I liked about yesterday was the debate for we got to choose whose idea was better and since Cameroon (my group) didn’t have an idea we were almost like a switch vote, but so were many others. I really liked yesterday even though at the start I was like “What am I supposed to do!” but after a little bit I figured it out. My favorite thing about yesterday was all of the good ideas people had and shared.

May 5

Invictus response

I choose the Springboks and Nelson Mandela. The relationship they made was amazing, because at the beginning of the movie the Springboks were just a regular rugby team who didn’t like the African Americans. Towards the end of the movie only Francois Pinaar, the captain of the Springboks, was the only Caucasian player who liked and admired Mandela (for there was also an african american player named Chester). Then at the end of the movie, all of the Springbok players liked Mandela and noted that all south africans no matter what race are the same.

That represented the past apartheid in South Africa, because at the start every race were against each other, like the African Americans were against the Springboks, and at the end everyone saw each other as one, I mean there were still people who were arguing, but most of them were celebrating as one big nation, and at the end (the apartheid) everyone treated mostly everyone the same, as equals.