A few pictures from last year classes that didn't get published sorry they are so late guys!
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Wow it has been a long time
I don’t know if anyone bothers to check this site but I though I would write a quick update. I really love living in Prague. I miss some things and definitely some people from Pribram but overall I think I’m happier in Prague. I have a lot of friends here and there are a lot of things to do. I’m grateful that I still get to see a few of my old students who are studying at a university in Prague. It is always fun to hang out with them. Yesterday I went to Pribram to see a few old students. I didn’t get to see too many but I was glad to see the ones that were around.
A week ago I went to Poland with a few friends. We went to Krakow and had a really good relaxed time. I went to Auschwitz which is always an eye opening experience. The part that was the hardest for me was seeing a room filled with suitcase and seeing addresses from many cities I’ve been to in the Czech Republic. I don’t really have words to express how I felt while I was there but if I had to sum it up I would choose the words sadness and shame. Sadness for the absolute horror that people had to endure in that place and shame that as a species we are capable of such things. I think there is some part of us as humans that desires to be god. To create something like God is difficult so instead we choose to rule over creation. The problem is that often we believe the best way to rule over creation is to force it into subjection. If someone or something is lower than us than we are we feel strong and we put them through all sorts of horrors to prove our control over their destinies. We imagine that we become gods to these individuals and thus we justify their subjection. I think this desire to set ourselves up as gods has always been the cause of humanities greatest evils.
Well enough of that. The rest of the weekend was great but one big problem was that I left my camera battery charging in the flat so no pictures yet I will try to get some from my friends and post them later.
A week ago I went to Poland with a few friends. We went to Krakow and had a really good relaxed time. I went to Auschwitz which is always an eye opening experience. The part that was the hardest for me was seeing a room filled with suitcase and seeing addresses from many cities I’ve been to in the Czech Republic. I don’t really have words to express how I felt while I was there but if I had to sum it up I would choose the words sadness and shame. Sadness for the absolute horror that people had to endure in that place and shame that as a species we are capable of such things. I think there is some part of us as humans that desires to be god. To create something like God is difficult so instead we choose to rule over creation. The problem is that often we believe the best way to rule over creation is to force it into subjection. If someone or something is lower than us than we are we feel strong and we put them through all sorts of horrors to prove our control over their destinies. We imagine that we become gods to these individuals and thus we justify their subjection. I think this desire to set ourselves up as gods has always been the cause of humanities greatest evils.
Well enough of that. The rest of the weekend was great but one big problem was that I left my camera battery charging in the flat so no pictures yet I will try to get some from my friends and post them later.
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