Reflection and sharing
It was hard to believe
that the weekend was already here! But in the summer school there was
no real difference. It was a working weekend. The day was to be spent
with a lot of reflection. Students had to present their reflection of
Flossenberg and the Nuremberg. By now I was totaled out, could no
linger sit in long sessions and concentrate. I loved to hear the
students speak. I was part of the earlier discussions in small
groups. Holding myself to attend the day long presentations was out
of question.
I sat through the first
round of interesting reflections where they spoke about the
impressions that the concentration camp created. The ideas were
predictably different from culture to culture. The Namibians related
to the genocide that took place in their own land, while the Chileans
referred it to the Pinochet episodes.
In my mind the atrocities
that I have read about all came back flashing, I could call it an
action replay and on the top was the killing of the innocent Tamils
who were caught in the conflict.
While all this was going
on I was just waiting for a break. But it never came. So I decided to
look for some green tea and retired for some time. It always
surprises me what a 20 minute rest can do to you. I was up and
running and feeling much better with my cold, leaky nose, head ache,
a slight fever with severe body pain. Could have been a flu, a
paracetamol really helped along with a jelly like capsule- courtesy
Gaby!
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