This weekend

I loooove long weekends! :) On Friday I decided to get out of my shell and join my classmates Jennie and Robert for dinner at a lovely Italian restaurant called Farmicia. We then went to watch "Black Book", the heartwrenching story of a German-Jewish girl who narrowly survives the war in Holland and shortly after the liberation, tries to find out who betrayed her family. I highly recommend it!

Yesterday and today, I have been studying for my two exams. Thursday is sooooo close, and my cases and notes cover more than 500 pages! I feel I can never finish sob sob... in addition to what has been discussed in class, I have to draw similarities and differences between the strategies employed in each case. Quite a task!

I have finished reading our textbook on the history of Latin America and I am quite disturbed by what I have learned about the United States' interventions in the internal affairs of almost every country on the South American continent: support for military dictators simply because they were opposing Communism, training of special forces to fight rebels, killing of priests, overthrowing of regimes etc etc. I had not realized the extent of these interventionist measures, and I am surprised that the American population does not protest them in greater numbers. I wish I could request that my tax contribution not be used to fund such activities .... I would gladly contribute to an education fund or to other noble causes. It was interesting to learn that President Jimmy Carter was one of the very few US presidents who actually opposed policies of interventionism...

Lots of love, I hope you are having a wonderful weekend!