Thursday, 17 June 2010

Last Class with Rab... and my plan for the project

Since I maybe am supposed to be talking about the class I'm gonna start off by commenting on the lecture... Well we watched a video in which students from two high schools are trying to get their government to make the bill on weapon trade limitation more strict. there were several funny and shocking parts like the sh*t throwing machine which could kill people as the Israeli guy said 'you stand there I kill you' or something like that. well it was real shocking and very funy:DD
There is one idea of what im going to do for the project in the next semester is something like get some restaurants or hotels that presently are for only Japanese to change there policy into being open to foreigners as well. or at least trying to find a way and put it into action during the winter semester when we will have some extra time for not having ELP. I am not sure yet of course but it is something that ELP teachers will be interested and that should be done to be prepared for the more rapid decrease in population. ELP course taught me that it is an argent issue that we must do something about. I already talked about this with Yuga and she is in a way interested in different thing but in another way we are heading in the same direction so we might be doing this together. If any of you are interested please let me know:)))


For me, and most likely for the other CB students, Rab has been such a great teacher including even the times he tricked us and made us feel stupid more or less. Thank you so much. You taught us literary how to think. The way we are supposed to do to be a critical thinker. On the way, though, I sometimes thought that I do not want to be critical because then I would start to see so many dirty things and keep thinking and thinking so endlessly and have no time to breathe or to become doubtful to everything and trust nothing, which sound to my ears so pathetic. That was my honest feeling at some stage. But facing so many facts and truth, I know it was just a small portion of what is really going on, I start to feel that being ignorant is a kind of crime if I live in a country like Japan. You get stuff for such a cheap price and the facts that many people are forced to work for nearly nothing are not to be seen under words like 'economic crisis'. In the country you would not say 'I do not think one committed a crime if the person does not realize that he/she did it'. But what we are doing outside the country maybe in Africa or South America is about the same. In Tokyo it is illegal to hire people for under 791 yen but in countries in regions like listed earlier people are hired and paid little, if any, so that we get stuff so cheap. Does that make sense???? Don't tell me yes.
Thank you Rab again for opening my eyes. I was almost blind and now I see a little more and as I keep on in ELP I see more and more!:)) hopefully

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