The Haunt of Homework and other events...

I'm sure many people have experienced the feeling of being drowned in work. Well, for me, I'm being drowned in homework and when you don't do your homework it haunts you later on. I am currently in the process of catching up on some work and working on projects that should have been started awhile ago. I need to finish reading my French novel and begin research on my Chemistry report. If only I didn't leave this all to the last minute *sigh*. I basically have my day to day homework caught up on; and now I just need to work on getting up at SIX in the MORNING. I missed to many band practices, and it's not like I don't like band; but I honestly can't get up that early in the morning! So, one day I decided to go to a Junior Band practice to make up on missed mornings and I literally died in the band room that evening. The Juniors were soooo talkative and loud and obnoxious and had the attention span of an animal that had to attention span ( I can't think of any). They pretty much drove the band teacher insane; well, if I was the band teacher they would've drove me insane too!

For Thursday morning's band practice I think I'll try bring in a CD. I absolutly love this band! They're called <<女子十二>> aka "12 Girls Band", which is band that consists of twelve girls (duh!!) who play traditional Chinese instruments. They play modern music with some traditional Chinese influence, also classical style music such as Beethoven.

Today I had the chance to meet the two exchange teachers from China. I though it was quite exciting because I'm learning Mandarin Chinese. I got of opportunity to hear my mother converse with them in Chinese; and I was able to understand about 75% of what they were saying!

Nanking Massacre

Since the point of this entry is not me telling you what I know about this atrocity, you can check the link below if you have no idea what I'm going to talk about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre

I have mixed thoughts and feelings towards this tragic event which is a part of my history. Although, to my knowledge, my family was not directly affected by this event I feel that this event is important because of my ethnic background. I feel that we should not hate the Japanese people for what their ancestors did, but I can not help but have feelings of hatred in a tiny corner of my heart. I think, that I do not have enough "good" in me to forgive the soldiers for what they did, even if the Japanese government makes a public apology. I know that I'm probably getting a little too personal with this issue but why do some of the Japanese people choose to pretend that this part of their history never existed? The government event went as far as censoring this from their school text books. The things they did were so inhumane, I don't think I'll be able to write about them but the event in general should not be forgotten or ignored. It is sad to see Chinese people on the Internet posting hateful messages such as "kill all the Japanese!". These messages are very ignorant because we should not hate them for being Japanese. In fact we shouldn't hate anyone at all. But still, I think that I will never be able to have enough "good" in me to forgive the soldiers who did what they did in Nanking (Nanjing). There were a few soldiers who I will forgive, because they had personally acknowledged what they had done and had fought for justice and history, most notably Shiro Azuma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiro_Azuma).