Category: studies
Time to breathe
Don’t forget to mess around!
I’m at Josies empty place now that she’s in L.A. It’s so nice to have a place to study and be alone in. So, I’m hanging out here on my free Sunday, studying and preparing to work my way through her mindblowing collection of movies. Remember ‘Cool world’? Haha, that’s second on my list. First I will watch ‘The Eternal Sunshine of a spotless mind’. I have seen it before but it was years ago and all I remember is that I loved it..
Josies neigbours have a great and very entertaining taste in music, they have been listening to Nina Simone all morning and now they are listening to Louis Armstrong & his hot five – Don’t forget to mess around, so nice and happy!
I’m enjoying my various little pleasant distractions a lot, and all the street sounds and birds from outside make this day even nicer. Now I just need to actually make some studying happen and I will be a happy kid again! :)
At least for one day.. from tomorrow I’m working again, whole days, all week. Working is bad for my studies.. :(
Anywaaay, back to happy for now, back to books!! :D
The sun
..makes everything look so much nicer.
I didn’t do what I was supposed to today, but at least I got some nice shots of the sunset.
I might have changed my mind about saving the world, can’t I just take pictures of reality instead?
No, I’m not being serious. My procrastination techniques have become more advanced with time, now my mind tries to fool me that the things I’m passionate about aren’t really interesting at all and that I don’t care about peace and conflict, international relations or psychology.
Good one, brain.
thesis time
identity & prejudice
The most dramatic effects of social categorization have been demonstrated using the minimal intergroup paradigm pioneered by Tajfel and his co workers. Here participants are simply informed that they have been divided into groups, often on a relatively arbitrary basis. These groups are truly minimal, involving no group activity or contact between members. Yet when these participants are asked to evaluate anonymous ingroup and outgroup members or apportion rewards between them, they do so in a biased and discriminatory fashion, favoring ingroup over outgroup members.
Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, p560
Nothing most of you didn’t know already, but still. I think it’s good reminding oneself of how instinctively full of prejudices we all are. That awareness might actually make us better people.. And as Voltaire said, Prejudice is the reason of fools.
Martin Luther King III
Constructive Nonviolent Action and Realizing the Dream conference at The Peres Center for Peace. program
April 15th 2010. Jaffa, Israel.
Thesisland
Olvidando mi Español
I’m afraid I’m forgetting this beautiful language. Languages are as fragile as they are important, if you don’t practice, they simply fade away. Sure, a month in the right company takes you almost right back to where you were, but if you asked me right now to have a conversation with you in Spanish, I would surely experience big difficulties in expressing and finding the right words.
Of the languages I speak, have spoken and ever made efforts to learn, Spanish is without any doubt my favourite one. Not only is it easy to learn, it flows in a magical way and brings back beautiful memories and associations. It’s a language that really makes me happy whenever I hear it, if it’s from people passing by on the street, a song, a movie or whatever.. and when I get to speak it. It’s like euphoria.
So, I decided that I need to go to a Spanish speaking country very soon. To catch up, to get back to my fluency, not to forget. And I should take classes, like, real language classes.. To get it on paper, to know the language officially. I’m thinking South America. I’m thinking Universidad de Buenos Aires, or some place else. I’m thinking Colombia. I’m thinking internship in Mexico. If not, I’m thinking Barcelona. We’ll see if I manage to find something perfect.
First I have an International Relations master to finish.
Until then, movies in Spanish, books in Spanish.. and a lot of Bebe :)
Bebe – Me Fui.
Y. (2009)
