"And he said to me, one day you'll be a man, and men can do terrible things."

[raven]

The cherry tree in the quad has blossomed pink over the last two days. Along with the faux-Wordsworth daffodils and rain-laden breeze, it feels like spring has come. Nearly, anyhow. It may launch itself upon us any day soon.

The day has been better than expected. Becca told me her tale of woe - apparently, the cinema thingit was not good, and she had to walk to the station in pouring rain. She had an amusing encounter at lunchtime - a set of girls in the year below talking very loudly about "Tom Jones." Becca suspected... and she was right. Apparently they all fancy him. Becca is mystified. I don't blame her, really, but it's not a situation I will ever be in.

The afternoon passed without incident. I had what will henceforth be known as the History Lesson With Three Videos. Two of them were about the Arab-Israeli conflict, okay-ish, but the other one was the horrible one. It was about the Holocaust. Images from the Warsaw ghetto progressed into secret photgraphs taken at Auschwitz, and Jews being shot, falling into graves they had dug themselves, and children clinging to their mothers' hands as they were herded into the gas chambers. And then the signs - "Achtung Juden!" - and the golden stars of David, and finally Auschwitz as it is today - derelict and scarred by flames.

That video finished to complete silence in the room.

Oh, yes... this isn't much of an update, but Hannah left some pics with me yesterday. This is my favourite one:

That's snowdrop24, purplerainbow and me. And the big black thing is osiris13's thumb.

Comments

[snowdrop24.livejournal.com]

*Eep!* Get it AWAY FROM ME! :S

[chanandlerbong.livejournal.com]

Very nice photo, iona you look almost normal!
i need to meet you people (the phrase 'you people' being used because i spend too much time with iona)
x
snowdrop24 - whos the pretty guy in your icon?

[osiris13.livejournal.com]

Kimi Raikkonnen (I've probsbly spet it wrong), she's been going on about him for the last couple of years.

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[snowdrop24.livejournal.com]

snowdrop24 - whos the pretty guy in your icon?

Kimi Raikkonen! He's a formula one driver... I haven't shut up all weekend about him. God bless the new season...

Emily
xx

[snowdrop24.livejournal.com]

Oops, didn't realise Clare had replied! :)

Not that I hate winter or anything...

[dixsept.livejournal.com]

*whine*
Not only do you talk about flowers being in bloom, you have pictures of people sitting in grass. Do you have any idea how jealous this makes me? I could just cry. I wandered through a greenhouse today, just to look at real, living plants. There were daffodils; I tried hard not to think about how I won't be seeing any of those until... Late April at the earliest...

Re: Not that I hate winter or anything...

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*toddles off to look at Meredith's location*
Canada? Ah. I see. I have only been there once. Am not qualified to give statements about its weather.

But if it makes you feel any better.... it's still windy and rainy here. Because purplerainbow takes so long to get her pictures developed, the photograph was taken in August. The park, Chavasse, doesn't look like that now. We avoid it in winter for fear of being blown out to sea (the sea is in front of us, so you can't see it in the picture).
And if it makes you feel even better - they're thinking about building over it(!)

*sends sunny thoughts*