This week has been an emotional week!
On Friday, it was the last day for my boss before she starts her new job tomorrow (Monday). It was a little emotional as she has done so much for our centre and helped us achieve great things. She has promised that we will see her in the future and not to miss her too much. I beg to differ on the latter.
On Saturday, I went to the airport to pick up my younger sister to surprise our older sister for her Birthday. Our older sister was very happy with her surprise and cried with happiness. It was a nice night and I enjoyed spending it with my family and boyfriend.
Today, I had to take my little sister back to the airport as school starts back up tomorrow, then my boyfriend and I went to the local shopping mall to replace a missing screw in my glasses (yes, I wear glasses). We walked around Target while the lady at the eye shop was fixing my glasses, and bought two movies, The Water Diviner and The Amazing Spider-man. After my boyfriend got a haircut and I bought a few books from Dymocks (Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl and The Pointless Book by Alfie Deyes), we went to my house to watch The Water Diviner.
It's a beautiful movie, but very sad. There were a few times I cried. Next weekend is ANZAC weekend, the movie is based off the war at Gallipoli and how a father tries to find where his sons were killed in the war.
I find these types of movies are much more of an emotional ride than others as they are based off real events. There were plenty of families back home who lost sons in the wars. My father was in the Vietnam war, war affects everyone, some quite more than others.
After watching the movie, lovely boyfriend went home and I began reading the diary of Anne Frank and watching Mockingjay part 1, both are also related to wars, one real and one in a dystopian world. I've only just read up to the part where Anne and her family go into hiding.
It is an amazing piece of history that gives you are rare sight of what it must of been like for a Jew in Hitler's era. It's sad that so many Jews were killed simply because one person didn't like them and had the power to abolish them. It is amazing that Anne Frank and the other people hiding in the secret annex for just over two years before being captured, then sent off to concentration camps and the like.I've always enjoyed reading about history and would get away with reading other historic stories in my Society and Environment class.
The first time I became interested in Anne Frank was in 2010, when I was doing a research essay on Emmett Till, a young African-American boy murdered during segregation times in the United States. Anne Frank was noted in on of the articles I read as they were both young when killed. My teacher didn't mind that I had gone astray and started searching about Anne Frank, as I was interested in doing History class in Year 11 and 12, with Nazi Germany being one of the main exam topics. Unfortunately I ended up not doing the course and chose Certificate II in Community Services, under the Child care stream.
I am now going to end this and get back to Anne Frank's Diary. Bye-bye for now,
Rhi
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