This year, in Religion class we have been focusing greatly on the Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights. Recently we have been doing a module on conflict. As part of this module, class Banba watched two movies "Sometimes in April" and also "Hotel Rwanda". Personally I was extremely touched by Hotel Rwanda. The film focuses on the life of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel worker, who attempts to rescue and lead his fellow Rwandans from the Rwandan Genocide in the Spring of 1994. What really struck me about the Rwandan war is the fact that over a million people were killed and it was completely unknown to me. I almost felt ashamed at my ignorance to the situation. I was perhaps more ashamed of the response of the Western World to the genocide. It has occurred to me, that we as a nation are completely self consumed, "me feiners" some would say. We are happy to turn a blind eye to the issues we face, and indeed we all face them, if they do not directly effect us. No man is an island as they say, but I feel that we are happy to keep to ourselves because of the "effort" of getting involved. Ignore the problems so that we do not have to acknowledge they are there.
Since beginning TY I have been greatly inspired by my Religion teacher, and her outlook on life. She has a positive attitude to almost everything, and I believe has reached a level of spirituality that comes with wisdom and life experiences, good and bad. Perhaps what I admire most, her will to be the first to say that which many of us refuse to admit to, our negative traits as a people.
I feel that I have grown greatly throughout TY, but Religion class has definitely opened my eyes to the World around me, something that I feel will benefit me in the years to come.
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