Red Scarf Girl-Ji li Jiang

I just finished reading this book and I was really shocked. It was about a girl during the cultural revolution in China ( I believe it was circa 66). It was interesting because I had never really learned much about the cultural revolution and I was shocked.

Throughout the whole book awful things were happening to Ji li and her family, but she never realized that they were wrong. The people had been so brainwashed by the communists that they thought it was fair for them to suffer even when they hadn't done anything wrong. The devil really had a hay day. I thought it was interesting how she eventually was forced to choose between the communists (which she had been taught all her life were good) and her family and how hard that choice was.

Reading this book made me even more grateful for the privilege of living in a country where there are those checks and balances so one person can't ruin life for everyone else. It really opened my eyes to what those people had to go through and caused me to realize how much I should be praying for the people of China.

ArT

I went with my mom to the art museum today. My dad had cheerfully volunteered to stay home and install a new faucet on the sink :) I had never actually been to an "Art Museum" before, or at least not that I remember. Heh, I guess I didn't really believe the things people say about modern art. Some of the artwork I did when I was 5 was better than that stuff.

I did really enjoy the Roman exhibit. It was fascinating to see what the people from my history book and even the bible had really looked like. By the end I was done looking at statues And busts. I can only take so many lifeless eyes glaring at me. I do wonder what it was like for them to have someone make a statue of them. I bet they never imagined it would be in an art museum thousands of years later with so many people shuffling past it. Seriously...an art museum would be the perfect setting for some kind of horror story. It all made me think of Night at the Museum. I would not want to be there when some of that stuff came alive. I can imagine the sheer terror that would ensue.

I was really there to look at the Renaissance art and was disappointed that they only had about 10 or 15 paintings from that time period, but they were interesting nonetheless. It was cool how the paintings varied by what country they were from.