Weekend

I spent last Friday night working on a case that our group was going to report on the next day. I had to skip to invitations for “gimiks” that night just to be able to finish the Power point presentation. Intermittent Migraine attacks made it a bit difficult to focus but I was eventually able to finish it on Saturday morning. I had to opt out of the First Aid training, good thing Olive was there to cover for me. Anyways… I found out later that it was all for naught because we weren’t able to get an overhead projector. We ended up using acetates and needless to say I wasted my Friday night working on a Power Point presentation that was utterly useless.

I did however manage to drop by at the First Aid Training that we were handling. Since it was the last training day before the exams we asked the participants to write an evaluation of the training. There are admittedly a lot of things we can do to further improve the First Aid Training but the interesting stuff was their evaluation of us instructors. As usual I got the usual comments of being scary and intimidating. I guess my height, size, loud voice, could be intimidating at times. Oh well… It works to my advantage. Hahaha!

We watched The Village last Saturday night at the Power Plant Mall in Rockwell. It never ceases to amaze me how that place seems to be so untouched by poverty. Anyways… the movie was interesting. It was different but my friends found the movie disappointing because of the twist and the ending. I however think that the film is ok, not great but ok. There are a lot of issues within the story. Is a traumatic experience enough to make people do such a thing? It’s a bit drastic but I guess anything is possible. Deciding to remove yourself from the world you know is a decision one can make but making a whole community, live a lie puts it on a totally different level. As the film showed evil can creep even into the most protected and controlled environment. Deciding to make people live in such a community, while using fear to keep people in line seems to be an evil in it self. It is simply unjustifiable despite the horrors that the elders went through. Reality can be a bitch but a safe controlled and perfect world can be just as stifling.

A scene from the movie "The Village"