ELP journal

In today's class, we had our first P&D. I was not comfotable with doing P&D this time because I was not sure if I've got the main idea of my book right. The book I read is "Dogs and Demons - The fall of modern Japan" by Alex Kerr. I chose this book because I'm interested in politics, especially the politics of my own country. I also think that I should learn about it because although I am Japanese I do not know much about Japan. It is partly because I went to high school in Canada but I do not want to use it as an excuse.
After presenting my book to others, I felt that I need to quickly go through the book again because I realized that I've already forgot a large part of the book.
My group members presented two books, "Things fall apart" and "The sky train". They both sounded interesting to me, but especially the latter. The issue between Tibet and China has been one of my interests and I actually attended to a lecture by the Dalai Lama last June. Not only the issue of Tibet, but I am also interested in the ethical issue as a whole. At ICU, I'm participating in Japan Israel Palestine Student Conference and as you know, there is a big ethnic issue between Israelis, Arabs, and Israeli-Arabs. I wonder if we are going to look at any ethnic issues in class.
Overall, I really enjoy sharing our thoughts about what we read because there is always something that you can not find out by yourself. And as my self being a bookworm, I just love talking about books and I wish we can have more of this kind of occasions in this term.