The Dank Blog

     Nothing says Easter like fighting to the death with the people you love. My immediate family isn't religious, but my extended family is. So we are courteous enough to celebrate. My Easter was pretty great. We don't get to see our extended family all that often to it was delightful to see them again. We ate the finest food I've ever had, it was turkey and homemade potatos (I've been living off ramen for the last month so this was a step up). We ate at 3:00, which is strange. I suppose that's the universal time to eat dinner when it's a holiday. After dinner, my cousins and I battled with foam swords and shields. It was like the roman times all over again. We jumped a few fences to get to the park, later on. At the park, we played a playground game called Woodchips, where the person that's "it" has to walk around with their eyes closed and try to tag someone. If you're touching the ground the the person called "woodchips!" Then the

     I'm a Netflix junkie. Over break, I defied the laws of time by watching around 200 hours of Netflix. I have no regrets. To others, my spring break could be described as sad, lonely, or solitary confinement, but I think of it as dramatic, tear jerking, and fun. I binged watched Grey's Anatomy,  The Office, and The Guild. I had enough frozen hot pockets and Coca Cola to last my entire exhibition. It was a journey filled with love and hatred and tears. I have no life. My mother is concerned for my wellbeing. What are your favorite Netflix shows?

     We recently watched the movie "Life is Beautiful" to tie off our Holocaust unit. As you might assume, the movie is about an Italian man and his family who get separated during the Holocaust. This movie reminded me of a poem we read back in the beginning of the unit called "Butterfly". It was written by a child living in a ghetto. I felt that the child who wrote it thought that the Holocaust was something only temporary and that everything would be okay, kind of like the child in the movie. The child in the movie and the children who wrote these poems also share similarities.      The movie integrates humor and seriousness throughout. The father in the film pretends that the Holocaust is a game, and that if they get 1,000 points, they win. He is doing this to spare his son from fear. This alone shares humor and seriousness. The father even tells the son that they'll get extra points if the son hides when the officers call for the children to be put to deat