Bring on the Week

Back at the desk looking for jobs. The mind-numbing, seemingly endless search for jobs.

Yesterday was Movie Night and the highlight had to be Lemon Tree. Its an Israeli film and I highly recommend it. Of course the problem I find with things that deal with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are that they are often quick to pick a side or to oversimplify a complex problem. With Lemon Tree, director Eran Riklis manages to focus mainly on the characters themselves and in the end tells a story whose ending while not the fairytale we want remains something all too real.

I also watched Canada win the gold medal in ice hockey at the winter Olympics in Vancouver. The US put up a great fight and they threw everything they had at the Canadians only to find it wasn´t quite enough. To read this article one would think Canada has taken back the mantel as greatest hockey nation in the world. I don´t really think they ever lost it. With a tournament this size, its often the case that the nation that has a group of players in peak form will win. This is also the reason that other super powers did so bad this Olympics. All this brings me to my final point which is that while these two sides seemed hot here and there is a lot of talk about Sochi 2014, it is important to remember that holding onto the gold is quite difficult.

All the same the US played with a lot of heart and they certainly deserved their silver medals though not a one of them looked happy to receive them.

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