Skype With Tarek3/5/2019 What did you learn that surprised you or connected to other things you have learned?
One thing that surprised me was when he talked about people can avoid the military service if they pay the government an amount of money. Lots of people choose to do so so they can stay with their family. However, when one of our classmates ask if he would do that, besides saying that he did not have money, the said that “I would never pay the money to such a government” which I think make so much sense because although one can avoid military service by paying the money, he or she is actually donating money to the already corrupting government system. By doing so, the government may become more corrupted or more brutal towards its citizens. What do you think about his dreams of being an artist and a teacher being interrupted by war and other circumstances? He dreams to be an artist but was unable to continue his education due to the war because he did not have a safe environment to create something new. Also, because of the war, the government did not financially support the universities so that the class he wanted to take to become an artist could not really happen. Even if he became an artist, it would be hard for him to make a living because people would be busy dealing with the war but not to appreciate the art. After he because an teacher, although he found it useful and interesting, it is still hard for him to support his living with that. Coming from another country and survive as an immigrant, he might receive lower paycheck than the others, which makes him hard to make money even though he likes the job.
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