Since my last post, not a lot has really happened. The author has continued to talk about the history of Rwanda, and about how the conflicts of the Hutus and Tutsis came to be. It talks about it's neighboring country and how when something happens in one country, it almost always happens in the other country too.

My views haven't really changed since I last read the book. I still think that what Paul Resusabagina did was very good, and he is a very good ethical leader.

I think that a time I was put into a leadership position when I was in student senate in middle school. Back then it was pretty cool to be in student senate, and the first year, people acually did speeches and tried really hard. I thought it was neat how I got to be on it and make a lot of decisions about fundraisers and our middle school dance. There were only four people in my grade that were on it, so to be chosen I felt was a pretty good leadership role. I feel like I did okay in this position, I could have done better. I missed some of the meetings, but I still helped out. I don't think I would change any decisions that we did because I felt like they were pretty succesful for a middle schooler to do.

Well I haven't really got to the main part of the book, where Paul saves the people in the hotel. But in his childhood, he was a leader too. Since he was the first person in his school, it was a big step for him. "Each day I walked a mile up the hills to my school." (Page 13). He could have easily followed his parents and older siblings footsteps and not gotten a good education, but instead he wanted to change and even if it was hard at first. He said that it definitely paid off in the end.