Today in class we had our model UN where we proposed and adjusted our resolutions that we had been working on involving the topics of military, global warming, poverty, and immigration. I choose Germany, which has significant problems and opinions in all four topics. Many of Germany’s goals in these areas are pretty liberal, at least at the surface, so I tried (with some difficulty) to make a realist reason for my resolution. Most of us got together to try and help write resolutions for countries with similar goals. I was there for that gathering; but was largely just left to my own resolution because immigration issues for Germany is mainly a domestic issue and every thing else is just difficult to negotiate. The resolution I presented attempted to deal with poverty by bringing skilled jobs (a shortage that Germany has) by bringing vocational education centers and businesses to impoverished nations, but it is nearly impossible for the UN to enforce anything and “fair pay” is not very well defined.

Later we went to go see the old Jewish ghetto and the Jewish history museum. The museum had two synagogues attached—one large and very ornate, and one smaller and more typical. You can’t take pictures in the museum, so of course I don’t have any.