tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84534688820845372012024-02-19T03:31:57.535-08:00Barry and Jayne at SeaAn account of our journey with Semester at Sea in the Fall of 2012.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-31108217757667070652015-11-19T13:12:00.001-08:002015-11-19T13:12:41.088-08:00Winchester video<a href="https://vimeo.com/116730980">https://vimeo.com/116730980</a>
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<br>Sent from my iPadAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-4835843504937813922012-12-12T05:06:00.001-08:002012-12-12T05:06:30.773-08:00Letter to ISE <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Lucida Grande"; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} p.MsoHeader, li.MsoHeader, div.MsoHeader {mso-style-link:"Header Char"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; tab-stops:center 3.25in right 6.5in; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} p.MsoFooter, li.MsoFooter, div.MsoFooter {mso-style-link:"Footer Char"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; tab-stops:center 3.25in right 6.5in; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} p.MsoPlainText, li.MsoPlainText, div.MsoPlainText {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-link:"Plain Text Char"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} p.MsoAcetate, li.MsoAcetate, div.MsoAcetate {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-link:"Balloon Text Char"; margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:"Lucida Grande"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:"Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} p.MsoRMPane, li.MsoRMPane, div.MsoRMPane {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} span.BalloonTextChar {mso-style-name:"Balloon Text Char"; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-locked:yes; mso-style-link:"Balloon Text"; mso-ansi-font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Lucida Grande"; mso-ascii-font-family:"Lucida Grande"; mso-hansi-font-family:"Lucida Grande";} span.HeaderChar {mso-style-name:"Header Char"; mso-style-locked:yes; mso-style-link:Header;} span.FooterChar {mso-style-name:"Footer Char"; mso-style-locked:yes; mso-style-link:Footer;} span.PlainTextChar {mso-style-name:"Plain Text Char"; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-locked:yes; mso-style-link:"Plain Text"; mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <p class=""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">The following is a letter that many of the faculty on the voyage signed. I will offer my own reflections later.</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">Because there will be no time for a review of the Fall 2012 voyage before we disembark in Fort Lauderdale, the faculty has collected thoughts into one paper, intended to assist ISE in its planning for future voyages.<span style> </span>We are mindful of the many objectives that ISE must pursue and thus offer this assessment as a way to enhance and improve future voyages as meaningful educational experiences for our students.<span style> </span>We believe that such changes over time would bring many more serious students to Semester at Sea and would increase the organization's reputation among universities.</span></p> <p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">Itinerary:</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"><span style> </span>More thought should be given to a travel itinerary that allows for sufficient continuity in the classroom.<span style> </span>We were fortunate in Fall 2012 to have the Atlantic crossing to get classes started.<span style> </span>However, the many ports in Europe with only a single class (or less) in between <span style> </span>meant that sometimes classes did not meet for 9 or 10 days, breaking any continuity; each time the class met, it was starting over for faculty and students who did not remember previous lectures and were unprepared for real engagement in the classroom.<span style> </span>This was difficult on students and faculty alike.<span style> </span>A preferable itinerary would ensure that there were at least 4 days between ports so that two full sets of A and B classes could occur.<span style> </span></span></p> <p class=""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">We realize that visiting interesting cities is a priority but perhaps there can be a blending of the academic goals with those of learning from great places. Certainly we need more specific introduction to each city.<span style> </span><span style> </span><span style> </span></span></p> <p class=""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">In addition, while more ports may seem to make the voyage more marketable, the </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">SAS brand offers experience of the world's cultures and its diversity in an academic context. SAS wants students on board who are looking for a life-changing experience while continuing their learning. In the long run, these students may look to other opportunities if SAS diminishes the academic and cultural elements. </span></p> <p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">Internet Technology</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">:<span style> </span>The IT system is totally inadequate for the shipboard community.<span style> </span>Faculty cannot connect for classes, students cannot do research.<span style> </span>Often people do not even receive email.<span style> </span>This system must be upgraded immediately as a number one priority.<span style> </span>In the digital age, a floating university must have an adequate IT system if it is to attract students and faculty of the highest caliber.<span style> </span>The current situation is unacceptable despite the best efforts of an excellent IT staff (ship crew as well as SAS staff).</span></p> <p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">University Connections:</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"><span style> </span>SAS needs connections with the University community in every port where we disembark.<span style> </span>Built into the program should be receptions, student-to-student engagement through seminars and field trips involving our students with their international counterparts.<span style> </span>This is a role that ISE could play more easily than depending on the individual faculty or staff members.<span style> </span>If this part of the program received more emphasis, it is also possible that SAS would over time attract students from these international universities as well.</span></p> <p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">Building community</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">:<span style> </span>"Global Studies" is the one class in which everyone participates.<span style> </span>Eliminating it without considering how the shipboard community may be engaged as a community seems ill-advised.<span style> </span>To make Global Studies more acceptable for academic credit, finding a convenient rubric, such as Comparative Politics, Sociology, or Anthropology, would house it under a department for students seeking a comparable course.<span style> </span></span></p> <p class=""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">An alternative system would be to split Global Studies into two courses, each open to student choice until filled to the capacity of the Union: 1) Politics, Sociology, Environment, Economics, Current Events option ("Social Sciences"); and 2) History, Religion, Culture, and Arts option ("Humanities"), with appropriate overlap, e.g. politics and religion as sources of conflicts in history and the present.<span style> </span>That would facilitate some sense of shared intellectual experience, solve the space problem and would give the students some option without the potential disorganization of "lenses," which are bigger classes that teach broadly, as all courses and the ship should strive to do.</span></p> <p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">Current Events:</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"><span style> </span>Expert presentations on key issues facing port countries (like the impacts of global climate change, which especially affect port cities) and relevant topics from international relations, especially those pertaining to upcoming visits, need to be a regular feature of Global Studies or whatever replaces it.</span> <span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"> Were someone with broad governmental and policy expertise and skills tasked with providing port-by-port briefings for the shipboard community, we'd be well on our way in this regard. With improved IT on board, students would be expected daily to read selected news sources. Further, faculty should be encouraged to incorporate as many <i>current</i> activities from the countries on our itinerary into their curricula as possible. </span></p> <p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">Pre-Voyage Preparation:</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"><span style> </span>Consideration should be given to creating a reading assignment and essay prepared before the voyage, with the essay distributed to instructors so that persons needing remedial writing can be identified immediately.<span style> </span>(The lack of writing skills is pronounced, with many students using the most informal style – following speech rather than written patterns.)<span style> </span>With a pre-voyage reading and essay, students would have the opportunity to prepare thoughtfully for the voyage.<span style> </span></span></p> <p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">Field Labs:</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"><span style> </span>These need to be better considered.<span style> </span>To be experiential means that they may not always directly relate to the class at hand, so this should be explained in advance to faculty.<span style> </span>A library of past labs and contact names should be maintained for the future so that a person visiting, say Rio de Janeiro, has a contact even if the person is not in his/her field.<span style> </span>The settings for the labs should also be noted.<span style> </span>In addition, more flexibility in including adult passengers who are serious auditors should be encouraged, without additional costs beyond the real costs of the trip itself.<span style> </span>Faculty should be free to decide on who might join their own field trips, including other faculty, spouses or partners who may well facilitate the trip's effectiveness. </span></p> <p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">Field Trips:</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"><span style> </span>While out of our immediate purview, field trips should be better considered.<span style> </span>Many of us had unfortunate experiences where field guides were not prepared, vehicles broke down, and long trips on the road left little time for exploration at a given site.<span style> </span>Many faculty and students began to devise their own field trips rather than take advantage of the SAS ones because of the expense and the lack of good programs.<span style> </span>We have met many local guides and companies that we could recommend to ISE.<span style> </span>Field trips often attempt to do too many things, failing to show any one aspect of life very well.<span style> </span>In addition, in some of the venues where students were supposed to be doing service, the agencies were not prepared for the visits so that our presence was a distraction, not a service to the agency or school. </span></p> <p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">Administrative:</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"><span style> </span>Our field office was terrific and we believe it should be empowered – in conjunction with the deans -- to make decisions for field labs and trips rather than go through the ISE office, which frankly was often bureaucratic and unresponsive to questions and decisions.<span style> </span>Our deans, LaVahn Hoh and John Tymitz also were very helpful in breaking the logjam and sometimes making executive decisions.<span style> </span>Many more tried-and-true formulas should be considered for inclusion, often at little cost, such as port home stays (especially if coordinated with local Rotary Clubs) or university receptions, where students could meet their peers in comfortable settings that might lead to further contacts, even during the same port stay.</span></p> <p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">Blending of Student and Academic Affairs:</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"><span style> </span>Every effort should be made to ensure that student affairs and student programming encourages and supports the academic goals of the program.<span style> </span>In many of our home institutions as well as sometimes on board, academic and student life are treated as separate silos.<span style> </span>We want to encourage greater planning and coordination to make the two blend as they should, especially on the ship when the academic area along with the private lives of staff, students and faculty are so blended in the community setting.</span></p> <p class=""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">We have prepared this letter to summarize our concerns, and we would be happy to meet with you or any other ISE staff in person or by telephone to explore any of these issues further.</span></p> <p class=""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">Thank you for the opportunity to comment.</span></p> <p class=""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">Sincerely,</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Terry L. Bangs</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English and Communication (retired)</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt">U.S. Air Force Academy</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Warren Boeschenstein</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, Merrill D. Peterson Emeritus Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Darlene Campbell</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, Laguna College of Art and Design - Studio Arts</span></p> <p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Sergio </span></b><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Carvalho</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Manitoba</span></p> <p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Leo Chavez</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine</span></p> <p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">James Danziger</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine </span></p> <p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Harry Freeman</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, Professor, Human Development and Educational Psychology, University of South Dakota</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Michael G. Kaloyanides</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, Professor, Ethnomusicology, University of New Haven</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Rodney Huey</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, Lynchburg College, Media Studies</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Linda J. Kobert, </span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">Writer, Editor and Writing Coach</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Paul Liebhardt</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, Brooks Institute</span><span style> </span></p> <p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Patricia O'Neill</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, Professor of History, Central Oregon Community College, Adjunct Professor of History, University of Oregon</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Erika Paterson</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, English Department, University of British Columbia</span><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Barry Penn Hollar</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, Professor of Religion, Shenandoah University</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Jane E</span></b><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">dmister Penner</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, Director, Content Management Services, University of Virginia Library</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Mark Peters</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, Adjunct Faculty, School of Leadership and Education Sciences,</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt">University of San Diego</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Allan A. Schoenherr</span></b><span style>, Professor</span><span style="font-size:14pt"> of Ecology Emeritus, Fullerton College</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Faye A. Serio</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, Retired Senior Lecturer, St. Lawrence University</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">John Serio, </span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">Professor Emeritus, Clarkson University</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Larry Silver</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, Farquhar Professor of Art History, University of Pennsylvania</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Katherine Slaughter</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, Adjunct Professor, Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture, University of Virginia</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Andrea Meador Smith</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, </span><span style="font-size:14pt">Assistant Professor of Spanish, Shenandoah University</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Robert Smith, </span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">Geographic Consultant</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Gordon Stewart</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">,</span><span style="font-size:14pt"> Professor and Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Virginia</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">John Tymitz,</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt"> CEO Emeritus, Institute for Shipboard Education </span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Gail Weigl</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, Adjunct Professor, Art History, Georgetown University</span></p> <p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt">Robert Weigl</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">, Director, Franklin Psychotherapy Center, Alexandria, Va., Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University.</span></p> <br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br><br>Barry Penn Hollar<br>Professor of Religion<br>Semester at Sea, Fall 2012<br><br> <font color="#800000"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><b>Semester at Sea blog: <a href="http://bjsas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://bjsas.blogspot.com/</a></b></span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></font> <br><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-13503942618004939422012-12-09T13:35:00.001-08:002012-12-09T13:35:32.726-08:00The Last Five Days<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>651</o:Words> <o:Characters>3711</o:Characters> <o:Company>SU</o:Company> <o:Lines>30</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>7</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>4557</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.0</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We left at Dominica at 8 pm on Sunday evening, just before the Memorial Service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The next two days we had very rough seas!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Indeed, Barry thinks Tuesday was the only day he's really been affected by sea sickness on the voyage—mostly headaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We also had some stomach issues related to our malaria medicine, we think.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Monday and Tuesday exams were scheduled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Barry woke up Monday morning at 4 am and got up to finish grading field experience papers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>All 90 of his students had had to write short reflection papers connecting material from their Religion courses to their experiences in port.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They were due at midnight on Friday night. He had graded all those that had been submitted early, but he still had about half to do. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Monday evening between exam days, Dean LaVahn Hoh hosted a "Refuse to Leave" reception in the faculty lounge for faculty, staff, and lifelong learners onboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Apparently he had carefully protected enough of his budget to be able to put on a really nice reception with what Barry though was some of the best food we'd had on ship. (There was lots of meaty things, so Jayne did not share that evaluation.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Anticipating the quick turnaround between exams and the due date for grades (Wednesday at 4 pm), Barry had prepared mostly multiple-choice exams with only a few short answer questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The ship has a scan tron machine so grading didn't take long and all the grades were posted by noon on Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Tuesday evening, after exams, was the Alumni Ball.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This is the big dress-up affair that culminates every voyage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There are two seatings with reserved tables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We had signed up to with the Orris family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They have three generations onboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Milton is the grandfather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He is a retired education consultant who is among the most active people on the ship: volunteering in the writing center, doing workshops on project management for students, and leading Buddhist meditation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He and his partner Ruth introduced my World Religions classes to Buddhist meditation practices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Jay and Christy, his son and daughter-in-law, are on board with their two boys, Luke (10) and Ryan (8).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They both attended Dartmouth Business School and are traveling the world for a year with their family after selling several businesses Christy had started. Christy is champion bicyclist In Colorado and is who provided the wonderful spin bikes that we have in the workout facility on board. Also, with us was Mark Peters, who is a Campus Minister at University of San Diego and an adjunct business professor.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">After dinner in the main dining room on deck 5, we went upstairs to 6<sup>th</sup> deck dining hall for a dessert buffet!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Yum.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmJ1ddM8bAz6FdSmk2NrdGyxG7K1HPkEkKOjbokkGamehdWrAXMd6FB2FcKOhw7650qMakBKemUp91zAsGoSMLfxrO21tMlVnNuX0BjiXRikCAehj_vDErtZrbUd6UCLJQQZLNEGVV3fJW/s1600/DessertBar-732727.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmJ1ddM8bAz6FdSmk2NrdGyxG7K1HPkEkKOjbokkGamehdWrAXMd6FB2FcKOhw7650qMakBKemUp91zAsGoSMLfxrO21tMlVnNuX0BjiXRikCAehj_vDErtZrbUd6UCLJQQZLNEGVV3fJW/s320/DessertBar-732727.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5820062652269428338" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Students got dressed up for the occasion and there was lots of picture taking.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxyy1CdaKdw2lCEOoosrsltZ-2_5Rd5TODQEyVZZFfF_8p3FOlohyX3iKdcEBQm-cADQdhwu2_o7OhREAZZi1NFu3dR_AwWlTv1DW-u0eZlt7OIgcxu3axY2sM9Z0AF0APOQBXFwx9XqAF/s1600/AlumniBall.Fam.1-735051.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxyy1CdaKdw2lCEOoosrsltZ-2_5Rd5TODQEyVZZFfF_8p3FOlohyX3iKdcEBQm-cADQdhwu2_o7OhREAZZi1NFu3dR_AwWlTv1DW-u0eZlt7OIgcxu3axY2sM9Z0AF0APOQBXFwx9XqAF/s320/AlumniBall.Fam.1-735051.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5820062662447282178" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Here's one of Barry with a bevy of girls, including Jennifer McGrew and Maritza Miller, our two adopted daughters who go to Dartmouth.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Here are some of Barry's USD students.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzxEO9sruBEHTQyqef1FVVHf2YeG9UD5U3bVZiNelBRmJwHHnaYyM5wzxjpz6iqFohfgD71Bu_zMbW5UKVfE9Hjw5ANMU7jiwdXIUEhb8TSs4K63W3G_5Sp6QzUPCRK_YzoIcIIv6J9R9l/s1600/Grace.Trent.Jay-738462.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzxEO9sruBEHTQyqef1FVVHf2YeG9UD5U3bVZiNelBRmJwHHnaYyM5wzxjpz6iqFohfgD71Bu_zMbW5UKVfE9Hjw5ANMU7jiwdXIUEhb8TSs4K63W3G_5Sp6QzUPCRK_YzoIcIIv6J9R9l/s320/Grace.Trent.Jay-738462.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5820062675407753490" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi32trUQDQ4QvP1p85YwEu5HuhjOi3femz7PLbxKwP704llAmiRzvHLaly0EfhmOmpOc9pQ0DY3JEVBzx7MjfUV1NK7fWGMZep0OBXiufyiuZgjbB2hkRqTfBl7iindxiu1iCUdAWyzoOZ3/s1600/USD.Group.Ball-743687.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi32trUQDQ4QvP1p85YwEu5HuhjOi3femz7PLbxKwP704llAmiRzvHLaly0EfhmOmpOc9pQ0DY3JEVBzx7MjfUV1NK7fWGMZep0OBXiufyiuZgjbB2hkRqTfBl7iindxiu1iCUdAWyzoOZ3/s320/USD.Group.Ball-743687.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5820062699757448322" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Wednesday afternoon, we did a Memorial Circle for Casey Schulman. There were orchids distributed and the ship did a 360 degree circle and we filed by and threw our orchids into the ocean. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlKwOzMZ2mUw7vBd0BE-CowazJaMOifJPY_Sjp7IVpIZMNpMY09XsyQrPQuqmcbkxOqw1fb-aVkM5LpzU5j7-vMHNw4TR6hIZxT0AGOAPHq4WHxVjaD-qGwPrK9HtIUBznPIZJFCeE9Dbm/s1600/MemCircle-747718.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlKwOzMZ2mUw7vBd0BE-CowazJaMOifJPY_Sjp7IVpIZMNpMY09XsyQrPQuqmcbkxOqw1fb-aVkM5LpzU5j7-vMHNw4TR6hIZxT0AGOAPHq4WHxVjaD-qGwPrK9HtIUBznPIZJFCeE9Dbm/s320/MemCircle-747718.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5820062718539577938" /></a> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSGMBAwB8SZRIMnR3C-iGPBQt_hkMNf4kPi_vNoF_8jrphsFTGbVVCii3ZVcKJOSFnEq8i-QAxqcvwQvh-gRJ708LH0sUC3PEdTK_6XzAmwNC53Mwfd12GFNFNSB9YSH018rs7jB-1CB3F/s1600/MemCircle2-751147.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSGMBAwB8SZRIMnR3C-iGPBQt_hkMNf4kPi_vNoF_8jrphsFTGbVVCii3ZVcKJOSFnEq8i-QAxqcvwQvh-gRJ708LH0sUC3PEdTK_6XzAmwNC53Mwfd12GFNFNSB9YSH018rs7jB-1CB3F/s320/MemCircle2-751147.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5820062733634300818" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">That night we had our convocation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was sort of mini-graduation ceremony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>8 or ten students will actually graduate from their universities once their grades from SAS are officially posted. They were honored along with the students who made Dean's list by making all As on the voyage.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Thursday was for packing, putting our luggage and boxes in the hallway for pick up by the ship staff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There is lots of time for blogging, saying goodbyes, and taking pictures—including some of the coast of Cuba just to our south.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none">Here's the luggage ready for off loading.</p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG1raYComSpuNupV-Cc66hUFrh9gbl2-Rs0yVFM6XXy-HPEhULgc9-3-SVlxE6I0O_gvyuu0uYPKxcw5YPgWtuKn0Gq17ungUzlFVK4aLSio-f3_Fo2OB_zkotv6nOYjZ5OjoRrqSMke5C/s1600/Luggage-754183.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG1raYComSpuNupV-Cc66hUFrh9gbl2-Rs0yVFM6XXy-HPEhULgc9-3-SVlxE6I0O_gvyuu0uYPKxcw5YPgWtuKn0Gq17ungUzlFVK4aLSio-f3_Fo2OB_zkotv6nOYjZ5OjoRrqSMke5C/s320/Luggage-754183.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5820062743355759170" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We docked in Ft. Lauderdale early Friday morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We were soon cleared for departure and left the ship in groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A student had paid $1000 at the shipboard auction several weeks ago for the right to leave the ship first. Student have been divide into residential areas for the whole voyage and the first two groups that had finished first and second in the Sea Olympic some time ago were off next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Then faculty and staff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Parents were waiting to greet their students.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifpx1jPDNn0z4sGXy1FdjHnGhcawSzKhH5ne_p2CcyvPv32aSxKZrizKwhDHz-zcyubNty_sPlmB3Q8wXDIt6zAOIRS1SR7odIgkuC7o98HSvR8QdAZgUd6g98o7bRM8zMvexCY58EWljC/s1600/Welcome+Home-757302.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifpx1jPDNn0z4sGXy1FdjHnGhcawSzKhH5ne_p2CcyvPv32aSxKZrizKwhDHz-zcyubNty_sPlmB3Q8wXDIt6zAOIRS1SR7odIgkuC7o98HSvR8QdAZgUd6g98o7bRM8zMvexCY58EWljC/s320/Welcome+Home-757302.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5820062755000317954" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We were off ship through customs and to the airport before 11 am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Unfortunately, we our flight wasn't until 6:00pm. So it was a long day in the airport. Fortunately, we had company. Jayne's Cultural Anthropology professor Leo Chavez and his wife Kathy were waiting in the same area and we enjoyed lunch with them and our ship clown, Barry Lubin at the Chilis in the airport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We arrived in Dulles around 9 pm and were home soon after 11 pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Evan Tucker, Jayne's cousin's son who had house sat for us, picked us up with his mother Dawn, who teaches math at Madison County High School with Jayne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They caught us up on all the goings on at home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-49787985342475601402012-12-06T07:29:00.001-08:002012-12-06T07:29:19.210-08:00The death of Casey Schulman<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ndxWji3own-8K8heU_fiKq9O-R8qjhB9MCBBukqHUnf6JJhw03Wm0gw_SDPqShDw0TZEFWipY36QDKbwOUHlDJzfqzoTQKI9lSKOSYe6eeBee-M4ZOHvg2Bq1XJiKl6MqYV_M1qNQv8l/s1600/Casey%2540MorningStar-759212.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ndxWji3own-8K8heU_fiKq9O-R8qjhB9MCBBukqHUnf6JJhw03Wm0gw_SDPqShDw0TZEFWipY36QDKbwOUHlDJzfqzoTQKI9lSKOSYe6eeBee-M4ZOHvg2Bq1XJiKl6MqYV_M1qNQv8l/s320/Casey%2540MorningStar-759212.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5818855021457686882" /></a></div><div> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>1131</o:Words> <o:Characters>6449</o:Characters> <o:Company>SU</o:Company> <o:Lines>53</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>12</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>7919</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.0</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">It is hard to describe, even now only a few short days past, the scene on the ship Saturday evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Of course, there was shock and sadness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Soon after the general announcement, Barry learned that many of the group of fifty or so students who had been on the catamaran involved in the accident were on the 7<sup>th</sup> deck gathered in the faculty lounge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He quickly went there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Don Gogniat, the geography professor from Penn State who teaches our global studies class, was really exerting leadership.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He was in the middle of the group of twenty or more sobbing and wailing students talking to them gently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He encouraged them to talk about Casey and to share their memories of her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was probably too early and too quick for that, but they were able from time to time to escape their grief if only for brief moments and to laugh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">The trip had been organized by a student from the University of San Diego who is in both of Barry's classes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Many of the most grief-stricken students were from USD and Mark Peters, who is a business professor there and on the ship (and a full-time member of the Campus Ministry staff at USD) was also in the room providing support.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Renee Kashawlic of the student affairs staff was also on the scene providing great, great support for the students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(We are so pleased that she has just gotten a job at Virginia Tech starting in the spring. She is from Detroit and is one of the people on the ship we are always delighted to see!)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">In every port, students and faculty organize their own trips rather than taking advantage of the ones provided and sold by Semester at Sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This is both good and bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It's good because they often find better prices and, sometimes, different experiences than are available through the SAS trips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The bad, of course, is that the tour operators the students find are not always the best AND there is no supervision of SAS faculty or staff on those trips.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">In this case the students had found a great tour operator for their snorkeling expedition. (Indeed, our friends Leng and Rupert had looked into a whale watching trip for Jayne and I with this same company.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Unfortunately, they could have used some adult supervision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Apparently, when the accident happened mid-afternoon there was one group of students who were actually on a beach, some passed out, while another group was still in the water swimming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Casey Schulman was part of that group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For reasons we don't understand, the catamaran had gone to shore to pick up food supplies for the group and it struck Casey as it was backing away from shore.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We had planned to go on a SAS sponsored dolphin and whale-watching safari on Sunday morning. Rupert and Leng were going to show more of the island's beauty in the afternoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We were going to cancel both trips, but the student affairs staff and counselors thought it would be good for us to be on the safari as a number of students were signed up for it and they thought it would be good for us to be with them for support.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We did stay on the ship in the afternoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Barry spent most of the afternoon finalizing arrangements for the last ecumenical Christian worship service of the voyage and writing up the remarks he would make at the Memorial Service that night.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Our worship service is normally held in a small classroom, which is sufficient for the 15-20 people that normally come. At some point, we were asked to move it to the Union, the largest room on the ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In part because lots of students had gotten up to go to Sunday morning worship services in town, there was an expectation that we would need a bigger room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We had a faculty meeting at 5:30 to discuss the decisions that had been made with respect to how to handle exams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>That went on a bit longer than Barry had anticipated and about five minutes before worship was to start, someone came and got Barry to tell him that the Union was full of students waiting for the service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We had decided to have an ordinary Advent service, so we read the lectionary readings for the day and sang O Come, O Come Emmanuel and Come Thou Long Expected Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Of course, we had an extended time of prayer before closing out with Hymn of Promise, a beautiful contemporary hymn that we first got to know because it was sung at Jayne's father's funeral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>One of Barry's student's, a music theater major at Elon College, also sang Amazing Grace without accompaniment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was beautiful and the shipboard community seem to appreciate the opportunity to find comfort in the worship.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">After a short break for dinner, we reconvened with the entire shipboard community for the official Memorial Service that had been organized by the executive leadership on the ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There was special music by students (the famous Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" and "Amazing Grace" again), and statements by several of Casey's closest friends on the ship, each of whom were marvelous in bearing witness to her qualities and honoring her memory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Executive Dean, Academic Dean, two professors, and finally Barry spoke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We posted Barry's remarks earlier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He said that Casey's death was a reminder that precious things are fragile and must be cared for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He encouraged the students not to abandon their adventurousness but to balance it with great care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He warned that suffering was the price we pay for caring deeply and assured them that God is with us in our suffering and promises us a way through and beyond it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">It was extremely well received.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Significant numbers of faculty, and staff told him how much the words meant to them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Barry decided that his Liberation Theology exam on Monday was optional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Students were able to take the grade they had already based on the four papers they had written.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>So many of the students in his Liberation Theology class were part of the trip on which the accident occurred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>One had organized the trip and was feeling terrible guilt along with his grief. At least three others in the class were involved in getting Casey out of the water after she was struck by the propeller and providing emergency care on the catamaran.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There was simply no way they could have prepared for the exam or performed to their potential on Monday afternoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was surely the right thing to do and the students appreciated it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Interestingly, several of the students who most needed the relief from the exam told Barry they were concerned that it was unfair to the other students for them to be exempt from the exam. Barry told them not to worry, that they needed at this point to think only of themselves and he would try to figure out what was fair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>That admirable concern about fairness was also part of what motivated him to make the whole class exempt.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Neither of us really knew Casey Schulman at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>From what we heard from her friends and several members of the faculty, that was truly our loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>She was apparently and extremely diligent and capable student.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>One faculty member told us that she was clearly more mature than the typical student onboard. And another, who had a number of her friends in his class, said that he was impressed that her friends were his very best students and he thought that reflected her own qualities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>From what we heard from her friends at the memorial she was a person with an infectious smile, who was always energetic and engaged in what she was doing finding a reason to be enthusiastic and joyful even in the midst of challenging situations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Yesterday in going through pictures from earlier in the voyage, Barry found the picture at the top of the page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He took it at Morning Star School in Accra, Ghana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>At the time, he didn't know who the SAS student was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It seems to capture much of what we have heard about her.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We surely hope her parents can find some solace in the warm regard with which she is remembered by all.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-42375092618415953652012-12-06T06:26:00.001-08:002012-12-07T05:30:10.283-08:00Dominica Day 1<div class="mobile-photo">
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Our last stop on our Atlantic journey was the tiny Caribbean island, Dominica. It is north of Venezuela and east and south of Puerto Rico, between Martinique and Guadeloupe. Does that help?</div>
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Christopher Columbus named the island after the day of the week on which he spotted it, a Sunday (Dominica in Latin), November 3, 1493. Its pre-Columbian name was “Wai‘tu kubuli”, which means, “Tall is her body”; describing the long, narrow island shape.</div>
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<br /><br />When he returned to Europe, Columbus was asked to describe Dominica; he took a piece of paper and balled it up, then dropped it to the table. He said the island looked just like the paper – not a smooth spot on it! According to a popular West Indian belief, Dominica is the only New World territory that Columbus would still recognize. There has been very little development on the island.</div>
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<br />The island is lush and green, no wonder, this island is one of the wettest places on earth – average rainfalls ranges from 200 to more than 300 inches per year! There are so many native plants here that can be eaten, we tasted many and saw many more. <br /><br />Long before we left for Semester at Sea, our friends Jim and Johanna Perry had put us in contact with a childhood friend of Johanna’s from Malaysia named Leng Sorhaindo. Leng has lived on Dominica for forty years with her husband Rupert, who is a native of the Island. She is an acclaimed music educator and he was former head of the educational system and Dominica’s Olympic committee.<br /><br />A funny story about their prominence on the island: The ship had organized a clothing drive. People on the ship donated clothing they didn’t want to take home. Jayne had arranged places to donate the clothing through Leng. Because of her roll, Jayne had to meet with customs officials who had boarded the ship when we arrived in Roseau, the capital. They seemed not terribly cooperative until Jayne mentioned Leng. “Oh, Leng, made the arrangements! That’s okay then.” Everything after that went smoothly. Where ever they took us around the island everyone seemed to know them. (If doesn’t hurt that his brother Crispen Sorhaindo was President of Dominica from 1993-1998. Interestingly, the population is mostly people of African descent, but the Sorhaindo’s came to the Island from France from which they were exiled because of their Huguenot faith) <br /><br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5818838872818597842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ylMaYXJrYqQT8iqYR-RmSJEKE5Je9zpQy_52KNtq6f-bTycnEjN5g5xKnpIFP2yQgapeiOwRTrWJ92jNBe-KKahNWMvbaYvsRiNdDXm3c1qqUkTPQ-TbsUrZSNotvpIlRc9UwugYKlVm/s320/DOM.Jph.Clothing-799555.jpg" /> </div>
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<br />After Rupert took the donated clothing back to their house, Leng took us to the local market. There we meet a woman whose husband wrote the Dominica guidebook we had been told on the ship was the very best. </div>
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After our visit to the market, we spent some time visiting with Leng and Rupert at their home on the mountainside overlooking Roseau before heading out to a sulfur spa. It had five pools of water ranging from very hot to cool- the hot pools are heated by geothermal heat, from the Earth's mantle. (Dominica has several active volcanoes.) The cooler pools are created by mixing the cool streams with the hot water. This one had at least 14 different minerals in it, mainly sulfur as the name indicates. Many people think the water and minerals help with aches and pains. </div>
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After enjoying the spa we went to a lovely restaurant. Its quite well known and even Oprah Winfree and Martina Navratilova have eaten there. Barry had a local dish featuring the flying fish we’ve been seeing so many of from the MV Explorer. </div>
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After a wonderful day with Leng and Rupert we returned to the ship. We noticed a group of very tired students with back-packs getting off a bus and we rushed to get across the pier to the ship to get through security without getting caught up in that large group. We noticed when we got on that there were several very troubled looking students. Soon we learned that a student had been killed in a boating accident and before long we were all called to the Union where the tragedy was announced to the entire shipboard community. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-45589817822723527742012-12-02T14:09:00.000-08:002012-12-02T13:09:04.167-08:00Memorial ServiceAs some of you know, a student on Semester at Sea was killed yesterday in a tragic boating accident. We are having a memorial service tonight for the entire shipboard community. I am the final speaker. Here's what I will be saying:<div><br></div><div> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>727</o:Words> <o:Characters>4148</o:Characters> <o:Company>SU</o:Company> <o:Lines>34</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>8</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>5094</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.0</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal">The thought that has been running through my head since soon after I learned of Casey's death is this: precious things are fragile things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And the more precious they are, the more fragile.</p><p class="MsoNormal">That seems to be a truth of our existence as inescapable as the laws of thermodynamics and the slow working of evolution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We may not like it; it may not be the best of all possible worlds; it may not be the way any of us would have made the world if we could have our way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But its true isn't: the more precious something is, the more fragile, the more vulnerable it is. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Our earth is precious; eco-systems are precious; our bodies are precious; our souls are precious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And they are subject to decay, to injury, and to death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They must be cared for.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Last night, one of you said something to the effect that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>people of your generation tend to believe that they are indestructible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>She was suggesting that what happened yesterday was a tragic and shocking reminder that it isn't so.</p><p class="MsoNormal">And surely, it isn't so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>You are not indestructible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But I hope that you have not learned that lesson too quickly, And, I hope you will not give up your illusion of indestructibility without a fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I say that because I believe it is a part of the source of your exuberance, your courage, and your sense of adventure.</p><p class="MsoNormal">It was that exuberance, courage, and sense of adventure that made it possible for you to choose to spend this semester at sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was that exuberance, courage, and sense of adventure that had you couch surfing around the Atlantic, and doing homestays in remote villages in Ghana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was that exuberance, courage, and sense of adventure that had Casey out snorkeling yesterday.</p><p class="MsoNormal">And it would be a tremendous loss if you were to abandon your exuberance, become fearful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Life isn't worth living if it's lived without joy, without enthusiasm, without passion, without adventure.</p><p class="MsoNormal">But, of course, there must be balance. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>You are precious; each of us is precious!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And because we are, for better or worse, we are fragile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>WE must be cared for.</p><p class="MsoNormal">You are precious so you must take care of yourself and let others care for you.</p><p class="MsoNormal">And continue to take care of each other as you have been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Remember the lesson of Ubuntu:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I am because you are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As Bishop Tutu has said, "We don't come fully formed into the world. We learn how to think, how to walk, how to speak, how to behave, indeed how to be human from other human beings. … We are made for togetherness, we are made for family, for fellowship, to exist in a tender network of interdependence."</p><p class="MsoNormal">Because we are precious we are vulnerable; we must be cared for; so we have been made for each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>So balance your exuberance and sense of adventure with a deep sense of care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>And channel your exuberance into caring. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Throw yourself full force into some of the things you've tentatively begun to commit yourself on this voyage. Dare to believe you can help end hunger and poverty in your life and throw yourself joyfully into it; dare to believe that you can help to discover a cure for cancer or HIV.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Dare to believe that you can learn three more languages so that you can truly connect with and care for more people.</p><p class="MsoNormal">I don't suggest that any of this will keep you from feeling the pain you are feeling now. Hey, if you want to make sure you never feel again as awful as you felt in the last twenty four hours, then learn how NOT to care about yourself, about others about the earth; abandon you joy, forfeit your commitments.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Your pain is the price of your caring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I wish it weren't so, but I think that's just the way it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>So how do we find the persistence to carry on in such a world is this. In the face of the fact that everything precious is fragile and most be cared for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>How do we go on living with exuberance and joy if inevitably pain is the price we must pay for caring?</p><p class="MsoNormal">Each of us has to discover the answer to that question for ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But one of the ways we care for each other is to share whatever works for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>So let me share with you what is working for me based on how I've come to understand the story that lies at the center of the Christian faith tradition in which I stand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It is the story of the cross and resurrection of Jesus, who we believe to be the incarnation of God.</p><p class="MsoNormal">For me that story is the source of my conviction that God is with us; that God bears and shares with us all the pain that accompanies our precious vulnerability and the that intensifies as we learn to care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And God has promised that the way to whatever joy, fulfillment, and salvation is possible for us is only <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">through </i>suffering and not around it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And it is this conviction on which I draw as I struggle to care even as I understand that such caring puts me at risk of great pain.</p><p class="MsoNormal">My hope and prayer for you is that you find your way through this season of suffering and come out the other side with deeper love, deeper commitment, and deeper joy because of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I believe you can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I believe you will.</p> <!--EndFragment--></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-23207018580922292592012-11-27T13:57:00.000-08:002012-11-27T12:59:33.179-08:00Manaus-Day 3<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>454</o:Words> <o:Characters>2590</o:Characters> <o:Company>SU</o:Company> <o:Lines>21</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>5</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>3180</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.0</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 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From there we had a fifteen minute walk to get to the village.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb6c84vakVXmSfvFMfN7caRWzuBq0raud_L6kQndTwYb4yFkPDlJV0_XbEr3x_5hBSMD3r1yuo4Cx6W0VaGuqifoG7y-gHkBXOCQMrLOdV4Bj_sZI0GHp8eUxccEgGm2hRKsPcm_BeXCSR/s1600/Man.IV.Pier-776389.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb6c84vakVXmSfvFMfN7caRWzuBq0raud_L6kQndTwYb4yFkPDlJV0_XbEr3x_5hBSMD3r1yuo4Cx6W0VaGuqifoG7y-gHkBXOCQMrLOdV4Bj_sZI0GHp8eUxccEgGm2hRKsPcm_BeXCSR/s320/Man.IV.Pier-776389.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5815600366866898946" /></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We were hosted by the community in this grand lodge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkfhUmQPFt6IwKO6Y2l-fadbmor2oVhh3pcoTDNiOBEPJybCu8tROElSjt8f7iPzVAWW_7l5POJU84jKpp8ZtN5wjrP56SCt89nfpfP55OT4JexdgcXv-Ftf5DMcY0mogYETAEZGRLuhKm/s1600/Man.IV.Lodge-780321.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkfhUmQPFt6IwKO6Y2l-fadbmor2oVhh3pcoTDNiOBEPJybCu8tROElSjt8f7iPzVAWW_7l5POJU84jKpp8ZtN5wjrP56SCt89nfpfP55OT4JexdgcXv-Ftf5DMcY0mogYETAEZGRLuhKm/s320/Man.IV.Lodge-780321.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5815600383014856514" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">According to our tour guide, this community is a made up of several indigenous families that separated from their tribe further up the river in a reservation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Outsiders are not allowed in the reservation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The village had discovered that a significant way for them to support themselves was by hosting tour groups to whom they display some of their distinctive customs and rituals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(There were other Semester at Sea groups that spent the night in the jungle outside the village, hosted by the villagers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There was also a large group of German tourists there at the same time as us.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">This isf the village chief.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg64QFrobJA4HAb_yCkXgVS-e1zgxTGp5Fc6JPjYlpq3NNkJOka8ib5ltNu3gV9wuBfMXb5IiTB_GSLccXyLC4t26HfbsqpyCDKCMSMCsj0d6KHb4VfCl9AMhlsAuKS52Inaa0SMwbDtrI6/s1600/Man.IV.Chief-783287.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg64QFrobJA4HAb_yCkXgVS-e1zgxTGp5Fc6JPjYlpq3NNkJOka8ib5ltNu3gV9wuBfMXb5IiTB_GSLccXyLC4t26HfbsqpyCDKCMSMCsj0d6KHb4VfCl9AMhlsAuKS52Inaa0SMwbDtrI6/s320/Man.IV.Chief-783287.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5815600397088229218" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">He explained the various dances and songs they performed for us. Most notable was the welcoming ritual that he said under normal circumstances would last up to twenty-four hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Visitors would themselves participate in the dancing and so, of course, they invited us at one point to join their circle where we all tried, with greater or lesser degrees of success, to imitate their steps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Another song and dance, performed only by men, was part of a ritual remembrance of a particular aspect of their mythology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>At first, apparently, the Creator God had only created a few people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>After awhile those people needed others with whom to mate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>So, they petitioned, in song and dance, for the Creator God to make some new families.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(Barry thought this was particular interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>After all, and oft noted "weakness" of the Biblical creation story is the obvious omission of any explanation for where the Cain and Abel got wives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>At least these indigenous Brazilians had the sense to recognize the problem in their version!)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCg-4nobIMoJBTk1m5vkDrpYgBzir2CpFlJuc2swkmhe2Aj4HWnyAFvTdTVZ0d8Jx5U5KYxmdjlXSYpgAtqdA_LVrhV21w4URGVXXZVmyKiUkpZBwSfL_huKIIMaWPSF4yEgmyf4IsvWQc/s1600/Man.IV.Dance-787644.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCg-4nobIMoJBTk1m5vkDrpYgBzir2CpFlJuc2swkmhe2Aj4HWnyAFvTdTVZ0d8Jx5U5KYxmdjlXSYpgAtqdA_LVrhV21w4URGVXXZVmyKiUkpZBwSfL_huKIIMaWPSF4yEgmyf4IsvWQc/s320/Man.IV.Dance-787644.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5815600412915061170" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Barry was able to interview the chief a bit further, with the help of our guide, about some of their beliefs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They belief in a single high God, the Creator, who they call the Great Grandfather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The "first world" or spirit world is inhabited by lesser gods or spirits and ancestors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We live in the "second world."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I asked about contact with the spirits in the first world and the chief explained that on the first day of the year (July 1) there is a special ceremony that involves the use of very special herbal tea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>On that day, people from the second world may actually experience the first one, communing with the spirits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Or, spirits may dwell temporarily that day In the ordinary world with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>That must be some good tea!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">These pictures show the rattles around the chiefs ankle and the paintings on one of the legs of the male dancers.</span></p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb40fMVD23J1xVV-riF-YaH1RPceN-1CQQHz5mFJRgcojWAdhEwrXuN-VJ5Vj91mngOoWtBmzvp3yNiDWMydViRorXwBZQEze-2joBTWFMuA3a4dD7G22rY1cP8B7g8CsWwA-6hatKhLTw/s1600/Man.IV.Foot-791439.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb40fMVD23J1xVV-riF-YaH1RPceN-1CQQHz5mFJRgcojWAdhEwrXuN-VJ5Vj91mngOoWtBmzvp3yNiDWMydViRorXwBZQEze-2joBTWFMuA3a4dD7G22rY1cP8B7g8CsWwA-6hatKhLTw/s320/Man.IV.Foot-791439.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5815600430776053218" /></a>b<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ZRdoR_0ajXM1zrD2y0kFb9ka2qXU7Di9hLnPXw8NiPq2f76aCP205RZQNiRRu_XVv6-k_v4mDfb2NEpox90oK7Lny1VHthcOZCfKQRtnP9sF5s2vR5YXa1fT7F73UYZVxP24228vt0Ji/s1600/Man.IV.Legs-794054.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ZRdoR_0ajXM1zrD2y0kFb9ka2qXU7Di9hLnPXw8NiPq2f76aCP205RZQNiRRu_XVv6-k_v4mDfb2NEpox90oK7Lny1VHthcOZCfKQRtnP9sF5s2vR5YXa1fT7F73UYZVxP24228vt0Ji/s320/Man.IV.Legs-794054.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5815600442696540754" /></a></div><div><br></div><div>This is Barry with the chief and his niece who was Barry's dance partner in the welcoming dance.</div><div><br></div><div><a 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They had caught a beautiful peacock bass.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUSZTH0OXSCOlwvWSGvEFtd5b0gUP3HL8zY2v5eG-KbNfts09uKJUvPu8lnsW-dDXuSJ5mWMH0aU59vnJQecwpeT4KXY_hY7eHH3aO4Y-V4IfudrZpMBcyjpvmiiJlqW-UKJP-8S1uzUCV/s1600/Man.IV.Fishing-700784.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUSZTH0OXSCOlwvWSGvEFtd5b0gUP3HL8zY2v5eG-KbNfts09uKJUvPu8lnsW-dDXuSJ5mWMH0aU59vnJQecwpeT4KXY_hY7eHH3aO4Y-V4IfudrZpMBcyjpvmiiJlqW-UKJP-8S1uzUCV/s320/Man.IV.Fishing-700784.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5815600473258470002" /></a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCCNOJ0aRWM6RMoMq3NgmY2f5k7ayIswKm4mcc2IN6NxEXUHJ9-UABOemXHUWITBmPVO7xoVm_m92iFfq0ViC5OwS266r-fJaCRQld-FboKH_u3g93NSkrRUH88MLLHfGFfP_h_PSXy-Ws/s1600/Man.IV.Fish-703797.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCCNOJ0aRWM6RMoMq3NgmY2f5k7ayIswKm4mcc2IN6NxEXUHJ9-UABOemXHUWITBmPVO7xoVm_m92iFfq0ViC5OwS266r-fJaCRQld-FboKH_u3g93NSkrRUH88MLLHfGFfP_h_PSXy-Ws/s320/Man.IV.Fish-703797.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5815600492466729570" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">It was a very interesting, if superficial, introduction to the world of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Barry has commented a number of times that he wishes that Semester at Sea had deeper affiliations with colleges and universities in the ports we visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Scholars there might have been able to give us a better knowledge and experience of indigenous reality that the tour guides.</span></p><div>Both two and from the village we passed under this incredible bridge that has recently connected Manaus to the other side of the Rio Negro.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVqIkV1Iu9YiiMFyWOd-CCeQtu4snIY6-N1K25Fsklrpyx82xS8QbzBUaDlFTmyUaiuvYecIEX53NFZKqf-xecy7fGO20qOUaZblXCBQV0O3YfoeYsT5-mg2otU-Qgl7dfPEZc720T2RkL/s1600/Man.IV.Bridge-707584.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVqIkV1Iu9YiiMFyWOd-CCeQtu4snIY6-N1K25Fsklrpyx82xS8QbzBUaDlFTmyUaiuvYecIEX53NFZKqf-xecy7fGO20qOUaZblXCBQV0O3YfoeYsT5-mg2otU-Qgl7dfPEZc720T2RkL/s320/Man.IV.Bridge-707584.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5815600497687117250" /></a></div><div><br></div><div>We are now in the last week of classes. We arrive in Dominca on Saturday and leave their Sunday night. Monday and Tuesday next week are final exams. </div><div><br></div> <!--EndFragment-->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-31467814274187018352012-11-24T15:30:00.000-08:002012-11-24T14:43:07.703-08:00Manaus Day 2<p class="MsoNormal">On Friday we had a Semester at Sea trip called Amazon Explorer. Here are some fast facts about the Amazon River<span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> It </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">It is the second longest river in the world<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">It is the largest in the world by water flow.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">It has the largest<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">drainage basin</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "> in the world, about 2,720,000 sq. miles, accounts for approximately one-fifth of the world's total river flow.\<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">It varies in width between 1 and 6.2 miles at low stage, but expands during the wet season to 30 miles or more. T<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">It enters the Atlantic Ocean in a broad estuary about 150 miles wide. <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p> </o:p></span>Manaus is on the banks of the Rio Negro; it is 900 miles inland in the heart of the Amazon rain forest. We are 2 degrees south of the equator, so it is very hot and humid!<span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">We boarded this double-decker boat for our Amazon exploration.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p> </o:p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrrP3RcJpMXlTZLTY0n38MCwPDYzctHq30i6WzvE_lw0w35IMThrC2H7TFGA7ad2Tvt9UD70YmpjsAkxJdDDw9D8RMlHEirr7B-An6lB3DdJMj_5jdZ7cUqvKXj7efhR03wr9LqLqgATw2/s1600/Man.Riverboat-787706.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrrP3RcJpMXlTZLTY0n38MCwPDYzctHq30i6WzvE_lw0w35IMThrC2H7TFGA7ad2Tvt9UD70YmpjsAkxJdDDw9D8RMlHEirr7B-An6lB3DdJMj_5jdZ7cUqvKXj7efhR03wr9LqLqgATw2/s320/Man.Riverboat-787706.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5814513788673538514" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">On our way down the river we passed many of the famous houses on stilts, not to mention the floating gas stations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p> </o:p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDcNv-Kusd0FjB5MwgXg6aHPA7w3pHfUAubOEh11jWuzRp5r0An8nOkpVK_x26YdqQat4mmXfek75Hv3C5PlKuwrMDS3caJ304EoenvckYFM7NrrXuT51RRbuFOaSwDuNp1UM35Mgzjfk-/s1600/Man.Riverboat.View.1-789550.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDcNv-Kusd0FjB5MwgXg6aHPA7w3pHfUAubOEh11jWuzRp5r0An8nOkpVK_x26YdqQat4mmXfek75Hv3C5PlKuwrMDS3caJ304EoenvckYFM7NrrXuT51RRbuFOaSwDuNp1UM35Mgzjfk-/s320/Man.Riverboat.View.1-789550.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5814513793902296050" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">The highlight was our visit to the "meeting of the waters," where the Rio Nebro's dark water and the Solimões River's muddy brown water that come together to form the Amazon River. For 3.7 miles, both rivers waters run side by side, without mixing. This phenomenon is caused by the great difference between the water temperatures and current speeds. The Negro River flows approximately 1.2 mph at 82 °F, while the Solimões River flows 2.4 to 3.7 mph at 72 °F.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p> </o:p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipdzxTae8QxsTZ08tJKZL-B7tpDaj-Nt6ng1h9NeNGkwyvfP81WT6QStG3doZC1dXCXdcUvUqc2bnpSaXkfh1lSv1fEMYddU1uUV09MmzpF2kdznI_BozNqHWl7gZUC6yyUEdgliIM7APa/s1600/Man.Riverboat.Waters.1-792593.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipdzxTae8QxsTZ08tJKZL-B7tpDaj-Nt6ng1h9NeNGkwyvfP81WT6QStG3doZC1dXCXdcUvUqc2bnpSaXkfh1lSv1fEMYddU1uUV09MmzpF2kdznI_BozNqHWl7gZUC6yyUEdgliIM7APa/s320/Man.Riverboat.Waters.1-792593.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5814513807540723682" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Here is Barry on the bow of the little boat with Ambassador Shannon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p> </o:p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb5535MqwrLfXuRD-77_Gj3em0P86cGFJQaK_snH7Jw7DKm5PW3k5NbthI6O89B1AwFKDpdmkHW911l70iG4IS0LohmSuMleNYs3Epb84eFk8QhMC577mEUwURX4Clz-ttmuN-mnA41avr/s1600/Man.Riverboat.BPH%2526Amb-794630.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb5535MqwrLfXuRD-77_Gj3em0P86cGFJQaK_snH7Jw7DKm5PW3k5NbthI6O89B1AwFKDpdmkHW911l70iG4IS0LohmSuMleNYs3Epb84eFk8QhMC577mEUwURX4Clz-ttmuN-mnA41avr/s320/Man.Riverboat.BPH%2526Amb-794630.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5814513815691344050" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; ">After the visit to the meeting of the waters visited what was touted as Terra Nova Community, an indigenous community and rubber plantation.<span> Here is a house in the village. Notice the water line on the house showing how high the water was earlier this year!</span></p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFZLGcfp23dGlSWAvWxQbycyAr-JxGsQEh0gBjZUoHb_heIiaOkqAVKJOEVQF_qP_sKZ5oX7rxz-wbVBch912fPvQB8OXYkZv3iu4cFXvwSCNoSGNixAFKLTz4so7j173Czbf3k80hVrp4/s1600/Man.Riverboat.Village.1-798410.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFZLGcfp23dGlSWAvWxQbycyAr-JxGsQEh0gBjZUoHb_heIiaOkqAVKJOEVQF_qP_sKZ5oX7rxz-wbVBch912fPvQB8OXYkZv3iu4cFXvwSCNoSGNixAFKLTz4so7j173Czbf3k80hVrp4/s320/Man.Riverboat.Village.1-798410.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5814513835254132290" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuW-gUZW4MAMG8l4EkJn-HNSxfieF-33x7ktmaL107CYlK2PxR31B2E3-sPlYRYbLwYgkVTtfDcTV7q7fqokWavm-3_FYH7cUNCDCcwPmBEbp6iBx27zo0Hw9MQrUBCTgV93-V7x-6d_x_/s1600/Man.Riverboat.Village+2-702476.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuW-gUZW4MAMG8l4EkJn-HNSxfieF-33x7ktmaL107CYlK2PxR31B2E3-sPlYRYbLwYgkVTtfDcTV7q7fqokWavm-3_FYH7cUNCDCcwPmBEbp6iBx27zo0Hw9MQrUBCTgV93-V7x-6d_x_/s320/Man.Riverboat.Village+2-702476.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5814513852804334722" /></a></div><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; "><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; ">We would hardly call it a plantation – there were only a handful of trees and one old man cooking the rubber for us to see.<span> </span>It is really sad they way the folks make a living doing demos for tourist.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLgBZTPC7OsEiWCCOUlBxn1_Jy3hJlNprjAUna3Vs83gNxNCj8019rSqw5zPr-eBBvBJc36AZ7Kyn8sRLuDZsWNLks_yzbv5jqlpvCvRgqRSkYeEJrYU2p6l5zuFNhMehV8-q_4tuG5tez/s1600/Man.Riverboat.Village.RubTree-704682.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLgBZTPC7OsEiWCCOUlBxn1_Jy3hJlNprjAUna3Vs83gNxNCj8019rSqw5zPr-eBBvBJc36AZ7Kyn8sRLuDZsWNLks_yzbv5jqlpvCvRgqRSkYeEJrYU2p6l5zuFNhMehV8-q_4tuG5tez/s320/Man.Riverboat.Village.RubTree-704682.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5814513860389966962" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh02o8blSv3T3uG57LIBfLMpbNPowkdhDlPDDlr-58XJOP7s5CB7fMWoI_lM7jXziDpuhLilJUISNyLSZshESUONy5nMMHkCYtuaZhngggTou_uV7MShVIhLFLRmLxFMZM-sCb2i2iSOUha/s1600/Man.Riverboat.Village.RubberMan-707898.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh02o8blSv3T3uG57LIBfLMpbNPowkdhDlPDDlr-58XJOP7s5CB7fMWoI_lM7jXziDpuhLilJUISNyLSZshESUONy5nMMHkCYtuaZhngggTou_uV7MShVIhLFLRmLxFMZM-sCb2i2iSOUha/s320/Man.Riverboat.Village.RubberMan-707898.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5814513879058343106" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; ">We did see a few cool things including: Guarana is a climbing plant in the maple family, Sapindaceae, native to the Amazon basin and especially common in Brazil. Guarana features large leaves and clusters of flowers, and is best known for its fruit, which is about the size of a coffee bean. As a dietary supplement, guarana is an effective stimulant: its seeds contain about twice the concentration of caffeine found in coffee beans (about 2–4.5% caffeine in guarana seeds compared to 1–2% for coffee beans).<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDP8_Jp7d3j2Cj-Dm2sd1fnd-7-MD3c7VHEVZLlPD875R6a76s58jUW1nifUjFJ478dK8fRg5fvnO7vlk1YUE_xtK1fLA-NUkrkvymLZNUhdHn1S5nxcJIxBOJLr5tPshr9O-wf9a1hl9n/s1600/Man.Riverboat.Fruit-711363.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDP8_Jp7d3j2Cj-Dm2sd1fnd-7-MD3c7VHEVZLlPD875R6a76s58jUW1nifUjFJ478dK8fRg5fvnO7vlk1YUE_xtK1fLA-NUkrkvymLZNUhdHn1S5nxcJIxBOJLr5tPshr9O-wf9a1hl9n/s320/Man.Riverboat.Fruit-711363.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5814513891066609634" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; ">We also saw madioca being roasted.<span> </span>In Brazil, a crunchy meal called farinha de mandioca "manioc flour") of varying coarseness is produced for use as a condiment, a base for farofa, or a stand-alone side dish. Detoxified manioc roots are ground to a pulp called a massa and squeezed with a device called a tipiti to dry it out (the liquid produced by this may be collected and dried to produce tapioca, locally known as polvilho). The dried massa is then toasted over a large copper stove to produce the dried meal. This process varies regionally and by manioc species, and may include additional steps of re-soaking, dying and re-toasting the flour. Manioc agriculture and refinement to farinha is a major economic activity in the Western Amazon<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; ">From the village <span> </span>we went to a floating restaurant for another wonderful Brazilian buffet. No steak this time, but lots of fish dishes and some other interesting Brazilian dishes we can't describe!<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The original plan had been for us to visit an ecological park between the rivers called Lake January. We would have boarded little small boats to get a closer look at the rain forest and fish for Piranha.<span> </span>Unfortunately, the water level is so low we weren't able to go there. We did take a short walk to see huge water lilies. Along the way we met a group of little girls dressed up in grass skirts and feathers – wanting us to take pictures with them and then to pay them. Once we were at the water lilies there was a little boy who had a sloth and he out right asked for money for us to take our picture with the animal!<span> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibB5Qqj0bNTCcRCvtyoekSv-MGzX5BaaO3A7xUwJfJUKgmStMNfwxPIRQJrQLul71Z7ll0SrjCU3g0pNa_kMm-5RWwi2XVTPFoizQcp9Y-8r3YrgUPIzPkmaZIilaC_9xA6Liblf4GxfHa/s1600/Man.Riverboat.Hk.Lil-713864.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibB5Qqj0bNTCcRCvtyoekSv-MGzX5BaaO3A7xUwJfJUKgmStMNfwxPIRQJrQLul71Z7ll0SrjCU3g0pNa_kMm-5RWwi2XVTPFoizQcp9Y-8r3YrgUPIzPkmaZIilaC_9xA6Liblf4GxfHa/s320/Man.Riverboat.Hk.Lil-713864.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5814513899769056834" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhomPs83U95qMSMQE8jMG77JDHyh33gWpnMOTg91j4yJ7rw3-46hyphenhyphenUT9RpeCZmPNOANdJSj3PN4ZvT1kjujVINB4TknZ9jDRfJmeBVrdumVzfDpkjKJntVHYB6gznQLKixDV0AnPvR9F3UV/s1600/Man.Riverboat.B%2526JSloty-716121.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhomPs83U95qMSMQE8jMG77JDHyh33gWpnMOTg91j4yJ7rw3-46hyphenhyphenUT9RpeCZmPNOANdJSj3PN4ZvT1kjujVINB4TknZ9jDRfJmeBVrdumVzfDpkjKJntVHYB6gznQLKixDV0AnPvR9F3UV/s320/Man.Riverboat.B%2526JSloty-716121.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5814513910704550066" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgboV83s_NFAGB7SuKR9y_dy0J3j-4sWjxMeTrkRnyUyGfVARowmcTAbVZ1W548mM9r8ArSNTD05apK_Kfs2bfafyETuAGR0Ts-XK_MJHRrf4sUaVRx87X0zvmjp5tp3AtE_xbTLIHXjZtD/s1600/Man.Riverboat.Sloth-720029.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgboV83s_NFAGB7SuKR9y_dy0J3j-4sWjxMeTrkRnyUyGfVARowmcTAbVZ1W548mM9r8ArSNTD05apK_Kfs2bfafyETuAGR0Ts-XK_MJHRrf4sUaVRx87X0zvmjp5tp3AtE_xbTLIHXjZtD/s320/Man.Riverboat.Sloth-720029.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5814513928321461122" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; ">After dinner on the ship we went to hear a celebration of 30 years of Celdo Braga, a local poet and composer at the Teatro Amazona. Our seats were in the second balcony – 5 per box. It was a little hard to see and the padded seats were hard. The music was very good. We hadn't know exactly what to expect but were anticipating poetry set to traditional indigenous folk music. That wasn't what it was at all. It's a bit hard to describe, but let's call it contemporary Brazilian folk-rock. There were three (mostly) acoustic guitar players, a bass player, drummer, and percussionist, plus Celdo Braga who sang, recited poetry, played a wooden flute and some percussion instruments. It was very well done. The musicians were all fantastic and the arrangements were quite interesting. There were some really interesting percussion instruments used, including a rain stick, and halved gourd shells floating in a pan of water. That was the coolest! A variety of singers came on stage to do a song and pay tribute to the composer. Apparently, many of the folks had been part of his band over the years. The evening concluded with a completely different ensemble that played very upbeat stuff, almost like reggae. The crowd really got into these songs and someone later suggested that was his original band and some of his oldest hits. We're not sure about that.</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-47611165415721397982012-11-24T15:22:00.000-08:002012-11-24T14:27:16.218-08:00Manaus Days 1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>1054</o:Words> <o:Characters>6013</o:Characters> <o:Company>SU</o:Company> <o:Lines>50</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>12</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>7384</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.0</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We arrived in Manaus early on Thanksgiving morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We had no organized trips scheduled for today and Barry had a stack of papers to grade so he stayed onboard ship all morning to work on those.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Jayne did some walking around the old part of Manaus with some friends from the ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Then in the afternoon we both did some walking together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It is surely a hot, humid, and chaotic place. We would say we visited the market but the whole downtown area seems to be inhabited by vendors and hawkers of every sort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Here are a few pictures.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiTAU_ng1zgahkkSdCEkgxJvR5gg7-eI0RtItm4EDcZr79wnqwyvEOPzWZhC2uTBE_FZcv5gTwoG1LrKy44Z0FeKLV3j5HxfIrmYlh9MAXsIHa8l35z0gs17y7uPeCq27-njW1U-oCwYAs/s1600/Man.Bananas-736220.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiTAU_ng1zgahkkSdCEkgxJvR5gg7-eI0RtItm4EDcZr79wnqwyvEOPzWZhC2uTBE_FZcv5gTwoG1LrKy44Z0FeKLV3j5HxfIrmYlh9MAXsIHa8l35z0gs17y7uPeCq27-njW1U-oCwYAs/s320/Man.Bananas-736220.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5814509703011828354" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXsrUwMPmZvQUlxM5jAMWC3cH4HkNSo1Danu6lSx47r6kMXJL0MaDMkkMCAFKB1sE2lHoRzTNuF0xoEF-iMZViPxVXnTBbUhWpTrPtx84uwP3MVyJfRtlhpsSIpisTb8PzbTjH9FptKZhz/s1600/Man.Mkt.Fr-740139.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXsrUwMPmZvQUlxM5jAMWC3cH4HkNSo1Danu6lSx47r6kMXJL0MaDMkkMCAFKB1sE2lHoRzTNuF0xoEF-iMZViPxVXnTBbUhWpTrPtx84uwP3MVyJfRtlhpsSIpisTb8PzbTjH9FptKZhz/s320/Man.Mkt.Fr-740139.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5814509717990625714" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none">We weren't sure what this was. Seemed like a huge salted fish roll.</p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYOUssrRhyphenhyphenJfXszCHVIiTkdOeeYdr-xYpoEPA7HvKw5PUprU7W_3eo0SRbbw4qcQeOFO9gmfIyLjpGgI-hH1R8R1aezfggakOfTcbqvKgkwKzSZpBppCqCqiMyi7uZ4bIQy8er61ClNJ99/s1600/Man.FishMkt-743708.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYOUssrRhyphenhyphenJfXszCHVIiTkdOeeYdr-xYpoEPA7HvKw5PUprU7W_3eo0SRbbw4qcQeOFO9gmfIyLjpGgI-hH1R8R1aezfggakOfTcbqvKgkwKzSZpBppCqCqiMyi7uZ4bIQy8er61ClNJ99/s320/Man.FishMkt-743708.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5814509732414355474" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Of course the one place of genuine elegance and beauty is the famous opera house, the Teatro Amazonica, built in the early 20<sup>th</sup> century during the rubber boom here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Many folks from the ship are going to symphony concert on Thursday night, but we bought tickets for a concert on Friday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlconaznEhxPJFNsGYDEquNWwvfCq21glIhm0TmDqe4Wd2nxCT_eqZBLWV3uu01WbpHWB53_1rW36hv-bYwucrY_FLRNZNTt7nVFosS0eE9X9iWVZbBt0crd9FHPV8AFi9Ilm-k-wWa6_1/s1600/Man.Teatro.Better-746579.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlconaznEhxPJFNsGYDEquNWwvfCq21glIhm0TmDqe4Wd2nxCT_eqZBLWV3uu01WbpHWB53_1rW36hv-bYwucrY_FLRNZNTt7nVFosS0eE9X9iWVZbBt0crd9FHPV8AFi9Ilm-k-wWa6_1/s320/Man.Teatro.Better-746579.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5814509746041861714" /></a></div><div><br></div><div>The Cathedral was also very nice.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxMURtYs1pwvnB_XooY9-W5SzgRM34p9xVzbpDXDXXsasFShL_KahlIF2O7imGnZ8FSzpEuMO_B6m9Bm9-z-Gv_81vWXkbqYmE7xG0IbmTsNZu36PzdRHkh7uJx5QFzOAk-DXMWfdkzNgU/s1600/Man.Cath-749044.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxMURtYs1pwvnB_XooY9-W5SzgRM34p9xVzbpDXDXXsasFShL_KahlIF2O7imGnZ8FSzpEuMO_B6m9Bm9-z-Gv_81vWXkbqYmE7xG0IbmTsNZu36PzdRHkh7uJx5QFzOAk-DXMWfdkzNgU/s320/Man.Cath-749044.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5814509757060886962" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We went for dinner with a group of about thirty-five from the ship to a Brazilian <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>rodizio restaurant called Churrascaria Buffalo. </span><a href="http://www.churrascariabufalo.com.br">www.churrascariabufalo.com.br</a> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Interestingly, Barry has talked several times about a wonderful meal he had in Manaus when he was here over 20 years ago on a tour of Brazil sponsored by the United Methodist Board of Higher Education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>When we got out of the taxi at Buffalo he realized instantly that this was the place. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We never saw a menu because tonight they were featuring a </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">very nice buffet with fish dishes, sushi, green salads, apple salads, and waldorf salad, cold cuts of meat, olives and lots of cheese!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was very good .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Jayne tasted one of the beef choices and had a bit of chicken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Barry ate it all (except for the Sushi).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There were bowls of rice, couscous and a bean, pork and rice dish on each table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And the waiters came around with French fries, onion rings. Fried yucca, fried corn – like French fry shaped hush puppies and fried dough wrapped around several types of cheese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Not a heart friendly menu!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Some even order dessert after all that!! 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Not Isaiah, one of the resident life people on the ship.</div><div><br></div><div>Speaking of the ship, we had a wonderful view of on our return.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdGnhCNeOzEpB0LfLKIOsG-NvSTX_BCcI6f97EiB-Npj0JRmsTVlwZ8hQuJH_ZW-h8lvFwbqXWv-Kr0UTtgNcg-1UBvw8iBDj0TKKx2A2_zCUEebglxv7eJidBOxblqupdUtut3khyJcbN/s1600/Man.Explorer-755972.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdGnhCNeOzEpB0LfLKIOsG-NvSTX_BCcI6f97EiB-Npj0JRmsTVlwZ8hQuJH_ZW-h8lvFwbqXWv-Kr0UTtgNcg-1UBvw8iBDj0TKKx2A2_zCUEebglxv7eJidBOxblqupdUtut3khyJcbN/s320/Man.Explorer-755972.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5814509790058938482" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br></b></p> <!--EndFragment-->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-46325401618714400622012-11-24T04:21:00.000-08:002012-11-24T03:50:37.162-08:00Rio to Manaus<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>627</o:Words> <o:Characters>3579</o:Characters> <o:Company>SU</o:Company> <o:Lines>29</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>7</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>4395</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.0</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Between Rio and Manaus we had a stretch of seven class days with one study day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Barry's Liberation Theology class was challenging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our field lab in Buenos Aires wasn't the best and they surely let Barry know!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were supposed to right a five page reflection on the experience and, as one said, "We didn't learn enough to write one page!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While that was an exaggeration there was truth in it, so Barry "adjusted" and tried to add some additional "experiential" elements to the class to give them something to write about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We watched the film "Romero" two days and he had a Jesuit-trained Catholic campus minister onboard lead a reflection a "stations of the cross" experience outside of class based on paintings by Adolpho Perez-Esquivel and a commentary intended to introduce Liberation Theology through this traditional spiritual exercise. Barry also told the class that any experiences they had in port along the way or previous experiences on service or mission trips could be an "experiential" basis for their field lab reports. Barry has also enjoyed reading their last papers (on Leonardo Boff's study of the meaning of Jesus death from the perspective of Liberation Theology). Most have shown that they are indeed learning something!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Another challenging part of the journey was the waves!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For some reason we experienced a lot of rough seas as we crept along the coast of Brazil. That ended when we started up the Amazon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is simply amazing how big the Amazon is and how for miles and miles we seemed to pass untouched rain forest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">We enjoyed lots of entertainment also along the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One night was the much ballyhooed crew talent show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was surely entertaining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It began with a four-piece rock band that started the evening with a cover of REM's "This one goes out two the one I loved."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Barry remembered the band he was part of in the 7<sup>th</sup> and 8<sup>th</sup> grade and how grateful they were for some basic three-chord songs to get started with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He found himself wondering how much Billy and the Blockbusters playing "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone" sounded like these four Filipino guys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We've also had the student and staff talent show (the highlights included former UVa Educational School dean Jim Cooper performing tricks with his Yo-Yo), the shipboard auction to raise money for Semester at Sea scholarships (where a student bid $3500 to purchase the official map of our journey-above) and a public performance by the class on physical comedy taught by our famous Big Apple circus clown, Barry Lubin. A highlight of the latter was the skit about the global studies class. Notice all the students asleep in the background. As us sometime about the skit having to do with the random drug testing program students experience on the ship.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">We picked the U. S. Ambassador to Brazil, Thomas Shannon, and several members of his staff at the beginning of the Amazon River (as that on Monday) and they have been with us since.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Ambassador is a former William and Mary undergrad who has had a long career in the Foreign Service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gave an impressive presentation in Global Studies, some of it celebrating Brazil's achievements in lifting millions out of poverty while admirably protecting the environment and the rights of indigenous peoples by incorporating themselves into the global economy through freer trade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was masterful, but, in Barry's view, a very one-sided and overly optimistic assessment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">We signed up to be part of a small group to help host the Ambassador, his wife, and staff for our Thanksgiving Dinner Wednesday evening just before arriving in Manaus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Occasionally, there are special dinners onboard in a private dining room/classroom near the dining hall and that's what we were expecting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, we were eating in the main dining room at tables set apart for the occasion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a head table with the Ambassador and mostly some select students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They enjoyed table service while the rest of us, scattered nearby at four other tables, went through the line with everyone else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was so noisy that it was nearly impossible to carry on a conversation and the Ambassador and his wife weren't even brought around to meet the rest of us who were their to host him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were rather disappointed and not a little ticked off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was hardly an appropriate way to host the Ambassador and the idea of treating the two groups of people there so differently seems rude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The worst part was not being in a separate room where it was possible to actually meet and greet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">We have had multiple opportunities sense to chat with the Ambassador and he is a genuinely nice man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">We have been incredibly busy on the journey between Rio and Manaus and, as a result, have never finished blogging about our Rio experience after the Candomble ceremony last Sunday morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will not be an extensive report but we will include some pictures of our activities in Rio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">After the Candomble ceremony we visited a favela in what's called the German complex, where 80,000 people live. </span>Recently the government put in a Gondola lift that spans the complex allowing residents a faster commute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These areas are know for their violence from the drug dealers, but in 2008, Police Pacification Units (UPPs) began to be implemented within various favelas in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The UPP is a law enforcement and social services program aimed at reclaiming territories controlled by drug traffickers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By October 2012, UPPs have been established in 28 favelas. The German Complex has a UPP police force in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We felt safe walking there and eating ice cream.</div>
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This is a view from the gondola.</div>
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The gondola station.</div>
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After that we visited a variety of sites in what is known as "Little Africa," an area near the downtown area which has the first slave markets and slave living areas. In 1996 homeowners began a renovation project that uncovered more than what they were expecting, a slave graveyard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The graveyard was most likely established in 1769.</div>
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This the main square which was once a slave market AND where, from one of those balconies, the end of slavery was announced.</div>
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The area in Little Africa where the slave markets were moved from the main square.</div>
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The slave graveyard discovered under a house.</div>
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As we were walking to see the old port area where the slaves were brought in, we stumbled on to music and dance or capoeira.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance and music.</div>
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The next day we took an SAS sponsored field lab to a small favela, Vale Encantado (enchanted valley) on the mountaintops overlooking Rio in the Tijuca National Forest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Tijuca National Park the largest city-surrounded urban forest and the second largest urban forest in the world, has been a National Park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vale Encantado has had a hard time making living first growing vegetables, then flowers and then a granite mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was little money is selling the vegetables and flowers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mine was closed down due to the harm it was doing to the environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1992 they began working together to create a tourist trade. The ecological trail in the Tijuca Forest preserves the eco-system and generates income for the community, made possible to open a cooking school that uses local produce, trains residents and feeds the tourist that visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This employs many of the residents on the favela of only 150 people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were shown how to fix a Brazilian dish that mimics a Portugeese one that uses fish as its main ingredient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A women in Vale Encantado has substituted Jack Fruit, which is readily available, for the fish.</div>
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After our visit to Vale Encantado we had some extra time so our tour guide took us to see Rio's famous beaches, such as Barra da Tijuca, Copacabana, Ipanema, and Leblon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw this incredible Sand Castle on one of the beaches.</div>
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Our last day in Rio was wet, but we still managed to get out and see more of the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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We watched a short video on the UNs Universal Declaration on Human Rights then Professors Kay Slaughter (Environmental Studies), Elizabeth Manning (Political Science), and I, along with one student and Lisa Slavid, Dean of Students offered 5 minute reflections on what we've seen that we will take home with us.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's what I said (more or less):</div><div><br></div><div> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>692</o:Words> <o:Characters>3946</o:Characters> <o:Company>SU</o:Company> <o:Lines>32</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>7</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>4845</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.0</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> 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mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal">There are two significant things that have inspired me on the journey.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The first was the work of the Cape Town Interfaith center led by Anglican Father John Oliver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I took one of my world religions classes on a field lab there and Father Oliver took us to a Muslim Mosque, a Hare Krishna center, a Pentecostal Church in a township, and another traditional Hindu Temple.</p><p class="MsoNormal">What my students commented on frequently in their reports on the experience was the obvious friendship among the various religious leaders who met with us during.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There was a genuine warmth that went visibly beyond mere tolerance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Universal Declaration on Human Rights affirms that a person's equal status may not be affected by their religious affiliation and that all have freedom of conscience and religion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But what we observed in Cape Town suggests to me that a true end to competition and even outright hostility between religious groups <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>ASEultimately depends upon the sort of friendship we saw displayed in Cape Town.</p><p class="MsoNormal">I'm part of an Interfaith Group in the Northern Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, but I don't think anyone who observed my interactions with the group would probably notice the sort of warmth we saw in Cape Town and I want to change that. </p><p class="MsoNormal">The second thing that has inspired me is what I saw among leaders in the Human Rights movements in Argentina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They came into existence in response to the kidnapping, torture, and disappearances that occurred under the military dictatorship in the 1970s and 80s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">I had wondered what they are doing now that a stable democracy has emerged and state terrorism no longer exists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>What I was pleased to discover was that many in these movements have expanded their vision for human rights.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Let me cite two examples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The ecumenical movement for human rights has now made things like same-sex marriage, and women's equality before the law, abortion rights, and even environmental issues a part of their agenda.</p><p class="MsoNormal">And I had the good fortune of having dinner with an 84 year old bishop emeritus from the Methodist Church in Argentina who had just returned to BA from the northwest of Argentina where, in his capacity as co-President of the permanent Assembly for Human Rights in Argentina, he had helped 800 indigenous families gain legal title to land for the first time.</p><p class="MsoNormal">All this suggests to me that while it is important to have a particular cause to which one is devoted, and very often people become engaged with justice issues because some particular narrow issue is particularly compelling for them, it is important to maintain a broad vision of human rights and of justice.</p><p class="MsoNormal">I do want to conclude my remarks going in a somewhat different direction however.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As inspired as I have been by the two examples I have given here, I have to say that I think I will go away from this trip mostly discouraged.</p><p class="MsoNormal">For all the progress I'm seeing around the Atlantic with respect to democratic respect for political disagreement, racial justice, gender justice, justice as it relates to sexual orientation, respect for religious difference, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>it seems to be the world is doing woefully bad in what I think is the number one justice issues and that is poverty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Half the world's population lives on less than $2 a day more or less and in a world in which there are adequate resources and adequate current productive capacity to feed, house, educate, and provide health care for every human being, that is unacceptable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I think we have bought into a myth that the only way to improve the prospect for the poor is an ever-growing economy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But the truth is the earth will not sustain an ever-growing economy and we already produce enough for all to have all they need and more.</p><p class="MsoNormal">And while I celebrate the emergence of democracy around the Third World, it seems to me that it is a version of democracy sponsored by the United States that largely draws a boundary between political and economic power and refuses to allow the democratization of economic power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The truth as I see it is that the economic power concentrated in a global elite and in transnational corporations has kidnapped our democracy, made it a tortuous exercise in arguing about secondary issues, while the concentration of economic resources and power in a few hands guarantees that millions disappear prematurely into graveyards every day.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Let me try to turn this in an inspiration:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I'm going home more inspired to commit myself to campaign finance reform and to challenging every politician who asks me "Are you better off than you were four years ago."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I'm going to respond, "I don't need to be better off , the earth cannot sustain our being better off, and I'm not voting based on whether I'm better off. "</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I challenge all of us to require that our politicians make poverty a priority, in the United States and around the world.</p> <!--EndFragment--></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-52618561411884051732012-11-12T17:23:00.000-08:002012-11-21T15:45:42.786-08:00Rio De Janeiro—Day One Candomblé Ceremony<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>1160</o:Words> <o:Characters>6617</o:Characters> <o:Company>SU</o:Company> <o:Lines>55</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>13</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>8126</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.0</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><br />
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We had an incredible first day in Rio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, the entrance by sea into this incredibly beautiful city was breathtaking, even with the cloudiness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were especially glad to arrive in Rio because the journey from Montevideo was as rough as we've had. We were hit by several fifteen foot waves the night before our arrival. The ship was really shaking!</div>
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Last summer Barry had investigated the possibility of taking his two World Religions classes to a Candomblé ceremony in Rio. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using a website called "Get Your Guide" he made contact with a tour guide in Rio named Joao Carlos Desales who offered guided tours to what seemed to be authentic Candomblé ceremonies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> (See http://www.getyourguide.com/j-carlos-desales-private-tour-guide-s3339/) </span>Once he learned he was only to organize one field lab for each course and good things developed in Ghana and South Africa he dropped the idea.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The closer we got to Rio the more he decided he wanted to investigate the possibility again. He quickly discovered that he wouldn't be allowed to take students (because any organized trips using any thing other than public transportation have to be approved by the SAS offices in Charlottesville).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He almost gave up on the idea again until the he got an email from the guide in Rio with links to a CNN story<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in which he is featured in a story on African heritage in Rio. <span style="color: #004398;"> (<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/CNNI/Programs/insideafrica/"><span style="color: #183a6f; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">http://edition.cnn.com/CNNI/Programs/insideafrica/</span></a>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Candomble is an Afro-Brazilian religion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to Wikipedia, "it was developed in Brazil with the knowledge of African Priests that were enslaved and brought to Brazil, together with their mythology, their culture and language, between 1549 and 1888.</div>
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The rituals involve the possession of the initiated by Orishas, offerings and sacrifices of the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdom, healing, dancing/trance,and percussion. Candomblé draws inspiration from a variety of people of the African Diaspora, but it mainly features aspects Yoruba orisha veneration."<o:p></o:p></div>
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The house of worship itself had a small courtyard and a large "sanctuary."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was an exterior hallway that led to some rooms in the back of the sanctuary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were soon ushered into the sanctuary where there were three our four rows of benches around 3 walls of the rectangle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sat at the back facing the front where there were men on a slightly raised platform drumming and leading all the people in a chant.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>"The Candomblé ritual has two parts: the preparation, attended only by priests and initiates, which may start a week in advance; and a festive public 'mass' and banquet that starts in the late evening and ends around midnight."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Our guide explained that now that Candomblé is legal, the ceremonies are often held in daytime as in this house.]</div>
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"In the first part, initiates and aides wash and iron the costumes for the ceremony, and decorate the house with paper flags and festoons, in the colors favored by the Orixas that are to be honored on that occasion. They also prepare food for the banquet. Some domestic animals are slaughtered; some parts reserved for sacrifice, the rest is prepared for the banquet. On the day of the ceremony, starting in the early morning, cowrie-shell divinations are performed, and sacrifices are offered to the desired Orixás, and to the messenger spirit." </div>
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We were witnessing the public part of the ceremony that follows. It involved a series of rhythmic prayer chants, in the Yoruba language of West Africa, accompanied by drumming which are intended to call the various West African Orixás or lesser gods to be present. Candomblé "initiates" (mostly older women) danced slowly in two concentric circles (older initiates in the center). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Between chants the initiates would kneel and kiss the floor or greet each other very warmly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were able to photograph this part of the service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After awhile a woman we had not seen before made an announcement and it was signaled to us that photography was no longer allowed.</div>
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<o:p> </o:p>We had arrived to the climatic part of the public ceremony during which some of the initiates become possessed by the Orixás and fall into a trance-like state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several did become possessed, but quite honestly, had it not been for the reaction of those around them it would not have been obvious to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, this part of the ceremony seemed very little different from what had gone on before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, Wikipeida explanation suggests there may well have been more going on than we realized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"After having fallen into trance, the priest-spirits perform dances symbolic of the Orixá's attributes, while the babalorixá or father of saint (leading male priest) leads songs that celebrate the spirit's deeds. The ceremony ends with a banquet."</div>
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We actually had to leave before the banquet, but we could smell meat grilling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a table with food on it in the rooms behind the sanctuary and people were coming and going throughout the ceremony and going back there for a snack. It was made clear to us that we were welcome to do the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After awhile women began to circulate among the crowd in the sanctuary itself offering food and water (it was very hot.)</div>
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Despite the unfamiliarity and strangeness of the experience, the people were quite friendly and welcoming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They seemed incredibly ordinary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our guide had gone to the head of the house to explain to her that we could not stay for the banquet and she came out to greet us as we left.</div>
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She gave us a little brochure about the house, which refers to it as a "space of resistance, preservation, and valorization of the afro-Brasilian cultural memory." She also explained to us that in addition to the ceremonies, the house has a feeding ministry for hungry people and a ministry for women who are victims of domestic violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The brochure refers to courses in drumming, dancing, care of Orixá vestments or clothing, introductory information (presumably on Candomblé), and afro-Brasilian culinary arts.</div>
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<o:p> </o:p>All in all, it sounded like your run of the mill community church!</div>
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Jayne bought same beads after having someone determine who her guardian Orixá's were based on her birthday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(We were told that a true determination was more complex and involved the use of playing cards.)</div>
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<o:p> </o:p>One more thing to comment on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a beautiful cake that was to be served as part of the ceremony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was partly decorated with popcorn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to an article in Jayne's cultural anthropology class popcorn has symbolic significance in Candomblé.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometime people "wash" in it and it is used to cleanse some of the most important saints. The fact that when popped its white, purified inside comes out seems to be a reason for its symbolic significance..</div>
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We had lunch at a Brazilian buffet restaurant that was mostly forgettable. The afternoon was unforgettable. We'll report on that in our next post.<!--EndFragment--> <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-64975524733225039942012-11-12T13:42:00.000-08:002012-11-12T10:42:32.836-08:00UruguayWe may have told you we are doing something called "Vicarious Voyager." That involves working through Semester at Sea to report on our travels to students in elementary schools. We are reporting to all the fifth grade classes at Waverly Yowell Elementary School in Madison and Quentin's third grade class at the Bronx Charter School for Excellence. We also take lots of pictures for them of Flat Stanley at various places on our travels. Since we didn't do anything unusual in Uruguay, we thought we'd just post our Vicarious Voyager report to the blog this time. 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According to the census of 2011, Montevideo has a population of 1,319,108 (about half of Uruguay's population). </span></o:p></p></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 21px; ">So we only had one day for exploring the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We took a short walking tour of the old city, which is filled with markets selling local arts and crafts.</span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Chalkboard"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><!--EndFragment--><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdY4stcEfRogeWGlYCncD_6Kl6vADxbh6LdrCpzgF8-XxdF5tM3FNvA-yL4kElzA5rbjxt5FYEHGnQzVt9kOXAdow-760qQ9ZlhdFWt10Tg1nX7AhopSlBQCl8nrRB-vEP4pPS4kqmap1d/s1600/Urg.Port-754985.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdY4stcEfRogeWGlYCncD_6Kl6vADxbh6LdrCpzgF8-XxdF5tM3FNvA-yL4kElzA5rbjxt5FYEHGnQzVt9kOXAdow-760qQ9ZlhdFWt10Tg1nX7AhopSlBQCl8nrRB-vEP4pPS4kqmap1d/s320/Urg.Port-754985.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5809998781483775282" /></a> </o:p></p></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Chalkboard"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; 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It starts with the Gateway of The Citadel at one end and ends at the beginning of 18 de Julio Avenue. It is the remaining part of the wall that surrounded the oldest part of the city.</span><!--EndFragment--> </div><div><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyGuEagG7Abi6SGrDGFRFCofQ2BuXgcxbG4FBy0LzSgGuGJMHhND9i-qUCmtr8cSzJzOTZRuFom-knpRb3SYn9EX7sSfJ_x917Uo7N3MBDnrNQJuinrKuTD8lER_eAm4EDWb4XzOyFm00N/s1600/Urg.Gate-760603.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyGuEagG7Abi6SGrDGFRFCofQ2BuXgcxbG4FBy0LzSgGuGJMHhND9i-qUCmtr8cSzJzOTZRuFom-knpRb3SYn9EX7sSfJ_x917Uo7N3MBDnrNQJuinrKuTD8lER_eAm4EDWb4XzOyFm00N/s320/Urg.Gate-760603.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5809998806013219810" /></a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl8GlYVnywl4hC4oJbpKOmxyX0O5dUTYqvlNMYxGx8qhB8RxTiYcxP60Vj3SRojLYG2QuaFbWKSWtQ8VhwqxHmqsxYtERutF6AnBqoYiEd68G-9dRTnP8UKiCaHNBR8LOKLYEvYRpUp9X7/s1600/Urg.Plaza-763738.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl8GlYVnywl4hC4oJbpKOmxyX0O5dUTYqvlNMYxGx8qhB8RxTiYcxP60Vj3SRojLYG2QuaFbWKSWtQ8VhwqxHmqsxYtERutF6AnBqoYiEd68G-9dRTnP8UKiCaHNBR8LOKLYEvYRpUp9X7/s320/Urg.Plaza-763738.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5809998814030303394" /></a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 21px; ">Also of major note in Ciudad Vieja is the Plaza de la Constitución. During the first decades of Uruguayan independence this square was the main hub of city life. 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font-size: 21px; "><br></span></div>We ate some very delicious ice cream in the square outside the Cathedral.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpUf90hATB77IX_3iqZl3yQqL0gyR0J-jAps7AqcanMxvSdJxoE0-QzcYW9RzkDHPc3TmEASDUhzloRbPcojDeUeTB0B8GJBfgcN1wqnO08tufdFrUYtmNF7TevSJN2KC7Ma5_EoxO2OF9/s1600/Urg.IceCream-768530.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpUf90hATB77IX_3iqZl3yQqL0gyR0J-jAps7AqcanMxvSdJxoE0-QzcYW9RzkDHPc3TmEASDUhzloRbPcojDeUeTB0B8GJBfgcN1wqnO08tufdFrUYtmNF7TevSJN2KC7Ma5_EoxO2OF9/s320/Urg.IceCream-768530.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5809998834994202306" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ovj7EotS-c2OWfGkGHUOY6E2drPJZagxF0szMIdTfy1rFAPRp01HjCKNMgOMVBuLKgiuGavn4A8B2XJ9Hg_EJ2UT7-O2vfilzPkPbt-efXxmKN5nGD1jyYgambZ90LhRZW129w9Pg062/s1600/Urg.IHeartUrg-771026.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ovj7EotS-c2OWfGkGHUOY6E2drPJZagxF0szMIdTfy1rFAPRp01HjCKNMgOMVBuLKgiuGavn4A8B2XJ9Hg_EJ2UT7-O2vfilzPkPbt-efXxmKN5nGD1jyYgambZ90LhRZW129w9Pg062/s320/Urg.IHeartUrg-771026.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5809998848970526034" /></a><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; 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"> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 21px; "><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 21px; "><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 21px; "><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; "><!--EndFragment--></span></font></p> <!--EndFragment--></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-30584772454349369942012-11-10T07:17:00.000-08:002012-11-10T04:17:52.437-08:00Last Days in Buenos Aires<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>700</o:Words> <o:Characters>3992</o:Characters> <o:Company>SU</o:Company> <o:Lines>33</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>7</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>4902</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.0</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal">After we got back to the ship from our Field Lab on Monday, we quickly got our back packs, hailed a taxi and were off to our hotel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was located on the diagonal street of Saenz Pena, very near the Obelisco and the calle 9 de Julio. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Nice old hotel with a good view of the street below!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEBkKfTkcZo_H4ueXKE4Ajef4WGieg7vmph851M95WI5lrPaKFIqAQl5bP8AyUqTaduFCQYefsbaEdEvKoB5BHK1hZMIWUA6o4TU1L_oShWRU2dm1_yUj0iZwSYIfkzX9aZYAC9CU-eX_a/s1600/BA.HotelWindow-772439.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEBkKfTkcZo_H4ueXKE4Ajef4WGieg7vmph851M95WI5lrPaKFIqAQl5bP8AyUqTaduFCQYefsbaEdEvKoB5BHK1hZMIWUA6o4TU1L_oShWRU2dm1_yUj0iZwSYIfkzX9aZYAC9CU-eX_a/s320/BA.HotelWindow-772439.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5809157466921594322" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">There is a garbage workers strike in the city and so one sees lots of piled up garbage. Incredibly, people from the slums sort through the garbage looking for things to salvage. I suppose it's a very low tech way of recycling. We heard that the BA city government has outlawed this form of recycling because it doesn't want tourists to see poor people on the streets. Barry took this picture from our hotel window.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL-mjgcA3UJY7u8yKPxDRv2Hb-oO7GAUV6M_PORfhCcCWzxjwPfSiZgoXiIUHuAt5fQO-fA2KMXonQmjFWhTIES8-Lob2gmbpxVi8tdHOuSRGCv-FjBUsEnnrdIInEz9amoSrftLzN4sjh/s1600/BA.Garbate-774346.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL-mjgcA3UJY7u8yKPxDRv2Hb-oO7GAUV6M_PORfhCcCWzxjwPfSiZgoXiIUHuAt5fQO-fA2KMXonQmjFWhTIES8-Lob2gmbpxVi8tdHOuSRGCv-FjBUsEnnrdIInEz9amoSrftLzN4sjh/s320/BA.Garbate-774346.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5809157476415073714" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">We rested up a bit and went out to find dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We walked down to Corrientes and ate at El Palacio de la Papa Frita – a place we had enjoyed over 30 years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It seemed a little run down like much of BA does, but the food was still good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Their wonderful puffed potatoes were just as good as we remembered!</p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZcCUoDDW3nEWuJCo59V-KSERevu3ve4Oe-k1Fw602etyO3mjPJPCluTbgzBkqCmT8-BdMhHBbx45xXddK8m2dnu8BWV2Nk6Sron7UD5DNxxhv-XPXiZZrEwcE3jIrjy_SH114kJcKP0QR/s1600/BA.PalacioDPF-778800.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZcCUoDDW3nEWuJCo59V-KSERevu3ve4Oe-k1Fw602etyO3mjPJPCluTbgzBkqCmT8-BdMhHBbx45xXddK8m2dnu8BWV2Nk6Sron7UD5DNxxhv-XPXiZZrEwcE3jIrjy_SH114kJcKP0QR/s320/BA.PalacioDPF-778800.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5809157498515849298" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The next morning we walked across the street for a typical breakfast – Barry greatly enjoyed his coffee and Jayne had a great omelet. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We were off in search of some sort of bicycle clothing that would represent Argentina – have much walking we found one!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Along the way we went into the Cathedral, which is very beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqaykcwmGeYXlD0cwD9S9a4bgaHj7TU57nLojTgQI2J7-XzdbhyphenhyphenqrJrB2q7Zdf8w0rssuPwDyvFBXkcLV_lpB8gc9IGLhRpJv6E8CNbsy5PZ_xCERaFDNm7s9TVDWM5jn1i0Wk3CXTEg9B/s1600/BA.Cath.Ceiling-784677.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqaykcwmGeYXlD0cwD9S9a4bgaHj7TU57nLojTgQI2J7-XzdbhyphenhyphenqrJrB2q7Zdf8w0rssuPwDyvFBXkcLV_lpB8gc9IGLhRpJv6E8CNbsy5PZ_xCERaFDNm7s9TVDWM5jn1i0Wk3CXTEg9B/s320/BA.Cath.Ceiling-784677.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5809157520411686914" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">General San Martin, the "father" of independent Argentina is buried there and families were taking pictures of the children with the soldiers guarding his tomb.</p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRe0NnfhddACA1txYeAkOHEHKW40j1cK0QcYSoNWnRaOXT4MvmL0d_bWzFwTGa_PjGifnlwhjBat7UOxJ9zL3xynbZAFD-pnUS_wViYSQJvmRV9s4osrpY1ebF4XHTh9S3h6oNWRceII1u/s1600/BA.Cath.SanMartin-789093.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRe0NnfhddACA1txYeAkOHEHKW40j1cK0QcYSoNWnRaOXT4MvmL0d_bWzFwTGa_PjGifnlwhjBat7UOxJ9zL3xynbZAFD-pnUS_wViYSQJvmRV9s4osrpY1ebF4XHTh9S3h6oNWRceII1u/s320/BA.Cath.SanMartin-789093.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5809157542553653282" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal">We saw the justice building and all the kiosks that were selling law books for the public!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We found a poster of an asado that we bought!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>More walking and we found lunch in a small bar/café – Barry finally found his morsilla or blood sausage and Jayne had a very nice salad!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">We went into the Colon to see if we could get a tour – saw a very good price for the tour only to find out that was the cost for locals and it was 4 times that for us so we did not go – would have been about $25 for each of us! </p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioua1nTSUY5Ic7DnNHX7bxFugqKU6x3CUOK9c1PFMAD510RLzwPIHOsWhgFE3-6BqGepsl6xh_TBPv76uxw1vgsxqFmmCgaGDh6yFL2T6uPVPlE0_cjlCnXYCtgTLbpYqw2W3_Wqm96OrZ/s1600/BA.Colon-792810.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioua1nTSUY5Ic7DnNHX7bxFugqKU6x3CUOK9c1PFMAD510RLzwPIHOsWhgFE3-6BqGepsl6xh_TBPv76uxw1vgsxqFmmCgaGDh6yFL2T6uPVPlE0_cjlCnXYCtgTLbpYqw2W3_Wqm96OrZ/s320/BA.Colon-792810.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5809157557015015378" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">We walked down and found the main UMC on Corrientes but found it would not be open until after 2. So we went back to the room to give us and my ankle a rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmgWAyUN3Tf1FKv41PQw47A5LUXhh3_YmCsSnLGBll01Wl9ihRjoYDzUNt_XsiJlzy7LLzLgHH7D6yxCbKXlb7QQaH5non1h4YmsZj86SMzs-KoEw8nutOlhWfMrY_4-lm3oP9OBWHOnGP/s1600/BA.CorientesUMC-796910.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmgWAyUN3Tf1FKv41PQw47A5LUXhh3_YmCsSnLGBll01Wl9ihRjoYDzUNt_XsiJlzy7LLzLgHH7D6yxCbKXlb7QQaH5non1h4YmsZj86SMzs-KoEw8nutOlhWfMrY_4-lm3oP9OBWHOnGP/s320/BA.CorientesUMC-796910.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5809157575908043538" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">Barry went back out around 3 and returned to the church where he learned that they have a government funded program that gives shelter to 100 plus homeless folks during the afternoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He also found someone who called Aldo Echegoyen and arranged for him to meet us for dinner tonight!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Aldo was District Superintendent in Buenos Aires when we were here thirty years ago. He was Barry's primary contact in the Methodist Church and helped arrange many of his visits to human rights organizations, youth camps, and Methodist missions around Argentina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We had hoped to see him on Monday, but he was out of the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We were very pleased to finally make contact with him</p><p class="MsoNormal">Barry came back and we rest until 8:30 – we could hear tango music from our window and Barry saw a sign at the obelisk demanding their naval ship back that is still being held in Ghana!</p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8MxANVPC06zT2EXitWD_P18n4jXinXS_JaWOBNggD267OyIOGDVB4oYbUOFFtCpHobmc5TxaFhrgfRgV0b0FXHIUJclvMrcVm0hltHbl3D0aFLWufAJFkhnLAA9HKD2nZBqsJ8MphcyvH/s1600/BA.FrigataSign-700027.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8MxANVPC06zT2EXitWD_P18n4jXinXS_JaWOBNggD267OyIOGDVB4oYbUOFFtCpHobmc5TxaFhrgfRgV0b0FXHIUJclvMrcVm0hltHbl3D0aFLWufAJFkhnLAA9HKD2nZBqsJ8MphcyvH/s320/BA.FrigataSign-700027.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5809157589136268210" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal">Aldo met us and we walked back to Corrientes for dinner – back to another famous restaurant for dinner – La Estancia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We have pictures of the front of the restaurant from 30 years ago that look exactly the same!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The food was ok – nothing special. We shared a meat platter for 2 for the three of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Also had salad and fries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>No dessert for tonight! </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Good visit with Aldo he is so active for a man 84 years old and looks great! Still on Jayne for not speaking Spanish! He had just returned from the Chaco where he was working on finalizing a project that will give over 800 families of the Toba group their official titles to their property! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They are fighting to control their land as Monsanto tries to buy up more of it for growing genetically modified soybeans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He also told us stories of traveling to Cuba with several newly elected bishops from both the United Methodist and independent Methodist churches in Latin America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Fidel Castor heard they were there and ask to meet with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They had a 3-hour meeting and Aldo requested they end in prayer, which Fidel agreed to. It was wonderful seeing him so active and hearing his stories.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOq136r4y71oYbhWt5hWkas3frfeIODqm-ed7dFpie-alMTSJQX8XPQjyRKn3cDJ3pw28-3UOggnwUcI143VqTOH7xFpW1fF3LiEtWdCzwU9Is2PPY3MwUQiS2WkzAnPt6VYhpo3nsgMJO/s1600/BA.Aldo-704682.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOq136r4y71oYbhWt5hWkas3frfeIODqm-ed7dFpie-alMTSJQX8XPQjyRKn3cDJ3pw28-3UOggnwUcI143VqTOH7xFpW1fF3LiEtWdCzwU9Is2PPY3MwUQiS2WkzAnPt6VYhpo3nsgMJO/s320/BA.Aldo-704682.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5809157606590656530" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">We got up late after a late night of watching election returns, had the breakfast in the hotel – very good and reasonable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Then we took off to find <span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black;background:white">SERPAJ the office founded by </span>Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We were hoping they could lead us to his prints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We did not find the prints but were given the name from a print there that may lead us to them yet. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>We walked around a bit more and stumbled into a mall and found a tourist stand that had many things that were from the area of Salta – we bought much there!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Left still in search of ice cream – which we never found – so our quick lunch was empanadas from a stand in the underground subway connector walkway! Tasty – the best we had according to Barry!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>We went back to the room to rest a few minutes and then off to the Buquebus – ferry to Montevideo!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Traffic was bad – but we got there in plenty of time and went through customs and waited in a nice comfortable lounge for boarding time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We ran unexpectedly into Terry Bangs, a communications professor on the ship who had also stayed behind for more time in BA. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Together we had a pleasant journey across the Rio de la Plata to Montevideo.</p> <!--EndFragment-->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-31424907965485663312012-11-10T06:37:00.000-08:002012-11-10T03:38:13.121-08:00Field Lab in Argentina<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> 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style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none">Monday Barry took his Liberation Theology class to ISEDET, the Protestant seminary in Buenos Aires.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was very disappointing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Barry had become anxious about this in the last couple of weeks because his contacts there had become non-communicative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This had been his experience on previous field labs as well, but everything had turned out well in Ghana and South Africa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Ths time—not so much.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">The plan was for Nestor Miguez, the son of Jose Miguez-Bonino with whom Barry had studied 30 years ago, to offer a seminar on his new book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Doing Theology Under Global Empire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></i>(That title echoes his father's most famous book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Doing Theology in a Revolutionary Situation.</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We never saw him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He had a conflict develop (he was meeting with government officials about a new law that will give Protestants recognized status and rights previously extended only to Roman Catholics) and had asked another professor to cover for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Unfortunately, he had not been briefed about our expectations or the level of my students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He was a young Phd in both philosophy and theology and focused his presentation on the deep background of Liberation theology in early 20<sup>th</sup> century European philosophy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>My students didn't understand a word of it and what we needed was what Liberation Theology is doing NOW!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">To make matters worse, no one had ISEDET had arranged for us to visit the Ecumenical Movement for Human Rights in the afternoon as I had asked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Fortunately, we had an incredibly competent and concerned tour guide from the company that Semester at Sea works with in Buenos Aires.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>She discovered the foul up, called the EMHR herself and, while they weren't expecting us, were pleased that we were coming.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none">At least Jayne and I got to spend some time in the building where we lived for a year thirty years ago.</p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNobp8dqTnh1HlqcChGbOktbQX9mXcQ0rxGqVas6vfibvlm1qzJ-tJY_sUU7gCKZx1piLmBMcm1Wv8JBUL9-h-r5n4lwmzfs2tEpdUCPrKO7yAqPpUHYItLMMJJqXWCN0O0PMjXD5LYTum/s1600/BA.B%2526J%2540ISEDET-793122.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNobp8dqTnh1HlqcChGbOktbQX9mXcQ0rxGqVas6vfibvlm1qzJ-tJY_sUU7gCKZx1piLmBMcm1Wv8JBUL9-h-r5n4lwmzfs2tEpdUCPrKO7yAqPpUHYItLMMJJqXWCN0O0PMjXD5LYTum/s320/BA.B%2526J%2540ISEDET-793122.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5809147250917451250" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We were greeted by the director, Arturo Blatesky, who had himself been a professor at ISEDET for years and claimed to recognize Barry immediately (though Barry has no memory of him!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He spoke to us in front of a beautiful mural painted by the Argentine artist and human rights activist Adolpho Perez Esquivel (Barry attended the celebratory worship service welcoming him back to Argentina after he won the Nobel Peace Prize back in 1980.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk7cVXM2cK1ba045N400iFvPQymsoVw1Kw8sa_Qk-5bPYU7KY0hgF-jkpnzsOeTD13l-6cfv5UewMq9jUHvoesWiHcIbYN23q3n_7GbMg-ISaX6Pqc-d50PJQ6TE1tvZbpqDOcjsF2LaR_/s1600/BA.MEDH.Art-796911.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk7cVXM2cK1ba045N400iFvPQymsoVw1Kw8sa_Qk-5bPYU7KY0hgF-jkpnzsOeTD13l-6cfv5UewMq9jUHvoesWiHcIbYN23q3n_7GbMg-ISaX6Pqc-d50PJQ6TE1tvZbpqDOcjsF2LaR_/s320/BA.MEDH.Art-796911.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5809147269780441874" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Interestingly, one of the first things he said was something like this, "Liberation Theology isn't an academic enterprise; it is first and foremost a spirituality that permeates the lives of those committed to the liberation of the poor and oppressed."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>That was a perfect and welcome contrast to what we had heard at ISEDET (and a challenge to the way Barry has taught the class on the ship).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Arturo spoke to us with a stack of photographs in front of him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>After some introductory comments about Liberation Theology he began to talk to us about the photos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They were mostly portraits of people who had disappeared in the Dirty War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The first was a dear friend of his.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He told us the exact date at time he was kidnapped and when his body washed ashore along the banks of the Rio de la Plata.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was part of what motivated the military dictators to take their victims further out to sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He showed us a picture of the daughter of the famous German New Testament scholar, Ernst Kasemann, who was studying at ISEDET when she was kidnapped and murdered.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">One of the things we had wondered about was what the human rights organizations that were founded in response to the Dirty War 35 years ago or more are doing now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Dirty War is long over; the "disappeared" are known to be murdered and gone; the generals responsible are gradually acing prosecution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We were pleased to learn that organizations like EMHR continue to be actve in promoting the rights of indigenous peoples, women, and gays and lesbians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In addition, environmental issues are now part of their agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">It was a disappointing day, but surely the experience with Arturo salvaged it somewhat.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvBy4f2XiHhTw1EReCmP2JgELSaovAQJyplMH0sW2dVDxdTwtPbCtNcqrmQDEZuKc7zDOmKGzeQmtzUP-uutgmlF3iXu9-NHLgUggBs5__dZwNmqhwfdfgH5TznV5sq7Nwd_wVvz2ww5dg/s1600/BA.AP-E.Art-700814.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvBy4f2XiHhTw1EReCmP2JgELSaovAQJyplMH0sW2dVDxdTwtPbCtNcqrmQDEZuKc7zDOmKGzeQmtzUP-uutgmlF3iXu9-NHLgUggBs5__dZwNmqhwfdfgH5TznV5sq7Nwd_wVvz2ww5dg/s320/BA.AP-E.Art-700814.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5809147291667460130" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none">The picture shows the resurrected Jesus at the head of procession of Latin American martyrs in the struggle for justice, including some of the disappeared. 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There were two major attractions there: the cemetery and a huge crafts fair.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicwKXroeGGy5I4PaBB9_slITyhtvYDgj0v7d0__Kw-z7PFUv1EDvKXWdhlBgyV8kXTlSbemUkPaSBuqiZtln5wW-R_LbjvMJxBaOnVsEGWnsbjDTpT-CQb2nkC5eqnAB9qGOUNzafzDaaC/s1600/BA.Apts-702850.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicwKXroeGGy5I4PaBB9_slITyhtvYDgj0v7d0__Kw-z7PFUv1EDvKXWdhlBgyV8kXTlSbemUkPaSBuqiZtln5wW-R_LbjvMJxBaOnVsEGWnsbjDTpT-CQb2nkC5eqnAB9qGOUNzafzDaaC/s320/BA.Apts-702850.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5807786649941739186" /></a></p><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Here is the Wikipedia description:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Set in 5.5 hectares (14 acres),<sup> </sup>the property contains 4691 vaults, all above ground, of which 94 have been declared National Historical Monuments by the Argentine government and are protected by the state. The entrance to the cemetery is through neo-classical gates with tall Doric columns. The cemetery contains many elaborate marble mausoleums decorated with statues, in a wide variety of architectural styles such as Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Baroque, and Neo-Gothic...The entire cemetery is laid out in sections like city blocks, with wide tree-lined main walkways branching into sidewalks filled with mausoleums.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>While many of the mausoleums are in fine shape and well-maintained, others have fallen into disrepair."<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; ">It's most famous "resident" is Eva Peron. As we heard one of the guides telling someone, "It is ironic that she is buried here among the wealthy elite of Argentina, who despised her!"</div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfcsWvqQ8yDvTSfEUkw__QwYh8CHq9EpvKmlrbByAIccq9HUOj_77_KJXGEUu04InZn9xcnvKUCHxKlx0VKYiee2WYXe0VbibHzSFdECyqxmKk8KK50V0moX0rDVc5NiGqNu_J9pDboMd/s1600/BA.Rec.Eva2-706505.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfcsWvqQ8yDvTSfEUkw__QwYh8CHq9EpvKmlrbByAIccq9HUOj_77_KJXGEUu04InZn9xcnvKUCHxKlx0VKYiee2WYXe0VbibHzSFdECyqxmKk8KK50V0moX0rDVc5NiGqNu_J9pDboMd/s320/BA.Rec.Eva2-706505.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5807786659546180882" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCQnsKuxDgEv-o-GJvyr6mo8495SrIxhxQY9w2yTCt68O6jQQ6TdA2E72jRxIlIA_otF4fg0-BZDM2xtcfsU4WFFpzsM39m2cVbgTL63Ht63Eblvna9DtM7C6c60XjIRHTSAn94XTUoKB0/s1600/BA.Rec.Eva-708542.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCQnsKuxDgEv-o-GJvyr6mo8495SrIxhxQY9w2yTCt68O6jQQ6TdA2E72jRxIlIA_otF4fg0-BZDM2xtcfsU4WFFpzsM39m2cVbgTL63Ht63Eblvna9DtM7C6c60XjIRHTSAn94XTUoKB0/s320/BA.Rec.Eva-708542.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5807786669811068866" /></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Pictures are worth a thousand words so here are a few thousand words you don't have to read!<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSvgtii6WLgvunvvhv7Xz8Myn-ZhNFd14H7uyAtYlH2Ya9A_tVfe8nswywKxBHjlz4s1mzzi3YiCdZ6mJuN5wfebAXFrn54uNNCCmBh4p31vkUwincjpmfakYG6aF_NWMIvSRUjgiqdb-o/s1600/BA.RecoletaSem-710304.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSvgtii6WLgvunvvhv7Xz8Myn-ZhNFd14H7uyAtYlH2Ya9A_tVfe8nswywKxBHjlz4s1mzzi3YiCdZ6mJuN5wfebAXFrn54uNNCCmBh4p31vkUwincjpmfakYG6aF_NWMIvSRUjgiqdb-o/s320/BA.RecoletaSem-710304.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5807786678262208834" /></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; 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margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; ">After touring the cemetery it was time for lunch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>One of the aspects of Argentine cuisine we loved so much was pizza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>To our surprise we found a little brew pub called Buller Brewing Company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The beer was brewed onsite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Barry was pleased to to see they had a stout and Jayne enjoyed their sampler that included Stout, Oktoberfest, wheat beer, honey beer, IPA, and pilsner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As she said, all were quite drinkable!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We'd been thinking we'd have to hit the Blue Mountain Brew pub soon after we returned to Virginia, but this made it less a priority.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; 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margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; ">And the pizza was superb too!<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRyqRYhalmllMq4cgpa6IcPrCVFAlzEQt35Z8Bn-DS0rU2i40KPANQ7dBW_W4LxMAH8TWLY9Tohwpx0EBKzoRddeLdOiKrFX3tsZOxntgKqPqZtxNB-nOzrxXxOHuS6hz7hXIU-sXMt7y8/s1600/BA.Brewery.Pizza-733056.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRyqRYhalmllMq4cgpa6IcPrCVFAlzEQt35Z8Bn-DS0rU2i40KPANQ7dBW_W4LxMAH8TWLY9Tohwpx0EBKzoRddeLdOiKrFX3tsZOxntgKqPqZtxNB-nOzrxXxOHuS6hz7hXIU-sXMt7y8/s320/BA.Brewery.Pizza-733056.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5807786776668488418" /></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; ">We returned the ship to returned to the ship to recharge our batteries before heading out in the evening for a SAS sponsored trip to a "Tango Dinner."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was at a lovely place in the Monserrat neighborhood. <a href="http://www.laventanaweb.com/">http://www.laventanaweb.com/</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; ">They offered a three course meal (appetizer, main course, and desert) with various options before the show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Barry had a salad, steak with fries and ice cream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Jayne had a fresh mozzarella, tomato, and basil; a pork chop; and pancakes with dulce de leche for dessert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We'd have to say that the meal was no better than ordinary.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; ">The tango show itself was incredible. They had a large combo featuring 3 accordians, two violins, viola, bass and piano and probably 4 dance pairs and 3 singers (one male and two female). After 40 minutes of tango music and dancing, they had a folklore section that featured a four piece band and an incredible gaucho dancer with the famous bollas (balls on a rope used for roping cattle or sheep). The acrobatics he did with the bollas was incredible and difficult to describe. (No photos were allowed.) Then the tango band and dancers returned for another set. We left after midnight and got back to the ship around 1 am. And tomorrow is Barry's field lab which leaves the ship at 8 a. m.!<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p></o:p></font></div> <!--EndFragment-->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-8027236861435798812012-11-04T05:23:00.001-08:002012-11-04T05:23:45.051-08:00Argentina Day 2<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>1029</o:Words> <o:Characters>5868</o:Characters> <o:Company>SU</o:Company> <o:Lines>48</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>11</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>7206</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.0</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We had wondered whether we should visit the church where we were married 31 years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>That seems like a no-brainer, but consider: we had little or no relationship with the people of that church other than its minister, who was a United Methodist missionary and the catcher on the baseball team I played for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We were married there because we were in a hurry and the "legal" requirements in Argentina were going to take 6-8 weeks. None of the Argentine pastors could marry us without those legal documents. The United Community Church serves the English, mostly American community, in Buenos Aires and their pastor, who was not under the authority of the Methodist Church of Argentina could.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We did finally decide to go visit the church when we discovered from its webpage that they were having their annual craft fair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We arrived there by train and a short walk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We got there at around 10:30 and were told that the fair stared at 11 and we couldn't get on the grounds until then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We asked about going in the church explaining our reason for being there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Soon the pastor appeared, a United Methodist ordained in Texas whose husband is the CEO of some kind of oil company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>She was obviously preoccupied with fair preparations, but still showed us around. It turns out they have built a new sanctuary and the old one was being used today as a place to keep baked goods for sale at the fair.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6QFU1oRMakeMxqZki2M7ut_h8-tq-uM25qg6qW8d9bXnp8tvWqHGjC9qm1W05sCECvu6hok899N1E8Ckc4xNrEWB3ws500Wt21_uO5dIrv2X6VsqPJTim9pGj-x_OC0BJ9ca3ZG06v0tI/s1600/BA.UCC.Ext1-725052.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6QFU1oRMakeMxqZki2M7ut_h8-tq-uM25qg6qW8d9bXnp8tvWqHGjC9qm1W05sCECvu6hok899N1E8Ckc4xNrEWB3ws500Wt21_uO5dIrv2X6VsqPJTim9pGj-x_OC0BJ9ca3ZG06v0tI/s320/BA.UCC.Ext1-725052.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5806947941606712386" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCpMKo9ELPltv6xax83R2pe8K7j0-Q9XYG7Yf_aiYJEJnoM8I9WNVHWfOCpZtFt5tmvtwk2yvFbB2gy_K5O9laJhDhehaqVCJp3tfy75hp3TuhrF4k0UvmWp2bVGfMX5Oa_xVfQTmNiTs1/s1600/BA.UCC.Int1-728992.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCpMKo9ELPltv6xax83R2pe8K7j0-Q9XYG7Yf_aiYJEJnoM8I9WNVHWfOCpZtFt5tmvtwk2yvFbB2gy_K5O9laJhDhehaqVCJp3tfy75hp3TuhrF4k0UvmWp2bVGfMX5Oa_xVfQTmNiTs1/s320/BA.UCC.Int1-728992.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5806947951193078498" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We went across the street to have something to drink while we waited for the fair to open and ran into three guys on very nice road bicycles stopping to have a drink. We struck up a conversation and ended up sitting with them for over a half hour. Two were engineers and one a lawyer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They were very interested in our ship and the educational system in the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>One, we were told by one of his buddies, is grieving over the Lance Armstrong situation and seemed not to want to believe the charges against him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihXXQHhSezJZJx3PtqsRbaFTbn2uQS-HUkcf4J08wsQ6cZ38nXhA12-s2K3_-1Yj7Q8pasSqpTtpJRVOGOLltMyH1ZJGJImKM06sjr1BuCBwv6sFDI9MPXJJJaZJQui8vm53LP2mzfjlkP/s1600/BA.Cyclists-732916.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihXXQHhSezJZJx3PtqsRbaFTbn2uQS-HUkcf4J08wsQ6cZ38nXhA12-s2K3_-1Yj7Q8pasSqpTtpJRVOGOLltMyH1ZJGJImKM06sjr1BuCBwv6sFDI9MPXJJJaZJQui8vm53LP2mzfjlkP/s320/BA.Cyclists-732916.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5806947968487844594" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We went back to the fair and Jayne bought some silver and leather items, ate some lunch, and then headed back to the ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Around five we convened a group that included our academic Dean, LaVahn Hoh and his wife M. F. and Kay Slaughter, who teaches environmental sciences on the ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There were also ten students with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Our plan was to take about a 15 minute train ride to the Belgrano neighborhood and then a four or five block walk to the Cristo Rey Methodist Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We were planning to interact with their children, then attend their worship service at 7:30 and meet with their youth and young adults afterwards for conversation and some choripan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I thought we would get there by 6:30 at the latest.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">The trip didn't go well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Of course one or two of the students were a bit late.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The shuttle ride to the port entrance went without a hitch as did the 10 minute walk to the train station.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The tickets were less than a dollar each, so Barry decided to buy all the tickets rather than having fifteen of us stand in line at the ticket booth. He got the tickets and realized the train was leaving in 3 minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It wasn't far to the platform, but we discovered that 3 students had wondered off to buy food. By the time we found them we just missed the train (6:04).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The 6:20 train never appeared and the 6:47 train was twenty minutes late!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We finally got on; it was packed and very slow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was almost 7:30 when we arrived at the train station.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Our contact at the church had said it was a 10 minute walk from the train station to the church and Barry had a map that showed the station about 5 blocks from the church address.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We found the street we were to use from the station and asked help to make sure we were heading in the right direction, but everyone we showed my map team seemed very confused. Still we headed off in the direction we were pointed and walked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And we walked, and we walked!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Finally, I started seeing streets that were on my map.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It turns out that there are two rail lines that run to Belgrano and two train stations. I had picked the wrong one!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We finally arrived around 8 pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They were, of course, quite concerned that we had gotten lost and weren't going to make it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They had English language speakers to sit near those who didn't speak Spanish to translate. We heard the reading of the gospel and a short sermon by a man that turned out to be their lay leader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Then they sang "Tenemos Esperanza" a famous hymn written by the man who was Bishop here when we were in Argentina three decades ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It is written to a Tango tune and speaks of having hope for their country and the world in spite of oppression, injustice, and hardship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(Barry translated it into English and Jim Hewitt sang it at our wedding.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Barry was asked to speak and he explained what Semester at Sea is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Then we had communion. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Jayne was sitting next to a charming elderly woman who spoke impeccable English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>She had noticed that the name of the pastor (who is out of the country for a meeting with the UM Board of Global Ministries in NYC) was the same as a former Bishop, Gattinoni, and asked the woman next to her if the pastor was his son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Turned out he's a nephew but the woman was Bishop Gattinoni's granddaughter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">After the service, we mingled with the people for an hour and a half or so in a very informal way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Our students were quickly on the street in front of the church engage in loud conversation with their children, youth, and young adults. They grilled chorizos, flank steak, and lomo and were soon serving us chorizo and steak sandwiches.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCUaR0JZMabFOJvX9NHvqWF6jQeTfWCBV9X60nAxYssEOaJ6hbmnwi4L_443GbHX-1GDLWWwKfnUoW4yEXMHZQDhlax6cgcwH39RFrNK-gcJETarTfJ3vvjoJqB_jTPmqJxhaaIXaLckmG/s1600/BA.CristoReyGroup-735870.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCUaR0JZMabFOJvX9NHvqWF6jQeTfWCBV9X60nAxYssEOaJ6hbmnwi4L_443GbHX-1GDLWWwKfnUoW4yEXMHZQDhlax6cgcwH39RFrNK-gcJETarTfJ3vvjoJqB_jTPmqJxhaaIXaLckmG/s320/BA.CristoReyGroup-735870.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5806947981453218242" /></a> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuVejoNwrwK2g-exns3naiizvIN-RtB5nY3gER6bgCFQywFmpoNIm5sdKPlarArGyJIxOCXBy6tU56OOpC8t2_NtSLYiCRbnFYJTgQ81hVt9fF3DKqzCQYa-6_gmWb8cdFSu3CFpoN0T0x/s1600/BA.Grill-738923.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuVejoNwrwK2g-exns3naiizvIN-RtB5nY3gER6bgCFQywFmpoNIm5sdKPlarArGyJIxOCXBy6tU56OOpC8t2_NtSLYiCRbnFYJTgQ81hVt9fF3DKqzCQYa-6_gmWb8cdFSu3CFpoN0T0x/s320/BA.Grill-738923.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5806947996251473794" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">The event had come about after Barry emailed the District Superintendent asking about a church to host a group from the ship. He had put Barry in contact with Ana Maria Buela, a laywoman at the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>She was delightful and we took her to be in her late forties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I commented to her how grateful I was that they had sung Tenemos Esperanza and explained how powerful it had been to hear it for the first time in the midst of the intense oppression the Dirty War. She looked at me like I was an idiot and said, "I know. I live here."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We commented (to explain what seemed like our obvious stupidity) that we didn't think she was old enough to really have much of a memory of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>She looked very thoughtfully sad and said, "I remember it well. It was a terrible, terrible time."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Writing and reading this doesn't quite capture the poignancy of the moment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">One of the people who was there to interact with our students and help with translations was Tifffania Willett.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I had hoped to see her sometime while we are here as she is the current Mission Intern from the United Methodist Church in Argentina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was the mission intern program that brought us her all those years ago. She is an impressive young woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Her parents are both UM pastors in Florida. She's a Princeton graduate in Latin American studies and may be headed to seminary after her internship here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>She is working here with the World Christian Student Federation. (That's Tiffania on Barry's left in the picture.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">After a delightful time of conversation and way too much meat, several of their young adults walked with us to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">right</i> train station for an uneventful journey back to the ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-11223498693346761592012-11-03T04:42:00.000-07:002012-11-03T04:43:15.246-07:00Buenos Aires Day 1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>458</o:Words> <o:Characters>2612</o:Characters> <o:Company>SU</o:Company> <o:Lines>21</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>5</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>3207</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.0</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We are docked in the middle of a cargo port and have to take a shuttle from the ship to the port entrance. From there we walked about a mile or so to the ferry stop to buy tickets for the ride across the river to Montevideo on Wednesday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The ship is leaving here for Montevideo on Monday evening, but we've booked a hotel in Buenos Aires and will catch up with the ship on Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">From the ferry station we continued walking toward the center of the city. Along the way we withdrew some pesos from a bank and soon thereafter had our first Argentine empanadas from a little shop along the street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We walked down the Calle Florida which has long been a pedestrian mall with lots of stores.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>One of the first things we noticed is that people are not dressed near as elegantly as they were thirty years ago. We're not sure whether it's a result of the economic collapse here a couple of years ago or more reflecting changing tastes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The people look much more Americanized and less European in their manner of dress.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We visited the Plaza de Mayo, the main square in front of the Casa Rosada which is the President's office and residence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This is where the famous Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo march weekly demanding to know what has happened to their disappeared children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The only demonstrations yesterday seemed to be a group of wounded veterans from the Malvinas War.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj-4lwCJI8J4hKg98ayQAqV0npNL_4gIXxp5GkhOXzOr6mt8Yd3YR8b36Tx2eIC7QxW9ssk9N5ywPbzOywN6OxabS4b4Yb02AgDQnnwopADcZdHJpleQyjVSYJjKjhCc6SfxfyEUAR1-om/s1600/BA.PlazadeMajo-795247.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj-4lwCJI8J4hKg98ayQAqV0npNL_4gIXxp5GkhOXzOr6mt8Yd3YR8b36Tx2eIC7QxW9ssk9N5ywPbzOywN6OxabS4b4Yb02AgDQnnwopADcZdHJpleQyjVSYJjKjhCc6SfxfyEUAR1-om/s320/BA.PlazadeMajo-795247.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5806550951592055506" /></a></span></p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEmu4fGXoejP_5Q7r53Lj9n-cYgml26XRmrt-uPowwJnn7IM84I6ogNTsgWMbzkAbrtooTekbD35R4IRlCgEPJ1VJXqqY3JdB1EAOt6G3DX8zO-Steiu1By-YcHLyz6-1SB5DRmJxVdEhr/s1600/BA.CasaRos-799601.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEmu4fGXoejP_5Q7r53Lj9n-cYgml26XRmrt-uPowwJnn7IM84I6ogNTsgWMbzkAbrtooTekbD35R4IRlCgEPJ1VJXqqY3JdB1EAOt6G3DX8zO-Steiu1By-YcHLyz6-1SB5DRmJxVdEhr/s320/BA.CasaRos-799601.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5806550968876912226" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">From the Plaza we took a half-hour subway ride that took us to within six or eight blocks of the seminary where we first lived after we were married and where Barry studied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In the last several years, the subway line has been extended so there was no need for a long, long walk or a bus as was the case 30 years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">The seminary is 3 blocks off Rivadavia, a major street through the middle of B. A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Thirty years ago, it impressed us for its beauty, but we'd have to say, in general that the city seems warn out compared to before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The streets and sidewalks are in worse repair and somewhat dirtier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The street to the seminary seems not to have changed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It's almost as if the same Bolivian woman was sitting along the way selling fruit. The Disco grocery store that Jayne shopped in was still there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">The seminary itself followed the pattern that we've noticed throughout the city; it seems a bit warn out and in a general state of disrepair, at least by comparison to the way we remember it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitngvuz_LZpvcE6UQFMU-28aVVuFV4_qBq-JfwQDb115P0GeVyDq1nKk0vjw6TBG54v67g5B0f1TwaE0HzZw43JBlTaYkSaeewYBE0V3ZoPHp9_HP4AmZQyyCpECh7sZFCm8bWqT5rMgsY/s1600/BA.ISEDET-704053.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitngvuz_LZpvcE6UQFMU-28aVVuFV4_qBq-JfwQDb115P0GeVyDq1nKk0vjw6TBG54v67g5B0f1TwaE0HzZw43JBlTaYkSaeewYBE0V3ZoPHp9_HP4AmZQyyCpECh7sZFCm8bWqT5rMgsY/s320/BA.ISEDET-704053.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5806550990867387298" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Because it was a Friday afternoon, there was hardly anyone at the seminary. Barry had thought he would call on the rector and the professor who is responsible for his field lab on Monday, but they were not in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We did talk some to a professor from the U. S. who has been in Argentina for fourteen years with the Presbyterian church.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">From the seminary we walked back toward the subway looking for a place to eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We found nice little place on a corner where Jayne was able to get some beloved gnocchis and Barry had a veal "milanesa."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was all very good, including the flan for dessert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP_9BfoXtMXX3Fv0hhIw13_Oj_0Yi1PJH-a9l7LxmYejVUQrRJuu-BpnQFPhWnAgsCoMEaBvrIR_NaELknWVOhDat-epX7xdhBOlrocSsYKISRWbulxgZ7hfWuPXxhMVtj4MR4f77SB-4b/s1600/BA.J%2526BRest-706872.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP_9BfoXtMXX3Fv0hhIw13_Oj_0Yi1PJH-a9l7LxmYejVUQrRJuu-BpnQFPhWnAgsCoMEaBvrIR_NaELknWVOhDat-epX7xdhBOlrocSsYKISRWbulxgZ7hfWuPXxhMVtj4MR4f77SB-4b/s320/BA.J%2526BRest-706872.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5806551003326603218" /></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We took the subway from there back to the Retiro station nearest the ship and walked back to the ship exhausted. It was a long day of walking and it's quite hot here, in the 80s.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none">We're always taking pictures of food markets. These two fruit vendors insisted we take a picture of them too!</p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjliyXn7yZ8-n9ASGwCjIOGoHObpVofjTTb_C0MgIdiCO-HATt_7fOgFD_RFPnXgxdQGTJiRsxeRsxEzUodQYEeiyWQzatHkad-FQfm_CRwxicNV0zHI5ZAx7VK0yiZUPWUYuX1i-GzK1S7/s1600/BA.FruitVendors-711219.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjliyXn7yZ8-n9ASGwCjIOGoHObpVofjTTb_C0MgIdiCO-HATt_7fOgFD_RFPnXgxdQGTJiRsxeRsxEzUodQYEeiyWQzatHkad-FQfm_CRwxicNV0zHI5ZAx7VK0yiZUPWUYuX1i-GzK1S7/s320/BA.FruitVendors-711219.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5806551077718366946" /></a></div> <!--EndFragment-->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-83918520118934660832012-11-02T14:34:00.001-07:002012-11-02T14:34:41.478-07:00Argentina Diplomatic Briefing<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIAFh00EFJldtYIUbomjnkLNeG0ViARo0ytNUha7P13algEe7PGOuch6dKhsCLJMwcVU1K0zeWONtbqtPXzy74nFKkuz3fyYf6oegO_jyKb35YButPbFK_RG5EhaAR5zNO3eyAotgPd3Pk/s1600/BA.JPH%2526BPH-781478.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIAFh00EFJldtYIUbomjnkLNeG0ViARo0ytNUha7P13algEe7PGOuch6dKhsCLJMwcVU1K0zeWONtbqtPXzy74nFKkuz3fyYf6oegO_jyKb35YButPbFK_RG5EhaAR5zNO3eyAotgPd3Pk/s320/BA.JPH%2526BPH-781478.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5806332278839462690" /></a><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">This entry is pretty heavy, but we promise you that reports of a very different sort will be soon coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We docked in Buenos Aires this morning at 8 am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Jayne and I were up on the 7<sup>th</sup> deck by 6:30 am to watch the grand entrance in to the port.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was a beautiful morning.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We had a very interesting diplomatic briefing starting around 8:30 am by about six people from the U. S. embassy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Interestingly, I've been telling people not to trust my perceptions of Argentina since I was there 30 years ago and the place has surely changed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>However, there were several things that the diplomats emphasized that were things I've been saying about Argentina.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">The political and military affairs officers commented that Argentine politics is incomprehensible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He has worked in a variety of places across the globe and in other Latin American countries but finds Argentina absolutely unique and none of the analytical tools he's been taught produces much in the way of comprehension.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I thought the same thing when I was here (though I don't command the sophisticated analytical tools of a political scientist) and even having read a book on 20<sup>th</sup> century Argentine political history in preparation for this trip I'm still unable to make sense of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was encouraging to know that a professional expert felt the same way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">The other thing he said that reminded me of something I concluded 30 years ago had to do with the widespread resentment that Argentines feel toward the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He suggested that some of it is rooted in jealousy (not all by any means, see comments below about the Dirty War). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Argentina is a nation of immigrants like us, with vast agricultural resources like us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>At the turn of the 20<sup>th</sup> century Argentina had the seventh largest economy in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>However, the 20<sup>th</sup> century saw the United States thrive and Argentina decline, and Argentines can't get over it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">The cultural affairs officer commented on what a distorted view of the United States many Argentines have because of the way their popular media is saturated with films and television shows made in the U. S. A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>She said, they always asked me who shot J. R.? Gracious, they were asking us 30 years ago who shot J. R. and assumed we all lived like the people in "Dallas."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Now, they seem to think "Housewives of New Jersey" is a realistic portrayal of our family life.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Several of us who have some knowledge and experience related to the Argentine military junta's "dirty war" against their political opponents in the 1970s ask the political and military attaché some very pointed questions and I was extremely impressed with his answers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I commented to him that the people I know in Argentina are all convinced that the repressive techniques, including torture, used by the Argentine military in the dirty war were learned at the U. S. sponsored School of the Americas and in the police and military training programs under the Alliance for Progress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I ask him what he thought about their suspicions (and if that might not explain some of Argentina's resentment).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">He told us he had worked in Chile and that there was no question that we were involved through the CIA in the overthrow of Salvador Allende and the installation of Pinochet's military dictatorship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The only debatable question, he said, was how deep U. S. involvement was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The U.S. relationship to the Argentine junta was much more indirect and much more a matter of the general climate that the U. S. created through its relationship with Latin American militaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"In Chile," he said, "I heard very specific charges:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>My husband was tortured and killed by this particular Chilean officer and this particular American officer was with him or in the next room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We have never had such specific accusations in Argentina."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He said that the current government would surely raise those issues if they had such evidence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">I was tremendously impressed with his forthrightness about Chile and believe his overall impression with regard to Argentina is probably very close to the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Of course, with respect to both, there is nothing for the United States to be proud of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was unfortunate that he had to leave very quickly because he was soon to be meeting with the U. S. Ambassador to Argentina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I believe we could have learned a great deal from him. He was bright, forthright, and very informative and clear.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-48269116710782752652012-11-01T03:07:00.001-07:002012-11-01T09:39:33.857-07:00On the sea<div class="mobile-photo">
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Our onboard clown, Barry Lubin of the Big Apple Circus in New York City,
did a performance for the shipboard community last week. Flat Stanley who is on
Semester at Sea with us from the elementary school in Madison got his
picture taken. <br />
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We have been on the Atlantic now for ten days since leaving Cape Town. Tomorrow, we will dock in Buenos Aires.
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The ten days on the sea have been relatively uneventful. Barry has met with his classes four times each. But we also had an off day for sea olympic competition. We attended the lip synch competition, into which the students put much more energy and commitment than the put their classes, but we were not involved either as participants or spectators in anything else. Barry used the day off to grade World Religions midterms. Barry and a colleague from SU, Andrea Meador Smith, professor of Spanish, were the main speakers in the Global Studies class earlier this week speaking about the Dirty War in Argentina back in the late seventies and early eighties.
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Yesterday, Jayne went to "high tea" hosted by the Dean's wife for faculty spouses. She also has gotten to tour the ships bridge with the dependent children. Barry has yet to see that. Last night the dependent children (and many others) dressed up for Halloween. The students had a dance in the student union and the adults one as well in the faculty lounge. We were there for awhile, but didn't dance! (Don't worry or even try to imagine that!)
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In Buenos Aires we will visit old haunts from our time there thirty years ago (if we can find them). Saturday we are taking a group of 15-20 from the ship to a Methodist Church to attend worship and then hang out with their young adults and eat a small asado. Sunday night we're going with an SAS group to a Tango dinner. We are also trying to arrange a visit to a human rights museum at one of the former detention centers run by the Argentine Navy during the dirty war. Many people were held there, tortured, and then disappeared from there.
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We'll report on our visits.
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-28077293618089861922012-10-23T04:38:00.001-07:002012-10-23T04:38:38.402-07:00Kariega Dan and the AnimalsFrom the beginning, a game safari was the thing Barry had most wanted to do on this trip. We had first thought we were going to Victoria Falls with a one day safari at a game reserve in Botswana. Then, because of a significant price increase, we had opted for one in South Africa to the Kariega Game reserve outside Port Elizabeth in South Africa. It was to involve a game drive when we first arrived on Friday evening, an early morning game drive on Saturday; a river cruise midday on Saturday, then another evening drive and a final one on Sunday morning before our return to Cape Town.<div><br></div><div>We had anticipated lots of rain. We had not anticipated flooding. When we arrived we learned that the area had been hit with 6 inches of rain that resulted in Kariega's riverboat being washed away, their River Lodge being evacuated, the possible loss of their hippo herd, and (as we gradually realized) our being cut off from major portions of the reserve were the lions, elephants, and hippos hang out.</div><div><br></div><div>As a result, we didn't see nearly as much as we had anticipated and hoped for, though we did learn a lot and develop a deep appreciation for our guide, Dan. The highlight of the experience involved our Rhino sighting on the very first evening. We had been wondering around looking at a variety of small game when Dan was alerted that their had been a Rhino sighting. He told us we would go there without stopping along the way to see anything else we might see.</div><div><br></div><div>When we first arrived, two other land rovers were leaving saying the Rhino had disappeared into the brush. We waited a bit, and soon the Rhino re-emerged. </div><div><br></div><div>Dan said, "Let me introduce you to one of the most famous Rhinos in the world."</div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDZyMbUgJy-aEO1uxbggMQ6ZFCMlk7AuWNBDg55WAaaqXc6FCRhw-YxHWLzqYd-ZRD8L2LiBDR1Y8375oTbcT_WX7x_Ei0z2sfOk0A_GDSSeiaIE3qyU6jDMxVJohaVPOjWe85vtR7itgB/s1600/Kar.Dan%2526Rhino-718403.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDZyMbUgJy-aEO1uxbggMQ6ZFCMlk7AuWNBDg55WAaaqXc6FCRhw-YxHWLzqYd-ZRD8L2LiBDR1Y8375oTbcT_WX7x_Ei0z2sfOk0A_GDSSeiaIE3qyU6jDMxVJohaVPOjWe85vtR7itgB/s320/Kar.Dan%2526Rhino-718403.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5802467824892788066" /></a></div><div><br></div><div>Her name is Thandi. In March she was the victim of poachers who loaded here up with immobilizing drugs and whacked off her horn with machetes. The problem with immobilizing drugs is that they have to be reversed and don't wear off. One of the three rhinos attacked was dead by the time they were found. A second died for thirteen days. His autopsy showed that the muscles on one side of his body already had been destroyed by gangrene as a result of having lain so long. Only Thandi survived. Another problem with the immobilizing drugs is that the animal is fully conscious. To restore Thandi's personality, she was given the "date rape drug" with each of her multiple surgeries. It blocks out memory and the evidence indicates she has regained her trust and confidence around human beings, especially the guides whose voices she knows.</div><div><br></div><div>Brian Williams of NBC did a story on Thandi which you can read about here.</div><div><br></div><div><cite>www.<b>kariega</b>.co.za/blog/nbc-feature-on-<b>rhino</b>-<b>poaching</b></cite></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4amAk5_XB2rtH88SlgbGxqxf_fu5t4IAO7z1WKc3fxq1n0-eTFjvxMkYj8aZDk-b8uKOWdzcSgI_tAlOZRXo1US8gZDPXsIH-o-4zJtlCDK70aYnknMwfkWR4RkiV78pB-E-un0b6KPvC/s1600/Kar.Rhino1-721439.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4amAk5_XB2rtH88SlgbGxqxf_fu5t4IAO7z1WKc3fxq1n0-eTFjvxMkYj8aZDk-b8uKOWdzcSgI_tAlOZRXo1US8gZDPXsIH-o-4zJtlCDK70aYnknMwfkWR4RkiV78pB-E-un0b6KPvC/s320/Kar.Rhino1-721439.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5802467838302151826" /></a></div><div><br></div><div>Thani's growth plates were destroyed in the attack by the poachers and her horn will never grow back. Sadly, Kariega has decided to remove the horns from all their rhinos to save them from the poachers.</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho1trX3tyt_IQx5ZoZkmojOic7K1MH2OYKFhje3Ay4BiAwMzQWvdCfVI9tdpG84HEqjkBVnMq2rUC1VEBFLjHKPwRTib_DWPQ-_PpDPbx-8SS2bkibIChvp1siufoSiyhWstHxGDTEoKBH/s1600/Kar.Giraffepair-725511.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho1trX3tyt_IQx5ZoZkmojOic7K1MH2OYKFhje3Ay4BiAwMzQWvdCfVI9tdpG84HEqjkBVnMq2rUC1VEBFLjHKPwRTib_DWPQ-_PpDPbx-8SS2bkibIChvp1siufoSiyhWstHxGDTEoKBH/s320/Kar.Giraffepair-725511.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5802467856424901522" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghLD5gGbW95yPw5ZhLwR04MiQKzbRboDFaFVoCDS5mNdthHrl1uNMkJ-14VS2d4ehVqr00aIpwixqPprSEa5aE_46eUYmfps7D_0cR1t1JKVKV6HEyauxfyK3bv6TIamNe76mpash2EDKs/s1600/Kar.Giraffe1-728550.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghLD5gGbW95yPw5ZhLwR04MiQKzbRboDFaFVoCDS5mNdthHrl1uNMkJ-14VS2d4ehVqr00aIpwixqPprSEa5aE_46eUYmfps7D_0cR1t1JKVKV6HEyauxfyK3bv6TIamNe76mpash2EDKs/s320/Kar.Giraffe1-728550.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5802467870107058226" /></a></div><div><br></div><div>The giraffes were another highlight of our experience. We spotted one on our first game drive. While we were observing him, another half dozen or more wandered by. We loved watching their loping gate.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvVIxpAgsrXCVkUEFngm_WjYpcIZ3mT2ZK1dx-Wri8Id2JsmL61vRORgv5g9sr65xUgc0Tab-8cTZUnTHJzz8LeLeqUswUSNYRG11-TcwoaTuAXbEjN4n9y5QnGz0D2WhyphenhyphenT9KXejXCncpT/s1600/Kar.Giraffe.Closeup-730434.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvVIxpAgsrXCVkUEFngm_WjYpcIZ3mT2ZK1dx-Wri8Id2JsmL61vRORgv5g9sr65xUgc0Tab-8cTZUnTHJzz8LeLeqUswUSNYRG11-TcwoaTuAXbEjN4n9y5QnGz0D2WhyphenhyphenT9KXejXCncpT/s320/Kar.Giraffe.Closeup-730434.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5802467879483449666" /></a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>We saw a variety of small game on our various drives.</div><div><br></div><div>These are red harttbeests, said to be among the fastest animals on land.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioDuRcDlZixU0BhGNQ1fRQrtTiGepkROStJOy14wihiX2loYKjf6LiUom6-jtqudJ-cw-oozGBWqDtQm-RVryBcP9uPkVOrRcKmkHoDCPH-3mdq_Re85NsozZS5T_V9CW8j2gMuxJn361u/s1600/Kar.Hartebeest-734940.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioDuRcDlZixU0BhGNQ1fRQrtTiGepkROStJOy14wihiX2loYKjf6LiUom6-jtqudJ-cw-oozGBWqDtQm-RVryBcP9uPkVOrRcKmkHoDCPH-3mdq_Re85NsozZS5T_V9CW8j2gMuxJn361u/s320/Kar.Hartebeest-734940.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5802467897658523490" /></a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The famous springbok of South Africa.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLLj8Blf_ENKYAn5SCtbJueeN9CShVzZdg1Yjl8qBuQ1z2UYz_c7WFdKk_4GLd9N301AQH5TWEHU4EkhtT55uf7JeErYRvYvx1_VFFF_asyDd5qWY1Gm8a5ecJfWUTTDBwZpIc_pXpXQ3Y/s1600/Kar.Springbok-737132.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLLj8Blf_ENKYAn5SCtbJueeN9CShVzZdg1Yjl8qBuQ1z2UYz_c7WFdKk_4GLd9N301AQH5TWEHU4EkhtT55uf7JeErYRvYvx1_VFFF_asyDd5qWY1Gm8a5ecJfWUTTDBwZpIc_pXpXQ3Y/s320/Kar.Springbok-737132.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5802467905137994930" /></a></div><div> </div><div>These are called wildebeests.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUR6rIvWIRsdsd1OYuDOSLeg3dCHWR6nf6weNFHqEcfNfpY94is7zafmDipfMcNgtpCqK0e4U-jkRfKRPNrjMS5ksxPjwakC1DDpxShyphenhyphenAzKAmODGHdgRIXePnot8-lo15GP0zHvhE2x_KZ/s1600/Kar.Wildebeest-741347.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUR6rIvWIRsdsd1OYuDOSLeg3dCHWR6nf6weNFHqEcfNfpY94is7zafmDipfMcNgtpCqK0e4U-jkRfKRPNrjMS5ksxPjwakC1DDpxShyphenhyphenAzKAmODGHdgRIXePnot8-lo15GP0zHvhE2x_KZ/s320/Kar.Wildebeest-741347.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5802467925970454450" /></a></div><div><br></div><div>Obviously, not getting to see lions, elephants, cape buffalo and hippos was a major disappointment. But we can't say enough about our guide, Dan. He was a walking encyclopedia of knowledge about the plants, birds, and animals. His love for Thandi, and, all the animals was something we will never forget. We learned so much about the challenges of wildlife management in a reserve such as Kareiga and about poaching. Steve Irwin, the infamous Crocodile Hunter, has long been one of Barry's heros. Now Dan is on that list. (Despite the fact that he's a huge Boston Red Sox fan!)</div><div><br></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-12993720992728610632012-10-22T12:47:00.000-07:002012-10-22T12:49:41.774-07:00Cape Town, Day 1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>915</o:Words> <o:Characters>5219</o:Characters> <o:Company>SU</o:Company> <o:Lines>43</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>10</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>6409</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.0</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 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Bishop Storey had been very engaged in the anti-apartheid struggle here and, in his retirement, has taught at Duke Divinity School.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Several years ago Barry met him when he did a series of lectures at Shenandoah.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Barry had been a bit anxious about the Field Lab since he had no contact with Father Oliver between April and about three days before we arrived in South Africa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>At that point he finally got an email from him saying, "In South Africa, everything comes together at the 11<sup>th</sup> hour and this will too!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He was right.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We first took a chartered bus to his church, St. Marks Anglican in the infamous "District Six."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As part of its apartheid policy in the 1970s, the South African government had leveled this area of the city and forced the 60,000 blacks and "coloreds" who lived there to re-locate in townships on the city's perimeter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Only the religious buildings were left standing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>To this day, the area is undeveloped and only the churches and a mosque occupy the area.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">At St. Marks, Father Oliver introduced us to the work of the Cape Town Interfaith Initiative and the Western Cape Religious Leaders Forum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The mission of the CTII is "to celebrate and share the religious and spiritual diversity of the Western Cape, and to promote community interfaith understanding, harmony, and cooperation, through both awareness of universal spirituality and an honoring of the dignity of difference."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The WCRL is an effort to unite the leadership of the various religious communities to address important social and political issues related to community development, environmental justice, domestic violence, and civil liberties. (Interestingly, when Ba</span>rack Obama visited Cape Town before he was President, he wanted to learn about interfaith work in the city and was brought to visit the CTII.)</p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyfkkVgMjKuyjxMmXTNRtXZ5cTx3pkBkJD3dWNULrWdsBTh0rC3kGFy6kJQcqtXB4Jq31eZGcoBUC707hSgGoVE3n777KFS2hlXbCeB_tooqu6DszT0pCv4zf4oO12_cwoY0skg_jmj35M/s1600/CT.Oliver%253AObama-786776.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyfkkVgMjKuyjxMmXTNRtXZ5cTx3pkBkJD3dWNULrWdsBTh0rC3kGFy6kJQcqtXB4Jq31eZGcoBUC707hSgGoVE3n777KFS2hlXbCeB_tooqu6DszT0pCv4zf4oO12_cwoY0skg_jmj35M/s320/CT.Oliver%253AObama-786776.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5802223308047180242" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">From St. Marks we walked a few hundred yards to the Muir Street Mosque.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>All of my female students had brought scarfs to enable them to respect Muslim traditions related to the covering of hair in public.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiIcyazS6xDGzDqAvzPaaINasQpTXGNsUbMSUPtCHtb-ClD1n5y0DfDTpfD2-XlI7D0JirT9EPfrLUG0PTIq1wCFJgOFIXb2IETJnUE5K-p3o6shyphenhyphen7KSuuq2Oe38aFlXHZk10dQM7QQw8p/s1600/CT.Oliver%253AVeiledStudents-790161.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiIcyazS6xDGzDqAvzPaaINasQpTXGNsUbMSUPtCHtb-ClD1n5y0DfDTpfD2-XlI7D0JirT9EPfrLUG0PTIq1wCFJgOFIXb2IETJnUE5K-p3o6shyphenhyphen7KSuuq2Oe38aFlXHZk10dQM7QQw8p/s320/CT.Oliver%253AVeiledStudents-790161.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5802223324361762194" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">The Iman, Sheikh Mohammed Moerat, welcomed us and described prayer life in the Mosque.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Most noteworthy was his explanation that men gathered for prayer in front of the woman, just as they would do if going into battle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We toured the building and saw the elaborate facilities for washing all uncovered body parts prior to prayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We also saw a few children reciting the Koran under the guidance of a teacher. For most, if not all of us, it was our first visit to a Mosque.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnrbWMUJqJSjf4pPZDi3zTgvPjCDDMdlNJ2DBjDlqXkF-vI_R6Fg0XIwdEBqB1ccz9_SR6u7cxK0AIqHiylZA6hdbkw-Fapa2wGF1mDd7b6AkVVjhdkQei5aQTKrK0RkcbiOWyVY5T1bLa/s1600/CT.MosqueSchool-797741.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnrbWMUJqJSjf4pPZDi3zTgvPjCDDMdlNJ2DBjDlqXkF-vI_R6Fg0XIwdEBqB1ccz9_SR6u7cxK0AIqHiylZA6hdbkw-Fapa2wGF1mDd7b6AkVVjhdkQei5aQTKrK0RkcbiOWyVY5T1bLa/s320/CT.MosqueSchool-797741.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5802223350636246898" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">From there we re-loaded the bus and drove to an area just outside the central city to visit the headquarters of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, that's right the orange robed Hare Krishna's.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There we heard a fairly long introduction to their beliefs and practices by their leader, a kind Bulgarian man whose name didn't get into our notes!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He and several of the monks lead us in a chant to Krishna. They also served us a wonderful vegetarian lunch of yellow rice, butternut squash, and kale in a kind of gravy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was quite tasty.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPWY_adeToXtMNgd7tvZ18rQhGItpln51gWbQpZkeoYyYM0s7kUFjMw0p-Q4b2oyYKm6TVbX1Gclv050q3k6U0P4HwEfVKnH8Y_69H7p6MggMdSJU6ePhdabRvkR1StDyMaxIonhZfPeDF/s1600/CT.Hare.Group-700062.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPWY_adeToXtMNgd7tvZ18rQhGItpln51gWbQpZkeoYyYM0s7kUFjMw0p-Q4b2oyYKm6TVbX1Gclv050q3k6U0P4HwEfVKnH8Y_69H7p6MggMdSJU6ePhdabRvkR1StDyMaxIonhZfPeDF/s320/CT.Hare.Group-700062.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5802223362767567394" /></a></span></p><div><br></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcvo-2jrVE-XSwikZnOgjMCWU_WcfEwz11-MTFRRGCyv-1vh-5BPzcptt-CfneM-5djHjeEQ42NetmjeHhlyQzxOc1Qo8T7LrYyo9V-mc4G0wDN0HfMfZDH1UeCG3mwiP4jxsp7NhESUnF/s1600/CT.Hare.Food-702118.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcvo-2jrVE-XSwikZnOgjMCWU_WcfEwz11-MTFRRGCyv-1vh-5BPzcptt-CfneM-5djHjeEQ42NetmjeHhlyQzxOc1Qo8T7LrYyo9V-mc4G0wDN0HfMfZDH1UeCG3mwiP4jxsp7NhESUnF/s320/CT.Hare.Food-702118.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5802223371015847746" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Barry has commented that he has always considered Hare Krishna's weird and a nuisance around airports, but he had never actually spoken to any before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was a very humanizing experience, that is, one that put a human face on those who have been strangers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In that respect, it was not unlike the visit to the Mosque.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">From there we drove to the outskirt of Cape Town, through one of its most well-known black townships, Gugulethu, to an "informal" community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The community of thousands of dwellings built of corrugated tin and scrap lumber has no official, legal status.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>People are not supposed to inhabit the area because it is an old chemical dump. They have no legal claim to their land and there are no public services: no police, no public sanitation, no clinics, no post office.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">We were expecting to be greeted by Bishop Patrick Chibi of the Kanana African Independent Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As it turns out, the CTII has organized a kind of religious leadership forum in the township, and we were actually greeted by a half dozen men and women in clerical collars and several "community leaders."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We also expected them to talk to us about their Pentecostal faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Instead, they told us about the desperation of their community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Sadly, they expressed a supreme hope that our visit would change their lives forever!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As one of the community leaders said, "Nothing good has happened here in the 18 years we've been here, but we can see by looking in your eyes that is about to change."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbK9Ozo2SlMs_UKnNKyLjipQTJUgmv27V30T-uDJesUpVHxJi77DkQ_0Rvr6_YAQx_ORy0TYAvpg2Q8L2xw2ISzCpTK2p1HtOtKRmqO9KE3qmHUsw2BRyq5t8XEXQ7rU_lRRAIofJ1cJjk/s1600/CT.Pent.Greeting-703958.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbK9Ozo2SlMs_UKnNKyLjipQTJUgmv27V30T-uDJesUpVHxJi77DkQ_0Rvr6_YAQx_ORy0TYAvpg2Q8L2xw2ISzCpTK2p1HtOtKRmqO9KE3qmHUsw2BRyq5t8XEXQ7rU_lRRAIofJ1cJjk/s320/CT.Pent.Greeting-703958.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5802223382101182098" /></a> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyuDoat50mhv7DX_4A7v2C5bbXiF8nIZEhYXazdvS4bynGJhmMrq23TSCyRdYVBVFojz2xuivFwHEA3ZduNTEyDtOAqBiRbAP3qruvRFRm_6U6MXI35NeVm5SHDQuEtADUiMgnUMQ-PplL/s1600/CT.Pent.Township-706110.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyuDoat50mhv7DX_4A7v2C5bbXiF8nIZEhYXazdvS4bynGJhmMrq23TSCyRdYVBVFojz2xuivFwHEA3ZduNTEyDtOAqBiRbAP3qruvRFRm_6U6MXI35NeVm5SHDQuEtADUiMgnUMQ-PplL/s320/CT.Pent.Township-706110.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5802223389788415202" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Pastor Chibi insisted that we visit his house. He took Barry and five or six others inside to see the "senior day care center" he has there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Inside a dark room, without electricity, and with a dirt floor, were five or six very elderly people. From there he lead Barry by the hand to show him the nursery he is trying to start in another room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was clear he was pleading for assistance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We did take up a collection on the bus to support his efforts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was very a very troubling experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">From there we went back toward town to a much more comfortable area that under apartheid was for "coloreds." There we visited Rylands Hindu Temple, where their leader, Guru Krishna, told us about the life of the Hindu community in Cape Town and something about their worship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirbthfD74GFDpLnU8vPyz9UIIAM3Srivn7WZye3D7oHBI8NsdYIGU_Vzo5xg37hjO123UySDCJuX5ry-HR4OYpw3916MwjxRi339lAhyphenhyphen5Cval3rGaoz-OoYgZf2J3_OiL8eHWS06mnM5L5/s1600/CT.Hindu-708166.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirbthfD74GFDpLnU8vPyz9UIIAM3Srivn7WZye3D7oHBI8NsdYIGU_Vzo5xg37hjO123UySDCJuX5ry-HR4OYpw3916MwjxRi339lAhyphenhyphen5Cval3rGaoz-OoYgZf2J3_OiL8eHWS06mnM5L5/s320/CT.Hindu-708166.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5802223398326936610" /></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">All in all, it was an incredible day of new experiences for all of us. Barry can't wait to read his students' "reflection papers" on the experience, which are due in a couple of days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Several told him it was the most interesting field lab experience they've had on the trip.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">When we got back to the ship we were delighted to find that our absentee ballots for the upcoming election had arrived. They have been filled out and mailed back. 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the students aren't as prepared as I had hoped and expected, and, the way I had planned to run the class (with regular student presentations) hasn't worked because of the students' struggles with the material and their large numbers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We had a long chat about our shared frustration and from here out I'll be teaching more and students less.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I also think I will significantly reduce their reading load and seek mastery of smaller bits of material.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">I was honored to be asked to lecture in the Global Studies class. All students have to take that class and presenting there really gives one a presence in the entire shipboard community unlike anything else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I was asked to speak about Religion and Conflict in Africa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The first half of the talk was about the vibrancy of Christianity, Islam, and African Traditional Religion (ATR) in Africa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Though the statistics suggest that traditional religion is losing out to Christianity and Islam, I argued that the worldview of ATR remains alive even as people convert other religions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I drew heavily on what my students learned on our field lab at the seminary in Accra where a Ghanian church historian talked to us about the way in which things like African naming ceremonies, the pouring of libations to summon the spirits of the ancestors, drumming and dancing, and even polygyny have become part of African Christianity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">In the second half I talked about the sources of conflict between Islam and Christianity and speculated about how that might play out in Africa, where Christianity is far less infused with the secular, consumerist values than North American Christianity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I ended by suggesting that religious conflict with things like apartheid and unjust poverty are good things and offered the hope that conflicts between Muslims and Christian here might be mitigated by a shared confrontation with racism, poverty, and corruption.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">I must say that the reactions to my presentation from faculty colleagues, and, to a lesser degree, students, have been very encouraging.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Now to less weighty matters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">The first day out of Tema, we crossed the equator at the prime meridian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The shipboard community celebrated this rare occurrence with an especially vigorous "Neptune Day."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I was so busy preparing for the global studies lecture that I missed it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It's impossible to miss all the people who shaved their heads in celebration.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">The two biggest disappointment of this trip so far have been not getting to go to Morocco and that Desmond Tutu had to miss the voyage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He was supposed to be with us from Ghana to South Africa, but had to cancel because he is receiving an award somewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We did record a "happy birthday" message for him from the shipboard community on his 81<sup>st</sup> birthday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He has a long relationship with Semester at Sea and will be sailing on the entire Spring, 2013 voyage.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">I have been leading worship every Sunday that we are onboard ship. A small group has been gathering for a brief celebration of the Eucharist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I have offered a brief meditation on the scriptures a time or two, but this week I asked Kay Slaughter to do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>She offered a really fine meditation on "sell all that you have and give it to the poor" in response to the gospel reading and her experiences in Ghana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Kay used to work and live in Madison and now teaches Environmental Law at U. Va.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(She lead a delegation from the ship, including many folks from Charlottesville, to visit a Winneba, Ghana Charlottesville's sister city here.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">The food on the ship seems to have improved somewhat since the Canary Islands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Lots of really fine beef stews and I always enjoy the fish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Yesterday we had a chicken and sausage dish that was superb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Notice everything I'm mentioning has to do with meat! Jayne I less pleased.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Our next report should be from South Africa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I have a field lab with one of my World Religions classes on Thursday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And then we're off for a three day Safari and the Kariega Game Reserve.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453468882084537201.post-53567823762607233942012-10-12T06:57:00.000-07:002012-10-12T07:00:24.705-07:00More from Torgorme, Ghana.<p class="mobile-photo"><a 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz3dvwyQSDUm9Fupw7zpbey_6v-uhvpDVJfw6cx7en7hllPkZqFhvo41-tL_z5kogT068lMS2ae2W4WqXTE7uMwTTPY81_M5NE0nu8oYkMtEk8ll3IAUVdlo666Me5mUAywhYZIGCAbjpr/s1600/Torg.Lizard-752930.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz3dvwyQSDUm9Fupw7zpbey_6v-uhvpDVJfw6cx7en7hllPkZqFhvo41-tL_z5kogT068lMS2ae2W4WqXTE7uMwTTPY81_M5NE0nu8oYkMtEk8ll3IAUVdlo666Me5mUAywhYZIGCAbjpr/s320/Torg.Lizard-752930.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5798422547860967986" /></a></p>Children wanted to have their pictures taken with us and to use our cameras. Here's Barry with a child while another takes our picture.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508014259589806209noreply@blogger.com0