Hey everybody!
So we are crossing the Atlantic Ocean right now. We are about half way across now. Nothing really new or exciting is going on. I am having my first tests in all of my classes except Global Studies. Our interport lecturer onboard is a South African who spent time on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela. He is a social activist and author. He seems to be very interesting. He spoke today about Africa in general, and all but blamed ever single one of Africa’s problems on corporate globalization (globalization is a conspiracy of the big corporations) and the “Super Powers” (mainly the USA) controlling the IMF and World Bank. I strongly disagree with him on these issues but he seems very knowledgeable in other areas of Africa so I won’t draw any conclusions of his reputability at this time. He talking again tomorrow, so we’ll see… Since I have talked about globalization in all of my classes I am grappling with my own thoughts and opinions on the subject. Just for fun I have started a “predictions for the future” paper in which I am speculating what I think (ideas drawn from my rather uneducated mind) will be happening to the world and economy in the very near future. My goal by the end of the voyage is to finish reading The World is Flat.
I went to another one of Dr. Sherman’s “Change the World” Seminars. I’m telling you this man is soooo interesting. Before will he begin telling us how to change the world he is coaching us on how to change ourselves. Pretty much he is encouraging up to be come more optimistic and “lucky.”
Saturday I get a day off from school. I don’t know if the shipboard community has something planned or not. Hopefully it will just be a chill day!
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Hey Janine it is Jody you look like you are having a great time I look forward to seeing you when you return!!!
Hi Janine, Blessings and my prayers to you. Glad you are being exposed to a lot of stuff, but through Jesus the world was made and through Jesus it is all held together and any view that does not recognize this is not based on truth and the asumptions will be proved to be all false. So your Prof talking about globalization being the evil of the African Nations is off the mark. The African nations are the way they are because if they don't line up their beliefs and social system on God's laws then to the extent they are off base they will not be nations that will recieve the blessings of prosperty. There is a great book out about world hunger by a man who has worked and studied about this for years and that is his conclusion. Hatti is a good example where billions of dollars and aid have been invested over the years with no results on Hattis poverty. He concludes it is bex=cause they are so far away from Gods principles. Well I am in CA and doing well. lOve, Vickie
Hi Sweetie, I wrote a comment but my computer cut it off. I am well and thankful for your updates. In Visalia , CA, with love, Vickie
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