My trip to Haiti has been delayed a few days. When I got home from Calgary on Friday, I found out that the mission group I was going with were not leaving until Friday-February 5. There were problems getting ground transport from Santo Domingo to Port Au Prince. So I was going to go by myself. When I discussed this plan with people that cared if I made it back alive, they convinced me to be patient and go with the group.
The trip is now on for sure. I have booked my flight. I have all of my gear organized, except my MRE's and the Maximum Strength DEET. I have had a tetanus booster and I will start a series of doxycycline on Thursday for most bacterial infections like malaria and cholera.
So the delay allowed me to prepare better.
On another thread, there has been an interesting intrusion into my life lately. I will be looking into 'The Millenials', Generation 'Y'. Both of my children are Millenials, depending upon which sociologist you choose. My daughter posted a link to a Ted video on Facebook, a speech by Bennington College President Liz Coleman. I have listened to the speech. It provides an interesting insight into my daughter's opinions. I intend to listen carefully and repeatedly to Ms. Coleman's speech and share my own thoughts. I suspect that I will find a correlation between the values Ms. Coleman reveals and the values of 'The Millennials'.
I truly liked the speech, a call for radical reform. But I haven't heard or seen any meaningful criticism, and that is part and parcel of academics, right?
According to http://www.ted.com/...
"Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education -- one that dynamically combines all areas of study to address the great problems of our day."
In today's day and age, it is a radical idea to call for an education, especially higher education, that generates well-rounded, open-minded graduates.
Stay tuned...
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