Today is class meeting day "B7."
On the agenda for me is the following:
- Sit in on the Global Studies core course that the entire ship "shuts down for" daily - it is held in the Student Union area of the ship with the lecture being broadcast on the closed-circuit TV system of the ship to the various satellite classrooms on the ship for those students who can't fit in the Union(Time: 0920 - 1040)
- Teach "Cinema and National Identity" (Time: 1415 - 1530)
- Meeting for faculty/staff who are leading trips in South Africa (Time: 1800)
- Cultural Pre-Port Briefing for South Africa (Time: 2000 - 2100)
- Sea Social #3 (Time: 2100 - 2230)
We will advance our clocks by one hour tonight which will make us 7 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time in the U.S.
Update:
Desmond Tutu will be speaking in the Global Studies class today (and also tomorrow I believe). I will also be giving a short presentation about South African communication styles, etc. to the entire ship during the Cultural Pre-Port briefing tonight - there's not a ton to say since South Africa is very Westernized, but I got together with the interport student that is on the ship (she's from Cape Town and is on the ship on this leg from Salvador to Cape Town) and she gave me some ideas about various words and slang that I could also present (ie. takkies are sneakers, robots are traffic lights)
Students getting a better view of Archbishop Desmond Tutu speak in the Union on the ship's closed-circuit TV system
Below is the transcript of what Desmond Tutu spoke about in Global Studies today:
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=8296701
