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I am plowing into a week of midterm papers, a...
February 27, 2002 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
I am plowing into a week of midterm papers, all due on tuesday, when Megan Wells Jamieson returns for a visit from Germany. The list goes as such: today, citizen crusaders paper; thursday through monday, obsessive compulsive disorder and South Africa papers. I'm so glad one of my classes is a self-directed independent study- it means I just have to e-mail my professor on occasion and say things like "I'm really getting my head around this issue of dependent development." On the social front, everything is as interesting as college can make it. Going to watch a movie tonight with Tommy, the European gentleman caller. There are other such things, but none as exciting as pretending to be in Southern Africa for eight credits of my life. Hope everything on the homefront is settling down- happy birthday to the old man (aka Dave), and hugs to the little spastic childrens.
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One more little tidbit: right now I'm explori...
February 07, 2002 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
One more little tidbit: right now I'm exploring the internships this summer. There are interesting international baccalaureate (the IHS thing)schools in England that I'm looking at, as well as possibly trying to find an internship with the IB programme itself. I can also apply for UN internships around the world, and see where I end up. Smith funds an intership for the summer- basically if you can get it, smith gives you 1500 bucks. Pretty nice of them, I think. Right. But that's enough from me.
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I think to the globalization lecture last nig...
February 07, 2002 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
I think to the globalization lecture last night, and the woman who said -This would be a much easier course if we were teaching in Jakarta. It's hard to be smart inside the seat of power. I think this is important. I learn so much more in the way of analysis and history, but there isn't the emotional attachment like being there. I know so much about paper South Africa, but I can't feel it save a deep sense of distanced sympathy. I think this is the strength of the Pitzer program- the experiential stuff. Unfortunately, there isn't much in the way of supplamentary analysis. I didn't get so much of the "wait- look at 'customary law' and the kgotla... do you really think that's customary, or a codified version of what (male) traditional elites and (male) missionaries and colonists wanted for 'customary law'?". The history teachers in Botswana were all male, and didn't give us much juice to interpret things with. Its nice to be with feminist teachers, thinkers and deconstructionists again. But it's hard to go home to something so different (Morris house), lose perspective and juice, being dulled by the seat of power. So I'm a little jealous of there and a little glad I'm here. But certainly there is a need to go everywhere and get living perspective on everything.
Things are great here. Crispy cold and midnight blue and brown hats with matching gloves and friendly electricians to fix the old fashioned metal heaters. Gotta appriciate overdevelopment.
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