Starring in Global Studies

January 22: At Sea, en route to Dominica

Aidan: I was the star of the Global Studies lecture today!  The reason that Alex Nalbach asked me to answer the question about the Caribbean on film for him is that he was gathering answers to play in his first Global Studies lecture (editor: the Global Studies course is in effect the core course of the Semester at Sea curriculum for the undergraduates; everyone on board attends Alex Nalbach's lectures, which will continue throughout the course of the voyage). When he got to my answer to the question "What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the Caribbean?" the film paused and the screen read "that's the Caribbean tectonic plate." And then, later in the lecture, when he was talking about the geography of Dominica, he thanked me for mentioning the Caribbean plate, because it is so important to the history of the island, which is a volcanic island formed because it sits at the meeting of the Caribbean plate and the North American plate. 

This afternoon, I made very sophisticated paper airplanes with my friend Josiah during the time for kids' activities.