Here Comes the Rain

In the required class for all students and lifelong learners, Global Studies, we are currently talking about global problems.  We had guest speaker Cathy Rodgers who is the Vice President of world relations (if I remember her title correctly) for IBM.  She travels around the world and meets people and gets paid to do so.  She talked to us yesterday about global sustainability.  After her presentation she informed us that she has made it her goal to plant a tree for every person that comes to one of her talks on sustainability.  So for every person on this ship she has already made plans to plant trees in Ghana in our honor.  Today she gave a shorter talk on women’s issues around the world.  Most of it, while still shocking, I already knew from being a member of WOW (Work of Women).  But it was informative to hear from somewhere else.  She also briefly spoke about how much better it is, how more women are coming into power.  Some of the things I didn’t know where that there are 10 female presidents of different countries.  There are also 10 female Prime Ministers.  There are still nowhere near as many women as men and the wages are still not the same but this does show that things are getting better.  As Cathy Rodgers said “happier women make for happier men.” 

Lunch was tacos.  Very yummy.  Everyone loves taco day.  The only problem is that for the first time this whole voyage it is raining.  We have been lucky in not having any rain days.  The problem comes in when the people that normally eat outside can’t and have to come inside.  I don’t know how it was on the 5^th deck dining room but on the 6^th deck, where most students eat, it was chaos.