Like a complete flake, I totally forgot to go to class today.

Also, met with my professor and one other person regarding the student symposium in May yesterday. I'm still concerned about this deal. I'm afraid it's going to turn out horribly bad, and preachy. I'm starting to wish I'd never agreed to do this in the first place.

The prof's wrong, I'm not really having fun doing this right now for some reasaon.

I enjoy the class. I really do. I just can't stand some of the other students. I can't handle their general disdain for the subject matter, and the lack of willingness to even give it a chance. For them, it's a pointless waste of time.

I wish they would all drop, so that those of us who are interested in the stuff can have a descent conversation about it...

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'll be glad when this class is over with.

Not sure if I actually "did" the assignment here, but whatever, I had fun doing it nontheless.

Pfd file is HERE for the interested.

http://www.nepad.org/2005/files/home.php
http://www.adf.gov/
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/devel.html
http://www.africainstitute.com/
Google Search: African Development

The April 20th deadline for Abstracts is fast approaching for the May 18th student symposium...so below is all I have to show for it so far...

African Development in the 21st Century:
A look at the past to understand the challenges of the future

Post colonial Africa has seen many good hearted western attempts to develop infrastructure, agriculture, economic viability, education, and family planning. There have been successes and failures in almost all cases. Specifically, we will cover the failure of the Norwegian Fishery project in the Turkana region of Kenya and the lessons learned. We will also cover other topics and their failures or successes, such as the changing attitudes toward female genital cutting, disease, and education. We will also spend some effort examining the changing family in Africa, with Ghana as our country of focus, and the continuing effects of local governments on development in Africa using Kwame Nkruma as our chosen subject. Our purpose here is to explore what in the past has worked, and what in the past has failed, in order to better understand in what possible way future African aid can be better utilized in order to benefit the African people themselves.

Our Anthro 101 class has been asked to write a response to THIS article on the Nacirema. After having read the article, I have to say that the Nacirema are the most confusing and strange culture I've ever come across.

My response to the article is HERE.