Sept 18

Today we were crossing the route of the Middle Passage. This is the route that the slave ships took between Africa and the Americas. One of the groups on the ship is recognizing this event by wearing red face paint on their faces. It is really eye opening and quite remarkable to be experiencing all these historical things. In classes this week we have learned a lot about the slave ships and all the illegal slave trade that happened after slavery was abolished. The only TV we get to watch is the movies they put on the 6 channels we get. All of them are full of history, 2 examples are La Amistad and the story about the illegally captured slaves that rebelled on the ship and had to be tried in America. Another very entertaining movie is “The Gods Must be Crazy” I highly recommend it!! For my econ development class we had to watch three movies this week about the history of the world’s economies and how they have all affected each other. It is even more interesting to hear about all kinds of economic policies that worked and didn’t work and how other countries function. I have heard that the stock market has basically crashed along with all the mortgage stuff with that Frankie company going to crap. I guess the future president is going to have a lot of work on their hands. I just pray that the US wont be up in flames when I get back in Dec!