Tuesday, May 06, 2003

The Major Project -- My Great Journey Plan (e) Folks:  Start thinking of the journeys you want to consider for this dream project. .. Here are some rough guidelines: This travel experience is set for you some five to six years down the road, when you are probably done with the next section of your schooling This experience will be solo (ok, for the most part...). YOU are in charge, totally. This will be your trip, done frugally. It's your money you're spending, bucks you will have earned and salted away (you'll have enough). This trip is not a gift from family or friends: you build this in all ways. You need to design this trip around a story, or an idea, or a theme -- thread(s) of some sort that gives the fabric of your travels some design, some coherence. You need to know that this will not be the only travel experience you'll design (no pressure to pack into this one excursion all the places you want to hit before you shed this mortal coil. You will need to plan the trip roughly, and then, finally, in great detail ( down to a specific itinerary, with transportation & lodging details; expenses, a budget, et cetera). However, this comes later in the project. Don't sweat it now (but know that it's coming). Now it the time to dream and put together the organizing idea of this travel experience. You will present your trip to you colleagues at term's end, complete with PowerPoint details and images, research sources, images, et cetera... Your Presentation File will be published on the web, so you can return to this dream months and years from now. So when your "hypos get such an upper hand" on you, you can click to an earlier dream of travel, and focus you future more sharpl. You can use your travel dream like Ishmael, used his skill as a sailor: Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—­then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. (Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 1) So, take a few moments and brainstorm: journeys I'd like to make and the threads of reasons why.... -- PJClements (E) 7:13:12 AM    comment []

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