I really am not sure what to write about... I guess you can call it bloggers' block. There is one thing I am really excited about, though. I was sitting in Sustainable Marketing and we were learning the true cost of products and how if companies added the cost to the environment and society from the production of their product onto the prices, sustainable products will no longer seem expensive. We watched this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n39T35Ia_4. I really, really recommend you watch it. It is unbelievably eye opening. It really shows how we need to pay attention to where our clothes come from.
This really got me thinking about next year's tutorial for the Honors program. I want to do something like Marketing and Social Justice in the Garment Industry. That way I can focus on how to market the benefits of fair trade products and what that means exactly. Dr. Cann, my Sustainable Marketing professor, was really interested in that idea. She said she knows a woman who is trying to help women in Nicaragua earn fair wages to make clothes that she sells here. We want to help her start a website and gain more attention for the work she does. I think people would want to help these women.
I just had my advising appointment today and it looks like next semester I will only have class on Tuesdays and Thursdays at night. This excludes my Honors courses. I have one junior honors seminar course, but I do not know when it is held. This is in addition to two tutorials which meet once a week for an hour. Hopefully this kind of schedule works out. Well, that's all that's happening for now!
Becky