Brains!

I was sitting on Belgrade looking out over the Mediterranean today. I could see Britain far off to the North and Iraq below me to the South East. The great boot of Italy spliced the sea in half. Everywhere there were names and lines in blue and black on the green and brown surface. And I loved it all. Every last border I could make out.

Today we spread out flight maps in the KBroom, joined them together and walked across the mini scale of the earth. You could see the vastness from a satellites point of view, and I loved it. At the end of the year we have to make big posters and they are going to be displayed a long with these maps again for the rest of the community to see. Talk about pressure. I have to think of a topic write a freaking long ass paper about it, and then make a damn gigantic poster. I think geographic awareness is one of the most important mission’s geography major needs to be aware of. People just don’t know, and it needs to be known. Places need to be seen and understood.

Eh, I think I’ll do mine on food. I suppose it’s not as ground breaking as let’s say the endangered animals of the Mediterranean. But damn if I know much about the triangle of vine, wheat, and olive. Damn if I know much about Marco Polo bringing back stuff from the orient, or even who brought potatoes and tomatoes from the new world. So maybe that is an awareness issue, where does our food come from? Is the Mediterranean diet really the healthiest and why?