Thanks to the wonderful Terry project, I now have my hands on a shiny free ticket to James Orbinski’s talk on November 7th at the Chan, entitled “Creating the Space to Be Human”. He was the president of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) when it received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. MSF is possibly the NGO I most respect in the world and I am unexpressibly eager for the day to arrive. I’m a little afraid of expecting too much and being disappointed, as is so often the case in life — but on the other hand, I have had reality surpass my highest hopes too. Maybe this will be one of them.
Tickets can be obtained for free from the Chan Centre Monday to Saturday from 12 noon to 5 pm (I think), two per person.
Another event I have just signed up to attend are the Terry talks. Unlike most people who talk about this event, I have never heard of the TED talks so…
Sometimes I’m not sure if it’s just my general knowledge that is severely lacking or if what little general knowledge I do have also happens to belong to the other side of the world. (Unfortunately, not being there anymore means my knowledge in that place is also dying out.) If I didn’t go to school, would I learn anything at all? I really wonder what it is I do in my spare time when other people are reading the paper or YouTubing. I don’t even YouTube, actually. How sad. Oh well — I have given up being ashamed; shame is apparently not a very effective catalyst for change with me. I comfort myself instead with saying that I am indeed utterly ill-informed and I am always happy to learn something new.
Ignoring that digression, however, I fully intend to plug getting a free ticket to the Terry talks as well. While I am almost certain I have nothing of import to add to the discussion, I am entirely greedy to hear what my other more inspirational peers have to say.
Unfortunately, I can’t make National Geographic explorer Wade Davis’s free talk next Monday (27th October). “Can’t” being a word that means “I could choose to skip class but I personally refuse to under any non-life-threatening circumstances”. But if you can make it, why not? National Geographic may be my favourite magazine in the world — unfortunately, like my lack of knowledge in general, I have a lack of exposure to magazines (my secondary school did have copies of BBC’s Good Food that I’d flip through on rare occasions because they looked yummy), so that may not be a very well-informed comment. But at the moment(!) it is my favourite magazine within my limited experience.
(No, seriously. Do I know anything at all? I think I foresee a little crisis coming on.)
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