Monday, July 16, 2007

Wedding




This is a picture of me and the bride and groom in the church. It was my first time inside a church, and it was beautiful. The wedding was eventful and also a continual reminder of cultural differences. I am particularly homesick for our cultural norms.

I'm heading off to a week-long seminar called Lessons of Liberty Camp. It will be in English and is mainly for young Georgians, but I'm exceedingly excited to learn about how Libertarianism could be implemented in Georgia.

Below is the schedule for tonight and tomorrow:

Lessons of Liberty Camp

Gonio, Georgia, July 16-23, 2007

SHEDULE:

Monday July 16:
6:00pm Greetings
6:15pm DINNER
6:45pm Announcements, group and class selections
7:00pm Skit on logic and markets by 5 Belarusians
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Tuesday July 17:
7:00am Study Hour--read class material
8:00am BREAKFAST
9:00am Whole Group: John Stossel Goes to Washington video-educational series
10:00 am Small classes:
Louis James--music library dealing with political topics
Sunni Maravillosa--pursuing personal freedom
Kevin Bjornson--Business English
Anna Tokar--discussion of 9:00am video topic
Andrea Fuchs--discussion of 9:00am video topic
Belarusian group discussion--bi-lingual Russian/English
11:00am Small Classes:
Louis James--music library dealing with political topics
Sunni Maravillosa--persuing personal freedom
Kevin Bjornson--origin and definition of "state" from Maine's "Ancient Law"
Anna Tokar--rational egoism theme from Rand's "Anthem"
Andrea Fuchs--illustrated version of Hayek's Road to Serfdom
Belarusian group discussion--bi-lingual Russian/English
12:00 NOON LUNCH
1:00pm Whole Group: Louis James lecture: Entrepreneurship and Investments
2:00pm Small Classes:
Louis James--discussion of 1:00pm lecture topic
Sunni Maravillosa--pursuing personal freedom
Kevin Bjornson--origin and definition of "state" from Maine's "Ancient Law"
Anna Tokar--rational egoism theme from Rand's "Anthem"
Andrea Fuchs--illustrated version of Hayek's Road to Serfdom
Belarusian group discussion--bi-lingual Russian/English
3:00pm Small Classes:
Louis James--discussion of 1:00pm lecture topic
Sunni Maravillosa--pursuing personal freedom
Kevin Bjornson--origin and definition of "state" from Maine's "Ancient Law"
Anna Tokar--Jonathan Gullible play rehearsal--"Escalating Crimes"
Andrea Fuchs--illustrated version of Hayek's Road to Serfdom
Belarusian group discussion--bi-lingual Russian/English
4:00pm Free Time
5:00pm Free Time
6:00pm DINNER
7:00pm Jonathan Gullible play--Tragedy of Commons--performed by Belarusians
8:00pm Free Time featuring discussion at campfire
9:00pm Free Time featuring disucssion at campfire
10:00pm Free Time featuring discussion at campfire
11:00pm Recommended Bedtime

2 comments:

howard said...

quite an agenda. are liberty participants coming from all parts of georgia? any non-georgians besides you?

Unknown said...

i'm fascinated by that course list.

interested in how it turned out.

were the talks deep and interessting, dull and shallow or ?

it sounds to me like something that could be absolutely culturely unique

tell, tell