This city is amazing. I love watching the carefree Dutch ride by on their Gazelle bicycles, men in business suits with their children on front, the bucket seat up front that holds 2 children and all your groceries. A friend and I got lost on our bikes and ended up in the red light district surrounded by various things we'd never seen before, I had to constantly ding my bell to get around all the gawking pedestrians. After that long jaunt it was already 9PM and I still had 30 pages to read for class, so I met up with my friend Jackie and we headed to the neighborhood pub. It was quite productive except for our random tangents into linguistics and anthropological delights. We got home at 1AM, and at 5AM I was ready to get up and go. We had our first introductory course today on Human Rights and International Criminal Law. The professor and many of the students went through Katrina while in New Orleans, and you can tell how it influences their studies and teaching. For instance, Prof. Larson asked us what law countries used when there was no law. If you can find a law, who enforces it when the government has totally broken down, he alluded to several African states (countries) such as Congo, Sudan, then New Orleans. He said there was a total governmental break down following the disaster and Americans saw a state of being they hadn't been privy to since the wild west. It was eye opening to hear this perspective. I'm crashing from my four hours of sleep. Pictures:
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