June 8, 2012
Well, we made it to SOS Adventure #2: the Civil Rights
Travel Course! After a few weeks of prep work with Dr. Sapp (which consisted of
reading John Lewis’ Walking with the Wind
[an absolutely phenomenal read—I recommend it to anyone, I promise it is
not dry!], David Chappell’s A Stone of
Hope [a bit more academic, but also insightful], watching many documentaries, discussions, and two papers), we
made it to Nashville, Tennessee J
(We meaning myself, Dr. Sapp, Dr. Beth Paul, Professor Bickel, Tammy Briant,
Kou, some twenty Stetson Law students, and “Rip” Patton, a Civil Rights and
Freedom Rider veteran—definitely more about him later J).
Tonight we had a brief orientation meeting in which we all
ate dinner and discussed the week ahead. Tammy Briant, Director of Student Life
at Stetson Law and coordinator for the whole trip, emphasized that the week
ahead is all about transformative
learning; she explained that, as children, we accept beliefs and values
from our family, society, experiences, and friends. As we continue to grow up,
Tammy continued, it is important to think for ourselves and to challenge our
deeply held beliefs. After all of the academic prep work, I know Kou and I were
both ready to start our transformative learning experience.
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