No Class Tomorrow: Unexpected Cancellation !

 Class,

A meeting I had scheduled tomorrow was forced to move up to tomorrow morning, and I have to miss our class to attend it. Therefore, I'll go ahead and CANCEL TOMORROW'S CLASS (sob!) and let you start working on your paper! :) 

I won't make you do the in-class writing I had planned for today, but instead, I have a few exercises to help you start the paper (listed below). Feel free to respond to any of these as a way of starting your paper 'in the middle,' since each one would be a great way to start writing and introduce the conversation. Remember Paper #2 is due next Tuesday, and NO CLASS on Tuesday, since the paper is due, so you get 3 days off! (since Fall Break starts on Thursday--lucky!). Let me know if you have any questions since I should be back in town by around 2 or 3. 

INTRODUCTION EXERCISES (optional, and you DON'T have send them to me--they're designed to get you writing 'in the middle' on Paper #2):

• Option #1: In the essay, "My Own Private Iceland," Chayka writes, “We need to rehumanize tourists and tourism as the other and realize that we are also tourists. Tourism is part of our society” (71). What would you say to someone who also argued that "the best students are also tourists, both in the world and in life"? 
• Option #2: In Budd's essay, "The Volunteer's Dilemma," he suggests that volunteer tourism is “an international sin,” bound up in the “white-savior complex” (50). Imagine that you just bought your plane ticket to go to Africa (or someplace similar) to do volunteer work for a semester. How would you respond to this accusation? 
• Option #3: In Anderson's essay, "Rick Steves Wants to Set You Free," he quotes Steves as saying, "fear...is for people who don't get out very much" (17). Use this quote to explain why you feel that traveling is an essential part of getting an education. How does it teach you not to be as afraid of the world outside your door (and the people who live there)? 
• Option #4: Some writers have suggested that airplane travel is one of the greatest contributors to global warming, and have suggested we boycott air travel altogether. Yet if he did, this would make much tourism impossible. What do you think is the greater 'good': to see the world or save the planet? 

Good luck and I'll be around for questions and concerns. Otherwise, see you after Fall Break the Tuesday after next Tuesday. I'll send you a reminder about class on the blog and via e-mail.