Enroute to Cape Verde
21 November 2007- Wednesday
At sea- enroute to Cape Verde
So with all the free time onboard a ship at sea you'd think I'd have great accomplishments to report. Not so. There's only about 3 happenings to write about. The first is another lecture by Prof Keesal- "China- will its economic future include world domnation?" He didn't really answer his question but pointed out that China's economic growth is fantastic as evidenced by the past 10 years when bicycles have been replaced by motorized vehicles and that all the apartment houses in Shanghai have air conditioners in their windows. He feels the Chinese will never abide by the Kyoto protocols on Pollution as it would slow down their boom. Differentiated it from Russia where Gorbachov gave the people political freedom but no economic freedom and Deng gave China economic freedom but no political freedom and claims most of the people are satisfied with that arangement as long as they are prospering. He uses a lot of personal anecdotes of his travels to illustrate his points. Lunch was hamburgers at the poolside and french fries. Have to practically climb over the people out there sunbathing- the Germans have gotten a reputation for staking out the steamer chairs early in the morning by putting a towel and book on a chair and coming pack an hour later to stake their claim. (there is really a 20 minute rule, but no one pays attention to it). We had a Polish group called the Marco polo trio, violin and piano and double bass give a classical concert before dinner and it was a nice change of pace, (her violin sounded better that the $200,000 borrowed violin that Vincenso played the other night). Dinner fine with Ellen spotting me a glass of Beringer's white zinfindel. Since Mr Robinson our comedian missed the boat we are going to have Tufty Gordon a comedian musician take his place. I remembered Tufty from an Antarctic cruise and didn't much care for him- but figured I'd give him another chance. Clarinet and Saxaphone were his instruments tonight but what brought the house down was an audience paarticiaption number of Ghost Riders in the Sky. He got an American and a Swede on stage- the Swede spoke no English and as a result of the lack of communication it was hilarious. However a lot of Tufty's material has a Yiddish overlay e.g. "how do you pronounce Hawaii- Hawaii or Havaii? Answer- Havaii. Thanks. You're Velcome." Wine must have done me in so off to write post cards to be mailed in Cape Verde, but the wine got to me.
At sea- enroute to Cape Verde
So with all the free time onboard a ship at sea you'd think I'd have great accomplishments to report. Not so. There's only about 3 happenings to write about. The first is another lecture by Prof Keesal- "China- will its economic future include world domnation?" He didn't really answer his question but pointed out that China's economic growth is fantastic as evidenced by the past 10 years when bicycles have been replaced by motorized vehicles and that all the apartment houses in Shanghai have air conditioners in their windows. He feels the Chinese will never abide by the Kyoto protocols on Pollution as it would slow down their boom. Differentiated it from Russia where Gorbachov gave the people political freedom but no economic freedom and Deng gave China economic freedom but no political freedom and claims most of the people are satisfied with that arangement as long as they are prospering. He uses a lot of personal anecdotes of his travels to illustrate his points. Lunch was hamburgers at the poolside and french fries. Have to practically climb over the people out there sunbathing- the Germans have gotten a reputation for staking out the steamer chairs early in the morning by putting a towel and book on a chair and coming pack an hour later to stake their claim. (there is really a 20 minute rule, but no one pays attention to it). We had a Polish group called the Marco polo trio, violin and piano and double bass give a classical concert before dinner and it was a nice change of pace, (her violin sounded better that the $200,000 borrowed violin that Vincenso played the other night). Dinner fine with Ellen spotting me a glass of Beringer's white zinfindel. Since Mr Robinson our comedian missed the boat we are going to have Tufty Gordon a comedian musician take his place. I remembered Tufty from an Antarctic cruise and didn't much care for him- but figured I'd give him another chance. Clarinet and Saxaphone were his instruments tonight but what brought the house down was an audience paarticiaption number of Ghost Riders in the Sky. He got an American and a Swede on stage- the Swede spoke no English and as a result of the lack of communication it was hilarious. However a lot of Tufty's material has a Yiddish overlay e.g. "how do you pronounce Hawaii- Hawaii or Havaii? Answer- Havaii. Thanks. You're Velcome." Wine must have done me in so off to write post cards to be mailed in Cape Verde, but the wine got to me.
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