Reflection

So... Since we didn't have class today, I wasn't really sure when our reflections were due. But, I have a few things from this past week that I'd really like to talk about.

The most fascinating thing is something that I witnessed when I went to the Kennedy Center for a concert this past Thursday. I was lucky enough to get my ticket for free from my voice teacher (I had to write an essay about it. Stank), but a lot of the people attending the concert were quite wealthy, as the performance was a vocal recital held in the Terrace theater, a venue for which most patrons hold season tickets. In the Hall of Nations on that particular night, there was a display where a grain of rice equaled one person. So, they had piles of rice representing things like the number of people in the world that live on less than a dollar a day, the number of Americans without health insurance, and the number of draft-eligible Americans that moved to Canada during the Vietnam War. It seemed like I was the only person at the display that was not utterly shocked by the size of the pile representing the number of people without health insurance, or the number of people living on less than a dollar a day. It really worries me how ignorant some members of the upper echelons of society are about the plights of the poor. They are the ones with the resources to fix the problem; I suppose they often just don't know about it. Who's worried? I know I am.


Oh, yeah. And the concert was super good. Yay for Alice Coote and her skillz.