Class Day 4- Shirota!

Today’s classes included a language lesson from Cristina, which is as fun as always!  Dr. King sneaked out just in time to not be called upon to present about his family in Portuguese.  It is a bit of a running joke we have with him about being a bit afraid of speaking the language.

Shirota teaching about economics.

Shirota teaching about economics.

Shirota covered our schedule and we have so many amazing adventures coming up in the next five weeks!  I can’t wait.

It was our first rainy day on campus, with thunder and all!  It made for an interesting afternoon as well heard rain hitting the windows and thunder in a country new to us.

After lunch we started our economics lectures.  He taught us the basics of microeconomics y=f(x) and the law of diminishing marginal returns, tragedy of the commons and Smith’s Invisible Hand.  All interesting concepts that you could look up on Wikipedia sometime.

You may have noticed that we did have class on a Saturday, this program has a lot of content and touring, so sometimes we make sacrifices.  One of the benefits was that we had the classroom building to ourselves and could be a little noisy. It is a three story building with a grand atrium in the middle, topped by a beautiful glass ceiling.  The acoustics were great, so we had some impromptu concerts singing songs from musicals over breaks.  I decided it would be a good idea to sing Carmen Ohio given all of the connections and alumni of The Ohio State University who teach at ESALQ.  The video is very large, but I did get it to download on my Facebook page that is open to the public (Kelly Newlon).  We had a lot of fun! Here is a shorter video of a more spontaneous show of love for Ohio State: Short- Whole State of Michigan.

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