Sunday, March 30, 2008  Jane Goodall @ Hanover College,
03/27/2008  I got to go and hear a presentation by Jane Goodall
last Thursday evening. Quite an experience :) The opportunity
just fell in my lap when a friend of mine got ahold of a couple
of tickets and invited me along (tickets were free, but there
was a very limited number of seats and it was PACKED.)  Dr.
Goodall spoke on a variety of topics. She started out with
giving up the chimp versing of "hello" which got quite a chuckle
from the audience. Then she spoke about her own career, starting
as a young girl in war-time England. The most amazing part to me
was that when these old respectable men could not have a girl
running around by herself in the jungles of Africa, she was
required to have a companion in order to stay there. So her
mother actually came from England to live out in the wild in a
leaky tent for about 6 months, if I remember right. LOL There is
what I call supporting your kid's dreams.  Of course, she did
talk a bit about chimps. But I