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Feature/News The Clackamas Print Wednesday, March 6,1996 TraveLearn offers study tours ‘Lady From Dubuque’ Damon Fouts Staff Writer Morocco, Indonesia and Costa Rica are just three of 16 lands that CCC and TraveLearn, an international travel/study pro gram, are offering tours of. “It’s a cut above the typical eco-tour,” CCC Science instruc tor John Snively said. Snivelyhas escorted two groups to Costa Rica - the first about a year ago, and another last February. As a faculty escort on those tours, his role was to share his scholarly expertise with the tour group through informative com ments during the tours, and through lectures and slide presen tations in the comforts of the ho tel. Faculty escorts from 280 col leges throughout the nation are involved like Snively in the TraveLearn program. Snively says that like most eco-tours, the ecology and the environment of the host country are examined, but the history, cul ture and art of the country are also explored. A native of the host country accompanies the tour group, and adds knowledge and perspectives a lecturing tour guide can’t provide. Snively’s group got a look at the evolving geology of Costa Rica, first-hand, when his tour group witnessed the eruption of the country’s Mount Arenal from Laney Fouse Staff Writer It’s the week before finals. Somewhere in the uncharted ter ritory you call a bedroom lies your chemistry book. The cover is spotless. The pages still a crisp white. There are no smudges of pizza or coffee. Nor are the pages dog-eared. If this sounds like your book, you can probably forget getting a good grade. Nevertheless, there is still hope for you next term. But, let’s say you spent countless hours reading. You did all your homework. You partici pated in class discussion. You asked what you thought were in telligent questions. Yet, the idea of putting your acquired knowl edge to a test is scaring the heck out of you. Relax and regain your con trol. No amount of worrying is going to help you. Perhaps, the following material, developed at the Air Force Academy Cadet Counseling Center will. Prepare well in advance. Keep up day to day, if you can; but don’t judge yourself harshly just two miles away. Other tours offer equally ex- citing opportunities. The TraveLearn program will be of fering a tour this summer and fall to Kenya, where the tour group will take a safari through, among other regions, the Masai village. Another group will be touring the temple of the Parthenon of ancient Greece, the birthplace of Western thought. And for those that pre fer staying close to home, a tour of Alaska’s Inside Passage is available. CCC Music instructor Janet Martin was on a previous tour of Alaska. The usual hotel accom modations were replaced by a two-week cruise aboard luxury cruise ship. She and those aboard the ship witnessed millennia-old glaciers falling into the bay of Glacier Bay. “We were close enough that we could hear it very good as the chunks of glacier hit the water. Some were the size of a V.W., some were as big as a large pick up. Some were even bigger. They made a low, rumbling roar that would climax with a huge splash,” Martin said. When Martin wasn’t watch ing the thundering glacial calv ing, the music instructor was pre paring her tour group for the ship’s talent show. The group wrote a song about the cruise and sang it at the show. According to a brochure that gives the dates and locations of upcoming summer and fall tours, the groups are kept to 20 people or less, the accommoda tions are first-class and the itin eraries are comfortably paced. And most tours provide the groups with the opportunity to share a meal with local natives in their own homes. CCC program representa tives are having an open house for those interested in the tours, March 30 from 1 to 4 p.m. in Gre gory Forum. Snively will be there to share his experiences and present a slide show from his Costa Rica tours. Martin and Debbie Baker from CCC’s Con tinuing Education will also be available to answer questions. 1996 summer or fall tours are also scheduled for Ireland, the Galapagos Islands, Equador, Nova Scotia, Bermuda, Belize, South Africa, Australia, Egypt, Turkey and China. The cost of the tours range from $2000 to $5000 per person, which includes food, lodging and air fare from the tour’s departure cities. Travel groups are organized at least 90 days before departure, although late additions can often be accom modated. CCC’s Spring Sched ule of Classes has complete infor mation on the tours. if you don’t. Avoid last- minutecramming. Don’t go with out sleeping the night before. Stop studying an hour or so be fore thè test and relax and com pose yourself. Know the time and place of the test and what you need to bring. Be on time, neither too early nor too late. Don’t rush. Don’t talk about the test with classmates immediately before hand, if you know it raises your anxiety level. To do so may nour ish group paranoia. Read over the test and plan your approach. Ascertain point values per part, time limits for each section, which question you’ll start with, etc. Don’t hesitate to ask for clari fication if you have questions about directions, procedure, etc., rather than letting anxiety build up because you aren’t sure about what you are expected to do. Develop an aggressive, yet realistic attitude. Approach the test determined that you will do your best; but also accept the lim its of what you know at the mo ment. Use everything you know to do well; but don’t blame your self for what you don’t know. Activity reduces anxiety. If you go blank and can’t think of anything to write, go on to an other question or another part of the test. On an essay, jot down any thing you can recall somewhere. You may write to stimulate your memory and get your mind work ing. Relax yourself physically during the test, if you notice that you are not thinking well or are tight. Pause, lay your test aside, and take several slow, deep breaths. Concentrate onyour breathing. Do this if you notice that you are worrying excessively about one problem, not reading carefully, forgetting information you know. Pay attention to the test, not to yourself or others. Don’t wast time worrying, doubting yourself, wondering how other people are doing, blaming yourself, etc. Don’t worry about what you should have done. Pay attention to what you can do now. ascends on CCC Jon Roberts Feature Editor two mysterious people sneak into Sam and Jo’s house. One Originally when I heard is a lady dressed in black and the play “The Lady From named Elizabeth. The other Dubuque” was coming to the is a tall dark man named Os college, I wasn’t planning on car who is dressed in white, seeing it. But and is introduced after talking to to everyone as be Director David ing black. Overall this Smith-English The second act play was and seeing his begins with Sam excitement for waking up to two very the play, I felt complete strang entertaining ers in his living like I should go see it. room. These two and very The play, people are the thought which runs toughest part of through March the play to figure provoking. 10, is about out, I don’t want ...a definite eight people and to give too much is set in 1979. must see.. away about the The play con plot, but even two sists of two acts, days after seeing this play I am still struggling both of which take place in Sam’s house. Sam is the hus to figure out who these people band of a woman named Jo. Jo are. The part of the play that has some sort of terminal dis is tougher to figure out is the ease. I think it might be can ending of the second act and cer. the purpose behind the second Because of Jo’s ailment, act. she is not a very nice person, The play was superbly who lashes out at everyone to acted with great performances try and make herself feel bet by every member of the cast. ter, or to possibly make every The characters were all very one else feel as bad as she does. believable. The characters that The first act is a party at Sam were the most entertaining were Fred, Oscar, Elizabeth and Jo’s house and all of their friends are there. There friends and Sam. Fred was played by Jim Miller, who at times had are Fred and his girlfriend many colorful metaphors to Carol and Lucinda and her husband Edgar. add to any and all of the con Fred is a ‘redneck’ with a versations. Oscar was played by guest actor Lennie Edwards foul mouth and an even fouler temper, his girlfriend Carol is who was very entertaining his latest in a long line of sig with his kung-fu and his jokes about southern stereotypes of nificant others, he has had the black man. Elizabeth was three prior wives. Lucinda is played by Debi Guthery, Eliza Jo’s ‘best friend’ of sorts, they fight a lot and just basically beth was entertaining with her don’t get along, what a good constant jabbering and her uncanny way of having a come best friend. Lucinda’s husband Edgar is a pansy who is not in back for everything. Sam was control of his life, his wife is. by far the best acted character. Patrick Sterling really made The party is full of confronta Sam into a character that I tions between the characters, found myself understanding the final confrontation being the most. He was very believ between Jo and Lucinda, which ends with Lucinda tearing out able and very emotional throughout the play. of the house in tears. This sort Overall this play was very of makes all of the characters entertaining and very thought get tense and they leave the provoking. party. Sam then takes Jo up This play is a definite stairs to bed. This is just the must see, if you miss it you will basic plot behind the first act, be sorry. It is superbly acted, there is much more in the first directed and performed. I act then I have covered. would give it four stars. At the end of the first act, H elp W anted *$200 - $500 WEEKLY* Mailing travel brochures. No experience necessary. For information, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Universal Travel P.O. Box 610188 Miami, FL 33261
