The other week we
had some pretty smart people around, the type of smart that makes you feel very
much like an inferior human being. There were about 23 PhD students from
University of Glasgow who had come to Camas for a little getaway.
These people are the
kind of people who are literally changing the world. One woman is working on
using lasers on spaceships to deflect asteroids away from Earth, (there is one heading in our direction now and could
even have the potential to enter our orbit in the next 15-20 years and if it
would hit earth we will probably all perish just like the dinosaurs-so her work
is kind of important- and also sounds crazy cool) another is working on
a cure for malaria and another on 'sleeping sickness,' and there are a couple
using photosynthesis as a model to develop more efficient solar energy devices.
However brilliant
and important these people may be and however inadequate and foolish we may
have felt around them- everything changed the moment we got them in wetsuits
and sent them out into the ocean in Kayaks. They were so fantastically horrible
it made us feel much better about ourselves.
Watching smart
people awkwardly fall into the ocean for no reason other than their own lack of
balance or try SO hard to paddle
in one direction but instead end up heading full speed into the exact opposite
direction was truly a hilarious spectacle to witness.
It was another great
week at Camas getting to introduce people to new things and different
challenges while getting to know tons of stuff in return.
