Our SLM team were inspired by an event advertised by ASHA and have decided to make it our own ... so we are having out inaugural SLM team Ice Cream Social!! Here is Dr Kate Crowe's invitation:
Whether you like your ice cream cow-based or plant-based, soft-serve or scoop, chocolate or strawberry, heavily sprinkled or sprinkle free please organise a scoop of your favourite iced dessert and join us for a catch up. The global distribution of our group does make the logistics a little challenging, but I think the best time is:
- 10pm Fiji
- 8pm Sydney
- 5pm Vietnam
- 12pm Germany
- 10am Iceland
- 6am Eastern US
You can checkout the other options here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20210901&p1=82&p2=240&p3=95&p4=37&p5=211&p6=263 (spoiler alert ... none of them are great!).
Marie may have to eat ice cream for breakfast, but it is for the greater good. Franklin and Sadie are especially welcome!
Here is my response:
Dear Kate, Jess has analysed the moral choices about the time zones based on what she is reading for her MPhil Theory of Justice (Rawls). (1) Utilitarian = based on greatest good for greatest number of people (most people have pm timeslots for icecream) (Tate; Mills) (2) Rights-based liberalist approach = choose someone who is “least advantaged” and develop times based around that (Rawls). I like your timezones whatever theory you used. Please send a zoom invite to us all Regards Sharynne
We managed to meet on 3rd September in Iceland, Vietnam and Australia. We discussed family, life, COVID-19 restrictions, and how members of the team are in the Polyglot Club. This year Kate C is studying Danish (in addition to speaking Icelandic and English) and Ben is studying Chinese and German (in addition to speaking Vietnamese and English).
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| Icecream with Kate C in Iceland |
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| Kate C in Iceland, Ben in Vietnam, and Sharynne and Kate M in Australia |
