As few others said in their blog entries about the panel, I expected the panel to be boring and a required event that students must attend where no one wants to. I think I would have enjoyed it more if I could actually hear what the panelists were saying and if people stopped talking (this can’t really be helped though). Charles L. Ni is an interesting person and it was great of him to come all the way from California to New York to speak to us, which I thought students should be more respectful to this special guest. I am trying to remember what he said and I think it went something like people can shape their identity in any way because everyone is capable of being good, evil, or maybe both. People can make their own decisions which shows who they are or what kind of person they are.
Also while reading the program for the panel, I saw that Tashi Chodrom is part of an organization called the Tibetan Resettlement Project and founder of the Voices of Tibet Project. I wondered if she knew the “to-be” King of Tibet. I am asking because the King actually visited my high school to spread the word about what is happening in Tibet (story for another day…). I think their organizations probably know each other, right?
