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[Sil]

Hi Wilna,
I think the reaction was more - "Gees girl! Where did you dream up this
crap?"
"About a thousand years ago Saint James walked from Paris to Spain".
Huh??
"St. James, a popular figure amongst the Catholic and Christian faiths"
Huh??
The Route was called the Finisterrae?  WHAAAT?
If I had read this as an introduction to your book I would have been
horrified and honestly suspicious of anything else you wrote thereafter!

sIL

On 14 February 2011 08:37, Wilna Wilkinson <twoxscotch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Goodness, fellow pilgrims!
> What a storm in a teacup!
> A young student wrote an enthusiastic piece about a pilgrimage about which
> there is probably more conflicting and more contradictory information than
> any other historical event in the world.  If this same student wrote this
> same piece after he or she had walked the actual Camino, I could understand
> a few question marks. But the somewhat patronising comments and shocked
> criticism I have seen in this discussion about  this piece -- so much so
> that the university have felt it necessary to make a formal apology -- is
> really not worthy of people who have had the Camino experience. Where are
> the role models of the tolerant and kind and understanding people that come
> out the other side of the Camino experience? Why not just a gentle - and
> constructive correction of the facts -- if you 100% sure that the facts that
> YOU have are actually the correct ones?
>
> Think about it
>
>
>
> On 14 February 2011 06:46, Sil <sillydoll at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I left a comment on the webpage and have since received this apology from
>> Pierce Arrow:
>>
>> The Pierce Arrow would like to apologize for the factual, journalistic,
>> and
>> common knowledge errors placed within this article. The article has been
>> immediately removed online by the editors once realization of the amount
>> of
>> poor journalistic work that took place and we apologize for the
>> inconvenience.
>>
>>
>> On 12 February 2011 00:35, Kathy Gower <kathygower at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > more about Doug Challenger's work with his students on the Camino
>> > http://www.franklinpierce.edu/academics/studyabroad/camino/index.htm
>> > let this be a note to all of us 'academics' that we should check what
>> our
>> > students are saying....
>> > looking forward to hearing what others have planned for this new Camino
>> > year...Kathy
>> >
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