{"id":33380,"date":"2018-08-25T09:35:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T07:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estherjacobs.info\/?p=33380"},"modified":"2022-08-27T15:45:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T13:45:17","slug":"how-the-book-caribbean-changed-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estherjacobs.info\/en\/blog\/how-the-book-caribbean-changed-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"How the book \u2018Caribbean\u2019 changed my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">How the book \u2018Caribbean\u2019 changed my life<\/h1>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>Some books are special. Not only because they are good reads, but because you read them at a special time in your life, or in a special place, or both. Some books really make or mark a change in your life. For me, \u2018Caribbean\u2019 is such book.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_4 1_4 fusion-one-fourth fusion-column-first\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;width:22%; margin-right: 4%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-image-align-center in-legacy-container\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"175\" height=\"300\" alt=\"How the book \u2018Caribbean\u2019 changed my life\" title=\"How the book \u2018Caribbean\u2019 changed my life\" src=\"https:\/\/estherjacobs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_0645-175x300.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-33381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/estherjacobs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_0645-200x342.jpg 200w, https:\/\/estherjacobs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_0645-400x685.jpg 400w, https:\/\/estherjacobs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_0645-600x1027.jpg 600w, https:\/\/estherjacobs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_0645-800x1370.jpg 800w, https:\/\/estherjacobs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_0645-1200x2055.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_3_4 3_4 fusion-three-fourth fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;width:74%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p>Back in the nineties, I used to read many of James Michener&#8217;s \u2018historic novels\u2019. When I visited my father, who lived in Curacao in 1994, I read \u2018Caribbean\u2019. I was traveling the region and I was seeing a lot of things I could not place or understand from my business background, so this book gave me insights.<br \/>\nI had recently graduated from a BBA and my dad was pushing me to do an MBA. I had even taken a GMAT qualification test and had scored so high that universities were calling me to ask if I would please come and study with them&#8230; I had a vague sense that studying (more) business would not make me happy, but to be honest, I did not have an alternative, either.<\/p>\n<p>Then I stumbled upon a chapter in the book where an anthropology teacher spends a season on a cruise ship, teaching anthropology to students as they discover the Caribbean. First time ever that I heard about anthropology.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\"><p>Everything clicked. I would study anthropology to make (more) sense of the world around me and the different countries and cultures I encountered. This book prompted me to make a choice that was completely new in the world where I came from and that was uniquely my own. So I registered for a Masters in Latin American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Florida.<br \/>\nThere was a summer between this epiphany and the actual start of the university. And guess what happened? I got invited to a work as a hostess on a cruise ship!<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-5\"><p>Nowadays I combine my business background and my anthropological worldview in exclusive \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/estherjacobs.info\/en\/cruise-your-business\/\">cruise your business<\/a>\u2019 trips; taking small groups of entrepreneurs on inspiration journeys across the Atlantic.<br \/>\nInteresting how &#8211; only 20 years later &#8211; you can fully appreciate the impact a book has had on your life. That\u2019s why yesterday I decided to read it again.<br \/>\nAnd guess what? This boarding pass from (I guess) 1997 fell out of the book. That year I was doing my thesis research with the Maya indians in Guatemala and Belize, studying their natural medicines and belief systems around health.<br \/>\nHow times have changed! Check out the advertisement on the back for \u2018in-flight calls\u2019! 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