Monthly Archives: November 2009


Technology Thanksgivings in China 4

I am thankful for so many things; this is a list of a few technology items that are especially apparent to me in this fifth week of my time in China. Skype This is by far the internet technology I am most grateful for today; I can not say enough positive things about the skype application.  It has allowed me to have video calls for free around the globe.   I have had consistently good connections almost every day.  The […]


Water & Adaptability in China

This is a picture of the Chinese character for water.  One of the students made it for me in my journal.  He said that this character holds a lot of power in China.  Water is a powerful symbol because it is so adaptable.  Think about all the forms that water can take and the power it has in each of them: ice, steam, erosion, irrigation, floods.  Flowing water will find its way over, around or through obstacles that are in […]