China blocks my blog. As it does all blogspot blogs. And facebook, youtube, every fun website ever, to be exact. So I must post by e-mail.
I started my goal of seeing more of the Chinese countryside this past weekend, visiting a forgotten little town in Sichuan with a friend from the translation class I took. Looking at the picture, you have now seen as much of the town as I did! We got there after dark, and we found out the next morning that the last bus out was at 9:00am. But it was a good 12 hour visit.
I am glad to be back teaching. They give me a lot of freedom, with a few notable exceptions. For my international relations class last week I gave a lecture on the Iraq war, mainly focusing on a war crime. It's the type of lecture they could never get anywhere else, and I got actually a very positive response. One student said it was the most interesting and inspiring class she had ever attended. I feel that I may have set the bar too high! This week's overview of realism might be a bit of a letdown.
