Today has been an interesting day. I've met with friends and talked philosophy and teaching in China, ran into a philosopher from Kentucky who is teaching math and physics here and experienced an interesting sermon ( Read more... )

Have you ever been to a historical location where you feel how old the place and the awe that such a thing has survived for so long? That's what I would feel today. The Guishan Han Dynasty Tomb is by far the best place I have ever been to in China in regards to history ( Read more... )

Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. This is the day in which Chinese celebrate the official and poet Qu Yuan who drowned himself in a river because the corruption of the era after the capital of the Kingdom he served was sacked (the most popular story anyway ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my first day in Xuzhou...and well here are my first impressions ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've wrote an entry that has nothing to do with my time in China, but I feel motivated to write what has been deep within my thoughts for some time ( Read more... )

Today was the day I would be seeing much more of the Christian community that makes up Nanjing. The church was St. Paul's Church, an Anglican Church founded in 1923. When I arrived it was crowded as in the main Chapel a wedding was being prepared for. It was a bit overwhelming because of all the people...I then got a call from my friend who let me ( Read more... )

It's amazing the adventures that can happen in this fascinating life. The "Unexpected Party" would happen on the 27th when a recruiter asked if I wanted to be in a movie. That night I would check in with one of my colleagues who said the organization checked out, well, the next morning it would begin ( Read more... )

The last place on the tour we would see would be the Winter Palace. The Winter Palace is very western in it's architecture and almost looks like some of the areas I've visited in Italy...that is the areas that weren't destroyed ( Read more... )

There are a few places in the world that really epitomize beautiful nature or architecture...the first of those for me is Yellowstone National Park, but I would have to include the Summer Palace in with the other areas that I rate highly for their beauty ( Read more... )

The final day in Beijing began with a 3:30am wake-up call. Suffice to say I began to feel undead most of that morning ( Read more... )