Week in Review
First I want to appolagize for not posting pictures like I said I would. I'm having difficulty with the computers in the computer lab. They aren't exactly newest computers in the world.
This has been a pretty quite week. About the only thing exciting from class was the discussion on polotics in my culture class. I basically learned the Communist Party initialy helped farmers by redistruting land and that Deng Xiaoping is the man. I also learned that the Communist Party of China has democratic ideals. The government works in the best interest of the people and listens to the people. I'm not sure how true that is but it's what the government believes.
On Wednesday we took a field trip to see a festival. We were guests of the festival and recieved front row seats. It was interesting for the first five minutes but then became very repetative. The first group was a group of drummers/dancers they were somewhat entertaining. Then the next ten groups were dancers of some sort. One thing interesting was the differance in age of the performers compared to the US. In the US it is usually the young that perform for crowds. Here it is the old people that put on performances.
One Friday and Saturday night we went back to Scarlet, the local club. It was a lot fun again though again several people got sick from drinking too much.
On Saturday morning we went to the Nanjing Massacre Museum. For those who don't know, the Nanjing Massacre occured in 1937 when the Japanese invaded China. Nanjing was the capitol at the time so after conquering Nanjing the Japanese raped and pillaged the Nanjing area. It is estimated that the Japanese killed 300,000 people including 200,000 citizens in the 6 weeks of the massacre and over 20,000 incidents of rape were recorded. The Museum is located at a mass grave sight. Part of the museum includes a cross section of the mass grave where there are human bones stacked four feet deep. The grave measured maybe 50 yards by 50 yards. The people of Nanjing are still very bitter about the massacre, in part because the Japanese government largly denies it ever happened.
That's basically all I've been up to this week. Talk to you all later.
~Aaron Yates
P.S. - Happy birthday grandma.
This has been a pretty quite week. About the only thing exciting from class was the discussion on polotics in my culture class. I basically learned the Communist Party initialy helped farmers by redistruting land and that Deng Xiaoping is the man. I also learned that the Communist Party of China has democratic ideals. The government works in the best interest of the people and listens to the people. I'm not sure how true that is but it's what the government believes.
On Wednesday we took a field trip to see a festival. We were guests of the festival and recieved front row seats. It was interesting for the first five minutes but then became very repetative. The first group was a group of drummers/dancers they were somewhat entertaining. Then the next ten groups were dancers of some sort. One thing interesting was the differance in age of the performers compared to the US. In the US it is usually the young that perform for crowds. Here it is the old people that put on performances.
One Friday and Saturday night we went back to Scarlet, the local club. It was a lot fun again though again several people got sick from drinking too much.
On Saturday morning we went to the Nanjing Massacre Museum. For those who don't know, the Nanjing Massacre occured in 1937 when the Japanese invaded China. Nanjing was the capitol at the time so after conquering Nanjing the Japanese raped and pillaged the Nanjing area. It is estimated that the Japanese killed 300,000 people including 200,000 citizens in the 6 weeks of the massacre and over 20,000 incidents of rape were recorded. The Museum is located at a mass grave sight. Part of the museum includes a cross section of the mass grave where there are human bones stacked four feet deep. The grave measured maybe 50 yards by 50 yards. The people of Nanjing are still very bitter about the massacre, in part because the Japanese government largly denies it ever happened.
That's basically all I've been up to this week. Talk to you all later.
~Aaron Yates
P.S. - Happy birthday grandma.
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