back home i spout off many criticisms i have about america: race relations, foreign policy, the government in general. i felt by coming here it would give me a different outlook on the US. so in turn i would have to leave the states to feel more like a true american. since today is the five year anniversay of september eleventh, i think i already feel more patriotic. there are articles in the chinese newspapers about the anniversary, of course i cannot read any of them, but i do get to speak to some chinese about the event. it is nice being able to give them a perspective from a US citizen, that they otherwise would not have gotten. i have already done this with race relations in the US. the chinese really only know what they get from television. i am going to be asked a thousand times, "do you play basketball"? i don't really mind it, those chinese, you gotta love 'em. i am interested to get into good discussions about thanksgiving and christmas with my students and others, when those holidays come around. oh, and i find it amusing that i have been told a few times to not speak about the bible. i can bring up general ideas from it, but no preaching. it seems as if every chinese person thinks that since i am american, i must be a christian and really into jesus. there are missionaries around, but i have not met any. didn't mao kick them all out in '49?
your comrade brother
edub
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