Please call!

Hello Everyone...

Leap-frogging a bit with blog entries-- I am in Chennai India about to head south for some fun in the sun... but still have more blogs on China and DU course to up-load before I get to this part.

Anyway Christmas is coming... so download Skype onto your computer (www.skype.com) and give me a call!!!! I would love to hear from you over the holidays!

My india Cell phone number is: 9176192805

Love to all!
Carrie :)

Up-date

Hello everyone.

I have been safely in India since December 2nd. While diligently recording my travels in my travel journal, I have been without internet and now that I am taking my DU course, time. Rest assured there are several blog posts that will be coming soon. (I have about seven posts to finish up for China, and then INDIA!).

Love you all,
Carrie :)

Tiannamen Square and Mao

The people here in China really love Mao, as Jeremy explains, Mao helped modernize China to the superpower that it is today resulting in making the country literate and bringing women into the work force. Sure he ended up killing a couple million in the process, buts 1.5 million in a land with billions of people?!

With that said, Tiannamen Square isa place filled with opposites and contradictions. If the stones of that square could talk, they would let out screams of pain and anguish, and cries of rejoicing and cheer, and hours of militant training and ceremonies and gatheriengs filled with hope and trepidation. And now it is swarmed with tourists and people selling postcards, candy, and wanting to take your picture for a price. The indescribable contradictions and opposites were a bit much for my empathetic body to absorb. So yes, I came, I saw, I took pictures, but I won’te be coming back anytime soon.