{"id":34,"date":"2008-05-05T07:34:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T12:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/?p=6"},"modified":"2025-05-29T20:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T01:06:13","slug":"month-of-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/2008\/05\/05\/month-of-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Month of May"},"content":{"rendered":"

As most of you know, I’m taking 22 students to China and Korea,<\/p>\n

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beginning\u00a0tonight. We leave Chicago at 1 a.m. for Seoul, then on to Beijing. When we’re in China, we’re visiting Xian, Shanghai, and Xiamen, then to Hong Kong and Macau. We fly to Seoul for a week in Korea, including a night at\u00a0a Buddhist monastery, which might be a lot like a “cabin campout.”<\/p>\n

You’ll be getting e-mails and snail mails for a snapshot picture of what I think is happening, and what’s changing.<\/p>\n

I will follow with great interest the activities of Troop 19. You’ll be in\u00a0great hands with the parents who’ve given us such great support; it says a\u00a0lot about them that I can leave, and the troop functions well.<\/p>\n

I’ll be back June 4. After the trip with students is over, I’m headed to Tsingtao for a visit (and a marketing look at the Tsingtao Brewery, founded in 1903 by Germans–who then occupied Tsingtao), and then for a few days into southwestern China, the province of Yunnan, for a look at some of the minority peoples in the predominantly (over 90%) Han People’s Republic of China.<\/p>\n

I’ll miss you, but I hope to continue to educate, even from a distance.<\/p>\n

Have a great month, and study; remember Thomas Friedman’s World is Flat comment–children in Asia are hungry for your jobs!<\/p>\n

Good grades and good Scouting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As most of you know, I’m taking 22 students to China and Korea, beginning\u00a0tonight. We leave Chicago at 1 a.m. for Seoul, then on to Beijing. When we’re in China, we’re visiting Xian, Shanghai, and Xiamen, then to Hong Kong and Macau. We fly to Seoul for a week in Korea, including a night at\u00a0a … Continue reading “Month of May”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mayterm-china"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9037,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/9037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}