Lanphere

I have been writing a piece on the Lanphere dunes. So I contacted the Friends of the Dunes (FOD) and asked if the auto request I sent to they for a map of the dunes had gone through. I told them that I had already been there. The paper is for my Marine Geography class. I told them the piece I required that I have other information on the subject than just articles and references. I found an accurate a map made by the NR cart-lab using data from US Fish and Game at the HSU library. I was looking for something with trails on it though.

This is series is a retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.

Warms the Heart

I just got an email from a friend asking me about my Chinese classes. He was just dropping me a line. Apparently he applied to UC Santa Barbara, UC Berkeley and Sonoma State. He said that he too was going to major in geography. Warms the heart.

He was writing me from a Mexican town called Los Mochis, where he and his girlfriend were waiting for a train to Chihuahua. She was planning on going to Guatemala and flying home for Christmas. Meanwhile he was planning on continuing for several months. He says that he wants to get a job at a perma-culture in Ecuador or work street kids, orphans, and juvenile delinquents in Quito.

This is series is a retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.

Marine Geography

I wrote a lot in my notebook about how dunes grow and erode because I had just visited the Lanphere dunes for my Marine Geography class. We had to learn about the lithosphere and how the ocean fits in with it. In one of my other classes I had to watch a video on teaching children. We also spent a lot of time diagramming sentences.

This Notebook Analysis is part of retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.

Strict Diet

I wrote in my notebook that neither heaven nor hell is pertinent in the present. I went on wrote about the geography of China. I was writing this down because I had found this great book about Chinese Muslims in China. The writer, Isreali, made parallels between the religions strict diet and customs which allowed the minority to thrive.

This Notebook Analysis is part of retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.

Old Roommate

I’ve been emailing this girl I met a few months ago. She has been in Missoula Montana at the Rainbow Gathering. She always ends her emails with a line from Colette, “time spent with cats is never wasted.” She says that she will return to CA but wasn’t certain. I have been staying with my friends Mike and Ryan looking for a new place.

Meanwhile, my old roommate, sent me an email about a movie called Molly, about an autistic woman. Also, she saw another movie called Stir of Echoes about a boy that hears and sees spirits. She told me that she really empathized with the character. She told me that she and my other old roommate were going to help me out with the old apartment. We had a hard time with the move out. She was on her way to New York. She said she was going to stay with friends and get a job there.

She wrote that she liked email. Isn’t that funny?

This is series is a retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.

Muslim Hui

I wrote in my notebook that in his book about Chinese Muslims in China Isreali wrote about substance and function; essence and practice. He wrote that as the Chinese adopted western cultural traditions so did the Muslim Hui and they were able to appear that they had assimilated into Chinese culture.

This Notebook Analysis is part of retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.

Muslim and Han Yunnanese

I’ve been taking a class over the last few months and have been reading a lot about the relationship between Muslim and Han Yunnanese. I have been considering the Shan identity and international migration between Western Burma and China. Meanwhile there are other groups such as the Northern Tai (Thai) in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai along the Ping River in Northern Thailand. These people have a historical relationship with Luang Prabang and Sipsongpanna in China as well.

While Kunming, the center of the Ynnan’s administration is important, this doesn’t really consider the other regions in the province. Essentially there are four areas of importance: Dali, Tengchong, Sipsongpanna, and Batang. These areas are inherently Yunnanese by virtue of their imperial, nationalist or communist identities but they all have specific ethnic qualities that make them either Han, Muslim, Thai or Tibetan. Finally, the Yun-Gui plateau, which Yunnan shares with Guizhou, has many similar relationships with the Vietnamese and Zhang people.

This is series is a retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.