Success!!

Well, finally I have some time for my little spot on the web and hopefully some time to whip up some yummy looking desserts! I really missed posting about my happenings and life in general but you know how it goes, you have to take care of your responsibilities first and then you can play.


I am very happy to say that I completed my course with the end result being an "A". Can't get any better than that. I hope, from my example, that my daughter will try to focus more on her studies now that she see's it is possible to do more than one thing at a time and still come out on top. I worked really hard for that grade and in the process found that I have a great interest in China.


China, as I learned, has gone through tremendous changes and until this course, I found I knew very little about it as a country. I experienced a range of emotions while taking the course and it has changed me. I often wonder why history in general is become something of the past in our nations primary schools, evidenced by the fact that when I was still living in the state of New York, my daughter would rarely have any homework regarding even US History. My father had even commented on how the days of sitting at the dinner table talking about that days events and telling past stories of how it was when he grew up or even how his dad grew up.



I really feel that understanding what a country, not just our own, had to go through to make it to where they are today is instrumental in tolerance. It's a fact that the majority of people all around the world have the same hopes and dreams that any of us in the US have. Raise our families the best way possible and offer our children the best educations possible. Even if, at 16 years old, our children think school is a waste of time.


Opening our eyes and recognizing that people are people no matter where they come from is a step towards understanding. China is not just that place where all our things come from. This is the most common statement you will hear regarding China. In fact, beyond that and the Great Wall of China, most know little about this great Country and the long extensive history it has.




Every place has a history that is filled with negatives and positives. I appreciate what my professor brought to the table. It is very useful information that makes you think and then sort of re-evaluate things in general.



I hope to return to China in the future so that I can see the wonderful places I read and learned about thanks to this course. The Great Wall is breathtaking and the Forbidden City makes you feel transported in time. Shenzhen, while I was there, was a bustling place of business and construction projects. I found out through my course that it was one of the first places that China transformed into a "special zone" when trying to attract foreign investors. Who knew? I certainly did not.



Everyplace has some type of story to tell, well......China has a story too.