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Somehow it slipped by me to write my post last week–SO get ready for a double-whammy!\u00a0 I’m sure I’ll have lots to talk about, as we are getting ready for data input!\u00a0 Hopefully by Wednesday we will have all information\/media gathered, written up, and ready to upload.\u00a0 Tierney will then help us actually upload it all.
\nLast week the Silk Worms met with Tierney and played around with Google My Maps.\u00a0 It was SO cool!\u00a0 Very straightforward and easy to use, and very perfect for this project.\u00a0 In fact, I kind of want to just make a Google My Maps for every trip I’ve ever taken.\u00a0 It’s that useful of a tool.
\nMy desire to use this database operated by Google makes me think on how we can’t use Google in China\u00a0 What an enormous barrier!\u00a0 I don’t usually have to think about censoring or about what information is forbidden.\u00a0 It all started to seem really real during the break-out session for the abroad trip when we were discussing what reading we had to do while in the U.S. and how we should clean off the documents that we have been reading in class just in case they’re a red flag.\u00a0 I have so many documents on my computer that I love and cherish and look back on continuously.\u00a0 It’s like my own little library on here.\u00a0 I guess I’ll just have to back it up on a hard drive…
\nLast week was all about maps. \u00a0Maps, maps, maps.\u00a0 I actually really enjoyed it.\u00a0 When I was younger, I didn’t even no where my own state was on a map, let alone Kuqa, China.\u00a0 I really had it in my head that geography was something that I could not do–that my brain was not fit for it.\u00a0 What I’m starting to see with these tests is that I am perfectly fit (then again, I haven’t actually gotten the test back…).\u00a0 The world actually makes sense!\u00a0 Borderlines are not arbitrary, they are built to fit the land.\u00a0 That is why, I am particularly pleased that this map actually involved us drawing the lines, not just marking a dot.\u00a0 That said, it was shockingly hard to do it.\u00a0 It was like learning how to draw cartoons–you learn how to draw 1000 perfect circles, and then you’ll know how to draw any cartoon in the world.\u00a0 But this was more like scribbling.\u00a0 And I still only know how to draw Central Asia.
\nHere’s a stupid youtube video of my surprisingly favorite cartoon character to draw–Tazmanian Devil.\u00a0 You better laugh.
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