My buddy Darren is quoted as
Most of the time, I get news from other friends talking about these fantastic sites and places that they've been with breathtaking scenery and other National Geographic type stuff. What have I got to show for my experiences? A motorcycle trip back from a dinner in, once again, the middle of nowhere.

Okay I'm not quite in the middle of nowhere, I don't know exactly what that means. This town is 300K people, and it's primarily Tibetan. Which is rather cool. Ate well, ate yak meat, yak butter. And the Tibetan version of grits, or rather cream-of-wheat. they have this raw wheat that's coarse ground, such that it's still brown, almost purple. And it's mixed with tea, yak milk, and butter. And then as soon as it starts to get firm, eaten in balls with your hands. That's how the Tibetans eat it. The Chinese folk will just use chopsticks.

But anyhow, they say out here.
Children will dance as soon as they can walk,
and sing as soon as they can talk.

So in the National Geographic moment, I'm out here in this town and they're kind of standing around in the evening dancing (I guess they do this every night) so we're watching, but then encouraged to join. It was kind of a blast.

The two non-Chinese members of our team, got mobbed by autograph seekers. I couldn't believe it, and the African American woman was rather stunned. Alhough her quote for the night was this... "We were dancing around and then saw a big crowd forming on the other side of the square, and so I walked over to see what the comotion was about, and find out what? It's just Randy!" I think they thing he's Da Shan.

Okay teaching starts tomorrow. Team is good. School has a multimedia center, which I'm not too surprised, but some of the older team members are just kind of stunned at the facilities. The network closet for the school, which was funded by a UN 403 grant. Looked quite impressive.