OK, got an email from BJ! She found out where she's going to be stationed for the rest of time. She'll be stationed on the Taiwanese island of Jiman (sp?) which is the one closest to the mainland of China. The others that will be there with her are the brothers Drew and Lucas, and two unrelated girls of the names Rebekah and Juliana. They'll all fly over there on Sunday (Saturday here.) Right now, she's still in Nantou enjoying the last of the English camp. She says she loves her translator and little class so much that she wishes she could have them the whole seven months. And that's the major news!

HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY, JC!!!!!!!!!

It was actually Sunday but we couldn't break with the tradition of being late, now could we?

Had a great class! Studied Aristotle's ideas of ether, stars, and god. He's a little far-fetched. I wonder if even he understood what he wrote. Stars for example. He says there intellectual, not physical, eternal, and unchanging. Exactly how do you derive that from watching pin-points of light in the sky?

The first four books of The Republic have been verrrrrrrry interesting. His major flaws are:
1. Man is a product of his enviroment. If you educate everybody right, they'll behave properly.
2. It's ok to found an entire society on a 'Noble lie'. And BTW, how can you tell the difference between a noble lie and a bad lie?
3. He's out of touch with reality when he thinks that merely through education and lies that you can convince someone to live without freedom. Oh, you could some people, but not enough needed for a state. Eventually, people are going to start thinking and figure out that they don't have freedom of speech, job, or press.

I gtg so Mama can go drop off Naomi at gym. There's a whole another topic there that has me frustrated.