Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Where have you been?
Since everyone has been traveling lately, please send us a few paragraphs of where you have been and what those places have done for you (made you feel happy/homesick? had excellent food? reminded you of a place back home? been an completely new experience?) Have you seen anything/anyone that is a direct connection to home? Sometimes we travel to a far away place and see--our neighbor, an old middle school friend, a person wearing a t-shirt from our high school.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Re: Discussion #1--technology and traveling
In Pico Iyer's "The Joy of Quiet," he discusses the effects technology has on our communication.
"We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. Partly because we’re so busy communicating. And — as he might also have said — we’re rushing to meet so many deadlines that we hardly register that what we need most are lifelines."
Feel free to comment on these lines in any way--from how you use technology while you are abroad to communicate with those back home to how you like to get away from technology to how you agree or disagree with Iyer's lines.
"We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. Partly because we’re so busy communicating. And — as he might also have said — we’re rushing to meet so many deadlines that we hardly register that what we need most are lifelines."
Feel free to comment on these lines in any way--from how you use technology while you are abroad to communicate with those back home to how you like to get away from technology to how you agree or disagree with Iyer's lines.
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