absence

Dear all,


I will be absent for the following two weeks. On June 26, I plan to move to Taichung. It will be very busy on that day. On July 3, I plan to go to Taipei to attend a conference. I'm sorry that I can't participate our study group for the following two weeks. Hope you have a lot of fun on the puppy issue.

Best,
James

Topic for July 3rd: Is the Dog Human's best friend, or is Human the Dog's best friend?

As you know that I have a puppy now. When the first time we took her to a pet hospital to have a health check up, surprisingly, the venetarian called me "mother" ... because I am adopting a ... PUPPY.
So I wonder ... what is the social status of a dog in human society nowadays?

Found some interesting articles about this:

1. Our Dogs, Our Selves


2. Since dog usually is treated a part of the family, this article Why Can't We All Just Get Along? The complex dynamics of babies and pets has some interesting issues.


3. And if you are also interesting in having a dog as a pet, you might want to read this article Finding the Perfect Dog There is no such animal. So, stop looking

Hope you find this interesting ^.^

maria

Change the blog background and more :)

Hi dear all,


Just being notified by google that they have new template for the blogger, thus I changed a little bit. hope u like it :)

as i mentioned earlier, i can't participate for the following 2 weeks, for my mom and boyfriend are coming to attend my convocation. In the meantime, we will go to Rocky mountain and Baff National Park and some other scenic spots in great Vancouver. This means that I will be seldom around computer and internet during these 2 weeks. Sorry for not being able to participate on June 19th and 26th.

Last afternoon Maria and me hardly talked about the blind people articles, simply because we only had one hour and we talked a lot about elections, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia stuff (mostly, politics and history ha). I'm thinking that maybe James you can still use the blind people article on the discussion next time (i.e., June 19), given the condition that u can be the host and that Maria can attend the session. If any of you can't attend the session next time or the week after, please do feel free to postpone or cancel it. 

I'll be back on July 3rd. Hope to talk to you soon :)

Best,
Angela    

Sorry

Hi there,

It's me again.
I'm sorry that I can't make it this week for unexpected work.
I need to accopany a Korean scholar to the Taipei airport tomorrow morning.
In that case, I just afraid that I can come back to Tainan on time.

I know it's kind of last minute. I'm really sorry for that.

James

June 12 discussion

Hi,

For the June 12 discussion, we gonna only call attention on the issue of the social interaction in blind people. Here are the required article and video clips:

Challenges of Being Blind
Blind, visually impaired enjoy bicycle outing
In Beep Ball, Umpires Aren't Blind, But the Players Are

Jams.

Discussion June 5th (Taiwan time)

Dear all,


sorry forgot to make this post earlier. hope you don't mind. this week we're going to discuss the article i posted last time:

In quite a state: How many countries in the world? The answer to that question is surprisingly difficult


for the reason that Maria and I did not have sufficient time discussing this one; last time we simply talked about the other article, the people power article. 


please leave your message here if you can't attend the session this time, otherwise let's just chat  as scheduled :)


PS1. Maria your adopted dog is really cute!!!


PS2. James how's your conference? I'm sure it must be great :)


Talk to you soon!


Best,
Angela