beyond the green

Day 4 of our Middle Kingdom adventure!  Beijing weather this morning was typical early January--no snow, but chilly, with morning lows of 16-18 degrees F. and a modest breeze from the NW. The overall health of the group was very good--probably a soli… more »

This was the day to learn more of Beijing, the new and the old. The hotel morning call came promptly at 7, then a nice Asian-oriented breakfast on the 2nd floor of the Rainbow.  Customers in the coffee shop included Chinese (perhaps 70% of the total)… more »

Friends and Family: What I expect to follow is a series of rather brief, informal notes, hopefully prepared on a daily basis as time permits, coming out our January 2012 Bethel College Interterm experience in China. The theme of this first-ever BC In… more »

For the past two-and-a-half weeks, I have been traveling around Israel, Jordan, and the West Bank with a group of Bethel and Tabor students.  The focus of the trip is on expanding our understanding and awareness of the Israel-Palestine conflict and to vi… more »

Hello, friends and fellow students,  Greetings again from the Social Development and Social Justice class here in Cuernavaca Mexico.  I write to you on the morning of our last day here, as we are moving to Mexico City tomorrow.  I think that the group ha… more »