Every morning at 8:15, nearly 2,000 students have morning assembly right under my window. Sometimes they stretch to marching band music but yesterday it was aerobics-style calisthenics to pop music.
Kept this blog while studying Mandarin in Beijing, courtesy the Washington Post, and before that while reporting from postwar Iraq for Knight Ridder Newspapers. Occasionally I can't access this blog but I will try to update it intermittently ...
