Post from behind the wall
As the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square Protests near, China apparently has blocked its citizens from posting to twitter and other social media tools . This past summer I had the opportunity to use social media in China. I tried my best to keep friends informed of my trip as I traveled with a group of students and taught English at a middle school in Tian Tianshui, Gansu Province. Posting to our Blog (which has been deleted for security reasons) and uplaoding videos to my YouTube site tended to be the most difficult of tasks. Twitter, on the other hand, was very cooperative. Now as I look back, I wish I would have updated to twitter more. Here are the few posts that I did make while on the trip.
-Suffering from jetlag…..
-Back form China. Feeling major culture shock!
-Travelling to Tian Shui from Xian today on the Chinese western frontier along the Silk Road.
-Uploading video to youtube from China
-Twittering from Beijing. Made it here safely last night.
-getting bumped off my flight from PDX to Seattle. We will miss flight to Beijing if we don’t make it by 2pm PST
-Repacking and packing and repacking…… China 5 hours to go. Sleep! sleep!
-Feeling like I will never get to sleep. Leaving for China in 7.5 hrs
-Deciding what to pack for china “leave the gun, take the cannoli”
It is a shame to see the Chinese government continually trying to keep citizens from communicating about truths. Luckily there are plenty of ways around, over, and under the wall.
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