YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ALL DONE!!!!!  FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!  YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, sorry, had to get that out.  I am just so happy to have actually finished this project.  I feel like I actually learned more than I was expecting to, and I’m glad that I found a topic which really interests me.  I hope that all of the information I’ve provided as accurate and will perhaps spark someone’s interest in learning more about Tibet.  I’m hoping that I too will continue to do more research and help try to make a difference in the world now that it’s no longer required.  Thank you and enjoy!

Almost there…

All finished with the breaking news!  Now I just need to get my Guide to Action page put together and life will be good.  I may have to ask my Tibetan Civilization professor to check this out, just to see if I got all the facts right and did an okay job putting it altogether.  It was really cool because today in class, we had a Rinpoche (“a reincarnate of a holy person”) from the Tibetan Cultural Center come and talk to us about Buddhism.  It was really interesting, and he’ll be back to talk during our next three class meetings.  Anyway…. back to the blog!!!

Oh, and for people from our class, I commented on Claire and Austin’s blogs, and outside our class, Sam Ibarra’s blog (all of them on the background pages).

Ughh…

I totally fell asleep last night while I was working on this.  I meant to stay up and get more done, but that failed miserably.  Oh well, I guess that just means more fun today, right?  Anywho… I got another breaking news up and I’m about to write out two more now.  Doing the breaking news really isn’t so bad when you don’t try to write a novel about each and every story.  I thought it would be difficult to completely summarize an article and discuss it in less than 2 paragraphs, but really, just a few sentences is enough.  Well, I’m gonna get these two finished fast and then find three more and then I’m DONE!!!!!  …with Breaking News, at least.  haha

Blogroll finished!!!

That’s right!  I now have 10 links on my blogroll, which means I actually have one section of my blog totally out of the way.  Now all there is left to worry about is the ongoing posts, breaking news, and guide to action.

….okay, so that still sounds like a lot.  But I am happy to be making progress.  I really don’t think getting it done will be much of a problem, but knowing myself, I strongly hope I won’t cut it to close.  I would rather not let it get to the point where I’m frantically typing news articles in the last half hour.  I suppose we’ll see how that goes…

Completed background & analysis

So I finally finished my Background & Analysis page…  I probably spent way more time on it than I should have (time I could have spent on at least one or two more breaking news articles) but I like to think that I did it well.  It was always pounded into my head as a kid that you should give your all in everything you do.  Things don’t have to be perfect, as long as you do your best.  All I want is for this project to be something I’ll be at least semi-proud of.  It would be really upsetting if I looked back at a semester-long assignment like this and thought it was just okay.  So here’s to (trying to) go above and beyond!

OH NOOO!!!!!!!!!

I have less than 24 hours to pull this project together!  AHHHH!!!!!!!  Slightly worried, freaking out a little, but it really shouldn’t be all that bad.  I just put up another breaking news article (the one about the IU student in Tibet that made the front page of the IDS) and I’ve already got several more ready to read and write about.  That’s how I’m going to have to do it… read, summarize, read, summarize, read, summarize.  I can get these knocked out quickly if I just buckle down and finish them in one sitting.  Next up though — Background & Analysis.  I’d better get that out of the way before I go any further with the Breaking News.

Breaking news page = existent

So I finally figured out how to transfer my breaking news posts to a separate page – happy to be slightly more tech-savvy now.  =)  I also added another link for the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT).  The ICT “promotes human rights and democratic freedoms for the people of Tibet” and helps to keep the world updated on the situation in Tibet.  On their website, they also provide ways for anyone interested in the cause to take action and give donations.

In other news, a friend showed me an article in the Indiana Daily Student the other day about an IU student who traveled to Tibet and was made to leave the country soon after.  Apparently, she witnessed violence there nearly every day, not only toward monks and protestors, but ordinary, innocent-bystander Tibetans.  I will definitely be adding a summary of that story to my Breaking News shortly.

A new link and some new news

I posted another breaking news article that I used for one of my article summaries in-class.  I thought it tied in really well with my topic, so I went ahead an put it up.  Also, I added a link to a trailer for the movie Seven Years in Tibet on Youtube.  I haven’t seen the movie myself, but I’ve heard all about it and I hope to rent it one of these days.  It’s all about the Austrian explorer, Heinrich Harrer, who became lost in the Himalayas in the 1940s and found himself in Tibet.  The movie tells the story of the years he spent there (not completely accurately, but it still gives you a glimpse of life in Tibet) and how has was told he had better leave before the Communist takeover of 1950.  I personally think it sounds pretty interesting, but I don’t think my Civilization of Tibet teacher was incredibly bowled over by it.

Slightly more progress!

I added another link and two breaking news articles to my blog!!  Heck yeah!  I am so totally rocking this project… mhmm.  I wish I hadn’t gotten so far behind in the first place.  It really hasn’t been easy to motivate myself to go back and do all the work I skipped at the start.  But I’m getting there – still got a long way to go, but I think I can pull it together.  I have another article on its way shortly and hopefully a lot more to come in the next few days!

YAY!!!

I finally added a couple of links to my blog!!  Mind you, I’m not entirely sure I put them in the right place, but they are there. :-) Both of the sites have proved helpful to me so far, and I hope they will provide the reader with a place to go for more information if he or she so desires.  I’m very happy to finally be picking up on this project.  Expect a barrage of breaking news shortly!