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For our meeting on December 1st, we had a guest speaker, Dr. Gonzalo T. Chua, who talked to us about Chinese calligraphy and painting. He mentioned how Chinese writing first started out as pictures of objects and signs representing the concepts in a script called Oracle bone script. For example, the word “fish” in this… Continue reading 12/1 ICR Reflection ~ Chinese Calligraphy and Painting

For our meeting on November 17, we had to come prepared with questions from an online virtual tour of the Take Me to China exhibit from the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. We each went around and talked a bit about a part of the exhibit that we had a question about, or we found interesting.… Continue reading 11/17 ICR Reflection – Virtual Museum Visit

On November 14, I had the opportunity to go to Indy Translations and Language Center, located in Carmel, to sit in and watch a private Chinese Language class taught by instructor Tian Tan. To start off class, instructor Tan had written a Chinese poem on the board that Elon Musk had posted and captioned it… Continue reading 11/14 ICR Reflection ~ Chinese Language Class

Today, I had the opportunity to attend not one, but two presentations by Phil Chan where he discussed the future of the arts, more specifically in the ballet world, in terms of representing different cultures through movement, costumes, and appearances. Phil Chan is the co-founder of Final Bow for Yellowface, a movement to make a… Continue reading Phil Chan ~ The Multiracial Future of the Arts

On November 4th, we got the opportunity to go to Ling’s Oriental Martial Arts located thirty minutes away in Noblesville, Indiana. When we arrived there, one of the first things we were instructed to do when we walked in was to take our shoes off. We all then sat on a chair and met Master… Continue reading 11/4 ICR Reflection ~ Martial Arts with Master Ling

On October 28th, we had dinner at Lucky Lou, an authentic Cantonese style restaurant, with Kwan and Professor Braid. Although I have Cantonese style foods all the time back at home, it was still fun and exciting to try some new foods that I had never had before. One of the first things to have… Continue reading 10/28 IACA Reflection ~ Dinner at Lucky Lou’s

I thought it was really interesting how a lot of what the Five Pillars of Islam related back to helping the poor or sympathizing with the poor. One of the Five Pillars is Zakah which is a charity tax that is used to support the poor. Another pillar is fasting during Ramadan which allows them… Continue reading Five Pillars and Muslim Praying

While reading the Suras, I noticed many similarities to Christianity such as how God created heaven and earth and knows everything, and how God is forgiving. There was a line in Sura 57 that said, “Know that the worldly life is only play, and distraction, and glitter, and boasting among you, and rivalry in wealth… Continue reading First Sura Readings

On October 18th, we all met Kwan at Global Village to learn about lion dancing. Growing up I had seen it in parades in Chinatown and even at my church when celebrating Chinese New Year, so it was nice to learn some history behind it from Kwan. Lion dancing started in China around 300AD when… Continue reading 10/18 IACA Reflection – Lion Dance

Today in class, I had a flashback to my FYS class last year when someone brought up Abraham sacrificing his son. The FYS class that I took was Faith, Doubt, and Reason, with Professor Hege and we just so happened to have read and discussed Genesis 22 which is about The Binding of Isaac where… Continue reading Intro to Islam and Cairo House Pg. 1-26