FORUM TEACHING ME MUCH

　　I like my forum. Yes, it keeps me busy. You know what it does? It teaches me a lot about how Chinese people think. Instead of me asking you a question and you telling me what you think, fifteen other people tell me what they think. They don't always say the same things. I get 15 different ideas about 15 or 20 or 10, doesn't matter, about... different things about their lives.

　　And I can read them, and compare them to people in the West, that I knew another reason why I like the Chinese people so much. I can compare a lot of the way that they express themselves, what they find important to themselves.

　　I can hear that on the forum. I can "meet" so many people that I never have a chance to meet. "Meet" is in quotation marks. We don't talk, we don't meet, they don't visit me, they write, I read.