Physics Week 9 (Synthesis)

My E-Prime Day - describe your day, only using English Prime
Yesterday morning, I woke up at 6am, did some stretching movements I learned from my yoga classes, then I played my guitar for approx. 30 min. , I took a shower, answered some work emails, talked on the phone with someone I had been friends with since 7th grade. Then I left for school at 8:37am, according to my clock.

I thought: it's nice to get up early in the morning! I should make it a habit. However, by early afternoon during my class, my eyes started to get heavy. Maybe I didn't get enough sleep.

Every minute seemed to get longer. My mind started wandering...until break time came, I tried to energize myself by going out to get a sweet/spicy/milky caffeinated tan color concoction called Chai. But I think it was also walking and breathing what I hoped was fresh air that woke me up. Anyway, after that I managed to stay awake and aware throughout class afterwards.

Can I synthesize East and West?
As globalization takes place more and more, a lot of cultures have become more westernized and more people in the West are interested in eastern ideas (Like this class and my wonderfully open-minded classmates). I think no matter how much East and West synthesized, there will always be some cultural differences, esp. because of the language issue. A lot of great thinks think that how we embrace the world is reflected/influenced by our language. As long as there are linguistic differences, there will be cultural differences.

The Bay Area is such a hotbed of east-west syntheses and it is exciting to be part of it. At the same time, it is good to really understand different cultures more deeply; so when they synthesize something, it's coming from a deeper place, instead of just synthesizing from the surfaces of different cultures.