May Day and Military Training

It's the May Day holiday in China, a labor day celebrated by most of the world but not the US as it became too associated with Communism and Socialism. But most of the students are gone on a three day weekend, though not the freshmen. The freshmen still have to complete their military training that was delayed at the start of the school year when the pig flu shut down the school for about two weeks. So the only people I see around campus today are the freshmen decked out in their fatigues. May Day creates a longer holiday for me since I'd usually be working on this Monday but now my only classes this week are on Thursday. I'm actually excited about having those classes though since I'm finally going to start on the Christianity section of the class. We've done Greece and Rome, including some pretty advanced stuff that at least some of the students seem to be getting. I'm sort of going all that way back to the basics when teaching about Christianity since most of them have only the faintest knowledge of what it is. I'm going to have to do classes on ealry Christian history, Christianity in Rome, Divisions in Christianity, Christian Dogma, famous Bible stories, how Christianity is actually practiced , and probably a class on Christianity today. That's going to take most of the rest of the semester. But it could be really interesting.