the world in black and white

I am pretty happy with my classes this semester. Actually I m just happy that I can actually take some Journalism and Global Studies classes rather than taking Speech and Geography 1 for my generals...and I actually got into Intro to Photography, which I will enjoy. Our first assignment is to shoot a role of black&white and develop it in our studio sessions. Eventhough I only have a digital myself, I am excited to use a "normal" old-school camera :) I have developed pictures in a dark room before but that was a very long time ago when I was still in High School, so Im sure there will be plenty of things for me to learn...
Anyhow, for now I am trying to think of places to go to take my pictures...this is not easy in Brookings, SD in January.....but I will figure something out!
Meanwhile I am also trying to figure out what I want to do for my Independent Study while I'm in Inida....I was thinking maybe I could do a comparisson between the media here and in India...I'm not sure!

I found a fun article, about comparissons between the US and germany...check it out...I will add my opinion later! http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/us-d.html#mentality

Another fun fact:
did you know, that...
South Dakota has 77,121 square miles, but only 754,844 people.
Germany (yeah, the whooole country) has 137,826 square miles and 82,431,390 people.
(That's just a little more room, for a whole bunch more people :)