Monthly Archives: April 2010

Happy Travels, Part II

Let’s see… Where did I leave off when summarizing my Spring Break adventures? Oh, yes. I think I was just about to start Vienna. On our first day in Vienna, after arriving by bus from Prague, checking into our fantastic … Continue reading

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Random Thoughts and Plans

Anyways, this is all to say that second entry on teaching English is yet to come, I have not forgotten it, and I have a dozen other stories that I should be telling, but have not (and if I am honest with myself and my readers, probably won’t, because I am too busy living them!).

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Happy Travels, Part I

Well, I got back from my 3-week Easter Break vacation on Monday, and it’s taken a few days of down time to really get back into the swing of things. Let me tell you… 24 days of constant walking, sleeping … Continue reading

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War Remnants

There seems to be this very large, war shaped elephant in the room when I talk about my experience in Vietnam. For many Americans, Vietnam is imbedded in our collective memory as the war and not a people, country, or … Continue reading

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Tangier to Marrakech

Part I of my trip to Morocco and Portugal I must say, it was a very sandy trip.  If you were to empty my backpack after my return, you would find sand from the Sahara, the Algarve (Portugal), and the … Continue reading

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Teaching English as A Second Language, Part I: next week…

So this blog will be a bit of a revelation to my audience, a little secret that I have kept brewing on the back burner in all of my notes home. I have been teaching English two nights a week in the adjoining city of Sale, across the river from Rabat. I wanted to save this story for when I would have something substantial to say for it, and now I realize I have far too many things to say. It has been one of the most rewarding and unique experiences for me here in Morocco, and has provided me with an understanding of life here in a way that I know I could not have otherwise have accomplished.

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Graffiti

For some inexplicable reason, Google insists that I want to conduct all of my searches off of their Italian site. I could understand if they insisted upon either France or Morocco, but really, Itally? Where on earth did they get … Continue reading

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Central Vietnam? Hue Cool!

After our homestay had come to an end, we then got on a plane to have a week long excursion to Central Vietnam to visit Danang, Hue, and Hoi An. My homestay family is originally from Danang, and still have … Continue reading

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