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Our excitement grows about our move to India
Last weekend we were sent photos of housing in Chennai, India. The school we’ll be working for wanted to know if we wanted this place… This place has a lot going for it. Four bedrooms, four baths. We have two bedrooms and one bathroom now. A small yard. We have a park outside our apartment …
Who am I?
Two friends of mine met back in December. Mike, a good friend from middle through high school and Jay, a good friend from Mongolia. They met in Korea during a long Layover Mike had on his trip here. Hearing them talk about their meeting and discussing the few things they had in common – Korea …
April link dump
Here are April’s links of interest… MSN’s new web-series Mantiques will begin running later this week. Check out the episode I contributed a picture to – Evolution of the Razor. Jordan has started blogging! I have created a new Flickr account to highlight my best photography. I have a lot more uploading to do but …
Bangkok, Thailand
Last winter, pepper, Jordan and I made a trip to Myanmar with some time in Thailand. Even though it has been about 16 months, I have not written about our experiences. Well, I’m trying to catch up! Last year, for our three week break we decided to go to Myanmar. That wasn’t so easy. America …
I took seventh graders bowling
Our flight from Mongolia to Beijing was delayed last Wednesday. It was supposed to depart at 11:50 AM but didn’t until nearly 11 hours later, As a result, our players could go to classes instead of going to the airport. They were not too happy. It just so happened that on that day there was …
Test your science smarts
The Smithsonian and Pew Research Center put together a very quick 13 question quiz that they say you can use to measure if you know more than Americans about science and technology. Naturally, I wouldn’t be suggesting the quiz if I hadn’t aced it…
Things to carry with your passport
In the last two years, I have gone through some country’s immigration process over 40 times. I have been fine-tuning my passport handling and have some tips that might make transit easier for you. If you travel as a family or in a group where one person handles the passports (on my last trip I …
Tiara “Resort” ger camp
For the last few days of our spring break (a few weeks ago – April 4th-6th) we got together with some friends and went to a ger camp. On Thursday morning we woke to snow. Enkhe picked us up in the first of two runs to Tiara Resort then we swung by the school and picked up …
Why I coach
The truth is, coaching sucks. Much of the time… It means much longer hours than most peers. You might drag yourself to a practice more than an hour before most of your peers were even in the building and end up having two players show up. You often have to deal with athletes with low commitment …
Keep organized when refund requests get challenging
Since November I have been battling to get a refund for an air ticket I couldn’t use. It was becoming quite a chore to keep track of everything I had tried so I started dovumenting the emails, phone calls and other efforts I had made. This is making it much easier to deal with the …
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