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ASU talent show
I’ll take care to not post anyone’s names here but want to share some photos I took of the ASU talent show that happened last Friday. It also happened to be a spirit day that included crazy hair, crazy ties and for lower grades, Superheroes! i did a lot of playing with settings – whitebalance, …
A successful hunt – the best bacon in Mongolia
I don’t write about it much but I still love bacon. We have it as part of our unhealthy weekend breakfast most weeks. The problem is, we have not found bacon we liked until our most recent purchase. We tried all sorts of packaged and imported bacon. Most of the time it was too salty …
Ulaanbaatar no-car-day 2013
Today was vehicle-free day in areas of downtown Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Every year some of the city streets are off-limits to vehicles for one day. It is to promote healthy living, bring attention to pollution, and expose the traffic hassles UB has. We were excited to get out and walk down the middle of streets you …
Dambulla cave temple
One consistency on our few week trip in Sri Lanka was that nearly every stop ended up being better than we expected. That’s certainly a nice aspect of taking a trip that you let someone else put together for you. Menaka Arangala arranged our trip although we never met him. Our driver, Ashoka did a …
10 years ago…
It was about 10 years ago that I started blogging. I didn’t know that’s what I was doing. I was posting short stories on my website at first and then soon moved to Blogger to publish my content. Soon after, commenting was added using Haloscan. (Yes, ten years ago including comments in blogs was difficult!) …
March link dump
Every month there are some new interesting sites that link to this site or use my photos. Here are some recent ones. Earth911.com - Hacks and Mods to Repurpose Your Own E-Waste - Some cool projects here, perhaps least interesting is my Nintendo mouse. MacGyverisms - 5 Cool DIY Projects for Reusing Your Old Computer Keyboards – Shows …
We’re featured on the Cornerstone for Teachers blog
Angela Watson has written books on classroom management and maintains a great website with resources for teachers. She send Pepper and I a few questions about working and teaching internationally to put on her blog. Read it here.
I was in the circus
Tonight was the premier of an international circus performance in Ulaanbaatar. Pepper and I saw flags up a few weeks ago and have seen advertisements around town over the past few weeks as well. The ads look just like the ticket… We were seated the second row back. There were incredible acts of contortion, acrobatics, …
The Gobi
That word alone carries weight – Gobi. It was the topic of high school classes about deserts. There have been BBC Planet Earth segments about the place. And I live just north of it. Getting to experience it was a priority and we finally took advantage of the chance last fall. The Gobi saddles Mongolia …
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