Yes, one and all, I have arrived safely in Traverse City, MI. It took nearly 24 hours on planes (not including transit time in airports) to get her. The only flight delay I encountered was on the last leg and the shortest fligth. Nevertheless, I’m here. It’s nearly 7a in the [...]
Quick note: I’m in Jakarta now. Will be facilitating a seminar at the Ministry of Education tomorrow morning, running back to the hotel, grabbing my luggage and taxi-ing to the airport for my 2:something flight. I should be incommunicado for a few couple days. I hope the stomach holds up on the epic journey.
See you [...]
I’m going to try to email this post and see what happens. I haven’t tried it in a long time because the formatting got messed up in the
process, but I’ll try just for you.
Things are exceedingly banal here. It seems that every time I get to cross something off my “to do” list [...]
Sometimes, the future gets so close you can taste it on your tongue before it goes a few inches higher and pops you squarely in the forehead. At least that’s what it did to me. I went and thought I would have a nice last couple weeks to get the final exams written [...]
Another scorching weekend. Today I went to a birthday party for one of my students. I was invited so I figured, “What the hell?� I arrived at 12n as requested and there was only one other person there. I waited for 35 minutes before the actual ‘birthday service’ commenced. The praying and singing lasted around [...]