Category Archives: Indonesia

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Whirlwinds

April 5, 2008 – 10:16 am

A few weekends ago, Indonesia put together a four-day weekend due to Maulid (Islamic holiday commemorating the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday) on Thursday, and Good Friday (Christian holiday that I think you can figure out). Pack those two into the weekend and you have a weekend getaway from wherever you are. I chose to [...]

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Turbulence

April 4, 2008 – 8:29 am

I’ve been meaning to do some clean up of the last few weeks, but I’m still recovering from all the travel that I’ve been doing.
However, I just want to point out a website that I searched and found while doing some research into EFL Literature Circles (there are others, but I used the role handouts [...]

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Monday Haiku #30

April 1, 2008 – 9:57 am

Flickering sunset,
cupping tired retinas:
a day’s lullaby.

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Signs

March 26, 2008 – 2:39 pm

I went to the classroom to teach first period yesterday. A sign on the classroom door read that I (and anyone else teaching in that room) have been reassigned to another due to a faculty and staff table tennis tournament. The tournament is now in its second full day.

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Dreamtime

March 12, 2008 – 5:11 am

I don’t know what it is exactly, but getting a good night’s sleep here is not possible. And it’s been that way for the past three and a half years. I can’t say why though. Even if I’m sleeping in a posh hotel, I can’t seem to sleep like a log. [...]

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