Oh, kindergarten. So often I catch myself uttering sentences that are so outrageous they could only be uttered in a kindergarten classroom. And, well, then there are the sentences that I'm oh so used to: Don't wear your lunch box. Is that clay in your hair? It's spelled "F-O-R-K." Your have to say the "R." … Continue reading Things I Never Thought I’d Say (But Routinely Do)
Month: May 2013
Raneem: "Ms. Rachel, I love you one-zero-zero-zero!" Me: "Really?!" Raneem: "No, I love you FIVE-zero-zero-zero!" People, this is job satisfaction.
I have exactly 6 more weeks left at the school. That's 30 working days. 41 days including weekends. I will finish my work in Kurdistan at 2:55 on June 20th, 2013. Then I will be DONE. It's like seeing the finish line at the end of a crit. I make the last corner and go … Continue reading The Final Sprint
EPIDAVROS MYCENAE
Some very belated photos from my March trip to Greece.
I'm undecided on whether privacy is an American value, or an American luxury. As I'm an American and I highly value my privacy, I'm not sure that I have the necessary objectivity to decide. In any case, privacy is very, very, VERY American. America's all about pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. Pulling yourself up. On your own. … Continue reading Privacy: It Don’t Exist Here
Photos from last weekend. I visited my Halabja family for the 2nd time. It was a shorter visit, just a lot of eating. A lot of eating. They've invited me back this weekend for a seyran (picnic), which will involve around ten times the eating. I'm going to go, but I'm exhausted and full just … Continue reading Halabja Revisited (Photos)
It's impossible to find good books here. I have found a few shops that sell books in English, but I have two issues with them: They are all classics. Dickens, Shakespeare, absolutely nothing published after 1870. A lot of them I've read before, and a lot of them are more effort than they're worth to … Continue reading Books Books Books
In Mutual Weirdness 