School
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There’s no Place Like Home
A couple weeks ago, I took a largish group of high school students to Kenya for a choir festival. Wait … this sounds familiar … wasn’t it India? True, I did recently get back from a choir festival in India.… Continue reading
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Lillis Joy and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad IC TRIP
* The title of this post is taken from the children’s book “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day” by J. Viorst. The school “Intercultural Trips” have been a highlight each year I’ve been here. This year I signed… Continue reading
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What are you made of?
When the temperature drops, what do you let loose? Gentle rain? Snow wrapped hail? Lightening and thunder? A swirling vortex that pitches cows and cars into trees? When the rain falls, do you squish like mud? Soak it up like… Continue reading
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The Chain … (an arrangement, solo)
So, a week ago Friday I performed for an assembly at school. The kids were doing a talent show and I was the teacher “filler” act while the judges deliberated on a winner from the student participants. I decided to… Continue reading
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choices
As I mentioned a couple posts ago, I went to the coast with 18 high school kids in the last week of January. In many ways, it was like the trip I did last year at the same time. There… Continue reading
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hoopla
If anyone ever catches me considering a career switch to the United Nations or US embassy or some other such massive bureaucratic tangle, please slap me upside the head! About two weeks ago, I received an email – a forward… Continue reading
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Oh for a man who will sing!
Peacocks do it. We know almost all of the bird cousins do, but so do monkeys, whales, wolves, frogs, bats … and it’s the males that do it best. So what’s up with humans? Or to be more specific: modern,… Continue reading
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Snapshot 4: Stepping out to sing
Feb 23rd – 26th The American International School of Muscat (TAISM) is an international school much like ours here in Nairobi. Parents who work for governments or major companies or multi-national organizations Kids from all over the world K-12th grade… Continue reading
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Snapshot 3: Bureaucratic miracles
Feb 18th – 23rd If you were to pin me to the wall and demand to know what this year’s “big idea” has been at work – the theme, the big-picture pattern – I would say this: planning and logistics.… Continue reading
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Snapshot 2: Building community one brick at a time
Feb. 12th For the last two years, I’ve been involved as the teacher sponsor of the student chapter of Habitat for Humanity. (If you are not familiar with the organization, look it up. It’s cool.) Last month, two other teachers… Continue reading
Of Wonders & Wanders 