This morning, Sunday 30th September, a colleague had suggested going for an early morning bike ride. The advantage of going early is that there are few cars on the road which is important as you are taking your life in your hands on Yangon roads at normal hours. Continue reading “Yangon by bike – hair raising!”
Although I started out my career as a K-12 librarian, for the past 16 years I have been working only with kids grades 5-12. And for most of that time I was a middle school specialist. So, it’s been a bit of a shock to the system to go back to working with the younger kids, some whom have just turned four. Continue reading “Lower School Students”
To my mind Kuala Lumpur is one of those far away places that you might go to once in a decade maybe on an exotic holiday that has involved a great deal of saving. Continue reading “Kuala Lumpur in a day”
Gav is at school this Saturday morning taking photos of a math competition. I don’ t know how many action shots he’s going to be able to capture there, but hey someone’s got to try! He got mad at me for stealing his idea last week, so I thought I would tackle a subject that there is no chance he will write about because he doesn’t have my problem. Continue reading “The Sweat Factor”
Lindsey stole part of my main post idea so this one won’t be long and is mainly about language so feel free to stop reading. Continue reading “The Language of Love”
The rainy season seems to be tapering off a bit here in Yangon. We have had a run of a few days with no rain at all, although the humidity is insane. Yesterday we had a crazy downpour in the afternoon but now we are back to sun. I think the changing weather is bringing out some “wildlife” that we are spotting around here and there! Continue reading “Creature Encounters”
Yesterday was a very exciting day in the Ailbert household-our shipment was delivered to our house! Since late June we have been living out of 4 suitcases, so we have been waiting and waiting to (hopefully) get all of our things and feel a bit more settled. Continue reading “Our Stuff Arrives!”
This post is going to descend to a pretty murky level quite quickly so I thought I’d start off fairly high brow. In Salman Rushdie’s novel, ‘Midnight’s Children’, Continue reading “The Poop Post”
“Shwe” in Burmese means ‘gold or golden’. We live in Golden Valley which is something like Shwe Taung Jar. Our road name is Golden Valley 1st Road. Continue reading “The Shwedagon”
