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Monday Oct 6 was one of the most gorgeous days – sunny and the mid-70s – which was perfect for a ferry ride to Tiburon. After walking past the Carnival cruise ship and hopping on the ferry, we crossed the bay past Alcatraz and Angel …
One of the valuable life lessons we have learned on our sabbatical is: If you have a beautiful, sunny day, enjoy it because you never know when the winds will change and bring in the fog! We also learned: “Push Through the Fog to the …
Today (April 17) we went to the the New Territories in northern Hong Kong to see the 10,000 Buddhas Monastery–the trip to the monastery turned out to be as “interesting” as the temple….but more on that later. The monastery sits at the top of a …
Have you ever wondered what would be on a Second Grade spelling test if you had to learn English as a second language? I’m not sure if “miscellaneous”,”molluscs”, or “vertebrates” would have been at the top of your list. But all those words and some …
So instead of being at the front of the class teaching, Ben has spent the last 6 weeks on the other side of the desk, learning what it is like to be a student again. Ben has had a great experience at the Escuela Spanish …
We learned an important lesson when visiting Pablo Neruda’s beach house, Isla Negra, about an hour south of Vina del Mar: Museums in Chile are closed on Mondays! But we were still able to get this glimpse of Neruda’s home where he wrote many of …