CHALK

I just found this at the video store. Great mockumentary about modern day teaching. Many of the facts and facets of real teaching experience are there, they just figure out how to have it all between 4 newish high school teachers.

If you are a teacher, or know naything about th ehigh school experience, you got to watch this!

Bonus: It was filmed in Austin, so it set in a Texas High School.

Travel Update

Returned July 3rd from Europe.

We actually ended up doing Amsterdam to Berlin to Paris to London, about 3 days in each town.

I left at Midnight to drive 600 miles to Fort Davis. I could have left later had I known it was 80 mph on I-10 as the legal speed limit. I wanted to have enough time to make it there by 3pm, but I made it quite early.

Be up here through the 10th at an "Age of the Milkyway" workshop.

Visiting Huntsville

It you look at bottom of image you an see Halima and McKenzie


The Sam Houston Statue was designed and constructed by artist David Adickes. He dedicated the statue to the City of Huntsville on October 22,1994. It is the world's tallest statue of an American Hero at 67 feet tall on a 10 foot sunset granite base.


After visit to statue, Halima visited McKenzie home and got to meet her horses.

Halima visits Houston Zoo

Watch this video hosted on YOUTUBE of Halima's visit
to the Houston Zoo



And after the zoo, we took a train ride around Herman Park
It can be boring, so I speed it up to take 1/2 the amount of
time - so it might sound funny too!

US - Tajikistan experience continues

Next Wednesday, Feb 21st, a teacher fromteh town of Isfara will be arriving in Houston to spend a few days at school and a weekend with me and my family.

She is from the town of Isfara, where my partner schools are.

Good for me, I can use her as courier to take some items back to Isfara for my partner Ibrahim.

I'll try and document the visit with pictures and now videos, since I have digital video capabilities and the rise of youtube.

If you visit YOUTUBE.COM and search for videos with keyword TAJIKISTAN, you can found about a dozen I have uploaded so far from my visit last April.


Our future guest in middle.