Tag: Teaching
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Week 34
Friday 28 February: Day 232 A few months ago, Kalar started requiring people to pay for parking near the bazaar. They have young men on every street corner collecting parking tickets and fining people if they stay there too long, placing little yellow slips on the windshields of cars that have been parked for too…
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Week 33
After lunch we pack fig tree cuttings into plastic beds to be planted later. It’s hot now, and we can feel the hint of summer. Soon it will be too hot to do this, and our lunches must stay in the shade. But not today.
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Week 32
The glare on the white board is powerful and its catching these long beams of hanging dust particles that make the room feel monastic and introspective in that special academic way, and I hope my students are starting to paint their world in a new language.
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Week 30
I feel alienated, accused of a crime I haven’t and wouldn’t commit. To what degree should the host amend their behavior to accommodate the guest?
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Week 29
It’s a hopeful sign, then, that the two high school boys nodded in agreement the entire time the women were talking, and said that women face too many difficulties in Iran and Iraq. That things need to change, that it’s not fair. I doubt these two would open mouth stare at a woman at a…
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