A View from My Hotel

Here's a shot from the lobby of our hotel in Utah. It's a great place.

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First Thanksgiving at Home

For the first time in our five Thanksgivings living overseas, Kristie and I are not traveling. We've decided to stay around Okinawa for both Thanksgiving and Christmas vacations. It's a sound fiduciary decision, but we are pining a bit for adventure. Here's a list of our past Thanksgivings: 2004: Beijing, China2005: Saigon, Vietnam2006: Venice, Italy2007: [...]

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Working in Italy

I had a work trip to Naples, Italy, and we stayed over the weekend. It was one of the best trips we had. Bruce and Annie, our friends from Korea, were excellent hosts, and they showed us Pompeii and Herculaneum. Ash people from Pompeii:

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Going to the Beach

Friends, We have accepted a transfer to Okinawa, beginning in August. For most of the year, our plan was to return to Portland next year. We felt good about that. Around Christmas, however, we started to get interested in a possibility for one more DoDDS assignment. We decided that we'd try for that, or return [...]

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Heading Back to Asia

We found out today that my request for a transfer to Okinawa was approved. Kristie and I are excited to go be beach bums for a couple of years. We wrestled with returning to Portland or going for another tour with DoDDS. We both felt lured to Okinawa, so I put that down on the [...]

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Class Animals

The school nurse sent out an email today asking for a list of any animals that teachers have in the room. Of course, this means class pets (hamsters, fish, etc.). Of course, we teachers had other things in mind. Less than thirty minutes later, she had to send out another email addressing all the jokes [...]

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Stop Talking to Me

The conference is filled with almost 100 teachers from around the world. They are all employees of the Department of Defense. Talking with them makes me want to go to Europe more than every before. At one time, I believed that all new hires went to Korea/Japan, before playing the waiting game until an assignment [...]

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