Moving – AGAIN

Well, actually, we are moving for the first time SINCE arriving in Cairo. AND the move is not that catastrophic, in that it is within the same building AND on the same floor. However…moving still sucks! I’m not sure if I’ve posted about this before, but our previous apartment had a distinct flaw in its… Continue reading Moving – AGAIN

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Nasturtium

It is mid-February.  The “changeable” weather is here.  Warm one day, cold the next, windy the following.  The nasturtiums are blooming – I had to smile at their happy flowers.

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Winter Graduation

Somehow, I got “finagled” into going to AUC’s winter graduation. REMEMBER, I’ve only been at AUC for 1 semester, I don’t know any of the students graduating. But, as is so often the case with faculty and graduation, most of the faculty DOESN’T GO. The AUC graduation is split into 2 parts: the awards and… Continue reading Winter Graduation

Settling in (again)

The first week of the new semester is over. I only put in about 50 hours this week – getting the kinks worked out, dealing with the students trying to either add or drop my classes, finding my way again. It is the same everywhere, and yet I sometimes wonder if I have it better… Continue reading Settling in (again)

Finding balance in Dahab

Jack and I knew we needed a “vacation” after the family left. We’d been trying to decide where to go/what to do since early December. The first thought was Petra, Jordan. Everyone we spoke with said we’d freeze our butts off in Jordan in January. We contemplated “Mombasa, in a barroom drinking gin” – you… Continue reading Finding balance in Dahab

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