From Fleece to Linen

Took another trip to the yarn store to get materials for our Mother’s Day letter and yarn for a blanket that my friend, Karma, is croch...

I’ve started Arabic lessons!  My coworker, Sara, and I are getting tutored by our other coworker, Ahmed.  In today’s lesson we learned ho...

We spent the morning today in an IB training.  Schutz will be an IB candidate school next year (!!), so the teachers are being trained in ...

I hear that Mother’s Day in Egypt is a pretty big deal.  Here we celebrate in March, and the moms are invited to the classroom for muffin...

The weather is warming, and runs outside have the potential to be more enjoyable than treadmill runs.  If I’m on campus, I’ve gotten us...

Went on another beautiful run through Montazah.  I loved the way these palm trees looked against the white clouds.  You always see pal...

The second grade class at Peterson Elementary (in Kodiak) is celebrating Dr. Seuss Week, and they needed a mystery reader to read one o...