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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Travels and Transitions: Making it to and from Cuzco
Perhaps this entry’s title is a misnomer, since over the past two days, we did get a chance to do some good exploring around Cuzco’s main Plaza de Armas. Much of the first day, arriving around 12:30 in the afternoon after our hour-long flight from Lima, we spent in careful slow motion—heeding the multiple warnings [...]
Central Lima’s Plaza de San Martin and Plaza Mayor
With only one full day to explore central Lima, we had to make some hard choices. Too many worthy places to visit without enough time to see them all. Good thing that the place where we stayed for our last two nights in Lima, the Gran Hotel Bolivar, was a kind of charming destination in [...]
Visiting the Museo Nacional de Arqueologia and the Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
After another simple breakfast of some crusty and soft bread rolls with mantequilla (butter) and jam (don’t know how to say jam), we said goodbye and took a picture with our hosts from our hostel in Miraflores. The suited man who took our picture kept saying something that made us smile and laugh– what [...]
Exploring Miraflores, Peru
The first full day of a long trip abroad can sometimes be a disorienting and hectic experience. Many times you can wake up unrested, anxious over all the planning to be done, or overstimulated by the newness all around you. You might be on a new continent for your first time, afterall.
Our first day [...]
Limenos are not Lemons
Woke up today in Lima, Peru! The beginnings of our three week trip through Peru and Bolivia.
Travel from Boston to Lima (bean to the bean) through Miami wasn’t too much of a problem. (Many thanks for that ride there, K). You can’t go wrong with starting with the familiar McDonalds iced coffee at the airport–and [...]
Heading off to South America!
There’s something so tiring, yet so good, about getting ready for a big trip; almost like a trip experience in itself. From whittling down that lengthy To Do list, to hitting up Target to buy all those little things that inexplicably add to so much, to stuffing all those essentials into packs that you hope [...]
INTASC Standards Public Comment
Just got this email from NBPTS about the newly revised Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) standards. I had the chance to look at the early draft and put in some initial comments. Here’s another chance to submit some input.
Dear Committee Member:
As a standards committee member, you know all too well how important [...]
Watching the Real Work Happen
Once into the summer groove, it always takes a bit of extra oomph to get out the door and step into working with students again. Especially after being a few weeks removed from the end of the school year. And when you have to head out into a humid summer day and navigate the T, [...]
Taking it (and the Lobsters) Easy in Midcoast Maine
How lucky to have had this week here in this rented place near the clam flats in Rockland, Maine. Especially with the home temperatures in Boston holding steady in the mid to low 90s. Today here on the coast? Cool and misty in the mid 60s. Yesterday here, Downeast? Warm and bright in the low [...]
Enjoying the Green House and a Day Trip to Ollantaytambo