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 [...]
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 [...]
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 was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
How lucky to have had the 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
I tell you. Quite a difference seeing the grounds of the Green House, the bed and breakfast where we are staying for the next three days, during the morning light as compared to the non-view we had as we trudged in with our bags in the darkness yesterday evening (one of us was likened to [...]