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2014 in Books – On a Scale from One to Fabulous
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On a Scale from One to Fabulous. Marissa's reflections on travel, pop culture, Peace Corps, teaching and learning. January 11, 2015. I read a lot in 2014. Most read genres: YA (including realistic fiction, sci fi, fantasy, and historical fiction), contemporary literary fiction. Biggest reading development: Audiobooks! In February and then seven more. Was the longest, at 19 CDs and 1.5 months of driving time. Bring Up the Bodies. Best YA dystopia: I guess. Which I couldn’t get through. Jacob Have I Loved.
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Great Falls and Harpers Ferry: Casual Hiking Day Trips from DC – On a Scale from One to Fabulous
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On a Scale from One to Fabulous. Marissa's reflections on travel, pop culture, Peace Corps, teaching and learning. April 22, 2013. Great Falls and Harpers Ferry: Casual Hiking Day Trips from DC. Every once in a while, you want to see some nature and breathe some country air. For a couple of hours, anyway. Great Falls on Sept, 29, 2012, a nice early-fall day. Harpers Ferry on April 6, 2013, windy and coolish but sunny. It was NBD. This was the kind of place where you could customize the length of your...
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2014 in Travel – On a Scale from One to Fabulous
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On a Scale from One to Fabulous. Marissa's reflections on travel, pop culture, Peace Corps, teaching and learning. January 11, 2015. Bar Harbor, ME, July ’14. So, for 2014…. New countries: 2 (Panama, Colombia, on Jan 1 and 2). New Canadian provinces: 2 (Quebec, Prince Edward Island). Places revisited: Las Vegas; Alaska; Victoria, BC; Boston; Bar Harbor, ME; Nova Scotia; Yosemite; Death Valley. Upcoming travel in 2015…. Iceland with the fam during Presidents’ Week (is that how you punctuate that? Enter yo...
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Find Me – On a Scale from One to Fabulous
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On a Scale from One to Fabulous. Marissa's reflections on travel, pop culture, Peace Corps, teaching and learning. You can find me…. On Twitter (as myself). On Twitter (as my alter ego). Where it all began, blog-wise. Malaysia and Thailand Trip. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 963 other followers. Peace Corps China Friends. China 15 teaching in Sichuan. China 16 teaching in Chengdu. China 16 teaching in Chongqing city. Create a free...
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Things I’ve learned this year – On a Scale from One to Fabulous
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On a Scale from One to Fabulous. Marissa's reflections on travel, pop culture, Peace Corps, teaching and learning. August 3, 2014. Things I’ve learned this year. I left DC and moved temporarily back to Redlands en route to coming to Stanford. I learned. I took the Social Science CSET, a test required of social studies teachers in California. I learned. There is more to California history than Junipero Serra. Padre Serra in the Capitol, 4/19/13. I traveled to Paris and learned. At the start of June 2013.
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Take me home, country roads: West Sumatra – On a Scale from One to Fabulous
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On a Scale from One to Fabulous. Marissa's reflections on travel, pop culture, Peace Corps, teaching and learning. February 16, 2012. Take me home, country roads: West Sumatra. The Sumatran countryside basically looks exactly like you picture it should. Oh, that’s actually only $90 or so), sitting between a man in a traditional Arabic white robe and hat on my left and a man in a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup t-shirt on my right. While country music in Bahasa Indonesian played. Our first destination, Bukittin...
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A Long Island Winter Weekend – On a Scale from One to Fabulous
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On a Scale from One to Fabulous. Marissa's reflections on travel, pop culture, Peace Corps, teaching and learning. May 3, 2013. Protected: A Long Island Winter Weekend. This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:. This entry was posted in Life in DC. Great Falls and Harpers Ferry: Casual Hiking Day Trips from DC. Colonial Williamsburg Weekend →. Malaysia and Thailand Trip. Join 963 other followers. Peace Corps China Friends. China 15 teaching in Sichuan. Friend from A...
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Colonial Williamsburg Weekend – On a Scale from One to Fabulous
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On a Scale from One to Fabulous. Marissa's reflections on travel, pop culture, Peace Corps, teaching and learning. May 16, 2013. Williamsburg Fife and Drum Corps (I would have been in this were I a local child for sure. Williamsburg stocks in 1997 and 2013. Williamsburg itself takes a few hours–we were there from about 11:30 until just before closing at 5, and that was plenty of time to see everything we cared to and to feel satisfied. Jamestown took a little over two hours. We ate lunch at one of the co...