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Weno Caitlin: August 2008
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Thoughts from a small Pacific island. Saturday, August 9, 2008. Request for school supplies. In case anyone reading was interested in helping out St. Cecilia faculty and students, I have compiled a list of school supplies that could be put to use at the school. These supplies are either not available on our island or are pretty expensive if you can find them:. Teachers' lesson plan books. These supplies can be sent to my address:. Chuuk, FM 96942. Federated States of Micronesia. Friday, August 8, 2008.
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Weno Caitlin: November 2008
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Thoughts from a small Pacific island. Friday, November 7, 2008. I myself was at first completely skeptical. A tidal wave? I thought we were protected from tidal waves by the reef. My apartment can’t be more than 200 yards from the ocean, will it survive? If a tidal wave hits, will the bank still be open? 8221; (I will swim! What if I die here? Is this seriously happening? 8221; He says, “We sent the kids home, you know it’s just a drill, right? How did no one know? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Weno Caitlin: April 2009
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Thoughts from a small Pacific island. Sunday, April 5, 2009. Fiin Chuuk" - Chuukese Woman. 8221; To me this demonstrated exactly what the project now seeks to deal with- a lack of a social definition of what constitutes domestic violence and sexual assault. The women’s council members know that there is violence in the homes of many, some even say most here. What to call this violence, how to challenge it, and recognizing it as an infringement of human rights is what we are now working on.
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Weno Caitlin: February 2009
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Thoughts from a small Pacific island. Sunday, February 22, 2009. Running in a skirt. St Cecilia had its track and field days this week. Two days of too much sun and a lot of small children running. It’s always an exciting time for the students. The staff and students divide up the school into 4 color teams: red, yellow, blue, and green, and compete against each other in sprinting, relays, tug o war, etc. 2-All children run barefoot. 3-Girls run in skirts, sometimes two skirts, with shorts underneath.
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Expatrious: How to Teach in Korea in 3 Easy Steps
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May 8, 2009. How to Teach in Korea in 3 Easy Steps. A steadily increasing number of you have asked me how you too can teach English in Korea. I suppose there aren't too many jobs floating around in the United States or something. Well, at the moment there are a lot of "Teaching English as a Foreign Language" jobs in Korea. First, the basics. There are three sorts of TEFL jobs in Korea:. Hagwons (privately owned academies). Next, the details. You do NOT want to teach at a hagwon. Yes, I'm describing the w...
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Expatrious: 12.09
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December 16, 2009. The Seattle Times published. A letter I wrote to the Editor last week. There's many people who are skeptical of human-caused climate change, and many who view Climategate as vindication for their views. This Letter to the Editor is my response to them:. In the case of Climategate, the conspiracy theorists are wearing WMD and may injure us all. They’re generalizing a few pieces of doctored data in an attempt to impede the entire sustainability movement. If we continue to abuse the Earth...
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Expatrious: 03.10
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March 11, 2010. Recently I received an email from a friend explaining how the IPCC made a mistake in their report, “Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”. Apparently, New Scientist had interviewed an Indian glaciologist who'd speculated about the fate of the glaciers. An Indian report had cited the interview. WWF Nepal then cited the Indian report, which was then cited by a writer contributing to the IPCC Assessment Report #4. Expecting perfection from countless contributors each ci...
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Expatrious: 02.10
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February 10, 2010. My Rights are Your Rights. I've just finished reading a New Yorker article. About the furor regarding Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in United States criminal courts. The timbre of the article leaves me with an image of the writer, Jane Mayer, with one hand on her hip and the other pointing particularly at a phrase in the Declaration of Independence. As Amy Jeffress, Holder's national-security adviser, is quoted in the article, "There was no file ...
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Expatrious: A quotidian day
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May 14, 2009. I just got home from school. I walked in, took off my cardigan (which proved suffocating after ten this morning), set a litre of water boiling - to drink later, since the tap water is rumored to be unpotable - rinsed a handful of cherry tomatoes I bought on the way home, opened a Pilsner Urquell and sat down to write. I realize you know little of my daily life, so because today was so average, I find it apt for sharing. Where are you going? Are you a foreigner? For the last four hours of sc...
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Expatrious: 01.10
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January 28, 2010. Every statement should end with a question mark? My friend Ryan Georgioff recently wrote,. Naturally, I can't help but feel this is one big cosmic joke. Have you felt it? That hesitant panic that maybe you've been duped, been done over by Zeus and his Creons? I'm not the first to feel it, I know, but when the curtain falls and Jesus is standing there with uncorked champagne toasting the end of life-as-we-know-it. well, that would just be fucking bizarre. No job, no money, and no real de...
