Today I spent celebrating a project with linguist Michael Diercks, of Pomona College, who is among 7 collaborators documenting small AFrican languages that until now — weren't. 10 members of Maragoli have been taping their personal stories, hi…
Martin the German is a six-foot-five elementary teacher... who was my roomie in the hostel for most of my extra five days. We watched World Cup and yelled at the sleeping German team that one game... and it wasn't until the last day when fate…
Interesting 5-minute exchange with the woman in the tienda down the road. I wanted peanuts. DId not see any. I tried to explain what I wanted: you know, a fruit from a tree but it's not a fruit like an orange. No, not a pineapple. Or a pea. You c…
I taught English the other night and the activity I gave them is to choose to create a horror or action or Mexican soap opera ... or Fast and the Furious and act it out. And then I gave them stuff like a machete and me and a cat and having to sing…
"I like to ride down the mountain in the back of the pick-up, but I cought with all the dirt and dust. I have a bad pechuga ... from smoking." For what must be the 100th time, Enrique looks at me, smiles, laughs and says, "you have…
