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Dedicated teachers from Afghanistan. 

News from Afghanistan

The TARA conference sponsored two teachers from Afghanistan to attend. The challenges they described were overwhelming. Lack of electricity, working facilities and low funding all caused by continuing wars in the region. The limited number of trained teachers are working to instruct “trainers” who in turn instruct “mentors” who are the ones

Ride ’em cowboy

Chasing camels in the desert in a hotel minivan hardly qualifies as adventure in the National Geographic sense. However, when it leads to actually petting one and exchanging smiles with his handler, that’s pretty adventurous for a poet from Cleveland.
A visit to the Oil museum shows that this barren area was

One patient camel. 

Tree of Life 

TARA

I am in Shanghai, woefully behind in chronically my trip. The weird thing is, I can post from China, but I cannot read my blog. It is blocked. So, forgive me for any typos.
I had such a fulfilling experience at the Arabian Reading Association meeting. Again, I was struck by the commonalities. So many

Commonalities: A desire to learn 

Student freestyling at Bayan School. 

Bayan students singing the Japanese national anthem. 

Bayan student reading poem.