Tweet Easiest post this summer. Dr. Asang asked Katie and I to write an article to be published in her Community Advocacy Program’s newsletter, which came out last Friday I think. Since it’s all about learning and stuff, here it is below (kind of long because it wasn’t written for the web)! —- The Most [...]
Browsing Posts in Palau – 2007
Tweet Babeldaob, the largest island of Palau, has two waterfalls that attract visitors and yesterday we went to see the smaller one in Ngatpang. Afterwards, we drove around Babeldaob for a bit, when to Pam’s village in Airai to see the only pre-WW2 bai (meeting house for chiefs) still standing, and went home. Pam also [...]
Tweet When Katie came home today, I was sleeping on the couch because I was very tired. I remember her opening the door, her saying hi to me, and me saying hi to her and then going back to sleep. But then later, Katie mentioned that what actually happened was she came home to find [...]
Tweet A while ago I mentioned that I was curious about the nature of dog ownership, and I’ve finally gathered enough information to make a cohesive post on the topic. During my stay here, I’ve seen more stray dogs and roosters than anywhere else. Roosters crowing everywhere kind of makes sense, because as far as [...]
Tweet Having recently read Kevin’s opinion on how one should speak of their culture while abroad, I felt I should post my, if not opposing then at least alternate, opinion. I think it is fine to use the “Sorry I’m so American” approach with foreigners. That phrase cues the listener, that 1) you are aware of [...]
Tweet A little bit of a funny story. At the end of last Wednesday at Environmental Health, Katie told me that I should check out the giant orange/tangerine/grapefruit that was on Alex’s desk. I found it, and it was indeed a giant orange/tangerine/grapefruit! I didn’t get to look for long because Bieb, who was going [...]
Tweet Joe has introduced me to Edwel before coming to Palau that he is such a nice and smart man. And after spending sometime here, I learned that he is even more amazing than whom I imagined. Edwel and the rest of MOE management team have been quite busy with many on-going events. However, whenever [...]
Tweet I was on my way to 50 min-walk PPR to use the gym and it started raining. It was actually quite nice to walk in the rain, listening to ‘All out of Love’ by Air Supply on the radio. I probably won’t have this much freedom in my life and my mind to enjoy [...]
Tweet Special Request By special request of someone very dear and near to us, I’m posting about our 5 week halfway point as global consultants. We apologize for not posting earlier! The 3 day weekend for Constitution Day, mixed with a half-day power outage and busy Tuesday prevented an earlier post. It’s quite strange to [...]
Tweet One of several things to anticipate from coming to work at MOE in the morning is the morning treats. Employees here at MOE bring homemade snacks in the morning and share with us. The director himself visits us several times a week and brings us snacks. But what’s more exciting is finding surprise treats [...]
