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weekly photo challenge: delicate

14 Friday Dec 2012

Posted by nomad, interrupted in Birkat Al Mouz, Crete, Greece, Oman, postaweek2012, Rethymno, Wadi MIstal, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wekan

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Friday, December 14:  The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is delicate.

IN A NEW POST CREATED SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A PICTURE THAT MEANS DELICATE TO YOU.

Delicate could be the tracings of frost on a window, a child’s tiny fingers and toes, the intricate pattern of a tree’s canopy, or something yet-to-be-discovered. So much of this challenge depends on your interpretation of “delicate,” and we look forward to seeing the range of images you capture.

delicate flowers in Wekan, Oman

delicate flowers in Wekan, Oman

delicate flowers in Wekan, Oman

delicate flowers in Wekan, Oman

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delicate flower in Birkat al Mouz, Oman

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delicate in Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania

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delicate in Crete, Greece

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delicate view in Crete, Greece

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travel theme: circles

07 Friday Dec 2012

Posted by nomad, interrupted in As Sifah Beach, Birkat Al Mouz, Cambodia, Circles, Daegu, Ethiopia, Japan, Kyoto, Love motels, Oman, Siem Reap, Sifawy Beach Hotel, South Korea, Suncheon Bay, Travel Theme Photo Challenge

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Friday, December 7:  Our new travel theme challenge for this week from Ailsa of Where’s my backpack? is Circles.  She writes: Circles have a similar effect to leading lines in photos – the eye can’t help but follow the line of the circle, usually tracing around it several times, which draws attention to both the circle and whatever it encloses.

Here are some circles from my travels:

a dinner of circles in Siem Reap, Cambodia

a dinner of circles in Siem Reap, Cambodia

circular little thingies in a Japanese shop

circular little thingies in a Japanese shop

a date palm, everywhere in Oman

a date palm, ubiquitous in Oman

wallpapers full of crazy circle in a Korean "Love Motel"

wallpapers full of crazy circles in a Korean “Love Motel”

circular lanterns at a temple near Daegu, South Korea

circular lanterns at a temple near Daegu, South Korea

miniature little flower balls

miniature little flower balls

circular art from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

circular art from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Before I went to Korea, I ate my meals on one plate.  Maybe two.  But in Korea, they serve their meals on multiple plates and everyone eats off of them communally.  Every one of their meals is like this.  They do a LOT of dish washing in that country!

circles & circles (& ovals) of Korean food

circles & circles (& ovals) of Korean food

I’ve posted pictures of my favorite place in Korea, Suncheon Bay before, but the ones I’ve posted were taken in December, when all the grasses were brown.  On this trip, taken October 2, the circles of grasses were green.

Suncheon Bay in South Korea in the fall.

Suncheon Bay in South Korea in early October.

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a walk through the gardens of birkat al mouz

07 Friday Dec 2012

Posted by nomad, interrupted in Birkat Al Mouz, Oman

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Friday, December 7:  This morning, Mario and I take a leisurely stroll through the extensive gardens at Birkat al Mouz (literally “pool of bananas”), a small village close to the university.  We spend two hours walking and listening and standing in still silence, trying to capture birds, especially the frustrating and elusive Indian roller, on film. Mario, with his nice zoom lens and supreme patience, succeeds; I don’t.  We photograph tiny wildflowers, banana bunches and fronds, fields of sugar cane, and date palms.  We find Bangladeshi workers hauling grasses on their heads and in wheelbarrows. One holds a fat white cat and asks us to take a photo of him, but as we ready our cameras, the cat bites him and escapes.

We patiently watch fat black & yellow bumblebees alighting on milkweed.  We come across a secret grotto of sorts, where, behind a curtain of ferns, water drips down a niche in a wall covered in moss and algae.  We climb up on the huge falaj that runs along the top of a tall stone wall, and we photograph the mosque standing above it like a sentinel.  We discover a pretty ornamental tree with delicate dripping flowers.  I take pictures of colorful Omani metal doors to add to my collection.  Finally, we encounter an Omani, folding chair in hand, heading to a picnic in the middle of the plantation.

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weekly photo challenge: geometry

02 Friday Nov 2012

Posted by nomad, interrupted in Africa, Bet Giyorgis, Birkat Al Mouz, Corinth Canal, Daegu, Ethiopia, Greece, Lalibela, Oman, postaweek2012, South Korea, Weekly Photo Challenge

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Friday, November 2: Today’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is Geometry. This challenge is about the shapes and rhythms that make up the geometry of our world. Many photographs of any genre have an underlying sense of geometry, but it can be fascinating to make this the main subject of our work. It can be the most important aspect of a photograph’s success. This could be the patterns of the natural world up close and personal, or the rhythm of your local buildings.

Share a photo that means GEOMETRY to you!

a falaj at Birkat al Mouz in Oman

the Corinth Canal running between the mainland of Greece and the Peloponnese

a temple near Daegu, South Korea

the masterpiece rock-hewn church of Bet Giyorgis in Lalibela, Ethiopia

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another evening on jebel akhdar

24 Monday Sep 2012

Posted by nomad, interrupted in Al Aqr, Birkat Al Mouz, Jebel Akhdar, Oman, Sahab Hotel

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Monday, September 24:  Tonight, my friend  Mario and I go up to Jebel Akhdar to see the pomegranates, now at their prime, and to have dinner at the Sahab Hotel.  The last time we were here was in mid-June, in the heat of the summer, at which time the Green Mountain was a cool reprieve.  Tonight is no different.  The weather is breezy and perfect.  The waning light of sunset makes for some lovely views.

the Green Mountain terraces in the waning light

We take a little walk through the village and the plantations, but we get shooed away by a lady when we try to wander into the pomegranate garden.  This is the time when the pomegranates are ripe for picking, and Mario is especially excited about getting some good photos of ripe and juicy pomegranates.  So, we are disappointed we can’t get up close.  Later, as we wander closer to a pomegranate farm, we find someone is hurtling rocks in our direction.  We’re afraid to proceed any further, but then we realize they are boys trying to knock something out of a tree, possibly a walnut tree.  They are not really aiming at us (we don’t think!), but it just so happens the rocks are flying in our direction.

the terraced plantations on Jebel Akhdar

Oh well, the sun is going down anyway.  So we wander back and drive to the Sahab Hotel.  Once again, we have the entire place to ourselves and we pick a seat between the pool and the cliff overlooking the terraces.  It’s cool and the sky is dramatic with clouds and sunrays and beautiful light.

pomegranate tree in a field

the dramatic sky on the mountain

Sahab Hotel

We share some of a bottle of wine we brought ourselves (no wine is served as Sahab, but they do allow you to bring your own).  We order some Arabic foul soup (delicious), some smoked salmon bruschetta and chicken skewer appetizers.   We share an Italian salad.  The soup is definitely the highlight of the meal.

the Sahab all lit up at night ~ lovely… 🙂

dinner and wine under a dramatic sky!

Later, as we are driving down the mountain, we come to the police checkpoint.  They wave me down and ask to see my license and mokia (registration).  In all the times I have gone up Jebel Akhdar, I have NEVER been stopped on the way down, night or day.  They ask me to park the car and get out.  A very nice Omani man, not in uniform, tells me that when you approach a police or military checkpoint, you are supposed to dim your lights!! I had no idea of this.  Now that I know this rule, I will certainly be more careful next time around!

To see more photos of our evening on Jebel Akhdar, I invite you to check out the slideshow.

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sunday post: solid

15 Sunday Jul 2012

Posted by nomad, interrupted in Birkat Al Mouz, Jakesprinter, Oman, Sunday Post, Wadi Muaydin

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Sunday, July 15: Jakesprinter’s Sunday Post for this week is solid.  He writes: SOLID means : Stable, sturdy, firm, established, durable, rigid, substantial, strong, powerful, loud, heavy, splitting, honest, faithful, straightforward, loyal, conscientious, devoted, honest, faithful, constant, loyal,reliable, dependable, competent, promising, clever, compact, dense, thick, thick-set, concentrated, sterling, neat, pure, stark, constant, steady and united.

Here’s a picture of solid at Wadi Muaydin near Birkat al Mouz in Oman.

these boulders, tossed around in Wadi Muaydin as if by a giant, are about as solid as anything can be….

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another night at the sahab: bon voyage to mario

12 Tuesday Jun 2012

Posted by nomad, interrupted in Birkat Al Mouz, El Salvador, Eleni, Germany, Greece, Greek Civil War, Jebel Akhdar, Sahab Hotel, Stones from the River

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Tuesday, June 12:  Tonight my friend Mario and I go back up Jebel Akhdar to have dinner at the Sahab Hotel one last time before he leaves Wednesday evening for his summer break to Canada & Cuba.  I had been feeling kind of down and out during the day, so he suggested some cool air, good company and lots of laughs might do me some good.

poolside at the Sahab Hotel

the pool and the mountains stretch out before us

When we get up to the Sahab Hotel, we are told that the hotel has some VIP guests tonight and we are not allowed to take pictures of the guests, who apparently are some famous Emiratis.  The staff seats us at a table in the corner of the patio, away from the guests.  We sit under a little trellis where we can see the guests but remain unobtrusive.  As always on Jebel Akhdar, there is a lovely cool breeze and the temperature and the views are perfect.  We order some Asian dishes this time, which I don’t remember seeing last time on the menu.  Mario tells me of all his vacation plans and I can’t help but be envious because I am stuck here till August teaching summer school. I keep telling myself my time will come!

the gorgeous Jebel Akhdar terraced plantations

Before we sit down, Mario discovers a boot tree with little berries that he picks and starts nibbling on.  We had discovered these fruits growing wild in Wekan last time we were there and fell in love with them.  Funny thing is that after the Emiratis come out, they also head for the boot tree and a professional photographer takes pictures of this mystery VIP with the boot tree!

looking through the trees up to the hotel

We have a lovely time as always and enjoy our meal and our wine. Mario and I always have interesting conversations and this time is no exception. I tell him of the book I’m reading called Eleni about the Greek civil war in the late 1940s. I’m appalled at how neighbors in the small mountain village of Lia in Greece turned on each other during years of guerrilla occupation; paranoia ran rampant. I have read about this deterioration in human behavior before in Ursula Hegi’s 1994 novel, Stones from the River, where German citizens began, under Hitler, to turn against their Jewish neighbors, people they had known all their lives. People used every petty dispute or jealousy against their neighbors to save themselves.

Mario tells about his time in El Salvador during the early 1980s; he tells how horrible it was to live in a time of war, with paranoia running deep.  Neighbors and families turned against each other; no one could trust anyone.  He said dead bodies appeared on the streets and though at first it was horrifying, later it became commonplace.  He explains that people get hardened to war and the atrocities committed around them every day.  A person learns to survive despite the horrors that surround them.  Luckily for Mario, he managed to escape to Mexico, from where he eventually emigrated to Canada.

happy times at the Sahab Hotel

I realize I know so little about El Salvador’s war, and knowing Mario, I am now curious to read about it.  I find this on Wikipedia: The Salvadoran Civil War (1980–1992) was a conflict in El Salvador between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition or ‘umbrella organization’ of five left-wing guerrilla groups. Significant tensions and violence already existed in the 1970s, before the full-fledged official outbreak of the civil war—which lasted for twelve years. El Salvador’s Civil War was the second longest civil war in Latin America after the Guatemalan Civil War. (Salvadoran Civil War)

If any of my readers know of good books, told from a personal standpoint, of El Salvador during the Civil War, I would love to have your recommendations.

Tomorrow I’m due to take Mario to the airport for a midnight flight.  I’ll certainly miss him while he’s gone!

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a-z archive: w! challenge (window)

05 Tuesday Jun 2012

Posted by nomad, interrupted in A-Z Photo Challenge, Al Aqr, Al-Dakhiliyah Region, Birkat Al Mouz, Jebel Akhdar, Oman

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Tuesday, June 5: This week’s topic for our A-Z ARCHIVE = Tuesday’s photo challenge: the letter “W”: introduce one photo of your own archive with a “W” keyword for example WRITTEN (like FrizzText) or Winter, Wireless Lan or Woodstock, walking or weeping, wonder or woe, work or wine, whiskey or woman, wreck or wind etc.

Here’s a picture of a window at the village of Al Aqr on Jebel Akhdar.  This picture was actually taken outdoors, with the window reflecting the sky and mountains.

window on Jebel Akhdar

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share your world: cee’s life questions (week #26)

03 Sunday Jun 2012

Posted by nomad, interrupted in Al-Dakhiliyah Region, Birkat Al Mouz, Oman, Share Your World, Wadi Muaydin

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Sunday, June 3: Here are Cee’s Life Questions for this week:

What made you smile today?

I smiled, and actually had a good laugh, with my friend Mario today while telling him how a leech sucked the blood out of me on Friday at a swimming hole at Wadi Muaydin.  I was there just lounging in a pool with my friend Kathy when a leech got into my bathing suit and latched on to me in a very strange place!  Ouch!!

Here are the pools at Wadi Muaydin where Kathy and I floated for about two hours ~ sweet relief from the heat…

Here’s the actual pool where the leech slithered into my bathing suit… YIKES!

Have any hidden talents?

I have a talent for working with numbers.  Nothing complicated, mind you, but I used to be a banker for 12 years so it’s no problem for me to use Excel spreadsheets and to reconcile bank statements, prepare forecasts and analyze data.  As a matter of fact, in my last job before I started teaching abroad, I worked as part of a team at MSI (Management Systems International) on a huge analysis of USAID trade capacity-building projects all over the world, which involved a lot of statistical analysis with thousands and thousands of numbers.

Are you usually late, early, or right on time?

I’m usually right on time.  And I get really annoyed with people who are late, especially habitually so.

What is the difference between being alive and truly living? 

Being alive just means waking up in the morning and going about your daily business, without any joy or appreciation for what is all around you. Going through the motions. You have blinders on to the wonders of life that are all around you, ripe for the taking.  Truly living is being present to the moment, seeing the wonderful things that are around you, and appreciating them.  I’ve had periods in my life where I’ve just been alive, especially from 2002-2007, which was a particularly rough time for me.  After 2007, I started to feel more alive, and now most days I feel like I am truly living.  Of course, there are other days where I still feel like I’m not truly living, like I’m just making it through the day.  But.  Overall, I try hard to be joyful and to be grateful for the many blessings in my life.


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“end-ANGERED” animals

14 Monday May 2012

Posted by nomad, interrupted in Birkat Al Mouz, Nizwa, Oman, University of Nizwa

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Monday, May 14:  This semester, Level 3 students at the university had to complete a term project on an endangered animal of their choice.  Basically, they had to research the animal to find out about its appearance, diet, habitat, and why it was endangered.  They mostly researched the topic on the internet, but they also had to survey their classmates as to why they thought the animal was endangered.  They also had to interview several of their classmates to find out what they, as students, should do to save the endangered animal.

the White “LEE-on”

It was an interesting topic and the project, I thought was laid out quite nicely for the students.  They had to learn to take notes, to footnote properly, and to organize and present their topic.  Many of the students still tried to cut and paste from the internet, but as teachers we demanded that they put their research into their own words and present the information in an organized fashion.  Getting these students away from cutting and pasting is quite a challenge!  They all love to think they’re doing so much work, when in effect they’re just taking someone else’s work!

the Gray Bat and its cave

Today, we had the oral presentations.  Many of them made posters, including a map to show where the animal lives, pictures of the animal, and an outline with talking points.  Some of them did excellent presentations and I was generally happy with their efforts.

The Arabian Leopard ~ my best presentation in class

The funny thing to me was the students’ pronunciation.  Arabic students have a difficult time differentiating between the hard “G” sound and the “J” sound.  They also have trouble with the “B” and the “P” sound.  The “P” sound doesn’t exist in Arabic.  The “G”/”J” sound, though, does exist in Arabic.  In Egyptian and in Omani Arabic, what is usually pronounced as a “J”  sound in other Arab-speaking countries is pronounced as a hard “G” sound.  A word like universityfor instance, pronounced “Jam’ia” in Jordan or Iraq, is be pronounced “Gam’ia” in Egypt or Oman.

Kangaroo Rat

There was a similar situation in Korea, where the “L” and the “R” sound both exist in Korea, but Koreans always mix them up and say, for instance, “lice” for “rice.”  However, there are words with “L” in them, which they pronounce with an “R” sound, for instance instead of saying “hurry,” they say “hully.” I’m sure linguistics experts must understand the reason for this, but for me it seems that if they can pronounce both sounds, then why do they get them mixed up? I can understand why with the “P” sound, which doesn’t exist in Arabic, they always pronounce it as a “B.”  As the sound doesn’t exist in their native tongue, you would expect them to have difficulty with it.

I don’t think these are really pictures of a cougar!! 🙂

One of my adorable students did her presentation on: The GUY-ant JAR-ter Snake, which is an end-ANGERED species.  When she did the practice presentation the day before I kept trying to correct her pronunciation.  She could not get it right.  I had her repeat after me each word: GIANT >> She said correctly, GIANT.  But then I’d correct GARTER >> She kept saying JAR-ter.  No matter how many times we practiced it, she could NOT say it correctly.  She originally was saying GUY-ant for GIANT, with the hard “G,” and she could correctly pronounce that as GIANT.  So why could she not say “GARter?”

the GUY-ant JAR-ter Snake

Across the board, every student said “end-ANGERED” with a hard “G” for “endangered.”  There were other pronunciation issues as well, of course, but this one was the most noticeable.  I heard “LEE-on” for “lion,” the “blue-FINE tuna” for the “blue-fin tuna,” “BAN-GONE” for “Penguin,” “Red BANDA” for “Red panda.”  Last but not least, one of the students, described how her animal ate “Christians” instead of “crustaceans.” 🙂

Of course for learners of English as a second language, pronunciation problems are always an issue.  As they are for a native English speaker (like me) trying to learn French or Arabic.  There are some sounds that are just plain difficult, if not impossible to say.  Especially in Arabic, where there are so many guttural sounds that we just don’t have in English.

the Fritillary Butterfly

So of course I understand the pronunciation problems, but I still find them entertaining, just as my students find it quite funny when I totally botch Arabic words. My friend Mario, who has his Master’s in Linguistics explains that this problem is because the students have learned the pronunciation, but they haven’t acquired it.  I guess that just takes time & practice.

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PIRAN CAFÉ

Word Wabbit

Wrestless Word Wrestler

Cardinal Guzman

Encyclopedia Miscellaneous - 'quality' blogging since August 2011

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Personal blog about running adventures

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