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Vientiane Boat Racing Festival

montanaron — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:46:34 +0000

The Vientiane Dragon Boat Racing Festival is one of the events marking the end of the Buddhist Lent period, which is called Ork Punsa in Laos and Thailand (read about it at the Buddhism Inter blog, at this Laos travel blog, or at Lao Voices). The race was held this past Thursday, Oct. 13th, along [...] Related posts:

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Children’s Day, Turtle Ships

montanaron — Mon, 16 May 2011 00:14:51 +0000

Before it gets to be too far past the fact, I’d better do a post on Children’s Day, which was on Thursday, May 5th. There’s really no equivalent holiday in the U.S., particularly since it’s an official national holiday, an off day for government workers (and English teachers ). That should tell you something about [...] Related posts:

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Children’s Day and Turtle Ship Festival

montanaron — Thu, 06 May 2010 07:38:06 +0000

Yesterday, Wednesday, was Children’s Day, a national holiday in Korea. (Though I find that there are no real holidays working for the university–we have to make up all classes that are cancelled due to any “holidays.”) It’s kind of like Christmas for the kids, with gifts and time off from school for fun. It’s a [...] Related posts:

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Boats and Churches

montanaron — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:29:15 +0000

Hmmm, boats . . . do I mean arks? No, not really. I was just going through some of my older photos, kind of cleaning the cobwebs out of the attic, so to speak, and came across a few shots of some boats I took. First up is one taken at the Tall Ship Festival [...] Related posts:

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Football Match

montanaron — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:12:03 +0000

The Africa Cup is currently being contested for in Cairo, with 16 teams making the cut, 4 in each division. Today I watched the match between Morocco and Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) on my somewhat fuzzy TV, reception being what it is with only a pair of rabbit ears. I opened up my window, despite [...] Related posts:

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Feast Day . . . Friday

montanaron — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:35:55 +0000

The day of the Feast of Sacrifice, Wednesday, was beautiful. I sat with Saif and his family on the roof of their apartment in the bright sun, waiting for the butcher to arrive. I even got a bit of sunburn. The fellow was an hour or so late, so we sat around talking–Saif, his younger [...] Related posts:

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And Even More Sheep

montanaron — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:11:24 +0000

No, you don’t have to go out to a farm to buy a sheep for the holiday. LaBel Vie set up two rather large tents in their parking lot on New Year’s Eve day, the last time I was there. I thought at the time that it was something they were doing for the New [...] Related posts:

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Marrakech Bound

montanaron — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:33:24 +0000

I’m off to Marrakech tomorrow morning, catching the 7:55 train. It’s also the first day of Eid in Morocco. Since believers are supposed to go to early morning prayers at the beginning of the festival, I’m hoping the noise will settle down early tonight so I can catch some sleep before getting up at 6 [...] Related posts:

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Festival!

montanaron — Tue, 24 May 2005 15:32:03 +0000

We have a three-day vacation, of sorts. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week is the university festival, so there are no classes. Why they scheduled it so close to the end of the semester is beyond my comprehension. The last day of the semester is June 14, then 10 days of teaching adult classes and [...] Related posts:

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