MontanaRon » personal http://montanaron.com/wordpress Just another ordinary English teacher eclectic expat blog about nothing in particular. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:57:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Photos, Baseball and Muifa http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/08/06/photos-3-baseball-muifa-2521 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/08/06/photos-3-baseball-muifa-2521#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2011 10:56:01 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=2521 If you look at the right hand side bar, you might notice that there is a new category over there-Photos. If you click on it, you will, eventually, get access to many of the photos I’ve posted on the blog at one time or another. This is a new addition, NextGEN Gallery (which I think [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/05/01/royal-wedding-2394/feed 0 Another Year in Yeosu, June Vacation http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/04/18/another-year-in-yeosu-june-vacation-2366 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/04/18/another-year-in-yeosu-june-vacation-2366#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:57:57 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=2366 Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention in my previous post that I’ll be signing on for another year here. Lots of reasons for doing that–familiarity with the job, pleasant people to work with, friendliness of the students and the people of the area, the beauty of the countryside, and, the biggest reason, the upcoming 2012 [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/04/18/another-year-in-yeosu-june-vacation-2366/feed 0 A Death in the Family http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/03/28/a-death-in-the-family-2356 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/03/28/a-death-in-the-family-2356#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:27:55 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=2356 After a year-long struggle, my friend Nai’s mother succumbed to an illness last Friday night. I posted last May that the doctor had given her just a few months to live, but she held on this long, although she was often in great pain.

I still don’t know what took her life, but I suspect [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/03/28/a-death-in-the-family-2356/feed 0 Dancing House http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/02/24/dancing-house-2328 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/02/24/dancing-house-2328#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:57:53 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=2328 I just finished phoning my friend Nai in Laos and he breathlessly reported that Vientiane experienced an earthquake last night. I had trouble understanding him at first, but he told me, with his sometimes-bad pronunciation and his humorous, but creative, fracturing of English, that:

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]]> http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/02/24/dancing-house-2328/feed 0 PeaceBomb Bracelet http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/02/21/peacebomb-bracelet-2317 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/02/21/peacebomb-bracelet-2317#comments Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:33:35 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=2317 Wow, talk about an oxymoron. Peace – Bomb. They don’t quite go together. But, in a great example of making lemonade when life gives you lemons, there is an organization in Laos that is doing just that. They are making bracelets of the scrap metal of unexploded bombs left over from the incredibly intense and [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/02/21/peacebomb-bracelet-2317/feed 0 Frank Nitti is Dead http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/02/12/frank-nitti-is-dead-2303 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/02/12/frank-nitti-is-dead-2303#comments Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:20:16 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=2303

I know I’m REALLY dating myself here, but when I was a bit younger (ok, a LOT younger), my favorite weekly TV program was The Untouchables, which aired from 1959-1963. It starred Robert Stack as Eliot Ness, the Prohibition Era federal agent who helped put Al Capone behind bars, and was narrated by Walter [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2011/02/12/frank-nitti-is-dead-2303/feed 0 Happy Holidays http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/12/25/happy-holidays-2-2121 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/12/25/happy-holidays-2-2121#comments Sat, 25 Dec 2010 04:55:35 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=2121 Here’s wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year. Yesterday was the first day that has really felt like this time of the year, with below freezing temperatures and a vicious wind contributing to very chilly weather. At least the sun is shining and there’s been no snow, yet. (Fingers crossed)

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]]> http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/12/25/happy-holidays-2-2121/feed 0 Finals http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/12/01/finals-2108 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/12/01/finals-2108#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:26:32 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=2108 It looks like we’re going to survive through the S. Korean-American war games without our northern neighbors going ballistic on everyone. I’m sure my students will be happy about that, because the next few weeks is final exam time.

So, I’ll be busy with oral interview assessments of and classroom presentations by the students, not [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/12/01/finals-2108/feed 2 Tongue in Cheek http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/11/29/tongue-in-cheek-2106 http://montanaron.com/wordpress/2010/11/29/tongue-in-cheek-2106#comments Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:08:50 +0000 montanaron http://montanaron.com/wordpress/?p=2106 In case you didn’t realize it, the previous post about my birthday candles was merely a tongue-in-cheek satire of my increasing age. No, I didn’t really set the dorm on fire. Yes, there really would have been a lot of candles in that cake. More later (posts and candles, I hope.)

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