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Operation polyglot

Starting next week, I'm going to be teaching English to kids in Paris. So it only seems fitting that I should hone my language skills at the same time. I've made it my new years' resolution to improve my skills in four languages. By the end of the year, I want to be able to: Read a Henning Mankell …

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Generational aptitude

There are few things quite as irksome as watching someone type "www.google.com" when they can just search from the address bar. It's like counting out a hundred pennies to pay for a pack of gum. Why would you do that?! My internal monologue screams. My grandparents and parents approach technology …

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Bridge to Terabithia Book Review

Katherine Paterson
A page-turner. Shines a light on rural poverty and the tail-end of the hippie movement in 70s America through a child's imagination.

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Sunrises, side streets, and swindlers in Fes

After deciding to slowly make our way up through Europe to arrive in Sweden for Christmas, we also decided that we would slowly make our way through Morocco before we arrived in Europe. We'd been living in Casablanca for a month, but hadn't made time to visit Marrakech, Fes, Tangier, Essaouria, the …

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