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Narkomfin 22 Dec 2011 | 08:06 am
I don’t quite know what draws me so strongly to the Narkomfin building in Moscow, but in 2009 I returned repeatedly to photograph the old structure. My Russian friends certainly thought my interest wa...
Walks in Moscow: Presnya 30 Jan 2011 | 03:23 pm
Presnya is a Moscow region that stretches across the near northwest quarter of the city. The region straddles the Garden Ring from Tverskaya Street in the north to a bend in the Moscow River due west ...
Host-Family Rules for Exchange Students 12 May 2009 | 01:24 pm
This is our Host-Family Rules for exchange students. Actually, it is more like a survival manual for living in our home. Our host-family rules began ten years ago as a two page document, but each exch...
Realities of the Exchange Student Experience 30 Mar 2009 | 02:56 pm
If you are considering being an exchange student or hosting an exchange student, you may have gone to the internet to gain insight and information. Unfortunately, what you will mostly find from this r...
Tagine 11 Mar 2009 | 01:15 pm
This is my tagine. I bought it at Sur La Table for under thirty dollars. There were other tagines that were far more expensive, but I wanted one that was ceramic and perhaps closer to what you might f...
New Pictures from Irina 9 Mar 2009 | 04:52 am
Irina sent me some new pictures. She was an exchange student in 1999-200, was our third exchange daughter, and currently lives in Minsk, Belarus. Irina is living The Devil Wears Prada lifestyle…next w...
Badal 5 Mar 2009 | 03:50 am
Badal is a 2005 documentary that was filmed in Israel by the director Ibtisam Mara’ana. Badal marriages are a cultural tradition where a brother and sister of one family are married to a brother and s...
Advice for the Host Family 2 Mar 2009 | 11:35 am
I hope you found this post because you are thinking about being a host family for a foreign exchange student. I wrote a post earlier offering advice to students thinking about becoming an exchange stu...
Cafés: Arkhangelskoe, Russian Federation 23 Feb 2009 | 01:10 pm
Outdoor cafés are wonderful places. In itself, an outdoor café requires only some tables, chairs, and perhaps an umbrella to block the sun and rain, but nothing more is necessary. What makes an outdoo...
Tunisian Brik 16 Feb 2009 | 05:19 pm
We once had an exchange student from Tunisia who stayed with us for far too short of time. I’ll always be grateful to her for introducing Tunisian brik into our home. Technically, I think these are ac...
