'Bpee Dtut Chee Jhudt Jher' - When Glass Meets Glass in the Language of the Hills

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May 22nd 2013

Published: May 23rd 2013

Please feel free to watch the video before or after if you would like to see the day in some live action shots. When we emerged from the doors of the Friendly Guesthouse Lily stood and smiled and we could feel excitement radiating from the glowing expression on her face - the day previous when she had thrust her tiny notebook of testimonials into our hands, a half dozen hand-written message... Read Full Entry

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23rd May 2013

gina rachmaninoff
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fantastic
I have been watching your blog and I AM SO JEALOUS!. Enjoy. We are so busy giving slo tests had to stop teaching content as kids are going to have to be taking tests out of class. Ridiculous. Where are you guys going next?

23rd May 2013

jaiyen
Dan Simonds

SLO Tests
Hey Rach, it's good to hear from you. I'm so far gone out of the NYS Education loop I don't even know what an SLO test is - unless it is standardized learning something or other. I sent you an email a while back and never heard back from you. Please email me and let me know in more detail what is happening at the school. Great to hear from you

24th May 2013

RENanDREW
Ren & Andrew

Excellent blog
This took me right back to Sapa and the Black Hmong villages. I could only stomach one glass of rice wine (that the nana of the house had brewed), so I felt for Tara :)

24th May 2013

jaiyen
Dan Simonds

Rice Wine
Well, truth be told I had to grit my teeth through the first three or four as well. I saw something in your Sapa blog that I forgot to mention - the married thing, we always got that same question and same response and we too became married for our time in Sapa, haha

28th May 2013

Katie
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Sapa
Hey Dan - Your time in Sapa sounds amazing! Jake and I are headed there Saturday morning. Would you recommend going with Lilly? Looking now for a trekking / home stay package...any advice would be great! Thanks :)

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