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Kirkpatrick boys: 8/11/13 - 8/18/13
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Thursday, August 15, 2013. The most astonishing things about today. If you were here, american friends, these are the things that would most surprise you:. Most Egyptians think all of this, the rise of the brotherhood, the coup,the bloodshed today, has been engineered by America and Obama. No matter what happens today, tomorrow, next month, next year, they will continue to think this. And here is what Emmett and I did this morning while the police cleared the square (not knowing yet what was happening):.
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Kirkpatrick boys: 11/24/13 - 12/1/13
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Friday, November 29, 2013. Some shots from summer and fall:. Arriving in nyc at grand kath's studio:. Dinner with Grandpa Peter and Grandma Susan after circus camp. Visit with Aunt Carola. Ok- now skip ahead, arriving back in Cairo in August, and being some of the only expats there:. After the Rabaa massacre, in Tel Aviv:. Our first beach with waves. Tel Aviv is a great, interesting city right on the beach! Spelunking in a stallegmite cave near Jerusalem. Back in Cairo, alhumdillallah. Links to this post.
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Kirkpatrick boys: 4/14/13 - 4/21/13
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Monday, April 15, 2013. Spring Break is 4 *Sandboarding* . . . At least around here . . . Note Thomas' fun shirt where the bug colors only come out in bright sunshine. So cool! Thanks Grandpa Peter and Grandma Susan! This one is in heavy rotation, along with the table of elements t-shirt.). Curt and Kathleen are "oil." That means they work for Apache, a big oil company. Many of our friends here are oil, as well as "embassy", USAID, or American University people. Kathleen has been joking for a...On the ot...
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Kirkpatrick boys: 4/6/14 - 4/13/14
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Thursday, April 10, 2014. Yes, it's been a while. We've been busy. Egypt has been a mess. Here are some snaps of Thomas from the middle school production of Cinderella. Thomas' year was just the chorus, and he personally did not feel a strong affinity with the story. But I think he still had a good time. Why? Her family is in the military and was stationed near Machiasport. Of course, we've recently learned that Archie meets an untimely end. So maybe he isn't such a good model after all-.
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Kirkpatrick boys: 12/1/13 - 12/8/13
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013. Thomas' class is studying ancient egypt. A few weeks ago they had their class assembly. Thomas played Anubis, god of death. He was, predictably, awesome. Below is one of the musical numbers where the class builds the pyramids. Turn your sound way up. More. Ok, lean in. Ready? Sorry about the poor sound quality. Something's wrong with the speaker on my phone. Here is another Thomas poem:. In this picture he is battling a lego man mounted on a robotic dragon. Links to this post.
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Kirkpatrick boys: 5/19/13 - 5/26/13
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Grandma Susan, these photos are for you! For the half term break the boys and I snuck into the Sinai to hit a windsurfing resort called moon beach. Emmett befriended a little Egyptian boy named Ahmed. They made faces and chased eachother around the dining room. Also, last weekend we went to see the Harlem Globetrotters. It was as weird as you might imagine. Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Cousins and Fellow Travelers.
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The one-stop site for trailing spouses. A Day in My Expat Life. People who live in small places. For this month’s Trailing Spouse blog crawl, we were asked to consider what sort of advice we would give to newcomers to our current location. In fact, we were asked to blog about our. Well, when you have only been in a country less than a week (as I have at the time of writing) then you don’t really have any travel secrets. In fact, you don’t really know very much at all! A view of Harbeespoort dam. A blog b...
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Kirkpatrick boys: 10/6/13 - 10/13/13
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013. Ok- not quite Tel Aviv yet:. Here Thomas and Emmett perform the hit song from two summer's ago, Call Me Maybe. Emmett started signing it out of nowhere, and then Thomas came up with the routine. He would only allow Emmett to join in for the chorus. Here is another Thomas poem about Rain. It was originally written as a "shape" poem with each sentence filling a drop of rain. Rain is slippery and shiny. The sky to the. Nothing to the ground. The sun in summer. Links to this post.
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Kirkpatrick boys: 8/25/13 - 9/1/13
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Saturday, August 31, 2013. I know people are worried about us here in Egypt. The disconnect between what is on the news, and my daily life with the boys is pretty staggering. Here we are playing in the pool at a friends weekend house in Saqqara yesterday (Friday). If you look carefully next to the palm tree silhouettes you can see the outline of the Abu sir pyramids, older than the great pyramids. Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone. Links to this post. Tuesday, August 27, 2013. First day of school.
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Kirkpatrick boys: 4/21/13 - 4/28/13
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Sunday, April 21, 2013. Sicily. Who knew? We were there for Easter week so there was lots of catholic pageantry. The island has some of the best-preserved Greek and Roman ruins. That blue in the distance? The ocean. It's quite pretty. In 1660, Mt Etna, the Volcano at the center of the island erupted ferociously, wiping out several cities. They were rebuilt in grand baroque style, leaving many fine churches for us to visit. And sweeping dramatic views:. As well as the volcano itself! It was a great week!
