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Commuter Plane and Charleston, SC2 comments

bookncurls wrote 3 days ago: I’m back home in Jackson Hole for Thanksgiving.  I took a commuter plane from SLC to Jackson.  … more →

Tags: Thanksgiving

MESA Conference, Boston1 comment

bookncurls wrote 3 days ago: Highlights Seeing people, meeting new people.  Perfect weather. Seafood every day. Rental car with f … more →

Tags: Arabic, Mesa, middle east

Dating Revisited

bookncurls wrote 1 week ago: I took my original post about dating down because I didn’t feel like it needed to be said on m … more →

Tags: Dating

Cowboy Weekend1 comment

bookncurls wrote 1 week ago: I took 5 students and a chaperone to Silent Weekend 2009, cowboy themed.  Stayed at the University o … more →

Tags: ASL, Silent Weekend

Boston Trip 12 comments

bookncurls wrote 2 weeks ago: I can’t believe I can actually say I’ve been to Boston.  After all the times I had it on … more →

Tags: middle east, Arabic, Boston

Presenting2 comments

bookncurls wrote 3 weeks ago: I was asked to present at today’s Utah Foreign Language Association conference about innovatio … more →

Tags: Arabic, UFLA

Greg Mortenson4 comments

bookncurls wrote 1 month ago: Greg Mortenson completely won me over today in his forum address to students at Brigham Young Univer … more →

Tags: middle east, greg mortenson, three cups of tea

KSL News2 comments

bookncurls wrote 1 month ago: On the KSL 10:00pm news with anchor Deanie Wimmer as a language teacher in Provo High School’s … more →

Tags: In The News, Deanie Winner, International Baccalaureate, ksl news

World Travel in Your Head2 comments

bookncurls wrote 1 month ago: Someone just asked me what it was like to switch from speaking Mandarin to Arabic in a short space o … more →

Tags: Arabic, Chinese, English, Mandarin, sign language

Egyptian Ambassador1 comment

bookncurls wrote 1 month ago: Egyptian Ambassador to the United States Sameh Shoukry spoke at BYU today about Egyptian views of Pe … more →

International Baccalaureate1 comment

bookncurls wrote 1 month ago: I just returned from a weekend training from International Baccalaureate (IB).  Provo High School is … more →

Tags: Arabic, Language Study, International Baccalaureate, Provo High School

Say that again?1 comment

bookncurls wrote 1 month ago: What I meant to say was, “Deaf people have periods…in ASL,”  but the last part did … more →

Dreams from My Father1 comment

bookncurls wrote 1 month ago: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance is an autobiographical look at Obama’s … more →

Tags: Book Review, Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father, Race, Indonesia

Becoming eGyptian2 comments

bookncurls wrote 2 months ago: When you’re in Provo but you’re speaking eGyptian half your day, signing up for a year-l … more →

Tags: middle east, Egypt

Guy gets a date signing1 comment

bookncurls wrote 2 months ago: Ok.  So there’s this assignment where students try to experience a little about what it’ … more →

Tags: sign language, ASL, Dating

He Flashes Me a Smile1 comment

bookncurls wrote 2 months ago: So I’m down on the field during the Homecoming football game for some public relations things … more →

Tags: sign language, ASL, Teaching

Team of Rivals2 comments

bookncurls wrote 2 months ago: With great joy I can finally announce that I finished, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abrah … more →

Tags: Book Review, obama, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals, Abraham Lincoln

Obama's Speech to School Children

bookncurls wrote 2 months ago: On September 8th, Obama gave a speech to the nation’s school children.  Our principal gave us … more →

Mohamed El Naggar

bookncurls wrote 2 months ago: Mohamed El Naggar is out exchange teacher from Egypt this year.  He has been a great asset. … more →

Tags: Arabic, High School, middle east, Mohamed El Naggar


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