Sara Holbrook author/poet/educator
March 14, 2006
The TARA conference sponsored two teachers from Afghanistan to attend. The challenges they described were overwhelming. Lack of electricity, working facilities and low funding all caused by continuing wars in the region. The limited number of trained teachers are working to instruct “trainers” who in turn instruct “mentors” who are the ones
March 14, 2006
Chasing camels in the desert in a hotel minivan hardly qualifies as adventure in the National Geographic sense. However, when it leads to actually petting one and exchanging smiles with his handler, that’s pretty adventurous for a poet from Cleveland.
A visit to the Oil museum shows that this barren area was
March 14, 2006
One patient camel.
March 14, 2006
Tree of Life
March 3, 2006
I am in Shanghai, woefully behind in chronically my trip. The weird thing is, I can post from China, but I cannot read my blog. It is blocked. So, forgive me for any typos.
I had such a fulfilling experience at the Arabian Reading Association meeting. Again, I was struck by the commonalities. So many
March 3, 2006
Commonalities: A desire to learn
February 27, 2006
Student freestyling at Bayan School.
February 27, 2006
Bayan students singing the Japanese national anthem.
February 27, 2006
Bayan student reading poem.
February 27, 2006
I have so many images in my head from our visit to Bahrain, it is difficult to get them all down. First, the plane flew directly over Baghdad on our way south from London. The night was totally clear and I studied the lights to see if I could see the airport where
