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The American School of Dhaka is officially off for summer! To all the AISD teachers and friends teaching around the world and in the states, have super safe summer fun and keep in touch! Woo! As my friend Lauren says, "I love my job, but I also love that my job comes with 7-8 weeks of vacation" ... June and July makes it all good! See you in August!
Have A Great Summer
The American School of Dhaka is officially off for summer! To all the AISD teachers and friends teaching around the world and in the states, have super safe summer fun and keep in touch! Woo! As my friend Lauren says, "I love my job, but I also love that my job comes with 7-8 weeks of vacation" ... June and July makes it all good! See you in August!
My Mom
I just wanted to give a shout out to my amazing mother who is in New York this week with two of her high school art students who are being awarded the National Gold Key Award for their art. She is a just a ultra super cool mom. She is also an accomplished artist and fabulous teacher. This is her last year of teaching because she is to retiring to become a full-time grandmother (well not really). Love you MOM!Athena Glass Jewelry
Visit Houston to see her ceramics ...
Beer .. Sans Baby
Today we were in Wegmans (an interesting New York grocery store) and they had CascaZilla beer (monstrously hoppy) from the Ithaca Beer company, which sports a imitation Godzilla breathing fiery hops on it (G3: The Wrath of Godzilla). I also added a six pack of Red Stripe but still have to visit Beers of the World to get my Shiner Bock. You might ask "Matthew! Why so much excitement about beer?" Well living in Bangladesh severely restricts choices in almost all categories, including beer. When Carrie and I get back to the states, we usually just wander stores in awe of all the choices. So well ... it's nice to have a variety and ... tasty beer. Next time you are drinking a Joseph Holt Hunmdinger or a King Billy Bitter, remember there are people in Dhaka drinking Heineken ... when they can get it. I will give a shout out to Leon's MIB (Made in Bangladesh), an award winning home brew. Carrie just made me promise to not drink around her Grandma because it will mean us not getting into the highest level of heaven. At least not until after we convert to Mormonism ...
Oh Spacious Skies
On our way into Rochester not only did I just avoid a large gray squirrel, a tiny field rabbit, and two deer crossing the street, I also drove into what must be the only roundabout in the states on some farm road out in the middle of nowhere. At first Carrie was giving 
excellent directions and then the next thing I know, BAM I'm going around in circles. Where do they get off putting a completely foreign road implement like a roundabout in America?! We Americans have a right to being stopped at traffic lights in the middle of nowhere for no particular reason! ... I'm pretty sure if you looked hard enough in that area there'd be an Al-Queda training camp close by. Remain vigalent and vary your routes to work!
excellent directions and then the next thing I know, BAM I'm going around in circles. Where do they get off putting a completely foreign road implement like a roundabout in America?! We Americans have a right to being stopped at traffic lights in the middle of nowhere for no particular reason! ... I'm pretty sure if you looked hard enough in that area there'd be an Al-Queda training camp close by. Remain vigalent and vary your routes to work!
Games games games
My sister in law Dori is always in the search for fun, wacky, and rules complicated games. Yesterday we played Quelf, Munchkin Chathulu, and Killer Bunnies. Lots of silliness, group interaction, and backstabbing. I still can't forgive Dori for killing my only bunny when everyone else had several ... she claims it was an extremely 'dangerous' bunny but as the rules were still nebulous to me, I really don't know. Then we played some crazy four deck group solitaire which I think they called squib or squish. I still like Time's Up (uh Mensa Select winna) and Go Fish. I also think making up games would be on my top ten list of dream jobs. http://www.quelf.com/ Killer Bunnies
Steve Jackson Games
Just for giggles here's a list of the Mensa Select Games
Even funnier BoardGameGeek.com comments and their picks
Wildlife
Carrie's parents live outside of Rochester in a little town called Pittsford. The Erie canal is just outside the main road, we are surrounded with trees, and it's cold, way too cold. With the cottonwood trees (I think ... in Texas we have pine pollen) releasing their floating seeds into the air it's almost like snow in June until you inhale and choke on one. We are also surround by an abundance of wildlife: woodpeckers, chipmunks, raccoo
ns, hummingbirds, lots of other birds that are pretty and I can't name, and lots of deer. I was up one morning and was stunned to see a deer just outside the living room windows. She just turned and watched me. My father-in-law came around the corner and I mentioned the deer and asked if they usually come this close. As he headed outside in his bathrobe, I remembered the camera and ran downstairs. Of course by the time I returned the deer was gone. Apparently they are a big nuisance and eat new tree shoots and flowers. They say people use firecrackers and motion sensing sprinklers, and they have been talking about purchasing a slingshot. My in-laws have already captured, relocated and released at least two chipmunks and a raccoon. I think of the capture and release as a twisted form of animal hazing.
Ceramics and Bluegrass
Yesterday Carrie and I went with her father to a cool warehouse commune where he takes pottery lessons. They were having a kind of open house trying to raise money for a scholarship they fund. Besides meeting lots of interesting people, one of the teachers also plays in a bluegrass band. So as the banjo, mandolins, and stand up bass were cranking out some sweet bayou music, there were 12 wheels cranking out tea bowls for the fund raiser. I also got to taste a eclectic variety of local beers. My favorite being Caszazilla which had Godzilla on it. I'm currently on a 'beer' hunt (1st grade humor).
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