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October 15, 2008
Last night I visited the United World College in Costa Rica and had the pleasure of speaking with a prospective student from Spain. Xiana is a native speaker, not of Spanish, but of Galacian. This got me thinking about differences in language diversity within countries.
Sand to Snow: the West Coast to Midwest transition
May 5, 2008
I received a request to elaborate on my experience going from a big, urban California environment to Oberlin, Ohio...so here goes!
"The middle of nowhere"
April 17, 2008
For some reason, people seem obsessed by the image of cornfields. Yes, it's true that in the countryside of Lorain County there are lots of small farms, but there are no cornfields visible from the campus, no cows grazing on Tappan Square.
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