Listen to the Birds: an Introduction to Classical Music by Ana Gerhard, with illustrations by Cecilia Varela
I’m constantly amazed at the incredible things you can explore in the United States. We’ve been participating in United Sharing Adventure, at hostelbookers.com, where everyone – including you!
You are wrong, Cole Porter. I can never imagine Paris not sizzling like a rasher of streaky bacon dropped into a hot frying pan, any time of year. Yes, even in the winter when you say it drizzles.
The notion of acceptance in academic institutes is commonly linked to a respectable GPA, good letters of recommendations,and quality research papers. However, standardized tests such as SAT and ACT scores don’t get the attention they deserve, but they pretty much remain the major benchmark for academic acceptance.
Not quite the case. There a few places around the world where one can get up close and swim alongside the largest fish in the sea, the whale shark. It was promise made by Mom. She said she’d take me anywhere in the world to ring in 16. No rules. No boundaries. Just a family, some cake, and maybe a flight or two.
Walking into a Greek Orthodox monastery in Greece throws a curtain of serenity over all who enter. There is simply no need to tell anyone to quiet down, although we are instructed by a monk to stay silent once inside. The building looked like a mere small stone building from the outside.
La Ville Lumière (the City of Lights) is the perfect nickname for Paris, as 24 hours a day, the city is bathed in the light from street lamps and twinkling candles in restaurant windows.
40 plus countries and counting. Five languages. (British, Canadian, Scottish, Australian, and Kiwi. Ok, let's be real. I can fake it in French). I've lived in Hemingway's Paris and explored Mao's Beijing.
America has failed to globalize. Not commercially, but socially. While cultures spread, beliefs systems are shared, and the world’s people begin to communicate, we have been leaving ourselves out. As a supposed ‘leader of the free world,’ our nation, and especially its youth, should be more involved with the rest of the world.
While America's middle class continues to deteriorate, China's middle-class is on the rise. It's been interesting to experience first hand a very hands-off government system in a place that claims the title of socialism , where in America, we supposedly are not.