Author: rcragun
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UAE Trip – Day 5
This was our first day of lectures. CIEE has a center at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) and they drew upon the expertise of the professors there to give us additional information about the UAE. Like many institutions in the UAE, the AUS is new, having been founded in 1997. It was built over…
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UAE Trip – Day 4
Our first full day was a day of site visits. The first stop was Masdar City in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. Masdar City is being billed as the first city being purposely built to be environmentally friendly to the tune of zero-carbon emissions and zero-waste. The roofs of the buildings are covered with solar…
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UAE Trip – Day 3
My first full day in the UAE was a Friday. I didn’t realize it at the time, but the weekend in the UAE is Friday and Saturday, not Saturday and Sunday. The CIEE seminar didn’t begin until 2:00 pm. Having sat around on planes for the last day and a half, I wanted to get…
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UAE Trip – Day 2
My first flight took me to Newark. There I boarded a flight for Zurich, Switzerland. In examining my itinerary I realized I had a four hour layover. Ever up for adventure, I figured I could slip out of the airport real quick to see Zurich, especially since the downtown is only 15 minutes away by…
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Toren saying “Granmary-ny-ny-ny”
Toren has a funny way of saying Granmary, which is what Debi’s Mom, Rosemary, prefers to be called by her grandkids. He adds a cute “ny-ny-ny” at the end. It’s pretty adorable and he did it all by himself:
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UAE Trip – Day 1
A little background may be in order for blog readers… As part of building the case for the accreditation for the University of Tampa, those developing the most recent application materials included an international component (it was before I arrived, so I wasn’t involved). From what I’ve been told, the basic idea is that we will…
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Toren’s a biker!
We found a new ride at Busch Gardens – motorcycles. Toren dug it:
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Toren playing on rocks
I used to love to run around on rocks. Jumping from rock to rock was a blast and I would do it any chance I got. I still find it enjoyable, but less so now that I have a bad knee. Toren appears to have inherited this interest. Here he is playing on rocks while…
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costume parade
I finally pulled some more videos off my phone. Here’s one of Toren during his costume parade at his daycare. Since his daycare is at a hospital, the kids put on their costumes and parade through the hospital where the nurses give them candy:
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Toren on safety patrol
To date we have not left Toren anywhere, locked him in a car, locked him in our house, left him alone by a pool, or, generally, done much to put him in harm’s way. Well, there was the rather crazy bike ride through an alligator infested swamp. And the hiking misadventure in Oregon when he…