Leigh in Azerbaijan

After being off line for way too long I’m back to report that I’ve been in four apartments in the last few months here in Baku.  (It’s a long story) I’m now in an US style gigantic condominium called Wellington Heights, which is around 8 mins closer to school in walking time.  I haven’t walked [...]

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Had a conversation with teacher assistant Esmira, from the Early Learning Centre.  She said that during the Soviet days they were restricted from listening to Western music, rather they only had classical and Soviet music.  Of course, everyone secretly listened to European music stations on shortwave and Esmira loved listening to the Beatles. More than [...]

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This link should activate Google Earth, assuming you have it installed, and show you my apartment from the sky.  If you pull out you’ll see the school come into view to the west.
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I’m marking my kids’ writing on their first understanding of immigration.  They are doing very well so far.  The Unit of Inquiry is: [...]

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(When I preview this it’s in large text with no explanation.  Sorry!)
This started as a belated response to blogger Suz01 from one of my posts a while back.  I figured I would post it here as well as it was one of those obvious, yet not so obvious ‘Ah-ha’ moments.
We’ve started a new year here [...]

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Life here is fundamentally different than back home with the attitude to animals.  Wild cats and dogs roam the city but very few keep them as pets. They are always thin and sickly. On the road to school there are several packs of dogs that are seen on the bus each morning, some limping, all [...]

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