KTC Jr. High School Open Campus Day

This past February, I joined Phil in his workshop to make a couple of little robots. I had talked about how cool it would be to make a lesson plan based on these little critters and it looks like with the help of the engineers here at KTC I'll finally be able to do that. These pictures were taken from the very first lesson that designed on one of the bugs that Phil made for me. Furuya-sensei was so impressed with the bugs, that he redesigned them for a workshop used to recruit new students. I hope to adapt that lesson into a hands-on type English class this winter.

Fireworks along Uchinada Beach

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Pig out!

While I was chillin' in "Bean Town" with my brother. A group of us headed over to a Dominican Republic-style birthday party for one of my brother's co-workers. She said that a D.R. birthday was all about the food, lots of drinking, and plenty of dancing. She also said that I was disrespecting by not staying to have some of this pig. I had to promise that I'd try to make one of her future birthdays, just to get back to Princeton on time.

The pig was something else. They prepared this pig for a whole day, the day before. She had to use her bathtub to wash it down and season the sucker. The firepit was started at 8:30 am and they had the pig on a "skewer" that was about an inch in diameter and featured a steering wheel for the ultimate driving control. By the way, this pig roast is an annual event. Damn!

Hikin' Mt. Hunger

Even though my stay in Vermont was so short, I was able to meet up with Adam and Katya to hike Hunger. It was a great day and we made it up in no time thanks to Katya in the lead. I really have missed the mountains of the NE.