This paper explores the life of a teacher, John S. Noffsinger, who arrived in Manila in either late May or early June 1910, and taught for two years in Bayombong, Nueva Viscaya.
One day I showed my training host brother, Samon, how to build a simple card tower with a deck of cards I brought from America. I didn't know if he got anything out of it at the time. A couple days later I was reading outside, and he came and...
Burj is usually translated as Tower; however, Fitzgerald translated it as turret. This was taken in March 1971 in Herat, Afghanistan following the Iran Crosscultural Language Workshop held in Mashad, Iran.
A view of my village from the top of our newly constructed water tower. This is a neighborhood called Baka Dja-- my house is just out of frame. I had a zinc roof instead of thatch, which kept snakes out but was ridiculously hot during the day.