Culture Shock, Shmulture Shmock
Posted in Sri Lanka, 1 year, 7 months agoI returned to Sri Lanka four days ago, and not a moment too soon. I couldn’t wait to come back here and get my right hand dirty once again with rice and curry.
As if God had arranged the cosmos to satisfy especially me, I awoke from a jet-lag induced nap at the Beach Inns […]
The Many Names of Brinjal
Posted in Food, Sri Lanka, 1 year, 7 months agoIf there’s one vegetable that Sri Lanka has made me even more crazy about, it’s brinjal. To the Americans, it’s also known as eggplant. For Europeans, it’s aubergine.
Growing up, I harbored an intense dislike for eggplant. I suppose it all started when I was playing one of the best games released during the original […]
Adorable Damnation Puppies
Posted in Sri Lanka, 1 year, 7 months agoSo yesterday, I’m reviewing one of my students’ government-issued English textbooks and find this phrase in one of the graphics: “Damnation puppies! Adorable, for sale.”
But I’m just being picky. The English textbook is actually not too bad–it is replete with vibrant colors and innovative exercises. It just goes way over the heads of any Rohana […]
Summa Cum Laude
Posted in Sri Lanka, 1 year, 8 months agoWe’re sitting on our balcony at the Amaya Reef hotel in Hikkaduwa. I will warn you that the hotel’s website is a superb example of the manipulative power of photography, but the pool is really that pretty.
I think that it’s time to write a blog, so I grab Liz’s BlackBerry and ask her what the […]
