Dungun, Malaysia

... the weekends here at school to supervise the male dormitories. At mealtimes, we have covered all sorts of conversation fodder: Malaysia, America, geography, religion, science. But today he traded a squirt gun for a bazooka: "What do you think about Israel ...

... up making the cut) I realized what a non-linear patchwork of life experience my life is becoming. Teaching English in rural Malaysia followed by work in the Embassy is not helping. But rapid changes in context are good medicine for wanderlust, and for ...

... classes and supervisors of memorization of the Qu'ran. They are also some of the only teachers who have been educated outside Malaysia, in Egypt, Libya, and Saudi Arabia. They are all either fluent or highly proficient in Arabic. My Bahasa Melayu (and ...

... I bet Machievelli had cats, and Ayn Rand too. Somehow, she just doesn't strike me as a dog person. She might have liked Malaysia, since there are lots of cats here, but no dogs for religious reasons - dogs are permitted for practical purposes, but are not ...