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Our First Thanksgiving | gautango
https://gautango.wordpress.com//2006/11/29/our-first-thanksgiving
What’s Cookin’. Recipe: Coffee Concentrate (Iced Coffee). Pulling Perfect Espresso Shots →. I wrote about the First Thanksgiving celebrated in America, and how much Bob and I were looking forward to celebrating our own “First Thanksgiving” in the role of host and hostess. I’m pleased to report it was quite a success! The first challenge was space. The house we’re living in has no dining room, and the kitchen table can only seat four. The porch and garden are nice, but not roomy enough to se...Neither of ...
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Back to a Different School | gautango
https://gautango.wordpress.com//2007/01/12/back-to-a-different-school
What’s Cookin’. Two steps forward . . . Can you say “resolution” in Zulu? Back to a Different School. School starts this week for most young South Africans, and this year I’ll be starting school right along with them. My job teaching reading and literacy skills to 2nd and 3rd graders at two Catholic schools in Soweto began on Monday. Then I met for orientation with the 2. Grade teachers and things quickly lost their familiarity. I asked. How often do the learners expect to be given grades? There was a lo...
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Archives | gautango
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What’s Cookin’. 3 responses to “ Archives. 31 March 2011 at 12:52 pm. I am applying for a Masters degree in Educational Psychology (at the University of Johannesburg) and whilst doing research for a research proposal I have to hand in as part of my application, I came about the article regarding the language issue in South African schools. I found it very informative and was wondering if you have written any other articles or have any comments regarding issues in South African schools. You are commenting...
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Vicarious Trauma | gautango
https://gautango.wordpress.com//2007/03/08/vicarious-trauma
What’s Cookin’. Losing Our Bearings →. Is the term for what people in helping professions experience when they hear about or bear witness to the suffering of others. Also known as “compassion fatigue,” “secondary post-traumatic stress disorder,” or more simply, ” burnout.” It took me a while to realize it, but I’ve got a bad case of it right now. After a week of unproductive days and sleepless nights since the end of the line became clear, I finally acknowledged what I was feeling. Starting tomorrow ...
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Christmas in Africa | gautango
https://gautango.wordpress.com//2006/12/25/christmas-in-africa
What’s Cookin’. Snake in the Grass. Pic of the Week →. Christmas in America means warm mittens and hot chocolate, snowballs and sledding, wood fires and fresh pine boughs. But because the southern hemisphere’s seasons are reversed, Christmas in Africa means sunshine and swimming, beaches and barbecues. Station that we blasted through the house. With “White Christmas” and “Jingle Bells” behind us, we about had our senses fooled. Whom we had had over for Thanksgiving. The Christmas menu — prepared by...
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Two Oceans | gautango
https://gautango.wordpress.com//2007/04/19/two-oceans
What’s Cookin’. Welcome, baby Evan! S African Schools Part Two: Sweets Solution →. Here is a picture of Jeremy and I crossing the finish line at the Two Oceans Half Marathon in Cape Town. 2:11! Many thanks to Jeremy, for sticking with me, and to DLMWS, for being such a great coach from such a great distance. I couldn’t have done it without you guys. This entry was posted in bob. Welcome, baby Evan! S African Schools Part Two: Sweets Solution →. 4 responses to “ Two Oceans. 20 April 2007 at 6:42 pm. You a...
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About Us | gautango
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What’s Cookin’. The name “gautango” comes from the South African province of Gauteng (pronounced how-tang). Pretoria, South Africa’s capital city, and Johannesburg, its financial capital, both reside in this small northern province. Prior to Johannesburg, they both had lived in Latin America, where they fell in love with latin dance. Thus they could think of no better name for their tandem story than gautango. After all, it takes two. Honeymooning on a Coffee Farm? Religion as a “Live Option?
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Inside the Inner City | gautango
https://gautango.wordpress.com//2006/11/13/inside-the-inner-city
What’s Cookin’. Pic of the Week. Things to Bring to Africa →. Inside the Inner City. I just got back from an amazing tour of the inner-city housing CALS. Has been protecting through its anti-eviction campaign. Johannesburg’s inner city is home to around 100,000 of the city’s poorest residents. But the city government wants them out. Today we visited one of these, the sixteen-story San Jose apartment building in the heart of downtown. Most of the structure’s windows are broken or missing, and the pa...
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Gautango in Review | gautango
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What’s Cookin’. Honeymooning on a Coffee Farm? Bob and I are back in the US now, and no longer updating our South African travel blog. If you’re looking for the highlights, these are our most popular posts from our time in South Africa. Bob and Lea On Safari. Bob Runs a Marathon. Lea’s Human Rights Work. Siyakhuluma, or, Lea Tries to Speak Zulu. Inside the Inner City. Photo of Madonna and Child. Coffee for Africa, Africa for Coffee. Bob’s First Day of School. What’s Wrong with South Africa’s Schools.
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Wedding Album – Prelude | gautango
https://gautango.wordpress.com//2007/06/27/wedding-album-prelude
What’s Cookin’. Wedding Album – Ceremony. Wedding Album – Prelude. Yesterday, 26 June 2007, marked our one month anniversary! Which I think is a perfect occasion to pull out all the wedding photos I’ve been sifting through. Here is the story of our wedding, in 37 pictures…. My cousin Katie Bishop is an Arbonne. Cosmetics consultant. She did my makeup, and that of all the bridesmaids. They looked fantastic! This is the moment that Bob first saw me in my wedding dress. I think he liked it. Pic of the week.
