Matt
A Pleasant Surprise
I received an email from Austin-Lehman Adventures last week. They said that they had picked Matt-Gibson.org as one of the 125 semi-finalists in their “Best Travel Blog Contest”.
As such, I am one of the privileged 125 bloggers that has been given the opportunity to participate in the Austin-Lehman Adventure of Your Choice Sweepstakes.
My brother and I both started skiing at the age of 3. When I was 12 and he was 15 we both started snowboarding. The first couple of years we snowboarded together, but in our teens we began to hang out in different circles and rarely went to the ski hill together. The last time I spent a good day snowboarding with my brother was probably when I was 16, which was 16 years ago.
Zimbabwe, Africa
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in southern Africa that borders Zambia to the northwest, Botswana to the southwest, South Africa to the south, and Mozambique to the east and north.
Guest Post By Jack Christie | Photo by Tourism BC/Albert Normandin
It’s party time at BC’s parks.
This year, one of the world’s finest collections of protected landscapes — from ocean and freshwater shorelines to alpine peaks — celebrates its 100th anniversary. Ranging in size from a cupcake to a one million-hectare (400,000-acre) confection, there’s a park to suit any number of candles.
Dear Matt,
I teach the same class of 12 and 13-year-old students every day. Normally they are enthusiastic and awesome! But when we have writing class (on Wednesdays) they just sit there and stare at their papers. I can’t seem to get them to write. What can I do to inspire them?
Greg Mortenson, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and author of Three Cups of Tea, a book recounting his experiences founding the Central Asia Institute (an educational charity in Pakistan and Afghanistan), was accused of making up parts of the book, using the charity as his “personal ATM”, and overstating the activities of the charity. Read more in The Telegraph
Bulgaria
Bulgaria is in southeastern Europe bordering on Romania to the north, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east.