The Big Field Trip

Shrimp and rice farming has been part of Asia’s culture for a long time. They both are very popular in Vietnam. Vietnam is one of the world’s leading exporters of both rice and shrimp. Rice farming is a lot older than shrimp farming, but they both started in Asia.
Rice Farming in Vietnam
Rice farming started [...]

Bulgaria Slideshow from Jason Kirkman on Vimeo.
This is our slideshow from Bulgaria.

From The Big Field Trip – Thailand, February 2010

My family and I just visited Thailand for two weeks. It was a lot different from India because they treat animals a lot differently. Thais keep many different kinds of animals as pets. Some of them are captured from the wild and some of them are bred [...]

My family and I started teaching at a small public school in India at the end of January, 2010. We taught 1st and 2nd graders in the school for three weeks. We started teaching at the school after we met Maneesh in our small town of Badgaon, India; he is my friend’s cousin. Maneesh lives [...]

We traveled from Bulgaria to Istanbul on an overnight train. It was fun even though I was feeling like my lungs were going to split any second. I was coming down with the swine flu (so my mom says). When we got to Istanbul, Cy, Cruz, Papa, Mama, and I were sick. We had the [...]

Ancient Roman amphitheaters are stair like stone benches built around arena to form an oval. The Roman Empire built around 230 amphitheaters. The largest one, called the Coliseum, is in Rome and the 3rd largest is in El Jem, Tunisia. The shows in these amphitheaters were put on by rich people. There were gladiator fights, [...]

We drove to Bula Regia on the morning of Sunday, March 15th. Bula Regia was built by the Romans.  When the Romans defeated the Phoenicians in the 3rd Punic War, they took over this part of Africa. The people who lived here were people from Rome, Romanized Berbers, and Berber slaves. The Berbers were the [...]

Our family has been in Tunisia for two weeks. We have a house in Nabeul. It is three blocks from the Mediterranean Sea. Nabeul is a small city – a bit smaller than Santa Fe, NM. Unfortunately we are not in the desert, but we are planning a trip to the Sahara for next week. [...]

               Butterflies are beautiful flying insects that suck nectar and pollinate flowers. Butterflies have proboscises which are straw-like tongues that they use for sipping nectar. Butterflies have three body parts, which are the head, the thorax (the chest), and the abdomen (the tail end). Butterflies have an exoskeleton, which is a skeleton in the outside [...]

From Salvador we went on a bus to a small town called Lencois. Lencois is a town in Chipada Diamantina. Chipada Diamantina is a place where diamonds were mined. We arrived in Lencois on the night of December 29th. We met someone named Andres and went to his house. He was renting his house so [...]