The Big Field Trip

One of the most difficult things about traveling is learning different languages. It’s uncomfortable when I am sitting next to strangers on an airplane and I want to speak with them, but I don’t know if they speak the same language as I do. Sometimes I get nervous when I walk down the street and [...]

Chili peppers and their cousins the sweet or bell peppers are almost everywhere. From Eastern China to Mexico, there are peppers. Peppers play an important role in many cuisines world-wide.
Chili peppers were being cultivated in Peru more than 6,000 years ago. From the coast birds brought the seeds inland. Chilis are not spicy to birds, slugs, snails, [...]

Since our video camera was stolen in Brazil, we only have pictures and audio so we made slideshows. Here they are from Peru, Brazil and Tunisia.

Tunisia slideshow from Jason Kirkman on Vimeo.

Our planet has lots of different biomes, the fresh water biome, marine biome, desert biome, tundra biome, forest biome and grassland biome. A biome is an area with similar climate and species. For instance, both the Sahara desert and the Gobi desert are part of the desert biome. They are different continents and some different [...]

When I went to southern Tunisia, I saw how much the environment affected the people and the way they lived. For example, the people (nomads) traveled for great distances in the Sahara with there flocks of goats and/or camels. They did this because there is only a little bit of nutrients in every acre in the [...]

My family and I went to Douz to arrange a camel trek. We were planning on going into the Sahara Desert for two days. We planned on camping in the Sahara for a night. I was really excited, but I was worried. I even had a nightmare that I was riding on my two humped [...]

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, [...]

From The Big Field Trip – Tunisia, April, 2009

Ksar Hadada is a large granary (a ksar is a Berber granary) that was used for hundreds of years, but is now a tourist site. It is a few miles northwest of the town Tatouine. This ksar was used as a hotel that was closed in 1998. [...]

From The Big Field Trip – Tunisia, March, 2009

I am writing about the Tunisian market. We go to the market every few days to buy food. Friday is the biggest market day. The market is less than a mile from our home. Sometimes we walk there and sometimes we take a taxi. Sometimes we go [...]

Beni Khiar is a small town in Tunisia near Nabuel, the town were we live. There is a small weaving cooperative in Beni Khiar. Men operate looms by hand. They make fabric which is cut and sewn into jackets and rugs. We went there on Sunday to see them weave.

From The Big Field Trip – Tunisia, March, 2009

 
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