http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/lilly/enWed, 16 Apr 2008 06:26:48 -0500Movable Type Enterprise 1.52 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/no1804928http://www.feedburner.comhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/flint-on-a-mission/~3/271395494/monkeys_on_the_loose.htmlteaching & reachingMike LillyWed, 16 Apr 2008 06:26:48 -0500tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/lilly//1541.885564 ]]>Whimsical, indeed! The Improbable Adventure begins: Probably. Probably at the most beautiful school in the nation, Ullens, the place where I am hanging my hat and little else, opened for the school year 2065-2066 today! I was asked to give a rousing speech to inspire the crowd ( 300 K-10 students and their adoring parents and equally adorable teachers and staff). Using every trick in the book from my noted pep talk handbook, I had them screaming in unison answering my calls for noise, cupping my hand around my califlower ear as though I could not hear them while in actuality my......http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/lilly/2008/04/monkeys_on_the_loose.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/flint-on-a-mission/~3/269467201/happy_new_year_2065.htmlBreaking NewsMike LillySun, 13 Apr 2008 06:30:42 -0500tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/lilly//1541.878205 ]]>Today we have celebrated Nepali New Years by traveling to various temples, stupas, and monasteries throughout the valley. It is the year 2065. Boy, time does fly. Narrow roads filled will families walking together in their finest dress along with cavalcades of buses and motorcycles filled top to bottom with revelers of the victorious Maoists and especially their young hotshot offspring, the YCL ( the Young Communist League). Tooting and waving and screaming and drinking and happy as all get out for disposing 240 years of the King and feudalism!Mike Lilly2065, the new year celebrating at Daksinkali Temple Up we go!...http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/lilly/2008/04/happy_new_year_2065.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/flint-on-a-mission/~3/268698779/nepal_lections_and_the_tibetan.htmlBreaking NewsMike LillyFri, 11 Apr 2008 13:48:34 -0500tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/lilly//1541.873159 ]]>Editor's note: Mike Lilly is a retired Kearsley High School art teacher who has moved to Nepal to teach English and aid women and children victimized by the human trafficking trade. He gives regular posts to The Flint Journal about his time in Nepal.Flint Journal extras: Other recent Mike Lilly posts from Nepal: • April 5, 2008: Countdown to the elections in Nepal and other stuff about Mike Lilly's stay in Asia • More below NEPAL, Asia -- Our elections in Nepal were held yesterday, April 10th amidst worry of violence that did not come to pass. The government took precautions with no vehicles running. No internet until after the elections. All businesses closed....http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/lilly/2008/04/nepal_lections_and_the_tibetan.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/flint-on-a-mission/~3/264506240/countdown_and_other_stuff.htmlNepal125192076536180106110Mike Lilly | The Flint JournalMon, 07 Apr 2008 09:16:42 -0500tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/lilly//1541.857095 ]]>Flint Journal extras: Other recent Mike Lilly posts from Nepal: • April 3, 2008: The times, they are... • More below Editor's note: Mike Lilly is a retired Kearsley High School art teacher who has moved to Nepal to teach English and aid women and children victimized by the human trafficking trade. He gives regular posts to The Flint Journal about his time in Nepal. NEPAL, Asia -- Doing the laundry at the local well. Letting the ol' bucket go down and pulling it up and then using all my musckles to beat my clothes clean on the ol' rock down by the riverside....http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/lilly/2008/04/countdown_and_other_stuff.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/flint-on-a-mission/~3/263705669/the_times_they_are.htmlBreaking NewsMike Lilly | The Flint JournalFri, 04 Apr 2008 06:34:17 -0500tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/lilly//1541.853535 ]]>So, the Nepali Constitutional Elections will be taking place shortly, April 10, my daughter Hannah Grace's Birthday. No symbolism or irony there....http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/lilly/2008/04/the_times_they_are.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/flint-on-a-mission/~3/260257801/tears.htmlTibet/China/Peace/OlympicsMike LillyMon, 07 Apr 2008 08:24:11 -0500tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/lilly//1541.838213 ]]>Just coming back from Swoyambhu Temple spending several hours in the midst of crying nuns and desconsulate monks, wailing they were over the deaths of Tibetans that they did not even know....http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/lilly/2008/03/tears.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/flint-on-a-mission/~3/265748537/this_that.htmlNepalMike Lilly | The Flint JournalMon, 07 Apr 2008 08:25:52 -0500tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/lilly//1541.832253 ]]>The upcoming year at Ullens I have been asked to set up service projects, instruct in Public Speaking and when needed lecture on America and western culture....http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/lilly/2008/03/this_that.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/flint-on-a-mission/~3/257364562/teaching_in_ann_arbor_mi.htmlTibet/China/Peace/OlympicsMike LillyMon, 07 Apr 2008 08:29:14 -0500tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/lilly//1541.823307 ]]>His High Holiness The Dalai LamaThe Dalai Lama as of today is still planning to come to Ann Arbor to lecture and meet all. Please show your positive activism and concerns with the events in Tibet. If you feel there is a strong enough reason in your heart that the Olympics not go on then you should share this with your congressmen or letters/emails to appropriate sources....http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/lilly/2008/03/teaching_in_ann_arbor_mi.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/flint-on-a-mission/~3/254903559/tashi_delek.htmlTibet/China/Peace/OlympicsMike LillyMon, 07 Apr 2008 08:29:42 -0500tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/lilly//1541.811897 ]]>Yesterday, noted British Botanist, Dr. Anne Pickering, and I went on an excursion and ended up at the Tibetan Refugee Center. It was set up by the Nepali Government to house and protect those who left and are still leaving their beloved homeland of Tibet....http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/lilly/2008/03/tashi_delek.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/flint-on-a-mission/~3/254903564/on_teaching_selfdiscipline.htmlTHE WAYMike LillyMon, 07 Apr 2008 08:30:41 -0500tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/lilly//1541.794952 ]]>So yesterday about 6am in a gentle rain barefoot in the village I was sitting on one of those small thatched stools shucking corn with Indra and Kyamess all the while teaching them English....http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/lilly/2008/03/on_teaching_selfdiscipline.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/flint-on-a-mission/~3/254903570/taking_care_of_business.htmlTHE WAYMike Lilly | The Flint JournalFri, 11 Apr 2008 08:01:47 -0500tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/lilly//1541.789065 ]]>I have been teaching homeless children English in the morning before I go off to assist at the school and in the evening. I am taking them to the book store to pick out books to read for pleasure and some for study then we will go for pizza tomorrow which they have never had....http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/lilly/2008/03/taking_care_of_business.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/flint-on-a-mission/~3/254903571/bhawani_rana.htmlFriendsMike LillyMon, 07 Apr 2008 08:51:36 -0500tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/lilly//1541.787551 ]]> This is an article that was just featured today, Sunday, in the Kathmandu Post, about my dear friend and mentor, Bhawani Rana....http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/lilly/2008/03/bhawani_rana.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/flint-on-a-mission/~3/254903573/happy_birthday.htmlReturn to NirvanaMike LillyMon, 07 Apr 2008 08:50:19 -0500tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/lilly//1541.779593 ]]>Holiday today: Lord Shiva's Birthday!!! Everyone is looking soooooo goood! Me, I am walking into Kathmandu listening to Jimi Hendrix doing a live version of Johnny B Goode saying" Hi There!" all along....http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/lilly/2008/03/happy_birthday.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/flint-on-a-mission/~3/254903575/exceeding_expectations.htmlTHE WAYMike Lilly | The Flint JournalMon, 07 Apr 2008 08:53:55 -0500tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/lilly//1541.770894 ]]>The majority of time with many instructors in a typical high school setting is spent by that teacher berating and using sarcasm to motivate their students....http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/lilly/2008/03/exceeding_expectations.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/flint-on-a-mission/~3/254903577/out_about_and_the_ins_outs_1.htmlReturn to NirvanaMike Lilly | The Flint JournalMon, 07 Apr 2008 08:54:51 -0500tag:blog.mlive.com,2008:/flintjournal/lilly//1541.734665 ]]>Starting today some random observations and some recall on what all has been going on....http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/lilly/2008/02/out_about_and_the_ins_outs_1.htmlnonadult