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Thinking Stick educator, Jeff Utecht, a teacher in Beijing, added to the New Story conversation early this morning (The Middle East — a new story), by passing along some facts that he received from a fellow international school educator in Dubai. An extraordinary city, Dubai has often been an example, pointed to when looking for the future happening today.
Jeff says,
From 2002-2005 I spent my time teaching at Yanbu International School in Yanbu, Saudi rabia. An experience that I am forever greatful. During that time I traveled around the Middle East and saw some of the changes that were taking place there. Although I never made it to Dubai the stories that were told about the city would have rivaled those during the days of the silk road to China. How the city was growing, expanding and much like China not an end in site.
There are some pretty telling stories in Jeff’s blog that are well worth reading and retelling. I’ve already added a number of them to the “Hack the New Stories” wiki page, planting them under Community Stories and Reformer Stories.
Off to the airport, and on to Lawrence, Kansas.
bflickr, “Dubai Set.” flickr. 4 Feb 2006. 21 Apr 2006 <http://flickr.com/photos/bflickr/sets/ 72057594066507066/>.