See the full photo album on Flickr Above: Vanderbilt Mansion Italian Garden Below: Our B&B, Le Petit Château, Hyde Park, NY Above: Sculpture at SUNY New Paltz Below: Bard College Performing Arts Center, Designed by Frank Gehry Above: Flower from the garden at Le Petit Château Below: Kris and the cat from Le Petit Château [...]

Above: Me and Takae from the Japan National Tourist Organization in NY Last Friday, I joined members of JETAANY and the new 2007 JET Programme participants departing from New York City for a reception at the Japanese Ambassador’s residence, a Louis XV-style townhouse (with elements of japonisme, of course) in the tony Upper East Side. [...]

Today I tried out to be a teacher for an SAT prep company called Revolution Prep. There were about 13 of us at the audition. We had to teach a short, non-SAT-related lesson on the topic of our choice as a demonstration of our classroom teaching potential. I did an interactive lesson on how to [...]

Above: Flower bouquet from Rachel and Elizabeth’s housewarming brunch in Brooklyn. More pictures on Flickr. On Saturday, Kris and I headed out to Brooklyn for Rachel and Elizabeth’s housewarming brunch. It was nice to get out of the Manhattan and hang out on a perfect summer day with some cool cats on a tree-shaded deck [...]

David Miliband/Avaaz.org Chatham House Speech (Highlights) from lee-sean on Vimeo.