Michael "Mick" Kilburn

I graduated with a degree in biology, ecology really, after a couple of years in U of Hawai'i system, student body treasurer which was boring but fun.
Studied MBA under scholarship at Taiwan Natl U. Definitely expanded my Chinese. Studied Chinese medicine, and edited a "Compendium of Chinese Medicine," while working for Motorola U in Beijing.
Received my first teaching license and an MA in education at Texas State U. Taught in Nevada for 10+. Taught science in Shanghai for a year which brought me to Nevada. Taught for a couple of years of science for Cambridge U and mentored biology teachers at Nazarbayev Schools in Kazakhstan.

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When I think about high school I can't help but think about our senior prom out at the Walhalla Country Club. My memory is probably not like anyone else's in our class. If you remember we had a live band The Bobby Ivanello band. They were great but that's not the point. I took DawnTreviliger, lovely, sweet girl who is sadly no longer with us. We had gone out to the parking lot to talk while I had a cigarette and sit in my dad's sky blue 1964 Mustang. Dawn was seated in the passenger seat and I was seated in the open door next to her. While we were we talking a couple of guys came up and stood in front of me. One of them was a friend of Dawn's old boyfriend. He was drunk, and standing over me, and said, "Stand up." I tried to ignore him, but he said it again. I knew they wanted to fight me, and I was worried I'd ruin my tux. The third time he said it, "Get up M*F*, I'm going to kick your ass." No sooner had the words left his mouth and I saw a blur on my left side, and saw Bobby ivanello sliding across the hood of the Mustang. In a flash he grabbed the guy and punched him square in the face. As blood was gushing down the front of the guy's shirt, Bobby grabbed him, and said, " You don't talk like that in front of a lady. Now apologize." He apologized, Bobby let him go, and he stumbled off with the other boy. The epilogue to the story is, I was sure the guy, who will go unnamed, was going to be looking for me, and at school I saw him coming down the hall along one of the wings, with two black eyes and his nose taped. He walked on by me and then stopped and called back to me, "Hey, sorry about the other night."
BTW, thanks, Bobby.

Gardening, Chinese martial arts.
Children's stories: Google
"Henry the Honeybee has a Problem
Mick Kilburn
First in a series of Five
English, Chinese, and Korean editions
Fun language studies