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Today's Featured Biography
Patricia (Ticia) Kyle Bojesen
Copenhagen, December 2012.
I finished my BA in 1968, and my Masters in 1970, from Columbia University, NYC, before marrying Asger in 1970, and moving to Copenhagen, Denmark. I worked in a pre-school for almost 3 years, in order to learn Danish! Our children were born in 1974, 1976, and 1978. In the early 1980´s, we travelled and lived in Baghdad and the USA. I then started teaching English at Berlitz International School in Copenhagen, from which I have just retired after 25 years. In 2005, I started my own firm giving private English lessons to executives. I have just retired from this, as well.
In 2002, I completed a second BA, in Near Eastern Archaeology, from the University of Copenhagen. Since 2002, I have been participating in yearly, 5-week excavations in Jarash, Jordan, as part of the Danish team, excavating an early Islamic Umayyad mosque from 750 CE. (The " Islamic Jarash Project" link is: www.miri.ku.dk) Jarash is primarily a large Roman site and part of our mosque is actually located on top of an ancient Roman bathhouse! Besides excavating, I have registered the "finds", coins, oil lamps, glass, ceramic, bone, and metal; everything recorded meticulously. Upon return, I continue to register data once a week at the University. I worked in Jordan, again this year, in May and June. Asger had a chance to visit, watch the team in action, see our progress, and we had a great holiday afterwards.
After Jordan, I had the opportunity to join an excavation close to home. This is a "salvage project" to excavate a large area (the size of 11 football fields), before a highway can be expanded. This excavation moved quickly , due to limited time. We found Early Bronze Age (1500-500 BC) post holes for houses and pits for garbage. I excavated 2 pits looking for human activity, mostly finding worked flint, some ceramic, and, if lucky, a forgotten tool or two. The conditions are very different from Jordan.
Asger and I spent our 40th wedding anniversary in Greenland in 2010. We had a fabulous trip above the Arctic Circle; the ice bergs are indescribable. After teaching a student in charge of Thule Base, I sent in my resume for an English teaching position. That would be an experience.
Our old house from 1886 is getting older and keeps us busy. We greatly miss our children, who are spread far and wide. Louise, an anchor for CNBC Financial News, is in London, Andreas is a lawyer with a large law firm in NYC, and Christine is a pharmacist working for Children´s Hospital in Seattle.
So much for retirement.....!
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