Sunday, February 24, 2008

3 cups character sheet and read schedule

Three Cups of Tea
Moufazer Ali – Balti porter who was carrying Mortenson’s pack down K2 in 1993 when Mortenson got separated and lost. Mortenson’s close assistant for the next decade.
Haji Ali – chief of Korphe village where Mortenson is sheltered and where first CAI school is built. Ali becomes a father figure to Mortenson
Twaha Ali – Haji Ali’s son, friend and advisor to Mortenson
Jahan Ali – First female graduate of the Korphe school, first female graduate of the Korphe school
Jerene and “Dempsey” Mortenson – Greg Mortenson’s mother and father, former missionaries in Africa
Christa Mortenson – Greg’s sister to whom he is very devoted, mentally disabled, perhaps through childhood illness or vaccine reaction
Jean Hoerni, PhD – Swiss-born physicist and computer pioneer as well as a wealthy mountain climber who funded the first school in Korphe, Pakistan
Mohammed Ali Changazi – trekking agent and tour operator of questionable integrity who both aids and obstructs Mortenson’s efforts
Hussein – Korphe’s most educated citizen who studied through grade twelve in Lahore, Pakistan. Becomes first teacher at Korphe school.
George McCown -- wealthy Californian whom Mortenson meets by accident in Korphe, powerful advocate for Mortenson’s work
Tara Bishop Mortenson – doctoral student in psychology when she met Mortenson at a banquet honoring Sir Edmund Hillary. Her deceased father, a National Geographic photographer, had been a mountain climber who scaled Mt. Everest.
Ghulam Parvi – educated at University of Karachi, he is the second man Mortenson hires to help the new Central Asia Institute begin building schools
Suleman Minhas – Pakistani taxi driver whom Mortenson hired as CAI’s general “fixer” in Islamabad

3 Cups of Tea Reading Schedule

Date Alpha/Omega Pages
February 19/20 1-33
February 21/22 34-69
February 25/26 70-97
February 27/28 98-124
February 29/ March 3 125-153
March 4/5 154-183
March 6/10 297-331

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