Thanks, Mark for that super thorough Walk-Through. I would never have the chance to go there, but seeing it through your eyes was very enjoyable. :) Have a great one...
Thanks Jay! I am glad you are also interested in this and appreciated the video. I appreciate your words and I am glad it was also enjoyable 🙂. I hope you and your wife are doing great as well and that she is healing well 🙏
Hello Mark, I've been watching some of your videos. I work at an elementary school in the states. I clean the school at night, but just talking to teachers and hearing their stories, I have a new found respect for teachers. You mentioned that you don't want to teach kids anymore. Have you ever thought about teaching adults in China? Or are you not interested in teaching anymore?
Hello @dannybee6677! I actually did apply for an adult teaching job in another city in China, but I was not selected as the teacher. I think adults align much more with my teaching method and the level that I am able to teach. Maybe one day in the future I will apply again for adult schools in China, but for now I am happy to be home and this is where I feel is right for me to be. If you know of any adult school opportunities in China let me know of them too 😄 Also thanks for the nice comment about teachers, it certainly is a level of responsibility you are taking on. Are you considering teaching overseas yourself? 🙂
@@MarkLeithead Yes I am definitely thinking about teaching English overseas. With students going crazy here in the states, and prices of everything going through the roof, yes I need to travel.
@@dannybee6677 so I hear about the United States, but as for cost of living yes it is very high here in Canada, which is why I had a similar thought process as you to teach abroad. Again I highly recommend teachaway.com to find a job and teflhero.com to get the 120-hour TEFL program. But it seems like you might know more about the process of teaching English overseas than someone new to it like myself 🙂
Looks like I was wrong in your other video. Everything seems pretty much the same, but weird that only one has nubs. Not sure about the toolmarks ar all. they look uneven, but at the same time quite big. The stone composition seems to vary too. That glasslike blueish stone made me think obsidian but that is usually more uniform, isn't it? Flint is also glasslike and in smaller inclusions, could that be it?
I'm not a geologist, but I also think it looks a bit like obsidian, but it doesn't seem to break apart as sharply as the obsidian I've seen online. A lot of the blue color comes from the reflection of the sky, but I have some small pieces of stone from the quarry and it is very dark blue and purple in color, near black. I will be making a video shortly analyzing them visually close-up 🙂Thanks for your thoughts, I dig the discussion 😄
@@MarkLeithead Yeah looks like the jumbled mess of a lavaflow. Not sure if you've seen videos of one, there were a few good ones from Iceland over the last couple of years where you hear the strange glass-breaking sound from it as it flows. I'm guessing the brown stone is whatever other muck came with the flow and it is clearly no where near as hard. So it looks like whatever tool they have used have been primarily going at this brown stuff and often skidded over the obsidian. So the tool hasn't been powerful enough like we see in some places to not care about the hardness of the stone. Clearly there is broken obsidian as well, but on the remaining surface it looks to be mostly broken brown stone and mearly scraped obsidian.
This could also explain why the megaliths doesn't look like granite to me. It could be tuff, compacted volcanic ash, the same thing that many of the moai statues are made of.
@@Throku It appears that the whole 'megalith' is made of this same black mirror-reflective stone, but in different quantities of black, purple and maybe blue. With this stone it looks like you can mirror polish it, and that is what seems to have happened on the ground where tourists have been walking. I may also retract my comment that the stone is blue, because it might just be the reflection of the sky. The samples I have are black. I will upload a video in the next week or so visually inspecting the samples of stone I have with me. I may share these videos with a geologist or post it in a geology forum online too 🙂
Yes it seems so, although I have not yet been to see the Mayan Mesoamerica megaliths and their massive buildings. I would very much like to visit Mayan buildings in the future 🙂
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Thanks for watching 🙂
Thanks, Mark for that super thorough Walk-Through. I would never have the chance to go there, but seeing it through your eyes was very enjoyable. :) Have a great one...
Thanks Jay! I am glad you are also interested in this and appreciated the video. I appreciate your words and I am glad it was also enjoyable 🙂. I hope you and your wife are doing great as well and that she is healing well 🙏
hell yes i cant wait to watch through all of this
😁😄 thanks brutha!!
31:17 Do we have a geologist who can confirm or deny that this is obsidian?
Hello Mark, I've been watching some of your videos. I work at an elementary school in the states. I clean the school at night, but just talking to teachers and hearing their stories, I have a new found respect for teachers. You mentioned that you don't want to teach kids anymore. Have you ever thought about teaching adults in China? Or are you not interested in teaching anymore?
Hello @dannybee6677! I actually did apply for an adult teaching job in another city in China, but I was not selected as the teacher. I think adults align much more with my teaching method and the level that I am able to teach. Maybe one day in the future I will apply again for adult schools in China, but for now I am happy to be home and this is where I feel is right for me to be. If you know of any adult school opportunities in China let me know of them too 😄 Also thanks for the nice comment about teachers, it certainly is a level of responsibility you are taking on. Are you considering teaching overseas yourself? 🙂
@@MarkLeithead Yes I am definitely thinking about teaching English overseas. With students going crazy here in the states, and prices of everything going through the roof, yes I need to travel.
@@dannybee6677 so I hear about the United States, but as for cost of living yes it is very high here in Canada, which is why I had a similar thought process as you to teach abroad. Again I highly recommend teachaway.com to find a job and teflhero.com to get the 120-hour TEFL program. But it seems like you might know more about the process of teaching English overseas than someone new to it like myself 🙂
Looks like I was wrong in your other video. Everything seems pretty much the same, but weird that only one has nubs. Not sure about the toolmarks ar all. they look uneven, but at the same time quite big. The stone composition seems to vary too. That glasslike blueish stone made me think obsidian but that is usually more uniform, isn't it? Flint is also glasslike and in smaller inclusions, could that be it?
I'm not a geologist, but I also think it looks a bit like obsidian, but it doesn't seem to break apart as sharply as the obsidian I've seen online. A lot of the blue color comes from the reflection of the sky, but I have some small pieces of stone from the quarry and it is very dark blue and purple in color, near black. I will be making a video shortly analyzing them visually close-up 🙂Thanks for your thoughts, I dig the discussion 😄
Also, 29:06-29:34 looks a lot like obsidian to me, like you suggested 🙂
@@MarkLeithead Yeah looks like the jumbled mess of a lavaflow. Not sure if you've seen videos of one, there were a few good ones from Iceland over the last couple of years where you hear the strange glass-breaking sound from it as it flows. I'm guessing the brown stone is whatever other muck came with the flow and it is clearly no where near as hard. So it looks like whatever tool they have used have been primarily going at this brown stuff and often skidded over the obsidian. So the tool hasn't been powerful enough like we see in some places to not care about the hardness of the stone. Clearly there is broken obsidian as well, but on the remaining surface it looks to be mostly broken brown stone and mearly scraped obsidian.
This could also explain why the megaliths doesn't look like granite to me. It could be tuff, compacted volcanic ash, the same thing that many of the moai statues are made of.
@@Throku It appears that the whole 'megalith' is made of this same black mirror-reflective stone, but in different quantities of black, purple and maybe blue. With this stone it looks like you can mirror polish it, and that is what seems to have happened on the ground where tourists have been walking. I may also retract my comment that the stone is blue, because it might just be the reflection of the sky. The samples I have are black. I will upload a video in the next week or so visually inspecting the samples of stone I have with me. I may share these videos with a geologist or post it in a geology forum online too 🙂
They are larger than Mayan of Mesoamerica.
Yes it seems so, although I have not yet been to see the Mayan Mesoamerica megaliths and their massive buildings. I would very much like to visit Mayan buildings in the future 🙂