F.P. Nieman is a foreign-language teacher who has worked at Independence High School in San Jose, California, for more than thirty years. Prior to his career as a teacher, he was trained and worked as an auto mechanic, until he answered an inner calling to see the world and study languages. He has traveled through much of the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, and Asia. Raised in a family of ten, he had moved eight times by the time he was in eighth grade. Nieman's extensive travels inspired him to write two nonfiction books, "Under Every Stone" and "The Sunba...