Hey guys Four days here and soooo much to talk but not really the time to write it all downhellipJust a summary IT IS GREAT The hotel is amazing My colleagues are amazing The site is amazing Vancouver is amazing Actually everything is amazingFriday evening after checking in we spent the rest of the night at the hotel bar. Saturday breakfast at the crew restaurant of the HHH followed b

Cool story I was sitting at a caf last week enjoying a freshly squeezed avocadomango juice big thing here and this young guy came up and introduced himself as ldquoYadirdquo an Ethiopian by birth currently living in the states with family living in Ontario. We chatted for a while but I was too skeptical to accept an invitation out for drinks with him and his friends later that night

Tuesday 9.2.210 day 118Cerveteri NecropolisWe planned to go to Rome today and got up early and went to the buss but it left 20 min early so we missed it and the next one was 2 hours away not giving us enough time in Rome so we will go to Rome tomorrow instead.We went to lake Bolsena and had a look around the forests near the lake and then went on to lake Bracciano where we had lunch by the lake an

Hi it is Omer.I am gonna tell you about Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina. Buenos Aires is one of the biggest cities in the world because only in Buenos Aires there are 16000000 people.Day 1 We got with the bus to the terminal of buses in Buenos Aires. We took a taxi to the apartment we ordered. When we got to the apartment we didn't have the keys only the girl that gave

So after months of neglecting to write in this blog about Switzerland I have finally decided to start it back up again. Much has happened since I last wrote back in August and I will try my best to give a brief accounting of what has occurred. SeptemberWent with Ashley to Liechtenstein to do a little hiking through the hill that the country is located on. I say hill because the country is only ab

Picking up where I just left off the ChileBolivia border crossing is itself an experience Chile was very organised a big queue of people but a fairly importantlooking building with soldiers etc. A random Bolivian lady got on our supposedly private minibus which was taking us as far as the Bolivian border control carrying lots of bread. Ash asked the driver who she was and it turned out he

So it is officially 2 days till I leave for Florence Yikes I am so excited Don't forget that means you are going to have to survive without me for four days So this is the start of your warning. most of my classes got canceled this week due to RG week raise and give week and for the students going to florence. So it is SO nice I did have my irish class today and we went around for an h

A little Harrari girl approached the five of us and to each one spoke the following ldquoFish have no legs. Donkeys have four legs. Cows have four legs. And antelope have two horns. Now give me birrrdquo Her factual data and explicit demand caused me to think about the reasons of travel. We travel to absorb to broaden the mind and expand our human consciousness. We move to progress

February 1 2010 Monday St. George Island SP We found a Laundromat in Apalachicola and decided to explore the historic area. Lots of ldquocutsiepierdquo touristy shops along this ldquoforgotten coastrdquo and a few restaurants as the weather was cloudy and cool we stopped for some ldquofishchowderrdquo. Back at St. George Island we visited the newly rebuilt Lighthouse

Some really great exciting things have happened in the last two weeks I went to a village and participated in a folk festival and I helped out at the South Asia International Schools honor music clinic meeting music teachers and students from all over the subcontinent. Those will be the subjects of the next posts. This one will be the script of a 15 minute midterm presentationproject summar

What do you write about when your days are full of good food sandy beaches thick books and gorgeous sunsets ...the beach sand was a little gritty on my bare feet this morning... the sun screen seems to be working... I am particularly fond of the banana and papaya smoothies... it is so dark in my room that it is a real trial to get up before 10 am... my shirts all need to be washed so I've stopp

10th May lsquo09A little project Gordon Bennett While Bettina sleeps off her druginduced coma I look through her pages of notes that she wants reading into a microphone to be learnt in impeccable English for an imminent exam. The topics are transport and religion. Simple enough yet I'm supposed to make coherent sentences from endless bullet points spanning twenty pages per topic. For exa

I wake up having slept really well. I am convinced it is to do with the fact that I actually relaxed the previous evening. I get ready and remember that the only food I have in my room is a Boost bar that I picked up from Heathrow for emergencies. I figure that this counts as an emergency as I have to leave for training in 10 minutes. I eat the bar which has melted and been chilled again an

Hello Avid Readers of Nikki and Gail's JOINT blog for those of you who thought this was Gail's first novel we are writing this together.Last time we left off we were about to embark on our second Death Bus but luckily a pleasant safe vehicle arrived to take us to Bangalore overnight in luxury. Obviously 'luxury' means peeing by the side of the road at 4am being eaten on the ass by mosquitoes

I'm now in Antigua Guatemala where I plan to stay for a couple of weeks or so as I'm taking some Spanish lessons. I had my first one yesterday and absolutely loved it. In about an hour or so I move in with a Guate family and will stay with them for the next couple of weeks which is all very excitingGuatemala is absolutely brilliant. There are vistas everywhere you look even in the cities th

It had rained last night and the staff here decided to delay our start time from 7 to 9 but only once we'd arrived at the office for morning circle. No problem we went back to the church for naps and just a generally relaxing morning. Now the work day has started. It's still windy and damp out but the group is working hard to finish nailing the straps for the inspection today as well as finish

I am in reception by 5.50 for my airport bus. The bus is cramped and as I enter I notice that it does not smell very pleasant. However at 3 this form of transport is a lot cheaper than a taxi and where I am seated it smells fine. I get to the airport with plenty of time to spare. I manage to check in straight away and find the whole experience much easier than checking in at Heathrow Irs

There is nearly a month of history to relate so I intend to paint with broad brush strokes. We left off in Palenque Chiapas. I found a trailer park with palapas for sleeping in hammocks and set up there. There were fire ants and they infiltrated my backpack looking for my food and every time i needed something from my pack my hands got eaten. it was agonizing. The trailer park was very hipp