I know my blog titles are pretty dull but I can't think of what else to do other than tell you what they are about....So last night I went running well it's more jogging but calling it running makes me feel better for the first time since I got here. I'd been putting it off to be honest because this place is very urban there are lots of roads to cross and I find it much easier to go further

We're all having a great time been to some amazing places. The night life in Koh Samui was brilliant with some great beach bars and pretty big clubs. We found one on its opening night and got loads of free drinks. Koh Tao was a really chilled out place as well and we had some hilarius nights out. The beach there really smelt of fish though. We leave for Australia tonight.All safe and well hope u

Hong Kong HK June 6 2010 We're now in the Hong Kong Airport and what an airport it is. An amazing structure built on land reclaimed from the ocean. I think it is the largest open span building in the world and certainly must have the largest number of jumbo jets in the world. 747's litter the landscape everywhere from just about every corner of the world. The flight back to SFO should be just

Lanshan County the old market photo's and Freddie the spider whom I let go when the rains dried up.Yesterday I followed some of my students to the old market in the town a bazaar the heart of it stood like a multi story car park and although not confirmed I am pretty sure that is what it was although I can't imagine Lanshan having such a thing. Concrete columns stood guard over a patchwor

Philip goes for a run first thing. As he turns the corner into Walsh Bay facing him is one of the most Iconic sights in the world The Sydney Harbour bridge and beyond that the opera House. A true goose pimple moment after his usually emotional breakdown and Photos we set off to Aunty Pippa's and uncle Adams on the bus.They live in the beautiful picturesque suburb of castle hill with there lovely

okay our trip was next to Mecca. After leaving Medina me and group were going to Mecca with bus. We were arrived at night it's about 8 p.m. The leader gave as 'instruction' to have dinner. During in Mecca me and group stayed at Le Meridien hotel. Great hotelhuhlol and the important thing is our hotel are really close from Gate one in Masjidil Haram. Cool After we'd dinner together we were

So after had lot of rest and lazy time on the first day now I'm ready to explore all the islands around Karimunjawa well not all actually only 3 small islands hehe.. . This time we're gonna explore Pulau Kecil Pulau Tengah and Pulau Gosong.And ater we picked up by fishermen boat by morning we started to sail against the morning wave to reach Pulau Sintong.. but in the middle o

We arrived in Sihanoukville yesterday. We have a private driver for the next week we hired our friend Sam that we had met last year but he was in a very bad motorbike accidentroad rash on face and handsso he couldn't make ithe sent his cousin Mr. Sear so we will be exploring quite a lot. We checked into our hotel that overlooks the beach headed down and Steven found his new best friendSerya

i'm chilling at jfk with a coke and a pizza the size of my palm. on the way in i heard the sniffles of a korean family while they were saying goodbye. it was kind of sad.i have another hour until the flight begins boarding. i really hate the wait. if they had beds at the airport where i could sleep until the next flight i wouldn't mind. one time i slept for 12 hours on the floor at heathrow.

Hi everyoneWe have been busy getting situated in La Mariposa Ecolodge and have been taking Spanish lessons. Rich has been studying hard but I have doing my best to just shoot the breeze with my teachers and so am not really utilizing my time well. We arrived late Wednesday and took classes Thursday and Friday. Today we had a field trip to Laguna de Apoya which is quite warm because of the und

Late start today as Kerry had to get his spare tire for the trailer replaced. He had to go to every tire place and gas station in town to find someone who could sell him the right tire. While Kerry searched for a new tire Gena went into a small gift shop with a sod covered roof. The clerk told her that they had to mow it twice each week. Since we got a late start we decided to drive to Glenn

Voila...I am finally starting the real trip around Vietnam. Friday was my last day at Big C. The bilan of my two missions 187 documents transalted over 200 Positive evaluation on the english classes I gave.Actually my students were really cute. At the end of the final class they ask me to sit down as they prepared a little surprise 2 of them begun to sing in Vietnamese and one girl arr

Hey guysJust a dramatic change of plan that I thought I'd let you know of.So the past 3 weeks Ive been going to Sunday church in Te Awamutu and last week they were asking for volunteers to go to Fiji to help build a church.As soon as I heard this I knew I wanted to get involved and give something back into the community and if theres one thing Ive learnt from my trip and that is to take oppourtun

Getting out of Milan was as hard as getting in. We seemed to travel in circles for hours following signs for 'Como'. And that was after we spent an hour at least looking for a couple of 'lavandarias' that Buff had Googled. They turned out to be drycleaners not selfservice laundromats but not to worry. He found one on the web in Bellagio where our next B B is. Finally on the Autostrada

Matt and I have just returned from a wonderfully relaxing yet very wet weekend in Whistler. I think we Vancouverites tend to take Whistler for granted. Whenever I'm there I have to remind myself that people come from all over the world to experience this beautiful place in the middle of the mountains. Unfortunitly the weather decided not to cooperate with us and it did rain most of the weekend

Haben gestern die WICKED Musical Lottery gewonnen und somit total guenstige Tickets bekommen 30pp statt 90. Vorstellung war dann auch gleich gestern Abend Sassen in der ersten Reihe ganz in der Mitte War echt supergut Wuerde ich mir auf jeden Fall nochmal anschauen

We arrived in Cambodia midmorning Friday so we've been here for just about 2 days now. We moved into our new apartment and have spent the time unpacking meeting our coworkers trying to get over jet lag and sweating. It's soo hot Monday we start language classes and continue our orientation.Our first impression is that we're going to like Phnom Penh a lot. It's an active growing and exc

Saturday June 5 2010Happy birthday Mom We had hoped to call you to sing but we have no cell reception so hopefully this blog will go out in a timely manner. I hope you got to celebrate in some fun way today. Itrsquos hard to believe that this is our last day in the Grand TetonYellowstone area of the country. We decided to drive to the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone in hopes of seeing t

Fruit Picking in Australia..So a lot of people will tell you there best time in Australia was fruit picking in the outback. Well I guess everyonersquos experience is different When Josie Claire and I arrived in ldquothe outbackrdquo our little village called Redcliffs freaked us out completely...Coming from the HUGE city of Sydney and living in the famous Kings Cross the suburb that never

Friday June 4 2010It rained all night long and we expect nothing but rain again today. Because of this we decided to take it slow this morning. Hiking was not going to be a good option for the day so we decided to head into the town of Jackson. The downtown district is Wyomingrsquos version of Brown County so for those who like to shop in a quaint little district this was a goldmine. For