Dear Family and FriendsI am starting up my blog again before we leave for Maela Refugee Camp on the border of Thailand and Burma. This time I will be travelling with my 15 year old daughter Abbey Lindley my colleague Kylie Martin from Sunshine Coast Childrens Development Centre and also Dr Norli a dentist from Cairns. We will leave on Wednesday 18th August and fly to Bangkok and straight thr

I've been at Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society for almost two weeks. I'd say that on average I spend 75 of my day cleaning things for animals and 25 of my day preparing food and medicine for animal. There is also a tiny bit of filling out forms. It is pretty awesome and I wish I had more time here.MARS takes in all kinds of birds and small mammals for rehabilitation. They kindof speciali

Originally I was gonna stay with another 2p2er here but thanks to an evil GPS which sent us in the wrong direction I ended up missing my bus and the timing didn't work out in the end. Instead I arrived at 5am and made my way to the hostel which was small and shabby but very cosy and friendly. There weren't any staff there so I just curled up on a couch in the common room and slept until about 1

Oh non pas un bus de nuitApres avoir fini mon blog vendredi soir j'ai repris mon sac et saute dans un autorickshaw pour la gare d'Udaipur. Je demande au guichet de quel quai part mon train pour Ahmedabad. Le train est annule. QuoiQuand est le prochain Le train est annule jusqu'au 20 aout. Ca c'est de l'annulation Qu'estce que je fais alors pour avoir le train de 5h25 qui part d'Ahm

Straight from Josh's house I went to visit another group of 2p2ers i.e. members of the twoplustwo forum in Columbus. I only actually stayed in Columbus for 1 night and then we went on a 3 day trip to Andy's lakehouse on Lake Tappan a couple of hours east of Columbus. The trip was really fun the weather was awesome so we just chilled in the sun with beers and went swimming in the lake which

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I loved this photo of Harry Truman in the yard out front of his presidential library in Independence Missouri and Jim recreated it fifty years later. His photos are amazing

Made a brief detour on my way to the east coast to visit another poker player I know from twoplustwo. Not really sure what to write here as we pretty much just played poker solidly for 3 days including one 12 hour session at the local Indian Casino. Either way I got on really great with Josh and it was nice to have unlimited computer access for a couple of days to catch up on things like this bl

On Friday we caught the Amtrak express train from New York to Washington DC. The train was a very comfortable way to travel and the guy announcing information on the train was hilarious. He was probably over 60 years old but he spoke like a 20 year old American DJ.As was New York Washington DC is very different than we expected.On Friday we checked into our very comfortable Hotel and then set of

CUSCO DAY 3Saturday August 14thToday was going to be another down day except for our Inca Trail briefing at 7pm. We woke up pretty early as usual and I finally got a good night's sleep but then lazed around the room for a while before going to breakfast. We'd made a shopping list of things we needed before leaving for the trek including gloves for me soroche pills just in case another

I'd a very lazy dayAfter getting up I talked with my parents for almost an hour but I was glad to see my niece. Four teeth alreadyThen after a quick luch I lay at the pool for almost two hours with my book.Ulrike and I went to Andover and had a nice coffee at Starbucks.Tomorrow I'll work for 14 hours but on Monday I'll have a day off.

We started our journey early this morning at the airport in Philadelphia. Flight was great and arrived on time in Denver. Our first venture was to Sheplers in Denver so that Drew could check out some western wear there. He has a thing for belt buckles and found 3 there that he liked along with a new cowboy hat. From there we headed toward Estes Park and on the way we stopped in Boulder. There

CELTA week 3. I guess this has been the most challenging week so far with so much going on that all I could think about at the end of each day was 'Will I ever get my 8 hours of sleep' That's just because the average sleeping hours have decreased to around 6.5hnight and I honestly cannot function well if I'm sleepdeprived. And to quote Hema one of the fellow trainees we should not only wo

So Summer Camp is now officially over thank god Looking back it was quite fun but a lot of work and if I ever hear those songs again I think I may have to kill somebody This was the last week so ofcourse everyone was running around like headless chickens trying to get the kids ready for Friday's performance infront of their parents we had to spend the last 2 hours showing the parent's what

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We flew into Delhi and got picked up and taken to our hotel and first reaction this is the worst traffic we have ever seen It was absolute chaos with cows everywhere but we made it in one bit to Hotel Perfect. Maybe not perfect but definitely nowhere near the worst we have ever stayed The hotel was located by a road full of shops and market stalls so we had a wander around and had our first In

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A very early call at 6.15 for a 7.45 departure.The whole coach is very tired after a great night last night.Pam and I had a quick bit to eat at Tim Hortons fruit yogurt coffee and a shared bagel. Far too healthy in my opinion.Then off out of Toronto heading towards Kingston.The freeway is 401 4 because there are 4 lanes. We head north along the shore of lake Ontario.Our first stop is at the big