We woke up early to drive way out onto Digby Neck to hop into a zodiac going out in the Bay of Fundy in search of whales We found them See video. The tides are amazing 30 feet We also went to Digby home of world famous scallops pronounced skulup. Today was part of their Scallop Festival parade and all. Yes the scallops were deliciousSadly Margaret did not win the Miss S

Woke up quite early went out for an English Breakfast and then took a train from Earlsfield to London Gatwick to take another Easyjet flight abroad but this time to Amsterdam.Upon arrival we asked locals to guide us on how to get out of Central Station and literally across the canal and getting run over by millions of cyclists we found our hotel Bellvue Hotel a great 3 star hotel close to ever

The Hutong area of Beijing represents the old residential district. The houses are hundreds of years old and are designed in a grid pattern with 9 houses three across and three down forming the basis of the grid. Each set of nine houses shares a well. There are very few of these houses left. Although the structures are extremely simple and ten families must share a bathroom yikes they repre

Crazy Day. 400 pound bulls running towards you with only a gate between you and the horns. It was so exciting that Jeff had to be part of it. The bulls charged down the street about 6 times with men on horses directing them away from the spectators. The girls and boys loved it. Jeff was brave and jumped in on the action. He escaped the bulls's horn by climbing up a french balcony with a came

To Miami and the Stadium of many names to see the Marlins beat the Braves

The Great Wall of China is an incredible piece of architecture running the length of 5000 miles and built entirely without modern machinery and can actually be seen from space. It was built more than 2000 years ago. You can read more about it on Wikipedia. I had heard that there is part of it where you can take a cable car up and a slide back down. I was quite disappointed when George told us th

Girls maybe topless at the beach but pool side men are required to wear tight fitting James Bond like swimwear. Despite two weeks of warning Jeff thought it was a set up until he arrived at the pool and saw the large sign with a X through a picture of traditional swim trunks. The Harper's kind offers of 2nd hand underwear Cindy's bikini bottoms and even Harrison's 5 years old Speedo was refu

We missed our flight out today.I am not sure how it happened. We woke up three hours befor flight time. We had a half hour to get moving and a half hour to get to the airport two hours before flight time. Everything seemed to take five minutes more than plannedlonger to get motivated longer at breakfeast then some german guy wanted to ask about lima and talk to us about textiles. Then the tax

See english version belowsziasztokok minden. most erkeztem meg saltabol mendozaba. a 19 oras buszut eleg jol eltelt. szerencsere nem ultek mellettem igy eleg jot aludtam. megneztem 4 eleg jo filmet es leehtett elvezni mert spanyolul angol felirattal voltak. az utolso nem de a szoveg egyszeru volt es eleg jol ertettem a spasnyol feliratot. aztan meg felhangositottam a a dvdt.nemreg pakoltam k

What a fantastic city We arrived yesterday late afternoon in Saint Louis Missouri a city with very little traffic totally accessible friendly people and streets lined with red brick houses. Still a couple of days out from my next Presidential Library Truman in Independence MO which is outside of Kansas City. But here is what we did see hereWe went out for dinner at John McGurk's Irish

So today we took a drive along M22 which meanders around beautiful Lake Michigan. It passes through a few little towns and is lined with houses on both sides of the road. There are some spectacular ones and then some that I think we could afford. Either way it was very scenic and beautiful. It is hard to believe that everything freezes up here in the winter. We stopped in the little town of

Well we were blessed with another great day. We went to downtown Traverse City because we wanted to see the sights down there and also check out a little place called House of Doggs. They serve all kinds of hotdogs and it sounds kind of funky and fun. Downtown Traverse City is very old and has a lot of shops and restaurants. They do a really good job restoring all of these towns and making the

Saturday August 7 2010I woke up before my alarm and took my time getting ready. I figured it was going to be a looonog day with waayyyy too much Katie time. I waited for the bus for what seemed like FOREVER. I switched lines to the Paris Grand Tour line. I would get to see the Notre Dame the Eiffel Tower the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe among the most noatable sights although I took pic

While Phnom Penh we learnt a detailed account of the Khmer Rouge Pol Potrsquos cruel regime which ruled for only a few yet destructive years during the seventies. It was shocking to acknowledge the chilling bloodshed horror and people turmoil that rippled through the country in what historically can be seen as recent times. It was also disturbing to find that it took almost 30 years to bri

August 4 Woke up today early as usual. I saw Daria's mom before she left for work and she made me promise to eat some breakfast and to wake up Daria. I let her sleep but she work up early anyway. She made us some tortillas with cheese for breakfast that were delicious. Then we sat around watching some tv including a cartoon movie about a horse in the wild west. Weird. Daria's mom came home at

So, you find yourself as an American teaching in a far away place (Busan, South Korea to be exact)… What do you do now… You write about it. And, Brittany Weyen has being doing just that. As she grows through her experiences, so does her blog. Gotta love her students.

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August 2 Today I left Krakow. A shame because I really like the town but I have a few more places I would like to go before I go home and I am starting to feel in the mood to go home. I woke up around 8am and went down to search for a hostel in Wroclaw that I would be going to on Tuesday. I booked one that sounded nice and then had breakfast with a bunch of people at the hostel that I have

Last night in Maine. Tomorrow I'll get on the road for 3 hours to Nort Andover where I'll live and work.I shouldn't get lost because I bought a gps that can take me everywhere Today I've met someone of my agency that could give more information about the work. I'll work residential it's means I'll be there when the children are not at school. So I will work evening and weekends. They children

Thursday August 5thToday was our group day spent doing stuff just for the church and seperate from Moody Missions. We left the hotel a bit later than planned because we first made a trip to the local Super Selectos to buy a bunch of water then a stop at a pharmacy for some sinus medicine. We finally left at about 930am for our trip to the mountain church and then to the orphanage near La

Today we were heading towards Bigfork and it was going to take about 4 hours so we had brekkie in the hotel first. We had to get some dresses for the girls as Jake and Jen asked them to be flower girls for the wedding. So we went to Spokane Valley mall and got some nice outfits for them and some shoes. On our travels we crossed into Idaho State which we travelled for about an hour. Then we cross