english corner

by on September 4, 2010

Last night a bunch of people from my group went to the English corner. It is held every Friday night and people mostly students at 22235240292282323398 but also some high school students young kids and older people gather to speak English with each other for practice. We kind of got mobbed because we were obviously native English speakers but it was really fun to talk to a bunc

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Finally in Budapest

by on September 4, 2010

I made it safely to Budapest I arrived here yesterday and I’m still settling down into my dorm. The first night I slept for about 14 hours since I didn’t sleep for about 36 hours. My sense of time has been thrown off since I don’t have a clock yet. I went to a store yesterday to buy things for my dorm. It was called Tesco. I spent about 2 hours there trying to find everything that I neede

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Hitchin’ a Ride

September 4, 2010

From Waiuku to Kihei Without Spending a DollarI got up at 930AM and was checked out at 10. Getting that key deposit back made me feel guilty as hell as did me then leaving my bag in their free left luggage room. I’d had a trip to the beach a kegger and a bed for [...]

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Kirsten’s Birthday and Rabbit Island

September 4, 2010

Kirstenrsquos Birthday and a weekend on Rabbit Island …In the midst of another busy week working with drillers under the hot sun and chasing around to find local labs that have half way decent analytical methodology Kirstenrsquos Birthday rolled around on Thursday 26th. On our way to dinner at Friends a lovely little restaurant set [...]

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Vancouver continued

September 4, 2010

The apartment is fabulous really close to city and has all the things we need for washing etc. This place is beautiful….really beautiful and so green so many flowers EVERYWHERE and they have really big hills mountains that have snow on the tippy tops. The city is really [...]

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planes planes and bloody planes

September 4, 2010

Oh my God we have so much to tell you all FOr new readers of our blog Thel is Vicki and Lou is Mandy. Checked in to business class and then it just got better and better we were asked if we would like to go to the business class lounge [...]

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three stories

September 4, 2010

4 aug 10. at the pub last night the french studentvisa barman when i showed him the ‘pilbara echo’ article said ‘i have that flag but without the dots’ seems he got it at an op shop in mossie park for five dollars so he could show his dad in france that we’re working [...]

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The biggest state ever Western Australia

September 4, 2010

Oh my word let me just begin this blog with stating how freaking big Australia really is. Truly at this point I am conflicted with the way that I feel about Australia. The land is beautiful the people are nice the sites are amazing but holy cow there is a far distance between [...]

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Dichter bij huis

September 4, 2010

Ik blijf wat langer in bed liggen ik lig goed Nina is op tijd uit de veren want ze moet naar de dokter. Langzaam kom ik tot leven. Als Nina terug is ontbijten we samen. Kort daarna gaat Nina naar haar werk. Ik pak in en ga nog even online. Daarna zeg ik haar moeder [...]

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Its Like a Casket With Lights

September 4, 2010

I’d like to think Kumar learned as much from me as I did him although I doubt the things I taught him were as deeply profound and moving as the things he taught me. How we got on this subject I can’t remember exactly. I just remember being in his car sitting in [...]

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