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First of all apologies to our friend Barbara Saxtonmdashin my haste to send the last blog I forgot to insert the details of her truly wonderful CD ldquoA Star is Shiningrdquo. I promise you that if you like women's voices a cappella singing and folk songs from many countries you'll love this CD. You can find out more athttpwww.borntodrone.org. Or just google Born to Drone and you'l
On Wednesday August 25 I left the big town of Ovalle for Santiago. When I booked my trip originally I bought a ticket back to the USA for Lindsey and Philrsquos wedding and also an exit strategy in case I did not like Chile. Needless to say I am enjoying my time here and decided not to return home because I quit my job and gave up my apartment and cell phone so I have no real obligations
So this Saturday Jana and I decided to explore the area around La SerenaCoquimbo. We went to Vicuna which is a town that is about an hour and a half by bus from La Serena. We visited the museum of Gabriela Mistral hiked a small hill which had a view of the valley explored the shops and visited the Pisco Capel distillery. The museum of Gabriel Mistral was good but would have been better if
I was a little disenchanted with the school when I heard the name ldquoSchool of Art and Music.rdquo If you know me at all I am not of the artisticmusical persuasion. Sports and outdoor activities yes arts and crafts no. My coteacher Carmen met me at the bus station on the first day and she seemed like a good person so I was more excited about the school. That day she gave me a t
So I have packed my backpacks and my suitcase and I will be going to a new home today. At the new home there is a mother and daughter around my age. The benefits are they are nice the neighbor is quiet the room is bigger and the bed is comfortable. So basically everything is better. I had a good heart to heart with Senora Nancy and we talked about the move. Apparently she never requested
Family and friendsI just tried to publish our first blog entry for this trip but it had already posted without notifying you. So this is the notificationWe are still packing this evening and hopefully will not have to stay up too late and will not forget anything important.So we're counting down once againTake care.Vanda
The day began with another outing for 2125323376 this time with Clare Audrey and Maria and Gossip Girls. I had a red bean paste baozi and half of Audrey's meat and veggie one. She didn't like either so got a piece of chocolate cake at a bakery instead.We watched several episodes on Clare and Audrey's wooden couch which isn't too comfortable after a while.At four we went to the classroo
Limited elecricity beautiful sunsets warm beer fruit trees long dusty roads and hot showers. I guess you have to take the good with the bad right The Great Aves volunteer house is located about an hour and a half outside of Puyo the nearest town and is where I will be spending the next several months. Unfortunately my camara was loststolen because I was dumb and it fell out of my pocket
Oh yea I forgot to take this pic and add it to Day Two. When we arrived off the plane all the females received a red rose....how sweet eh Anyhow I took this pic in my hotel room after I dumped out the fizzy water and reused the bottle as a vase.
I went out for 2125323376 in the morning with Kate Andrea and Nick. We walked out the east gate near our dorm all the way around to the west gate. We stopped at the university store to buy tshirts. Andrea and I took a rickshaw back.Clare Audrey and I began the first season of Gossip Girls in their room. We took a break to visit our new favorite lunch spot Relish which sells noodles a
Today we say GoodBye to Rome. Itrsquos been awesome to walk its streets watch itrsquos people and eat its food. Itrsquos a place where ancient history bumps into the established church. Itrsquos a place where visitors are a part of the landscape and tourists are welcome at every corner.I expected to see the Roman Catholic Church at its best. What I saw however is a church that is ena
The last two days have been incredible Yesterday I was at Northwestern Eye Clinic again to observe cataract and pterygium surgeries performed by Dr. Michael Gyesi. I showed up with another volunteer Tom at around noon and talked with the optometrists and assisted with some visual field assessments until being called into the operating theater at around two. Groups from three outreaches perf
This morning I found out that I am in level 123 for Chinese. This is a higher basic level I think. It was a tad bit difficult to decipher the course postings as they were all in Chinese and no one there could speak English. I also bought my books. There are six of them. They cost about 28 dollars altogether.Professor Youtz led those who were interested today into the center of Chengdu. We went to
Woke up around 8AM this morning. We didn't go to sleep until midnight last night even though we were exhausted Dressed and out the door by 9AM and headed to Windsor Castle. Grabbed a muffin at the train station. We had to get on 3 different trains to get to Windsor. Decided against the guided tour which was nice. We could arriveleave on our own schedule. From the train station we walked to Wi
Flight at 930am
Thursday 2nd Friday 3rd September 2010Visit to the original Legoland at Billund which will be the most northerly point on our trip.Thanks to those little interlocking building blocks the whole world plays with the Danish language.They are playing with Lego a name constructed out of the Danish expression leg godt meaning play well.We had a great time out of season meant no queues so we wer
We drove from Dubrovnik through a tiny bit of coastal Bosnia Herzegovina at Neum then back into Croatia before heading inland to another border with Bosnia From there we drove along the Neretva river to Mostar. We went around a house built during the Ottoman period before walking further into the old town to see the Stari Most old bridge which has been rebuilt since its destruction in t
In Perpignan to be exact. Actually in North Perpignan to be exacter. To be exactest I am in the Ibis hotel in the middle of a hotel district which has all the charm of a parking lot really. Arrived just after half seven after another 8 hours of cycling 115 miles in 30 degrees saying my final farewell to the Pyrenees with another couple of climbs. Andorra is genuinely just one long hill toppi
Wednesday 1st September 2010Today is about the sea and man's connection with it.A visit to Esbjerg's maritime museum and a look at the sculpture 'man meets the sea'.Man meets the Sea Danish Mennesket ved Havet is a monument of four 9 metre 27 feet tall white males located north of Esbjerg by Sdding Beach on the southwest coast of Denmark. The sculpture was designed by Svend Wiig Hansen and
Am Freitag habe ich meine ersten Unterlagen fr die Uni erhalten Vorlesungsplan Studentenausweis weitere Infos etc. Die ERASMUSStudenten haben sogar jeder einen schnen Terminplaner von der Uni erhalten. Klasse Sache Dabei habe ich dann auch zum ersten Mal die Uni von innen gesehen und ich muss sagen dass es mir gut gefllt da kann sich die HTW mal ein Beispiel dran nehmen. Der Vorlesugnsp