Just a quickie not realted to my blog I found out my uni results yesterday and I got a 21 very happy. Can finally sit back and relax until the 1st of September hehe.At the weekend we went to a resort basically in the middle of nowhere but it was gorgeous. A bit like a centre parcs sort of thing where there was a pool jacuzzi massage place horse riding golf etyc. It was really good and ou…
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G’day mates Hopefully this entry finds you all doing well Well we got our first week of classes under our belts But let us tell our tales in chronological order.On Sunday we joined the international gang on a trek to the city and to the beach. It was suppposed to begin at 9am so we both woke up and got ready only to find that everyone else decided to sleep in So we didn’t head out until ab…
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Three more days until I head out. I have six months leave for work and am planning on a journey type trip along the Silk Route through China Krygyzstan Uzbekistan Turkmenistan Georgia Azerbaijan and finishing in Turkey. I have been to China twice before love the food. It has been tough getting visas this time because of the Olympics and the tightening of the regulations. I have managed to s…
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Our last stop on the tour was of course Bangkok so we took the overnight train from Surat Thani and ended up back there around 12 noon on the 17th. The city is still my least favourite spot but definitely more tolerable after spending over a month in Thailand. I mostly got some shopping done including having tow tailored suits made. One 3 piece suit for myself made out of a silk cashmere bl…
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Wat een gekkenhuis na aankomst zeg maar super gaaf ik heb hier eerst een kleine week om alles te verkennen en een beetje te reizen. daarna vertrek ik de bushbush in om vrouwen te helpen een bedrijfje op te zetten en vooral uit te leggen hoe het goed te blijven runnen. heb alweer allemaal gekke dingen meegemaakt natuurlijk van crazy drivingstyle tot de andere eetgewoontes enz enz wel echt super…
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So close…… T minus a few weeksSo let’s see.. i have my visa my paperwork done applied for summer courses.. and somewhat of an apartment. I’m totally still freaked out. Somebody brought up something today that makes a good point.. my marks I would like to run off to grad school at some point in my life.. i just dont know HOW. Would this year count… or no bah My marks are by no means cra…
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Well here we are in sunny L.A. We spent the day at Disneyland yesterday and had a wonderful day. We are staying in a hotel which is about a 8 minute walk from Disneyland which is very convenient as we spent the day there went back to the hotel for a rest a bath to ease my aching feet some dinner and then walked back to Disneyland for Round Two which included the fantastic fireworks show. D…
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We took al taxi ride from the San Diego hotel to the train station. The Pacific Surfliner was on time and we had a business class seat just so that we were guaranted a seat to LA. Uneventful would describe the entire day. We made our bus connection in LA just fine this time we didn’t have to race through the place. We also didn’t go exploring too much. No time or will to. We found where the…
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Well it seems we have flown ourselves into some major thunderstorm activity. Our flight left on time and arrived in Nashville for a 20 minute stop which turned into three hours of sitting on the plane waiting for the weather to get better in Baltimore. We didn’t mind staying on the plane though since there were only about 15 people and we could stretch out. The terminal was apparently jam…
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Our second week in Sydney saw the arrival of the Pope and 200000 catholic youths We are clearly in good companyWe spent the weekend taking long strolls with the 2 dogs and exploring more of the local neighbourhood. The weather has been glorious for midwinter and we have taken advantage of the late afternoon sunshine to relax in the local Lindt Chocolate Cafe enjoying one often two deli…
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