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5 Day Weekend
So we have Mon Tues and Wed off Hurray. The funny thing is yes I know the Japanese don't celebrate Thanksgiving but this holiday is some kind of day of thanks holiday we have class when it is actually Thanksgiving. The exact opposite in America class Mon Tues Wed and off Thurs and Fri. Oh well. Tomorrow is the Kashima trip. Should be interesting if not a bit boring. All my Nihonjin frien
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Australia
The weather was still poor when we got up but we decided to make our way over to the main attractions in the Blue Mountains anyway. We started off at Echo Point where we had an uninterrupted view of the three sisters three rocks standing side by side. In the background we could see the distant mountains and they really were tinged with a bluey purple haze. Unfortunately it started to pour down
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I have been here for almost three months
I have been here for almost three months now and I thought I would just write a little over view of my thoughts about being here and things like that..Well I already am learning so much about different cultures different perspectives different languages different faces different everything but yet at the same time I am learning that no matter where you are you will always find things that are
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No good very bad awful day
Our 200 baht a night hut on the pier was not so bad at all. I didn't get a single bite. Other than it being noisy it was a great place really. I woke up in the middle of the night to our first rain. More like monsoon it was crazy. i went outside for a minute but there wasn't anywhere to stand in the rain. the whole pier is covered in most parts. in the morning the only evidence was the big puddl
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Australia
We had preordered a breakfast through room service the night before. It seemed like a good idea to eat before leaving to pick up the van so that when we did our first food shop we wouldnrsquot go into the supermarket starving and spend a fortune. Wersquod carefully picked a filling but cheap breakfast of eggs on toast from the menu. When it arrived we took the lids of the plates to reveal a
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Little Ol' Melaka
Melaka is a lovely little town which has been given world heritage status this year and deservedly so The Dutch English and Portuguese settled there many moons ago so the buildings are a mixture of styles and very pretty The streets are very narrow and cobbled which makes you feel like yoursquore in an old Spanish town and there is a river running through the middle just a very relaxing
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Australia
I literally had to drag Matt out of bed as wersquod planned to do the beach leg of the hop on hop off bus tour. The weather was glorious and a couple of minutes after leaving the hotel we had to turn back to get our hats as we suddenly realised how strong the sun was. The bus stop was next to a famous pie stall it had sole pies to lots of celebrities and had photos on the side of the van to pro
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Auf nach Goa
Hey LeuteIn den letzten Tagen hatte ich ziemlich viel um die Ohren habe viel erlebt und einen haufen neue Leuten kennengelernt. Ich weis garnicht wo ich anfangen soll aber ich denke ich mache es am besten chronologisch. Vor ein paar Tagen habe ich mich auf den Weg gemacht um einen Laden zu finden der Postkarten verkauft. Ich weis nicht warum aber im ganzen Statdzentrum gibt es nur einen Lade
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In Sydney
We arrived in Sydney today and I saw the Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. They were both very beautiful and I took many pictures but can't post them from the computer I am using to type this message. I will post them as soon as possible. We visited an aquarium today and I saw Sharks so I was so happy. They look so menacing and dangerous but they move incredibly gracefully in the wate
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Celebrating Loy Krathong
The Loy Krathong is one of the biggest celebrations in Thailand. It is traditionally performed on the full moon night of the 12th lunar month usually a day in November. Loy means to float. Krathong is a small raft traditionally made from a section of banana tree trunk although modernday versions use specially made bread 'flowers' or styrofoam decorated with elaboratelyfolded banana le
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Australia
I managed to drag Matt out of the room fairly early by our standards to buy a hop on hop off bus ticket to take us around the city sights. We jumped off after a couple of stops at a viewing platform of the bridge and opera house. Like NZlsquos mountains it almost didnrsquot feel real as itrsquos one of those shots yoursquove seen on the tv so many times before.After taking a lot pf pho
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Working at last
Quick post as only have a few minutes on the internet. Loving my first week working for Liz and Barry. We're on a 60000 acre cattle station an hour away from Clermont NW Queensland. No phone signal or internet Liz is kindly letting us use her computer for a few minutes tonight. Being eaten alive by mosquitos Other than that it's fab. Luckily we haven't had any storms here at all but have se
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Enter the Druk
We have just one week left of work before traveling east a little into Bhutan for about a week. The quotation marks are necessary for several reasons. Similar to previous locations work days are typically from 9 to 3. This is not unexpected and now not a novelty. I'm at the point where if we finish at 315 I feel entitled to reward myself for all my hard work. I'm sure this newly emb
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Darwin Litchfield National Park Kakadu
Darwin du 25 au 31 Octobre Enfin des vacances...et du soleil... Darwin est tres au nord de lrsquoAustralie dans le Territoire du Nord. Crsquoest un endroit que jrsquoavais pas eu le temps drsquoaller lors de ma visite il y a deux ans. Mon avion decolle en direction de Melbourne le vendredi soir a 19h30. Jrsquoarrive a Melbourne une heure plus tard attend environ 2 heures a lrsquoa
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A Spanner in the Works
As most of you know but I'm sure some still do not two weeks ago I was forced to make a hasty exit from my cushy little life in Scotland and undertake a 40 hour journey to get myself to Auckland. I had 10 hours between receiving the phone call telling me I had to leave and leaving the hostel to catch a train to the bus which would get me to the airport in Glasgow in time for my flight.To cut a
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Happy Hampi "Yeah right" No Beer but Temples
Sorry for the long absense but we have been chilled to the bone in GOA But have finally decided to get off are ases for week and visit hampibangalorekerala during this next week. We left margoa and the confort of goa for a 7 hour train journey to hampi. The train journey was extremely peaceful and enjoyable with plenty to sea. We did not know what to expect about hampi but we soon realised as
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The visa run
An alle die sich fragen ob ich wohl immernoch in Chiang Mai bin JA Denn gestern hab ich den Visa Run an die Grenze zu Myanmar Burma gemacht und nochmals ein 30Tage Visum erhalten. Ich muss zugeben auch wenn ich im Internet gelesen habe es sei kein Problem war ich schon ein bisschen nervs. Was wenn sie mich nicht gleich wieder nach Thailand reinlassen Was soll ich denn ohne Gepck in Mya
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Sail away to Lembongan
It was with very heavy hearts that we said goodbye to all our friends in Junjungan. Putting it simply I goofed. I should have booked twice as long. There is so much of the real Bali to experience here and we gave it up in order to return to the Sanitised BeachA pleasant surprise awaited our arrival. I had upgraded to a middle range room for our last nine days. Sanur Beach went one better and gav
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One of the reasons why I haven't blogged in a few days
Last Friday morning I received the following email from Roger Lin the person I was told to contact in regards to getting parttime work with the Shenzhen Daily. I sent the man a cover letter and my resume on the previous Sunday morning.Dear Mr. Jenkins Thanks for your email. I'm very sorry for the late reply. I'm very glad to know you are willing to contribute to our paper on various topics.
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Not Dead Shiften Gears
Today is the first day that I have logged on to my blog in apparently a long time.In case you were worried I am not dead. I am very much in a period of transition. I have been here several months and settled into my site. The traveler side of me is fading away as I embrace my commitment to serve. I am moving blog sites from travelblogs to yavindia.net seeing as I a
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Filling in the gaps
Hey allWell I certainly have been slacking with this blog bonanza obviously because we are having such an action packed fantastic time and there are far more interesting things to do than spend my precious moments updating a blog. Well that's a far better reason than my sheer laziness. Since the last entry which if my memory servies me correctly was from Saigon we have enjoyed visits to Nh
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Is that Wally....well he wasnt that hard to find
Before I start I must apologise about the absence of pictures I'm having slight technical issues with uploading them at current. Anyways on a lighter note we had a wild time in Vang Vieng. It was basically what we expected its Laos version of Malaga a type of party destination. Our time in Vang Vieng was brief due to not being too much to do. But we did do the obvious and had a day of tubing.
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Pai beautiful Pai
Pai pronouced pie is amazing only intended to go for 2 days but ended up staying for ten days The countryside is gorgeous and the people are really friendly and the atmosphere is so laid back. Every night there are different bands playing in the bars standards vary Our particular favorite was a thai man we named Pai Lennon And his girlfriend was Yoko Thai Hired a motorbike for a few
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the rest of the week
after i booked into the hostel i walked around and did some shopping. in my hostel i met a girl named amy she is korean and she is trying to get a job in hospitalitytourism it was finally nice to have some company so we went out to dinner at a place called scuffy mcgruffs an irish pub. then walked around darling harbour. in my hostel was a a family a 10 year old girl her mom and grandma staying
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Sukhothai Historical Park
Nach einen ausgiebigen Fruehstueck bin ich heute mit dem Bus zu den alten SiamRuinen gefahren. Diese teilweise verfallenen Ruinen sind ein UNESCOWeltkulturerbe Die teilweise verfallenen Ruinen haben einen tollen Charme. Im Reisefuehrer steht man kann sich ein Fahrrad mieten und dort mit ihm fahren. also auf zum fahrradverleih. Fuer 30 bth ein Fahrrad fuer meine Groesse geschnappt und los ging.
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I went in the sea
Its been a while but we have been very busy The four nights in Noosa were brilliant we just chilled out at the beach or by the river. I also went on the least successful fishing trip ever. I caught no fish and then the box of hooks and weights got blown into the river great.The next stop was Rainbow Beach for the trasfer over to Fraser Island. It is a bit of a non event really and the hostel k
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first dining experience
A group of 7 of us went out for a meal to the local eating out area. Off we went on our bikes sharing the space with scooters no lights on anything no helmets but we all got there OK. All along the rode in one spot were local fruit stalls with loud speakers set up hawking their wares.One of the teachers speaks fluent Mandarin so we tried a restaurant that no one had been to before a little f
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Boarder Crossing
All excited about our boarder crossing untill we had to trapse with our back packs for like half and hour to get there.... Went through ok and made it onto the Friendship Bridge. Here there is a red line painted half way along it signifying the boarder.... as we crossed a Nepali guy shouted to us 'Leaving China and waved his hands.... Probably how most of us felt.... It was bizzare it actually d
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An Eternity of Illness
It seems that every time I start to think I'm getting better my stomach does a flip and starts to cramp even worse than it did before. If I had to describe my pain I'd say it feels like my stomach is like a washcloth. Things are going through my stomach like water would go through a washcloth if it were hanging up and water was being poured onto the top of it. My stomach is trying to take
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First Impressions
Shanghai second polytechnic university is a large campus with 10000 students. My room overlooks the running track and basketball court and each student is encouraged to exercise each day as part of their studies so students are seem ambling around the tracks at various times of the day. The basketball courts are busy most of the day with groups of students hanging out and shooting baskets.Ther
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