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Bolivian Salt

Bolivia has definately been an interesting experience.Day 1 Monday I am put into a group with 2 German and 2 Japanese girls. We leave San Pedro Chile at 8am. Get to the Chilean customs fifteen minutes later. The customs office is on strike and will only let through about one vehicle every 30 minutes if at all. We wait at customs till half past 11. We then travel about 15 minutes to the Bolivi

Lots of tofu in France

I am not good at keeping up with this thing. Which is horrible because the more funny and amazing experiences happen every day I really need to keep up with this We had some ham and butter baguettes this morning then took the bus to my apartment to cut my hair She did a fabulous job And saved me a lot of money since haircuts are so expensive. We hung out for a while then headed into Centre

Its been a while...

Went for a nice run today around my area did some class preparation and had my one class I have on Tuesdays from 3pm to 4pm. Went to Carrefour and did some food and wine shopping. Then headed into town and made delicious Pad Thai with Maury and Lydia at Lydiarsquos foyer. Then we went out for a drink at Bar du Centrehellipour new favorite place because the stellas are only 2 euro always an

1 month in France

About one month into being in France I love my life here. Itrsquos hard to describe to people who havenrsquot lived abroad and especially to people who have never even been abroad. The way my friends and I describe it is as ldquoconstant stimulation.rdquo There are NEVER moments where we are not completely overwhelmed and continuously learning new things around us. Even just walking down

Cointreau factory

Went to the Cointreau factory today with Ita Lydia Maury Dan Lee Annie Vanessa and Hannah I had been wanting to go back to it since we have been here so I finally just booked a reservation and told everyone that we were going It was a great success The tour is really detailed and the factory is nice and smells like orange everywhere The best part was at the end when we got to do the tas

Happy Birthday Marylynn and teaching

My sisterrsquos birthday She is 20 todayhellipWHOA. So old.I had two classes today. I LOVE my 1030 class there is only 5 of them and we get to talk so much I am really going to get to know them and they all get so many more chances to talk. We did a ldquoBecoming Americanrdquo exercise where I asked them to imagine being an American. Their answers are so funnyhellipthey choose such ty

Teachin and things

I only ended up having 2 classes today even though normally I will have 5 hours of classes on Thursdays. One of my classes does not start until after vacation though. I havenrsquot minded not working all my hours yethellip..but soon I will be haha. Classes went good. I had a new group of students about 17 of them who are my age. I was afraid at first very afraid. There is a program that i

4 years 3

Ryan and my anniversary today 4 years. I miss him more than ever today of course. Only 2 months and 9 days until I see him again61514 So this work week I will actually work more than like 4 hours like I did last week. Let me try to explain for how the schedule is set up. I work a total of 12 hours per week but I have around 1617 classes that I teach I am still not really sure The reason

France love

Last night I went over to Mauryrsquos apartment in centre ville which is right in between the bars called Lrsquoabbaye and James Joyce. Itrsquos a perfect location We were drinking some wine and then Annie and Hannah came over and joined us. We then met up with Lydia and Marty and some new girls we met last night Katherine and Laura who was from Seattle. Our goal for the night was to try

France

These past couple weeks have been amazing. Today is exactly two weeks in France. A lot has happened since then. I feel like I have known my friends here forever and already donrsquot know what I would do without them I started teaching on Monday. I had two classes Monday where the professor was present and the students all asked me questions about myself. The students in these classes were abo

Fish More Fish and Camel Tagines

Good intentions. The road to hell is paved with good intentions whereasthe road to southend is paved with bitumen.... I never did make theessaoiria dawn although for a holiday 730 am isn't bad as an start. Iwent down for breakfast then set off for a final stroll around this citythat I have to say I have really taken to. Its such a relaxed place andjust existing here is nice. I can't really say

One Week In France

Okay its been about a week and a half in france. A lot has happened in the past week I actually have some friends now lots of them from everywhere. Assistants from Australia United States England Ireland Jamaica and Spain And of course lots of French people. However the first couple of days I knew nobody except my roommate Eva and since we both canrsquot speak French perfectly there

First Day In France

Irsquom writing this while in France Finally got here after a long day of traveling. I left at 130 from Boston Logan Airport. Had an hour long flight to Philadelphia then a three hour layover in Philly. For the first half of it I watched Sex the City movie on my laptop and then when it was about an hour before the flight I kept meeting other assistants who are doing the same program as m

We saw Wales

Driving into the city we had heard that we could be visiting a city occupied by aliens. Rumor has it that the Welsh and the English donrsquot get along too well. We were curious to get a peak at these extraterrestrial folks. Grant had snatched us some sweet tickets to the Cardiff Blues Wales capital vs. the Leicester Tigers England Rugby match. This was my first non OSU rugby match bu

Tauranga...schoen am meer

so meine suessengleich gehts weiter nach Whakatane...ist bloss eine stadt weiter nach Osten an der Kueste entlang aber sieht schick aus und ist ganz in der naehe meiner baldigen arbeitsstaette...bin vor drei tagen per anhalternach drei stunden im regen stehn hat mich dann ein schweitzer mitgenommen der auch nach tauranga musst hier angekommen ist ganz nett hier aber en bissel zu gross fuer meine

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