It’s a good life. Someone has to live it. Might as well be me.
Sandra didn’t know what to make of us when we first arrived at her grandparents house. In fact for the first few days, we only saw her peeking out from behind the legs of one of her Aunts or Uncles. As is the case of most 5-year olds, curiosity began to get the better of [...]
I think I do like Singapore much more this time around. Apart from being forgotten by my team (yeah, it happened a few more times this week), I’ve found some good folks to hang out with.
Every Friday a group goes across the street and has a beer or 12 before running off home. I’m always [...]
One of the trip members that knew about the dwarf and smurf names created this cartoon.
One day as we were travelling around one of our trip members was telling the story of walking her son’s dog and meeting someone along the way. She stopped and introduced herself and the dog, “Hi my name is D___ Dagle, and this is my son’s beagle Bagel.”
Now imagine that over several days you [...]
As of today, I’ve been back in the office for 6 days. And I’m totally forgotten about. I can’t really decide whether to take it personally or to just laugh hysterically. Every single day this week my team has totally forgotten about me until something triggers their memory.
First, a little background. As I was preparing [...]
Forgot to mention that at Friday afternoons lunch, I tried chicken feet. Well, a chicken’s foot. It wasn’t too bad until you thought about what was making it kinda crunchy and chewy. Also didn’t help that the guy sitting next to me was talkign about where the foot may have been.
Much better than turtle. [...]
I had a plan. A rather good one I thought. I would spend the weekend sorting through my photos from my trip, printing photos on my new printer, buying frames to send prints to my host family, and writing lots of stories about my trip. That was to be my weekend.
As so often happens with [...]
Played on a wii for the first time tonight. I sucked, but damn it was fun. I’d probably have sucked less if I’d consumed less adult, fermented beverages. But sometimes, a girl needs to go on a 7 hour drinking binge.
And now a girl needs to pass out.
But I do recommend wii for some [...]
On our first Wednesday, we stopped working and took a trip down to a tiny, very poor little village called Mindante. The school for the village is a slab of concrete with a thatched roof and no walls. It vaguely resembles a carport. The blackboard is so old and overused, that you can barely read [...]
While visiting our second school, we learned the trick of taking the children’s photos and then showing them the image. This caused high drama, and anyone caught aiming their camera was overrun within seconds. I tried to pose with some of the children, but was getting pushed around so that they could be the star [...]